Ozzy Osbourne Opens Survivor Series WarGames With “War Pigs” (w/Video)

Ozzy Osbourne Opens Survivor Series WarGames With “War Pigs” (w/Video)
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Ahead of Saturday night’s Survivor Series WarGames, “The Prince of Darkness” Ozzy Osbourne shared the show’s introduction which features the legendary metal singer doing a video performance of the Black Sabbath classic “War Pigs” to a montage of WWE action. 

Ozzy was the Celebrity Inductee in the WWE Hall of Fame’s Class of 2021. “War Pigs” also previously served as the theme for NXT TakeOver: WarGames. 

At Wrestlemania 2, Ozzy accompanied the British Bulldogs to the ring for their winning match against The Dream Team of Greg Valentine and Brutus Beefcake, and Osbourne dropped by the WWE several times in the 2000s, whether it was to perform his latest single or as the special guest host for a memorable edition of Monday Night Raw that featured a Superstar talent show – “Raw’s Got Talent.”

Hard rock and heavy metal have long had a connection with professional wrestling and the WWE. Former longtime WWE CEO Vince McMahon is a rock fan, and Chris Jericho has previously mentioned McMahon’s love for AC/DC in particular. 

AC/DC’s “Are You Ready” is also the theme music for “Smackdown” on FOX, and heavy metal and hard rock have made cameo appearances often at wrestling’s biggest events. Of course, FOZZY’s “Judas” is a staple sing-a-long whenever Jericho makes his entrance at an All Elite Wrestling event. AEW’s Brody King fronts hardcore band God’s Hate, and “The Butcher” was also the longtime guitarist for metalcore favorites, Every Time I Die.

Wrestlemania alone has had dozens of metal moments. A few include: 

At Wrestlemania 3, Alice Cooper came to the ring with Jake “The Snake” Roberts for his match against The Honky Tonk Man. Cooper grabbed Roberts’ snake, Damien, and taunted him with the reptile after the match. 

Motörhead soundtracked Triple H’s entrance music, “The Game,” and performed it live as he entered the ring for Wrestlemania 17 and Wrestlemania 21. 

Other notable metal appearances included Limp Bizkit playing the Undertaker to the ring at Wrestlemania 19, Nita Strauss playing Shinsuke Nakamura to the ring at Wrestlemania 34, and Metallica’s “Now That We’re Dead” bookending the Boneyard match between A.J. Styles and The Undertaker at Wrestlemania 36. 

Rhea Ripley recently talked about how wrestling got her into heavy metal. “Being a wrestling fan definitely did turn me into the metalhead that I am today,” Ripley said in a recent interview with Metal Injection

“It’s crazy and it’s wild that like two things that are sort of completely different just meshed so well together. And it’s not just WWE and like listening to the bands and the music that they would have on the pay-per-views and for Raw and Smackdown.”

“Other people think of metalheads and wrestling as like two different outcast groups. So when the outcast groups sort of come together and we’re one and we all get along and we all love each other, it’s really cool,” she said.

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