{"id":10163,"date":"2017-11-30T16:09:03","date_gmt":"2017-11-30T21:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=10163"},"modified":"2017-11-30T16:09:03","modified_gmt":"2017-11-30T21:09:03","slug":"reports-composer-jim-johnston-finished-with-wwe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2017\/11\/30\/reports-composer-jim-johnston-finished-with-wwe\/","title":{"rendered":"REPORTS: Composer Jim Johnston Finished With WWE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Long time music composer<strong> Jim Johnston<\/strong>, who created most of the iconic WWE entrance music for the past thirty years as well as scoring several WWE Films, has apparently been released from the WWE, according to a Twitter feed that follows news concerning WWE&#8217;s theme composers. The news has yet to be confirmed by the WWE.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Jim Johnston has been released by WWE<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; ThemeTitan (@ThemeTitan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ThemeTitan\/status\/936249553732407296?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">November 30, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong>Themers United<\/strong>, another group on Facebook, claims to have a contact at WWE Music Group and posted the following in regards to the reported release, with reports from their &#8220;source&#8221;.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Statement on the release of Jim Johnston. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CbbLkhZJI0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/CbbLkhZJI0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Themers United (@ThemersUnited) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ThemersUnited\/status\/936319542720172038?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">November 30, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Jim Johnston joined the WWE in 1985, when it was still the WWF, and was the company&#8217;s principle composer for wrestler&#8217;s entrance themes up until 2014, when <strong>CFO$<\/strong> were brought in. Since then, they have composed the bulk of the entrance themes for the WWE. Some reports are suggesting that it was a case of Johnston&#8217;s contract expiring and the WWE simply chose not to re-sign the 30+ year WWE employee. There&#8217;s always a chance he could be re-hired to a new position, just not at his previous salary.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Electrifying The Rock\u2019s entrance music: WWE Behind the Theme\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MOtkosnM2lo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Johnston was responsible for some of the WWE&#8217;s most iconic entrances, including the glass shatter of <strong>&#8220;Stone Cold&#8221; Steve Austin<\/strong>, the gong of the <strong>Undertaker<\/strong>, and hundreds more, from the 1980s through to the 2010s. He scored WWE Films <em><strong>The Chaperone, Knucklehead, Inside Out, The Reunion<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0and <em><strong>Legendary<\/strong><\/em> and a music series on iTunes and CD, entitled <em><strong>WWE: Uncaged<\/strong><\/em>, featuring unreleased Johnston compositions have been in release since last year, with the fourth installment just hitting shelves on November 20.<\/p>\n<p>While it still hasn&#8217;t been confirmed by the WWE, if true, it marks the end of a musical era in the WWE. But until further reports are verified, for the sake of all of Johnston&#8217;s fans, take it with a grain of salt for now.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The man behind the making of The Undertaker\u2019s theme song\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VHStnRJQao0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long time music composer Jim Johnston, who created most of the iconic WWE entrance music for the past thirty years as well as scoring several WWE Films, has apparently been released from the WWE, according to a Twitter feed that follows news concerning WWE&#8217;s theme composers. The news has yet to be confirmed by the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":10167,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[1794,1793,47],"class_list":["post-10163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-wwe-universe","tag-cfo","tag-jim-johnston","tag-wwe"],"modified_by":"Jamie Greer","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/649"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}