# If you were a boxer, what music would you make your entrance with?
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**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [August 5, 2009, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-a-boxer-what-music-would-you-make-your-entrance-with/505424 "2009-08-05T16:15:32Z")
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### Author:  [@Birdmonster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Birdmonster)
#### Post date: [August 5, 2009, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-a-boxer-what-music-would-you-make-your-entrance-with/505424/1 "2009-08-05T16:15:32Z")
I was at a bar last evening, trading Tyson memories with an old friend from elementary school, when he reminded me of the Lennox Lewis fight. This was, if you’ll recall, the occasion that prompted Tyson to promise to eat Lewis’s childen and to “stomp on their testicles,” even though Lennox had no children on whose testicles to stomp.
Tyson came to the ring to a typically aggresive rap song (DMX, now that I’ve looked it up) while Lennox Lewis went with…“Crazy Baldheads” by Bob Marley. Now, I think that’s almost the most atypical boxing entrance music I can think of, but it was so perfect, so weird, so funny, such a “fuck you” to Tyson that it cracked me up a little remembering it. Lewis, of course, bludgeoned Tyson, who may or may not have had a tattoo on his face at the time.
It got me thinking: if you was a boxer, what would your entrance music be?
My choice: [“Climbing Up the Walls.”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgDPkqiXrjc) Listen to that and imagine a skinny white dude with a smoker’s cough bobbing into the ring. You’re scared already. I know this.
So what’s yours?
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### Author:  [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)
#### Post date: [August 5, 2009, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-a-boxer-what-music-would-you-make-your-entrance-with/505424/2 "2009-08-05T16:22:38Z")
_The Boxer_, of course.
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### Author:  [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)
#### Post date: [August 5, 2009, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-a-boxer-what-music-would-you-make-your-entrance-with/505424/3 "2009-08-05T16:22:48Z")
Something from Stravinsky’s _Le Sacre du printemps_.
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### Author:  [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)
#### Post date: [August 5, 2009, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-a-boxer-what-music-would-you-make-your-entrance-with/505424/4 "2009-08-05T16:28:55Z")
Springsteen’s “I’m Going Down.”
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### Author:  [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)
#### Post date: [August 5, 2009, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-a-boxer-what-music-would-you-make-your-entrance-with/505424/5 "2009-08-05T16:34:42Z")
It’s far more likely that I’d do a pro wrestling match than any kind of shoot fight. That noted, I’d probably go with _Free Bird_ if I was the babyface, and _Behind Blue Eyes_ if I was heeling.
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### Author:  [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)
#### Post date: [August 5, 2009, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-a-boxer-what-music-would-you-make-your-entrance-with/505424/6 "2009-08-05T16:37:04Z")
Southern Cross
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### Author:  [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)
#### Post date: [August 5, 2009, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-a-boxer-what-music-would-you-make-your-entrance-with/505424/7 "2009-08-05T16:43:04Z")
_Lollipop, Lollipop._
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### Author:  [@villa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/villa)
#### Post date: [August 5, 2009, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-a-boxer-what-music-would-you-make-your-entrance-with/505424/8 "2009-08-05T16:44:25Z")
Why Can’t We be Friends? - War
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### Author:  [@Birdmonster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Birdmonster)
#### Post date: [August 5, 2009, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-a-boxer-what-music-would-you-make-your-entrance-with/505424/9 "2009-08-05T16:49:31Z")
> [@villa](#):
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> Why Can’t We be Friends? - War
This was Homer’s entrance music when he fought Drederick Tatum on the Simpsons. I felt I needed to add that.
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### Author:  [@villa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/villa)
#### Post date: [August 5, 2009, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-a-boxer-what-music-would-you-make-your-entrance-with/505424/10 "2009-08-05T16:51:24Z")
> [@Birdmonster](#):
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> This was Homer’s entrance music when he fought Drederick Tatum on the Simpsons. I felt I needed to add that.
Why do you think I posted it? 🙂
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### Author:  [@Mr\_Buttons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr_Buttons)
#### Post date: [August 5, 2009, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-a-boxer-what-music-would-you-make-your-entrance-with/505424/11 "2009-08-05T16:53:34Z")
Du Hast - Rammstein
Just because it’s what I used to listen to before wrestling matches in high schools. Gets the testerone pumping nicely.
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### Author:  [@The\_Falling\_Reverend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Falling_Reverend)
#### Post date: [August 5, 2009, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-a-boxer-what-music-would-you-make-your-entrance-with/505424/12 "2009-08-05T16:54:46Z")
I’d come out in a black hooded robe, with all my sycophants/trainers around me in white, and the Imperial March blaring over the sound system.
I saw a Red Wings vs Blackhawks game in Chicago where the 'Hawks played it when they came out onto the ice. I think that was the most awesome moment in sports I have ever witnessed. Too bad Chicago lost.
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### Author:  [@Oredigger77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oredigger77)
#### Post date: [August 5, 2009, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-a-boxer-what-music-would-you-make-your-entrance-with/505424/13 "2009-08-05T16:55:32Z")
I had a friend who wrestled in college he always used the imperial march from Star Wars for his entrance. I think I’d go the same route.
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### Author:  [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)
#### Post date: [August 5, 2009, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-a-boxer-what-music-would-you-make-your-entrance-with/505424/14 "2009-08-05T16:58:55Z")
“Intermission,” The Carpenters
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### Author:  [@Birdmonster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Birdmonster)
#### Post date: [August 5, 2009, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-a-boxer-what-music-would-you-make-your-entrance-with/505424/15 "2009-08-05T17:02:03Z")
> [@villa](#):
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> Why do you think I posted it? 🙂
I will never again doubt **villa** ’s Simpsons referencing skills.
(Strangely, that episode taught me the word “fustigate,” which was then on the SATs a few years later, which I lauged at in an quiet room of stress case high schoolers.)
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### Author:  [@yanceylebeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yanceylebeef)
#### Post date: [August 5, 2009, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-a-boxer-what-music-would-you-make-your-entrance-with/505424/16 "2009-08-05T17:02:13Z")
Its Raining Men, by the Weathergirls.
It would also be my at bat music if I ever got to take a swing in a major league park.
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### Author:  [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)
#### Post date: [August 5, 2009, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-a-boxer-what-music-would-you-make-your-entrance-with/505424/17 "2009-08-05T17:08:07Z")
Wear a sequined robe, and play “Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend”.
Regards,
Shodan
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### Author:  [@Push\_You\_Down](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Push_You_Down)
#### Post date: [August 5, 2009, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-a-boxer-what-music-would-you-make-your-entrance-with/505424/18 "2009-08-05T17:26:54Z")
“Arco Arena” byt Cake.
It’s an awesome instrumental. It’s slightly menancing but really funky.
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### Author:  [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)
#### Post date: [August 5, 2009, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-a-boxer-what-music-would-you-make-your-entrance-with/505424/19 "2009-08-05T17:29:36Z")
“Just Another Victim,” by Helmet with House of Pain.
If my opponent’s been talking a lot of trash, “99 Problems,” by Jay-Z.
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### Author:  [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)
#### Post date: [August 5, 2009, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-a-boxer-what-music-would-you-make-your-entrance-with/505424/20 "2009-08-05T17:31:46Z")
_What’s New, Pussycat?_
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