Monday Night Raw was rocked this week—not by a shocking betrayal, not by a surprise return, but by a closed captioning typo that sent the internet into a frenzy.
The New Day strutted out to their new heel-friendly entrance music, and Netflix’s captioning credited it to none other than Jim Johnston, the legendary WWE composer who crafted the themes of wrestling gods like The Rock, Stone Cold, and The Undertaker. Naturally, the IWC (Internet Wrestling Community, for the uninitiated) immediately lost its collective mind—because if Jim Johnston were back in WWE, that would be the equivalent of Jordan unretiring for a second time, but instead of playing basketball, he’s dropping diss tracks.
So, Is Jim Johnston Back?
No. Not even a little bit. Not even a whiff.
Fightful Select clarified that the track was actually produced by Swayzee, featuring rapper MegaRan, a wrestling fan who’s probably having the time of his life watching all this unfold. Johnston, meanwhile, is still chilling on the free-agent market, waiting for a billionaire with a wrestling company to slide into his DMs. (Looking at you, Tony Khan.)
A Conspiracy Unfolds?
Despite the correction, some fans refuse to believe that WWE isn’t secretly plotting a Johnston return. One Reddit theorist even suggested that Netflix’s AI captioning bot “knows something we don’t”—which is the modern-day equivalent of staring at static on your TV and insisting the government is sending messages through the fuzz.
Vince McMahon, if he were still lurking around WWE HQ, would likely dismiss this as “soft millennials and their obsession with nostalgia” while simultaneously licensing back “No Chance in Hell” for his real entrance theme at future SEC hearings.
Johnston Throws Shade, AEW Ignores His Texts
Johnston, for his part, has been openly critical of WWE’s modern themes, saying they “don’t make you feel anything”—which, coincidentally, is the exact phrase people use to describe the last five WWE 2K story modes.
Meanwhile, AEW has Johnston in their mentions, but Tony Khan remains committed to Mikey Rukus and his collection of legally questionable bangers. With licensed songs like “Jane” by Starship and “The Final Countdown” by Europe, AEW’s philosophy seems to be “Why hire a composer when we can just buy the rights to your childhood?”
The Takeaway
- Jim Johnston is NOT back in WWE, no matter what your Netflix captions say.
- MegaRan and Swayzee actually made the new New Day theme, but Jim Johnston probably listened to it and had a 10-minute existential crisis.
- AEW still isn’t calling Johnston, even though he’s practically texting them “U up?” every few months.
- WWE theme songs haven’t made anyone “feel anything” since CFO$ got booted—except for the overwhelming pain of listening to Baron Corbin’s 47th remix.
So there you have it, folks. The Netflix era of WWE is officially off to a chaotic start, and we wouldn’t have it any other way.