When HOOK comes out to wrestle on AEW Dynamite or Rampage, he comes to the ring with the Action Bronson song “The Chairman’s Intent,” but how did that come about?
Action Bronson was recently a guest on The Ariel Helwani Show to discuss a wide variety of subjects. When asked how HOOK using his song in All Elite Wrestling came about, Bronson revealed that he’s known Taz for a while now and told a story of his ECW fandom and coming across Bully Ray at the Elks Lodge in Queens.
“Um, I’ve known Taz for a while now,” Action Bronson revealed. “He knew that I was a fan. I guess, through — I think I did Bubba’s podcast [Busted Open] or some shit like that. Or maybe I told Taz the story about when Bubba f-cking threatened to slam me or beat the sh-t out of me and called me a fat f-ck when I was at ECW when I was young at the Elks Lodge in Queens. I used to go to ECW since I was 13 years old. My mother would drive me and my friends to go to The Elks Lodge; it was the illest sh-t ever. So I’m with my boy John Paul. And I just got the Sabu shirt. I saw Sabu; he signed it for me. I had the Dudley’s 3D shirt. I saw D-Von and Bubba. I was like, yo! But he’s like, ‘get the f-ck out of here, you fat f-ck! I’ll beat the f-cking shit out of you!” He just went in on me. And I was like, yeah, I loved it. To this day, I remember I loved every f-cking second of it. I talked to him about it. He had me on this podcast. He loved it; we laughed.”
Action Bronson would go on to reveal that HOOK himself asked Bronson for permission to use the theme song in All Elite Wrestling, and he gave him his blessing.
“I guess [Taz and I] exchanged numbers at some point,” Action Bronson said. “We would just text, you know, every so often like, ‘Yo, we gotta get you in the ring to train’ or whatever. So I went out to Long Island to train, and HOOK has been a fan since he’s a younger kid, and he loved that song, and he wanted to use that song. So I was like, ‘bro, go f-cking be my guest. Please.'”
Bronson said that he didn’t want anything in return, but there is a fee that AEW needed to pay Atlantic Records, who holds the rights to the song. He closed by saying his friend was in the crowd to see the debut and loved it, and said that pro wrestling is “good, clean fun.”
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