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Arkansas- Pine Pretense band plays Cody Rhodes' theme song #.\n\nKalan Hooks, ESPNAug 31, 2024, 05:45 PM ETThough the Arkansas Razorbacks succeeded on the industry against the Arkansas-Pine Bluff Golden Lions, the Golden Lions' band won the followers in the stands.On Thursday, the Arkansas-Pine Bluff band-- named the \"Walking Musical Maker of the Mid-South\"-- performed a rendition of WWE star Cody Rhodes' signature tune, \"Empire,\" during the game.Rhodes fought Kevin Owens in the indisputable WWE title match at the Celebration in Berlin on Sunday. Rhodes beat Owens to stay the undeniable WWE champion.Prior to his match, Rhodes heard the band's performance of his theme song and also shared his pleasure concerning the performance. He mentioned he will serve the band's variation once or twice in the storage locker room.Berlin possessed me presently fired up for

WWEBashBut THIS might be performed one or two times in the storage locker space prior to my suit today.Awesome stuff @UAPBM4 u2764 https://t.co/cYA5lcG8Lwu2014 Cody Rhodes (@CodyRhodes) August 31, 2024 The band's total performance went viral on X as well as acquired over 866,000 views as of Sunday evening.Arkansas-Pine Pretense supervisor of bands John Graham stated the band participants were actually skeptical in the beginning once they received the part in practice. However as they went through the song, they started to like it." When our arranger put the tune abstractly for our company, I looked at it [and also] a number of the pupils were actually trembling their scalps presuming, 'Absolutely no, why are our team playing this' and afterwards our company began rehearsing it, the part came active," Graham said to ESPN." I mentioned, 'This is going to go.'"" Kingdom" had not been scheduled the Golden Lions-Razorbacks game, yet rather as a piece that could be used eventually in the season. Nonetheless, Graham found the Arkansas game as the best chance to debut the track in the stands.When Graham provided the downbeat for the band to play the track, enjoyment packed the stadium." As quickly as I fell the hammer as well as our team started playing, I looked into and also observed followers responding like, 'They're playing "Empire,"'" Graham stated. "I observed all of them standing up with excitement as well as favorable responses, as well as I informed on my own, 'Our experts reside in here today.' It was actually a stunning moment.".