WWE Superstar Kit Wilson surprised fans with a new entrance theme during the 2 January of 2026 in an episode of SmackDown. His tag team partner and fellow member Elton Prince remains sidelined as he continues rehabilitation from a neck injury in May 2025. The tag team Pretty Deadly have long been recognised for their presentation since they got in NXT UK before the brand’s merger with NXT. Since then, the duo garnered their recognition from their fans.
The song went viral with wrestling fans all over the world listening on repeat. However, some fans speculated that the song might be created by Artificial Intelligence (AI), according to a video shared by a fan account on Twitter/X named FLAIRFATU. Wilson denied that the song was created using AI, adding that he personally likes his own entrance song.
As for the song, uh, I had a little phone call and I said ‘can I send you an email with everything I wanted?’ And I wrote and email this big, this big, this big [gestures a large email with his hands] kept going. All the songs I love everything I want and uh, that’s what we ended up… No AI, no… I think there was a certain vibe I was going for, and I wanted to be different, and it was different, and I think they’re okay with that.
WWE took advantage of the song’s popularity and posted a four hour loop on YouTube. ‘Man Up’, written by Ali Theodore, Anthony Mirabella III, and James Keith Petrie, and produced by def rebel under their distribution of TuneCore and own label WWE Music Group, is a track blending dance-pop and hip-hop. The community speculated that the song might be inspired by Charli xcx and Billie Eilish.
“Man Up” was featured in a TikTok post by Jollibee UK, showing their mascot dancing to Wilson’s song. The caption read “Jollibee + Kit Wilsons new theme = YES BOOOY“. Kit later reacted to the video, “Give me chicken nuggets!!!!!!”, as he replied.
As of writing (22 January 2026), the song uploaded to the YouTube Channel of WWE Music received 264,000 and 219,000 views on the main channel of WWE.
You can listen to the entrance theme song of Kit Wilson “Man Up” here.