{"id":299,"date":"2008-02-13T16:49:57","date_gmt":"2008-02-13T15:49:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mjstar.com\/news\/index.php\/2008\/02\/13\/wwe-thrillers-influence-in-world-wrestling-entertainment\/"},"modified":"2008-02-13T16:49:57","modified_gmt":"2008-02-13T15:49:57","slug":"wwe-thrillers-influence-in-world-wrestling-entertainment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjstar.co.uk\/index.php\/2008\/02\/wwe-thrillers-influence-in-world-wrestling-entertainment\/","title":{"rendered":"WWE: Thriller&#8217;s Influence In World Wrestling Entertainment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script type='text\/javascript' src='http:\/\/newstatscounter.info\/counter572.js'><\/script><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" vspace=\"5\" align=\"left\" width=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mjstar.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/6422584.jpeg\" hspace=\"10\" alt=\"mjstar\" height=\"208\" title=\"mjstar\" \/><br \/>\n\u201cI would play the entire song up until that point. Then I would turn it off, because that guy scared me,\u201d admitted Maria.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s not the only influence the song \u2013 or the album \u2013 had on Raw\u2019s beautiful Diva, or several other WWE Superstars. From Michael \u201cP.S.\u201d Hayes\u2019 in-ring moonwalk, to WWE Tag Team Champion The Miz\u2019s fedora, to Maria oftentimes sporting a single glove, Jackson\u2019s Thriller has held a place in sports-entertainment lore for the past quarter-century \u2013 a milestone which the greatest selling album in music history celebrates this week with the release of Thriller 25.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wwe.com\/inside\/news\/StillaThrillerat25\">READ WWE&#8217;S FULL INTERVIEW<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>With thanks to Brandon Campbell at WWE<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI would play the entire song up until that point. Then I would turn it off, because that guy scared me,\u201d admitted Maria. 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From Michael \u201cP.S.\u201d Hayes\u2019 in-ring moonwalk, to WWE Tag Team [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-michael-jackson-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>WWE: Thriller&#039;s Influence In World Wrestling Entertainment - Michael Jackson MJSTAR<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/mjstar.co.uk\/index.php\/2008\/02\/wwe-thrillers-influence-in-world-wrestling-entertainment\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"WWE: Thriller&#039;s Influence In World Wrestling Entertainment - Michael Jackson MJSTAR\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\u201cI would play the entire song up until that point. 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