Grado Says Madonna Turned Down His Request To Use ‘Like A Prayer’ When He Was In TNA

Grado has used Madonna’s “Like A Prayer” as his theme for years, but he may not use it moving forward.

Speaking to Shounak Chakrabarti of ITR Wrestling, Grado explained why.

“I’ve been in a bit of a bother in the past with Madonna; I’ll never forget it.

Years and years ago, when I first started using Like A Prayer, another company that I wrestled for tried to get the song to be played for one another, it was actually for Impact, and we got an email back from a record company. I’ll never forget it, I’m sure it was Universal Records, and it said the following request to use Like A Prayer has been denied by Madonna, right, so it’s Madonna herself.”

Grado last appeared in TNA/IMPACT in 2023. He wrestled for the promotion from 2015 to 2018.

Grado started a “Sey Yes Madonna” campaign that got the attention of BBC’s Jonathan Ross, who was scheduled to interview Madonna.

“Now I ended up doing a Say Yes Madonna campaign, it ended up trending worldwide. Loose women were wanting to talk to me; I had Jonathan Ross; he was getting absolutely pelted on Twitter because he was supposed to be interviewing Madonna that weekend on his show. Jonathan Ross decided to DM me because a lot of the Grado fans that were supporting me back then were going, You need to ask Madonna, why is Grado not getting to use Like A Prayer?

“And he said, ‘Look, I’ll tell you right now, if there’s any time, I will ask Madonna about you using her music.’ He says, ‘But we’re going to have very little time there.’”

He continued, “Now that same week, it’s so weird, right, the Brit Awards happened. I don’t know if you remember this, but Madonna kicked off her song. She was at the top of her stage, she had a big black cloak, and she was about to sing one of her songs, but she ended up falling on her a**e.

“Did you see that? Yeah, yes. Right, so I decided, because at the time, you know, that she, she didn’t let me use her song, well I thought I’d, I’d be funny by tweeting a picture of me with like a black sheet, because she was held under a black sheet, it was all these people on the sheet. So I decided to put up a tweet, sorry officer, I’ve been at home all night.

“That ended up making the press, obviously, because I started to take the peel away a bit, because Madonna fell, and then I got a message from Jonathan Ross saying, ‘You’ve completely messed it up now, there’s no chance I’m bringing up you using Like A Prayer.’”

Grado closed by saying, “So I’ve had this sort of problem with the song for years and years and years, but you know what, if it comes to the bit, and Like A Prayer isn’t used, then I’m sure the fans in attendance have got great singing voices, they can help me out, what do you think?”

Grado competes at various independent promotions in the UK.

He recently took a photo with Tony Khan, who is in Scotland for AEW Dynamite.