10 Best WWE Rookie Years

10. Kane

OK, so technically this wasn't Glenn Jacobs' maiden year in WWE - he had already been on television in the mid-90s under the guises of Isaac Yankem and Fake Diesel - but it was at least the debut of Kane, the persona he finally settled on in 1997.

There are few better ways in which a wrestler can make his introduction than interrupting the first ever Hell in a Cell match to deliver a brutal Tombstone to The Undertaker. But the Big Red Machine wasn't done there: after settling the score with his estranged brother, Kane set his sights on the WWE Championship, which he won - less than nine months after his debut - in a First Blood match against Stone Cold at King of the Ring 1998.