8. The 1-2-3 Kid Becomes The Future Of The Attitude Era
Weighing in at whatever a medium-sized bag of grapefruit weighs, Sean Waltman entered the WWE under a rotating cast of nicknames playing up the fact that he wasn't even of legal drinking age yet. He was The Lightning Kid, then The Kamikaze Kid, then The Cannonball Kid, then everyone became tired of this kid changing nicknames and just wanted him to settle on a moniker already. That would happen after his first high profile match, wrestling against Razor Ramon on an episode of Raw. In a short match that should have been just another display of Razor Ramon's superiority over most of the WWE's roster, Waltman managed a moonsault from the top turnbuckle, swiftly pinning Ramon. Both men in shock, Waltman immediately fled the ring. Following the unlikely victory, he was known as The 1-2-3 Kid. And his star rose very, very quickly, upsetting the likes of Ted DiBiase, soon after and eventually becoming tag team partners with a face-turned Razor Ramon. That connection would lead to his inclusion in The Kliq, which would then lead to his defection to WCW as part of the NWO, which would then lead him back to the WWE, where he became a member of the most important faction in the history of the company, D-Generation X.That's an improbably outcome for a guy who wouldn't have been able to even make his debut in the WWE if a strong gust of wind had blown past while he was walking to the arena. Dude would have been swept away.