9 Wrestlers Who Won Titles On Their Debuts

9. The Giant (WCW World Heavyweight Championship)

Not even actual death could stop The Giant from snatching away Hulk Hogan's WCW Heavyweight Championship at Halloween Havoc '95.

The show was either a disgraceful farce or a complete comedic triumph depending on your predilection for the absurd. Before Hogan and the debuting son of Andre the Giant (nope) faced one-on-one in their favoured sport, they obviously met on the rooftop of the adjacent Cobo Hall for a game of monster truck chicken. Fairplay soon turned foul, and in a terrible - and we mean terrible - accident, Hogan 'accidentally' shoved The Giant off the roof and into the Detroit River.

Jonathan Frakes stay away: we didn't make that one up. Later in the evening, Hogan proved apologies weren't beneath him, as he begged God's forgiveness for having killed a man. It was granted, but this is a vengeful God, and out popped the dearly departed right as rain, as a retributive punishment from up high.

With a little help from the supposed Yeti and a now-evil Jimmy Hart, The Giant seized Hogan's assets thanks to a rule which allowed the championship to change hands via disqualification - on any other night, the stupidest thing on the show. It was a memorable debut, to say the least.