Ranking What Was Really The Best Wrestling Debut Every Year 1990-2021

9. 2013 - The Wyatt Family

Not the best year in pro wrestling history, choices here are scarce.

Do you go with woodsmen monsters Rowan and Harper using a blanket to put out a fire? Tito Ortiz crossing his arms and looking for all the world like he was too pig-sh*t-thick to think of anything else to do in the moment? Maybe Curtis Axel, for his legendary win over Triple H via dehydration?

Christ. Maybe it was the Wyatt Family.

The SummerSlam match was a disaster, and yet, it still took fans nearly a decade to grasp that WWE was never going to get the act right. But the debut went down well enough on RAW, and Wyatt's promo was probably examined by hordes of r/SquaredCircle posters.

A lot of people liked this at the time, but then, the same is true of Puddle of Mudd.

Authored by Michael Sidgwick

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First Posted On: 25th Aug 2021

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