10 Most Memorable WWE Mystery Opponents
5. Tazz (Royal Rumble 2000)
Madison Square Garden was never short on seeing mystery reveals and the 2000 Royal Rumble was no different.
At the 2000 Royal Rumble, Tazz made his WWE debut amid much hype, coming over from the lauded, Paul Heyman-lead promotion, ECW. The wrestler known as the "Human Suplex Machine" took on the undefeated Olympic gold medalist Kurt Angle, himself only having debuted a couple of months prior.
If debuts are any indication of how a WWE superstar's career will turn out, Tazz should've been a multi-time world champion and present day Hall Of Famer. As it is, a wrestler's debut is important, but the follow-up and what comes after is what really determines whether any single WWE superstar sinks or swims.
While Tazz shouldn't be considered someone who sank, he certainly didn't swim up to the level that fans had expected based on his Royal Rumble victory over Angle.
Tazz has even gone on record as saying he knew that he was in trouble based on the pop he received that evening in MSG. The notion was that, since he wasn't an original WWE creation yet received an incredible reaction from the crowd, WWE officials would not be happy and wouldn't be anxious to push the incoming ECW star any further.
He wasn't wrong.