10 Weirdest Wrestling Debuts Ever
5. Seven
The production cost of this infamous segment is eye-watering in retrospect, given the financial turmoil amid 1999 WCW and WWE's no-selling of spectacle nowadays.
Following an intriguing(ly awful) vignette, in which this new character camped outside of a young child's bedroom, spoke in husky tones and persuaded him to join him "in complete bliss, mmm, that's right" - we, and thank Christ, were spared this apparent child molester by vanguard of good taste Vince Russo (!), who joined as creative head honcho after this was dreamt up, and promptly binned it off by quietly abandoning it.
Swerve!
Seven debuted the character in full, phenomenally awful gimmick, and entered the arena, backed by flaming pyro, on wires. Yes, the floater of a gimmick floated to the ring before the man behind it disavowed it in stunningly glib fashion. "My new name is Seven, by the way," he said en route to completely exposing the gimmick and all others, essentially, as the work of inept madmen struggling to compete with the WWF. These guys on TV you invest in? Fake, bro!
Seven before his debut promised that "darkness will fall over WCW". He was right, in that the company had to turn down the lights to obscure the fact that nobody turned up for Nitro.