10 Weirdest Wrestling Debuts Ever

2. The Yeti

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What's crazy about the Yeti's WCW debut - other than everything about it - was the fact that it happened on just the eighth ever episode of Monday Nitro. Imagine deciding to compete with the WWF's flagship show, head to head, and doing so by quickly debuting the Yeti.

"We've got Lex Luger. Big, big get."

"What else? We need to produce premium, competitive original content every week."

"Let's introduce a dry-humping Yeti dressed as a mummy encased in a block of fake ice."

Seems thoroughly incomprehensible, but the character was explained...by the Master (King Curtis Iaukea), unfortunately for us, since we couldn't make out a f*cking word of it. Somebody or something from Mount Everest had delivered to the Dungeon of Doom an insurance policy in the form of a 13-tonne block of ice. "Sullivan!" he continued. "In Chicago, when youuuuu clip the whiskers of the rare white Bengal tiger".

Let's just stop there. What the f*ck was the mad old b*stard on about? A rare breed of tiger? In Chicago? Just debut EC3 as a mute. It's fine.

Yeti's in-ring debut was far worse, of course, since Hulk Hogan got his ar*e shagged by him in a scene that will live in infamy as possibly the dumbest moment in all of recorded history.

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