10 Wrestlers Whose Entrances Were Better Than Their Matches

7. Mr Kennedy

Mr Kennedy introducing himself to crowds and the masses watching at home is still one of the best openings wrestling has ever produced. Kennedy would often steal the microphone away from Tony Chimel, raise his hands to the sky for a personalised microphone to drop down and in perfect Michael Buffer style/tone, deliver his own ring introduction.

Kennedy debuted on SmackDown! in 2005 and tore it up on the main roster with his mic skills. He’d bombastically announce his Green Bay, Wisconsin hometown along with his weight, have some fun dialogue with the crowd and arrogantly announce himself as “Mrrrrrrr. Kennedy!” only to then yell “Ken-ned-y!” once more to a huge reaction.

Kennedy was destined for great things at one point, with WWE brass having high headline hopes for him. He won the Money in the Bank ladder match in 2007 and was supposed to cash in the briefcase and win a world title before sudden injury got in the way.

The trouble with Kennedy was he could never match his entrance afterwards with his performances in the ring. His entrances were simply too good and hard to one-up, especially when he started using ‘Turn Up the Trouble’ by Airbourne as his theme music. So no matter what opponent, from The Undertaker to John Cena, or what finisher he’d hit, from the Green Bay Plunge or Mic Check, he couldn’t warrant the same response he generated in his entrance.