10 Wrestlers With Incredible First Years
1. Scott Hall And Kevin Nash - WCW
Measured on the far-reaching and genre-defining ramifications of their defection, there can be no greater first year in a promotion than Kevin Nash and Scott Hall's return to WCW in 1996.
The entire landscape of the wrestling business in June 1997 was unrecognisable from the one they had sent shockwaves through twelve months earlier.
It's hard to discus the two without drawing on the New World Order as a concept, but really, without the shocking arrivals of the two WWE stalwarts onto WCW Monday Nitro, the whole idea may have just remained on Eric Bischoff's drawing board.
Taking the guaranteed money (and the tasty add-ons) of a Ted Turner contract, the two would help drastically alter how talent would get paid, which for better or worse, has since given countless talents that followed a more stable income for all their hard work.
Furthermore, the rise of the nWo forced the creative arm of WWE to spring back to life, generating the heady days of the Monday Night Wars, something Hall and Nash were a giant part of each and every week.
WCW would rapidly become theirs and others playgrounds in subsequent years, but it's truly hard to see just how the entire industry would have survived and thrived in the barren 90s without the seismic shift that took place at their behest.