25 Greatest Superstars In WWE Raw History

21. Sean Waltman

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Despised at his worst but beloved and brilliant at his best, it took some years of retrospective reflection to realise just how huge Sean Waltman’s efforts were to the both the growth and prosperity of Monday Night Raw during two very different tenures for the show.

His upset victory over Razor Ramon was the first blockbuster moment to elevate the show beyond the usual ebb and flow of the mammoth television tapings in 1993, and his match-of-the-year-candidate work from that point up to his 1996 exit was about the most consistent of anybody’s in the organisation.

As X-Pac, he kicked the a*se out of a barren midcard in 1998, delivering an almighty shot across the bow when he returned on the post-WrestleMania 14 edition of the show. Jim Cornette argued that he was the only man neither company cared to hold onto during the Monday Night Wars, but his contributions comfortably contradicted that notion.

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