50 Greatest WWE Raw Moments Ever

Getting the moment he deserved for the years of work he'd put into a tag team that's since only been celebrated for one member, Marty Jannetty's return on Raw in the summer of 1993 was - if nothing else - the true payoff to The Rockers' iconic Barber Shop split a year and a half earlier.

After their hotly anticipated Royal Rumble singles match was greeted with critical indifference (and Marty lost his job again), the only obvious benefit to be found from their break-up appeared to be how Shawn Michaels had at least rapidly grown into the upper card heel the company needed. On the May 17th Raw, 'HBK' pretty much made the point himself. Suggesting that WWE's decks had already been swept, he was arrogant enough to offer a title shot to anybody that very night - a rarity in the era.

When Jannetty appeared in disguise from the crowd (to the organic-sounding stereo exclamation of the commentators in the booth and Vince McMahon holding the microphone in the ring), Michaels hilariously backtracked, trying to weasel out of it by noting his former partner's street clothes and how he wouldn't want him getting hurt.

The excitement was palpable, and carried over to their contest in the main event of the show. The match dog-walked their Rumble effort, at long last revealing a chemistry that their work as a doubles act always teased. Fast, frantic and with a crowd-pleasing title change, it was a vision of what the New Generation promised to be bell-to-bell, even if only one of the wrestlers in there would make the best of the philosophical shift.