Ranking All 24 WWE Debuts & Returns In 2023

11. Kairi Sane

CM Punk Trish Stratus
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The re-signing of Kairi Sane has the potential to be a tremendous move for WWE, particularly if it leads to a real, impactful women’s stable that the earlier iteration of Damage CTRL wishes it could have been.

Sane left WWE more than three years ago during the pandemic to return home. She made her shock return to the company at Crown Jewel, immediately paying dividends by helping Iyo Sky retain her WWE Women’s Championship and joining Damage CTRL.

Her appearance and everything that has followed has put stable leader Bayley on her heels, generating actual interest in the group after it felt like it was languishing for quite a while.

None of this touches on what Kairi brings to WWE in the ring, providing another high-quality wrestler to a women’s division that can always benefit from another strong performer. This ranking could prove to be low in the coming weeks, but as of this writing (just after Survivor Series), Sane rates right in the middle for what could be coming soon.

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Scott is a former journalist and longtime wrestling fan who was smart enough to abandon WCW during the Monday Night Wars the same time as the Radicalz. He fondly remembers watching WrestleMania III, IV, V and VI and Saturday Night's Main Event, came back to wrestling during the Attitude Era, and has been a consumer of sports entertainment since then. He's written for WhatCulture for more than a decade, establishing the Ups and Downs articles for WWE Raw and WWE PPVs/PLEs and composing pieces on a variety of topics.