Ranking All 24 WWE Debuts & Returns In 2023

18. Lita

CM Punk Trish Stratus
WWE.com

How do you rate a WWE Hall-of-Famer who won a title more than 15 years after she retired?

Unfortunately for Lita, her two-match run on Raw this year was little more than added fuel for WrestleMania season. She joined former nemesis Becky Lynch to topple Damage CTRL for the women’s tag titles, then added Trish Stratus to the mix to pick up a six-woman tag victory at Mania.

And then that was basically it for Lita. She appeared on Raw a bit more, but she got taken out by Trish and hasn’t been seen since. Her entire run existed to juice the WrestleMania card and to set up Stratus’ ill-fated heel turn.

This was a completely forgettable run, if not for the tag title victory providing a nice moment.

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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.