Ranking All 29 WWE Returns And Debuts In 2022

6. Ronda Rousey

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Ronda Rousey’s first run with WWE was a magical year that saw the former UFC champion grow by leaps and bounds as a performer, delivering fantastic matches that were well beyond her level of experience.

Her second run, which began when she won the Royal Rumble as a surprise #30 entrant, has been far less impressive. Rousey has been normalized in this run, having to have “competitive” matches with several superstars, including a feud with Liv Morgan that saw the Money in the Bank winner defeating her for the SmackDown Women’s Championship and then retaining it in controversial fashion.

Rousey doesn’t feel like a must-see attraction in this run, though her heel turn and alignment with real-life friend Shayna Baszler has helped a bit. Plus, she’s still the blue brand’s champion.

Still, there was a time that Rousey would have been top 3 on this list easily.

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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.