Ranking What Was Really The Best Wrestling Debut Every Year 1990-2021

21. 2001 - Rob Van Dam

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It's slim pickings, Christ.

ECW and WCW folded, and the WWF folded in various players from those promotions with the sole purpose of making them look like sh*t. You see, Vince McMahon had a bigger and more winning c*ck than them.

Booker T worked one of the most rejected and bad WWE matches ever.

Diamond Dallas Page got the sh*t kicked out of him in his guise as the most unconvincing pervert of all time.

That leaves the ECW invaders who, for one scorching episode of RAW, made it feel like the long-held dream of inter-promotional warfare hadn't degenerated into a destructive nightmare.

Van Dam earns the distinction because he was simply too over to look bad, and stole the whole f*ckin' show at Invasion.

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