Web Conn Posted October 2, 2013 Share Posted October 2, 2013 Which wrestling debuts do you think fell flat? I'll start off the thread with Bobby Lashleys debut into TNA he just stands there and points 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cool arrow Posted October 2, 2013 Share Posted October 2, 2013 When it comes to falling flat (quite literally) nobody can touch the Shockmaster. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yo-Yo's Roomie Posted October 2, 2013 Share Posted October 2, 2013 Kizarny has to be quite high on the list. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Z Posted October 2, 2013 Share Posted October 2, 2013 Scotty Goldman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JAxlMorrison Posted October 2, 2013 Share Posted October 2, 2013 Matt Hardy in TNA Marty Jannetty in WCW Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hammerva Posted October 2, 2013 Share Posted October 2, 2013 Maybe it was done on purpose but MVP debut match being on a PPV against Marty Garner (Cham Pain) was severly lackluster to the point it took the heel announcer JBL a couple months to stop making fun of him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cwoy2j Posted October 2, 2013 Share Posted October 2, 2013 Â I completely forgot he debuted against The Gambler, one of my favorite jobbers ever. I loved that gimmick. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Spanish Waiter Posted October 2, 2013 Share Posted October 2, 2013 MVP was definitely deliberate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nofuture Posted October 2, 2013 Share Posted October 2, 2013 Â How bout Seven as the only guy to bury his own debut? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harbinger Posted October 2, 2013 Share Posted October 2, 2013 In recent memory, the Wyatt Family. I don't even remember if it was against Kane or R-Truth. Still don't know what exactly is being done with them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaptain Kayfabe Posted October 2, 2013 Share Posted October 2, 2013 Seven was such an interesting gimmick... just the worst possible person doing it. If this was some new guy who we had never seen before? Awesome. But this was Dustin Rhodes who A) had been in WCW for years before this and had just come off his WWF run as Goldust. Everybody knew who it was so it has zero chance of getting over from the start. Throw Sean O'Haire in that same gimmick though, and who knows... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnnyJ Posted October 2, 2013 Share Posted October 2, 2013 In recent memory, the Wyatt Family. I don't even remember if it was against Kane or R-Truth. Still don't know what exactly is being done with them.  I'll second this. Since the night they debuted I really want to like them. Bray can obviously talk. I've read great things about Harper. But when I see Harper and Rowan wrestle all I see is slow and plodding big guy offense. It's a campier version of D.O.A. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Playa Shunna Ver 3.0 Posted October 2, 2013 Share Posted October 2, 2013 Which wrestling debuts do you think fell flat? I'll start off the thread with Bobby Lashleys debut into TNA he just stands there and points  It seems like 90% of TNAs debuts are guys walking down the ramp and just standing there.  Bobby did a ton by comparison.  2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted October 2, 2013 Share Posted October 2, 2013 Jeff Hardy's return to TNA on the first Monday Night Show was pretty massively underwhelming as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scraylo187 Posted October 2, 2013 Share Posted October 2, 2013  Which wrestling debuts do you think fell flat? I'll start off the thread with Bobby Lashleys debut into TNA he just stands there and points  It seems like 90% of TNAs debuts are guys walking down the ramp and just standing there.  Bobby did a ton by comparison.    Seconded. I'm hard pressed to think of TNA debuts that WEREN'T a guy standing and pointing.  Jeff Hardy's TNA debut for the start of the NEW MONDAY NIGHT WARS was god awful. One of the biggest aces you could put on the table and you waste him by...I think hitting Homicide and then climbing a cage? Wut? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted October 2, 2013 Share Posted October 2, 2013 Did he even hit Homicide? I think he just climbed the utterly impractical cage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert Posted October 2, 2013 Share Posted October 2, 2013 No video to link to but when CMLL switched rising young star Fugaz from that gimmick to his current Ramstein gimmick back in 2001 he was set for a huge push. However in his debut match he botched a dive so badly and to make it worse he injured himself. 12 years later he is still working opening matches without ever having received a second chance for a push... and to make matters worse the incident is so well remembered the announcers constantly mention it when he appears on TV or when they are discussing awful debuts. Sucks to be Ramstein. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Fresh Posted October 2, 2013 Share Posted October 2, 2013 Glacier started the Sin Cara lighting? I had no idea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niners Fan in CT Posted October 2, 2013 Share Posted October 2, 2013 I don't even remember Bret's first appearance in WCW so what does that tell you? Those people should never be allowed to run a wrestling promotion again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Posted October 2, 2013 Share Posted October 2, 2013 Wasn't it AT Starrcade 97, as the special guest referee? He had to reverse the fast count, that wasn't actually a fast count, to screw Hogan and give Sting the belt. Â If you want to give an example of people not being allowed to run a wrestling promotion, they blow probably the biggest angle of all time with the biggest match they had, and they blow it on a fast count that was slow, and the babyface needing a second chance to beat the bad guy. Â God.. WCW. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niners Fan in CT Posted October 2, 2013 Share Posted October 2, 2013 Was that his first appearance? Christ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greggulator Posted October 2, 2013 Share Posted October 2, 2013 Â How bout Seven as the only guy to bury his own debut? Â Seven might have been the most Russo-era WCW moment imaginable. A "shocking" character AND a shoot at once! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cole Miner Posted October 2, 2013 Share Posted October 2, 2013 Tensai. What an awful gimmick. Topped off with ring gear that only someone with a latex fetish could enjoy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bustronaut Posted October 2, 2013 Share Posted October 2, 2013 Yeah, not so much even with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skeeball Wizard Posted October 3, 2013 Share Posted October 3, 2013 In the same vein as Shockmaster, Vic Grimes and Tyson Tomko botching pretty simple shit on their respective debuts was pretty bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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