Video: Six Best Rookie Years In Wrestling History

Everyone has to start somewhere. Every wrestler who has been around for a long time had to have a first match and a first year. Some wrestlers have taken their time to really get going, but some of them have hit the ground running and outrun a lot of people who have been there before them. There are a lot of wrestlers who have won championships before they’ve been around for a year while some of them have taken the company by storm. That’s where WWE is going today.

One of these is cheating a bit.

6 best rookie years: WWE List This!

WWE has released a video looking at the six best rookie years in wrestling history. These range from the mid 1990s to only a few years ago, though one of the entries is multiple people rather than just a single name. Most of these names are still active to this day and all of them are former World Champions while some of them are already enshrined in the WWE Hall of Fame.

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Opinion: While going with Giant winning the World Title (which he later vacated) as a moment that made him a great rookie might be a stretch, the rest of these weren’t exactly hard to figure out. Kurt Angle and Brock Lesnar always top these kinds of lists and that’s exactly what happened here. I know Goldberg would be a popular choice at the moment due to his recent Hall of Fame induction but the level of competition he faced for the first several months of his career holds him back a bit.

Who had the best rookie year in wrestling history? Who will be this year’s best rookie? Let us know in the comments below.

Thomas Hall has been a wrestling fan for over thirty years and has seen over 50,000 wrestling matches. He has also been a wrestling reviewer since 2009 with over 5,000 full shows covered. You can find his work at kbwrestlingreviews.com, or check out his Amazon author page with 26 wrestling books. His latest book is the WWE Grab Bag.

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