10 Years ago......

flahavaj

Stolen shamelessly from another board.

RAW IS Y2J BABY!!!!!!!!!

Hard to believe this is ten years ago. Listen to the crowd reactions, God wrestling was so hot in those days. No one has ever made a debut like this. Incredible stuff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xw_aKkqlUiI

HorseRadish

class wasnt it. I sent Jericho a tweet about it. Still holds up today.

Glico Man

Even his second "debut" when he came back was brilliant, the crowd went wild

Pity someone had to leak the storyline cos if it had been a major surprise the roof would have come off the place

JP Liz

Its 10 years already - thank god he is back in WWE

Dancor

Brilliant stuff!

Makes me feel old though

The book is a great read, giving all the backround to the debut. The Rock played his part great too.

chopperbyrne

I remember when I was the only person in school who watched WCW and I kept telling them how Jericho was better than anybody in the WWF at the time.

Got a lot of stick over it, but this and the following years of entertainment proved me right.

gimmick

Best ever debut. The build up over the weeks was great, the mysterious millenium clock. What a pop when JERICHO flashes up on the screen for the first time. Nothing even comes close to this as the best ever debut.

aaronh007 wrote: »

Even his second "debut" when he came back was brilliant, the crowd went wild

I thought they made a hash of it tbh. The "viral" messages went on for too long, then on the night of his actual return the blew the pop for a backstage bit before he walked out on the stage.

pingu_girl

They dont make em like the used too

Vince135792003

I am getting old.

Machismo Fan

Look at that for a debut. Jericho got weeks worth of build with the countdown clock and then gets a big debut promo interrupting The Rock. The best people get these days is a few video packages before they debut leading to a debut squash match.

pingu_girl

09/09/1999

Penn

Machismo Fan wrote: »

Look at that for a debut. Jericho got weeks worth of build with the countdown clock and then gets a big debut promo interrupting The Rock. The best people get these days is a few video packages before they debut leading to a debut squash match.

Case in point: R-Truth

So much potential. Really enjoyed his first match with Kenny Dykstra. Great wrestler. Popular with the fans. Then Vince stops his push because he sold some of Dykstras moves.

R-Truth should have at least been in a full fued for the US/IC title by now

Wow I feel old...but seriously "Best debut ever" - I beg to differ!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3CL28vgE4U

Vince135792003

Machismo Fan wrote: »

Look at that for a debut. Jericho got weeks worth of build with the countdown clock and then gets a big debut promo interrupting The Rock.

To be fair, his debut was great as was his interaction with the Rock. From my memory it went downhill for the next couple of moths for him after that though.

Rjd2

paddyirishman85 wrote: »

Case in point: R-Truth

So much potential. Really enjoyed his first match with Kenny Dykstra. Great wrestler. Popular with the fans. Then Vince stops his push because he sold some of Dykstras moves.

R-Truth should have at least been in a full fued for the US/IC title by now

Or Christian who got nothing and just turned up on a random ECW episode where the commentators were totally dead for it.

flahavaj

Deleted User wrote: »

Wow I feel old...but seriously "Best debut ever" - I beg to differ!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3CL28vgE4U

Interesting snippet that ties in with the NWA fanfest thread: Ole Anderson was the voice of the Shockmaster.

Handsome Bob

I never laughed as hard watching wrestling as I did when The Rock just tore into him! "Listen you little jabroni." I know that it's not a great line in itself but the way The Rock said it was perfect.

Super-Rush

Great video, what a pop. Its hard to believe that WWE were able to do something like that so well when you look at how they operate these days.

I remember the build up to his debut lasted 3/4 weeks and it was well worth the wait. Myself and a mate were watching in my house that night and we went crazy.

watching that video made me think of my favourite WWE debut

Great build up, even better feud to follow. When Kane brought the lights back up with his hands was a great idea. Only Taker was able to do this and made us believe that Kane was a major threat or perhaps a replacement for Taker.

CMpunked

a-hole

wwe dont want to achnolage other feds so it is harder to bring in stars that people know like cm punk they couldnt mention roh lasley they couldnt mention mma

big syke

Huh????

flahavaj

a-hole wrote: »

wwe dont want to achnolage other feds so it is harder to bring in stars that people know like cm punk they couldnt mention roh lasley they couldnt mention mma

Lashley didn't do MMA pre WWE.

Peyton Manning

My favourite was Raven. He was my favourite wrestler at the time, and I hadnt heard anything of him joing WWE.

rossie1977

jerichos debut was great, but then so was goldbergs wwe debut too (last great wwe debut imo), no surprise the rock was the guy opposite both, i wonder if someone less talented ie hardcore holly was in rocks position would either debut have come off as strong, rock is fantastic here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e110TgW5tiQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e110TgW5tiQ