Perfect Timing
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Post by Perfect Timing on Dec 31, 2018 16:13:34 GMT -5
So weird a surprise has never been 1. I know Goldust in 2002 was 2 but he was announced. Off the top of my heaf I know Jericho was 2 one year.
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ayumidah
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Post by ayumidah on Dec 31, 2018 16:26:34 GMT -5
Yeah the main one I could remember was Jericho
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Dec 31, 2018 22:19:20 GMT -5
Not a surprise return, but Demolition being 1 and 2 in '89 and then actually fighting each other was a huge surprise at the time.
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Post by tekkenguy on Dec 31, 2018 23:13:51 GMT -5
I can’t think of any besides Jericho in 2013. I know AJ was 3 when he debuted.
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Post by BatPunk on Jan 1, 2019 0:29:25 GMT -5
Not a surprise return, but Demolition being 1 and 2 in '89 and then actually fighting each other was a huge surprise at the time. Man I loved that. I remember not knowing what was going to happen and then thinking they’re not going to be a team anymore. |
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Post by jivesoulbrah on Jan 1, 2019 0:44:17 GMT -5
Wasn’t Bob Backlund a surprise in 1993?
Wasn’t that his first match back in the WWF in like a decade? I don’t think he was announced.
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Post by avenger on Jan 2, 2019 3:50:38 GMT -5
Wasn’t Bob Backlund a surprise in 1993? Wasn’t that his first match back in the WWF in like a decade? I don’t think he was announced. He was announced weeks before. |
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Post by Ryushinku on Jan 2, 2019 16:45:52 GMT -5
I figure it's mainly just because people like the surprise entrants (I know I really do, it's probably my favourite thing about the Rumbles) and so they want to hold them back a little rather right out of the gate.
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Post by TGM on Jan 2, 2019 17:00:39 GMT -5
Was Bob Backlund the first ever surprise entrant? In 2000 he wasn't on the main roster and I'm struggling to think of any earlier ones. Unless it's the Mankind/Cactus/Dude trilogy we got.
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Post by fw91 on Jan 2, 2019 17:18:37 GMT -5
Was Bob Backlund the first ever surprise entrant? In 2000 he wasn't on the main roster and I'm struggling to think of any earlier ones. Unless it's the Mankind/Cactus/Dude trilogy we got. Lawler in 97. |
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Post by karl100589 on Jan 2, 2019 18:05:11 GMT -5
Was Bob Backlund the first ever surprise entrant? In 2000 he wasn't on the main roster and I'm struggling to think of any earlier ones. Unless it's the Mankind/Cactus/Dude trilogy we got. There were a couple of random entrants in the mid nineties. Dick Murdoch, The Samoan Swat team, Doug Gilbert, Dory Funk, Onari, the Mexicans in 1997. |
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Post by jivesoulbrah on Jan 3, 2019 10:07:36 GMT -5
Was Bob Backlund the first ever surprise entrant? In 2000 he wasn't on the main roster and I'm struggling to think of any earlier ones. Unless it's the Mankind/Cactus/Dude trilogy we got. There were a couple of random entrants in the mid nineties. Dick Murdoch, The Samoan Swat team, Doug Gilbert, Dory Funk, Onari, the Mexicans in 1997. And not a single pop for any of them. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 3, 2019 10:51:55 GMT -5
Was Nikolai Volkoff a surprise return in 1992? It seems like I don't remember seeing him for a while before that.
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Post by mrpeacock on Jan 3, 2019 10:58:24 GMT -5
Was Nikolai Volkoff a surprise return in 1992? It seems like I don't remember seeing him for a while before that. He replaced an injured guy either Janetty or one of the Nastys. I can’t remember if they said anything in the build up but at the very least they mentioned him earlier in the show saying he’s a replacement, Haku was another replacement that year. |
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Jan 3, 2019 11:04:14 GMT -5
Was Nikolai Volkoff a surprise return in 1992? It seems like I don't remember seeing him for a while before that. He was. As was - technically - Haku, who had been working for SWS since the previous July. |
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Post by Jonathan Michaels on Jan 3, 2019 18:31:43 GMT -5
There was also the surprise of having Shawn and Taker start as #1 and #2 the year after they stole the show as the final two the year before.
It was a neat little callback.
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Post by Porky's Butthole on Jan 3, 2019 18:38:39 GMT -5
I know it's not 1 or 2, but that young whipper snapper Carlos Colon was a surprise for me when it happened.
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Post by RI Richmark on Jan 3, 2019 18:52:18 GMT -5
Was Nikolai Volkoff a surprise return in 1992? It seems like I don't remember seeing him for a while before that. He was. As was - technically - Haku, who had been working for SWS since the previous July. I don't know if they count. They weren't bought in to surprise the fans. They were just injury replacements for Marty Jannetty and Brian Knobbs respectively. |
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Jan 3, 2019 19:16:22 GMT -5
He was. As was - technically - Haku, who had been working for SWS since the previous July. I don't know if they count. They weren't bought in to surprise the fans. They were just injury replacements for Marty Jannetty and Brian Knobbs respectively. True, but they weren't advertised, and weren't under contract, so it's not inaccurate to say they were surprise entries either. |
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