WrestleMania jitters are a real thing for some, if not all WWE superstars. After all, each and everyone of them are getting set to perform in the biggest show of the year in front of what each and every year could be the biggest crowd they’ll ever see in their career. With the exception of WrestleMania 36, no one on this current roster has seen a WrestleMania with less than fifty thousand people.
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So the jitters kick in and the desire to put on the best match possible becomes magnified tenfold when it’s not just WrestleMania, not just your first WrestleMania, but your debut match with the company - at The Show Of Shows! The list will also focus on NXT performers who may have been a part of WWE prior to these "debuts" but these are their main roster debuts.
8 Big E Langston - WrestleMania 29
For several weeks, the trio of AJ Lee, Dolph Ziggler, and Big E Langston had become an impressive duo. They harkened back to the days of The Attitude Era, where a couple of superstars got out together and didn’t seem like a group but morphed into a cohesive unit that the fans could get behind. But Big E hadn’t formally made his main roster debut. That would all change at WrestleMania 29, when he and Dolph had the opportunity of a lifetime, challenging Team Hell No for the Tag Team titles.
7 Fandango - WrestleMania 29
In the weeks leading into WrestleMania 29, Fandango refused to wrestle anyone since no announcer could pronounce his name correctly. At the Show Of Shows, however Fandango got a glorious entrance fit for a debuting superstar.
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'Dango became an instant sensation by successfully defeating Chris Jericho in his debut and one night later at a raucous Raw where “Fandangoing” became a thing.
6 Sami Zayn - WrestleMania 32
Despite answering the John Cena US Title Open Challenge, Sami Zayn wouldn’t debut on the main roster properly for several more months. One night prior to WrestleMania 32, the NXT faithful were chanting for he and Nakamura to “fight forever.”
The one hundred thousand strong in Dallas got to sing along with Sami as he headed to the ring for his official main roster debut as part of the Intercontinental Championship ladder match.
5 Baron Corbin - WrestleMania 32
There was a finite window of opportunity that it seemed that The Andre The Giant Memorial Battle Royal was going to actually mean something, as far as booking was concerned. WrestleMania 32 was the last time the match took place on the main card.
"The Lone Wolf" Baron Corbin had the dubious honor of debuting during the big Battle Royal, alongside legends like Big Show, DDP, and evening Shaquille O’Neal. The world quickly took notice of the future King Of The Ring when he would go on to actually win the match and pose next to the big trophy.
4 Ronda Rousey - WrestleMania 34
The Baddest Woman On The Planet shocked the world by coming to the WWE right after the 2018 Royal Rumble, but it wouldn’t be until WrestleMania 34 that Ronda Rousey would make her official in-ring debut. Alongside fellow Olympian, Kurt Angle, the pair took on Triple H and Stephanie McMahon.
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Just like Angle, Rousey was able to connect to the audience and catch on to the business faster than just about anyone. She was able to stand in front of the New Orleans crowd like any wide-eyed fan girl. But once the bell rang, she came unglued and unleashed her unique Judo-styled offense to stand victorious.
3 Sting - WrestleMania 31
As paying wrestling fans were watching the Macho Man be crowned WWE champion at WrestleMania IV, fans watching on free TV on the other channel got to see Ric Flair introduce the world to Sting in WCW.
It would take 27 years, but The Vigilante finally made his WWE debut wrestling a match at WrestleMania 31. It wasn’t the result the fans had hoped for or the match Sting had hoped for, but seeing Sting in a WWE for the first was as amazing and nostalgic as anyone could hope for.
2 Lana - WrestleMania 32
The Women’s Evolution was taking center stage at WrestleMania 32, with Charlotte, Sasha, and Becky. But at the kick-off show in Dallas, all eyes were centered on Lana.
The Ravishing Russian had up until this point been more or less at the side of Rusev since she made her main roster debut. At WrestleMania 32, Lana made her big in-ring debut as part of the Bad And Blonde tag team in a losing effort against the Total Divas team.
1 Peyton Royce - WrestleMania 34
Despite being part of the WrestleMania 34 kick-off show, superstars from then, now, and forever from NXT and the main roster converged for the first-ever WrestleMania Women’s Battle Royal. One of the NXT Women that made it to the match was Peyton Royce.
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One half of The IIconics had a strong showing and lasted until the final ten ladies. Several days later, Billie Kay joined her on Smackdown Live to attack Charlotte Flair.
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