This was just a typical "squash match" debut to me, but I want to say that Razor Ramon/Scott Hall had some of the best vignettes for hyping up a wrestler in history.
I'd like to say that if he stayed in the WWF, he may have become world champion at some point but he's on record as saying he never had much interest in being crowned world champion because he never wanted the responsibility of carrying the company on his back the way the world champion is expected to (Jake Roberts was the same way.) Still, a very solid performer who was in some way almost the total package - oozes charisma in the way he walks and speaks, great gimmick, pretty good in-ring skills, etc. He also got a strong push right out the gate seeing as how he cost Randy Savage the WWF Title in his first month in the company and given that he was already challenging for the championship himself on PPV just four months later.