Match of the Day - After 400 years, Glacier finally arrives!

Debut Monday:

Glacier vs. The Gambler - WCW Pro (1996)

After weeks and weeks of mysterious "Blood Runs Cold" vignettes on WCW, Glacier - a half karate, half pro wrestling Sub-Zero - finally made his over-the-top debut on WCW Pro against the card-playing, bad-better, The Gambler.

Glacier's debut, set back a bit due to the introduction of the nWo, featured blue lights, a circle of light in the middle of the ring for him to pose in, snow, and even an extravagant back story featuring a 400-year-old helmet and many years of "Kung-fu-y". All-in-all, Glacier's real purpose in life was to cross-advertise with the Mortal Kombat TV series, MK: Konquest which aired right after Monday Nitro (a very prestigious honor) on TNT.

Soon after Glacier displayed his amazing martial arts background (the reason "Sugar Ray" Llyod was repackaged by Eric Bischoff) with a few arm-drags and a top rope super-kick, a move we didn't see again until Sid Vicious tried it years later, the cold and calculative Glacier would make his first appearance on Nitro versus Big Bubba Rogers (Big Boss Man) in a feud that began due to Glacier's long-anticipated debut. The feud was scrapped right after Glacier's win on Nitro however and Glacier didn't do too much until the "Blood Runs Cold" angle featuring other Mortal Kombat-looking wrestlers in '98.

Personally, I always thought Glacier came out with his million-dollar entrance, an entrance only rivaled by Goldust's at the time in the Federation, wrestled this one match and never appeared again because there wasn't any room for him when Big Kev and Scott Hall were running the show. Turns out Glacier was around until 1999 and then for one more run in 2001 with Norman Smiley as Ralphus's replacement or something.

Should have named him Iceberg.

I guess Glacier's gimmick was so big it couldn't just be canned right away... Like The Great Khali.

My God, that guy is still employed by the WWE...