5 Biggest Winners & Losers From WWE In 2024

10. Winner: Cody Rhodes

Cody Rhodes may be leaving 2024 on a stretcher from a piledriver delivered by one of his good friends Kevin Owens, but he is unmistakenly one of the biggest winners of this year.

Only the purposefully contrarian wrestling fans who have to reject the mainstream and find something to complain about 24/7 will roll their eyes at this assessment, because it is just a fact that he's had a monstrously successful year.

At WrestleMania 39, he came up short, had a rubber chicken thrown into the ring as he cried in his loss. In 2024, he became a back-to-back two-time Royal Rumble winner (putting him in a league with only a handful of Hall of Fame legends), superseded The Rock of all people to dethrone Roman Reigns 1000+ day reign as double champion, in the main event of WrestleMania XL—a tentpole, new era birthing event—and has since retained that title all while also winning the first-ever Crown Jewel Championship to further cement his status as the top dog in the company.

His merchandise sales remain in the top tier, his popularity is barely wavering in the mainstream sense, and he's even managed to temporarily live out another dream with the one-off resurgence of the Winged Eagle WWE Championship title.

This has been The American Nightmare's year, and here's hoping 2025 is another great one for Cody Rhodes.