9 Exact Moments WWE Booking Stopped Making Sense

9. The Rock Kills Two WrestleMania Main Events In One Night

More - much more - on 'The Most Electrifying Man In Sports Entertainment' and one of the most public-facing power players in WWE elsewhere in this list, but nothing could have set the stall out more for WWE's 2025 creative decline than The Rock's opening salvo on the Raw Is Netflix January 6th special.

Advertised ahead of time and expected (at very least) to build on the incredible post-WrestleMania 40 promo with Cody Rhodes, Rock almost immediately squashed their beef with a patronising attaboy to the company quarterback and WWE Champion, grossly misreading the room and flushing months of hotly anticipated conflict in the process.

To recap; Rock had pinned Rhodes in the WrestleMania 40 Night One main event before 'The American Nightmare' dethroned Roman Reigns. There was good reason to assume a singles match wasn't just coming, but required in order to, appropriately, finish the story. The disappointment continued later in the show when Rock re-inserted himself into Reigns' business simply to calmly crown him as the 'Tribal Chief' despite months of reasonable speculation that he was behind the rise of the new heel Bloodline offshoot group. But no, he was a babyface, backing the two top babyfaces ahead of whatever lay ahead on the Road To WrestleMania.

It was on this night that 'The Final Boss' said without saying that he wouldn't be at WrestleMania 41, but there'd been that much back and forth (including from Rock himself!) that plenty assumed he still would be.

But when he wasn't...