10 Best WWE Moments That Reignited Your Passion For Wrestling
9. 2011 - The Rock Returns
"Finally, after seven long years, The Rock has come back... Home".
As cliche and stale as that line seems now, five years on, it was music to our ears back in 2011. The fans have long since pined for the attitude era, of which The Great One played a starring role and him coming back always seemed like a long shot after leaving all the way back in 2004. He was too good for WWE now. He was raking it in over in Hollywood, there was literally no reason for him to come back. Or so we thought.
The Rock had left us feeling like children who's Daddy had abanoned them and him coming back made us feel wanted again. He got one of the biggest pops of all time and then he did the unthinkable, he called out John Cena! This set up the perfect feud. The Rock, representing men everywhere versus John Cena, representing the women and children that Cena and WWE in general pander to so much.
Everybody chose a side and for a fleeting moment, wrestling felt relevant again. If we ignore the rehashing of the feud that nobody wanted in 2013, The Rock returning was one of the best moments of the last decade, something we were all wishing would happen.