10 Biggest Red Flags Waving In WWE Right Now
1. The Rock Doing What He Wants
To borrow a turn of phrase from the subject of this final entry: What in the blue monkey hell is The Rock up to?
After making waves as The Final Boss in 2024 - a perfectly calibrated heel turn that played a huge role in setting up Cody Rhodes as the face of the WWE - Rocky inexplicably flipped the script and returned to WWE programming as a smiling, gladhanding babyface. This bizarre decision was then followed by an embarrassing outing on NXT, where he castrated the show's biggest heel, took the main event spot for himself and delivered a rambling 15 minute monologue that achieved nothing except making him look literally drunk on power.
As big a name as The Rock is, WWE can't simply let him run roughshod over the company whenever he likes. The Rock is no longer in touch with the modern wrestling audience, and without some twist of fate to rein him in - as thankfully happened in the build-up to WrestleMania 40 - his stock is only going to fall further with each embarrassing, nonsensical appearance.
If The Rock really is "20 steps ahead" as he claims, this writer will happily eat his words. But right now Dwayne's giving off big "dad at the school disco" energy, and that's not how the man who was once the coolest dude on the planet should be remembered.