12 MORE Weird Periods WWE Icons Would Like You To Forget

Not every wrestler who dominates the squared circle has managed to do so without wearing a little egg on their face. In fact, more often than not, these superstars have had to survive playing characters that are nonsensical to anyone outside of a room full of deluded wrestling creatives or having their character be given something completely out of whack with what audiences expect from them. 

These creative flops usually occur when a young wrestler is cutting their teeth, and their desperation to make a living from their craft means that even the worst of ideas seem like a better alternative to continuing to try and make a name for themselves. Others occur when a character is going nowhere and is asked to pivot to something new, no matter how bad this fresh take on their existing character might be.

Whatever the reason, some of the biggest names in the history of wrestling have periods of their career that they'd rather not have to see or be reminded of ever again. These unanimously ridiculed misfires used to be able to be buried without a trace, but not on our watch.

The Rock had an unbelievable 2024. Once WWE fans correctly nixed the idea of him leapfrogging Cody Rhodes to take his spot in the main event of WrestleMania 40 against Roman Reigns, everything he delivered was solid gold. His social media promos, the press conference in Las Vegas, and everything up to and including WrestleMania 40 led to one of the strongest runs in the career of one of the most successful pro wrestlers of all time.

Quite how they managed to tank this so spectacularly in 2025 is unfathomable. After forcing Cody Rhodes's mother to see her son's blood on his leather training belt and doing everything he could to ruin the fairytale ending to his story, the next time we saw Dwayne was delivering a toast to him on the company's first Monday Night Raw on Netflix.

The subsequent blathering promos were the antithesis of what we've come to expect from The Great One. His explanation of why he "wasn't needed" at WrestleMania 41 when he was the catalyst for WWE's biggest and most controversial heel turn of all time with John Cena just a few months earlier was nonsensical to the point of being insulting. The Rock can always turn things around, but his stock has never been lower with fans than it is in 2025.