12 Upcoming Wrestling Stories That Are Already Doomed
1. Cody Rhodes vs. The Rock
Cody Rhodes and The Rock seem destined to go back and forth with one another per the latter's whims if the WrestleMania 40 and 41 builds are anything to go by, but it's precisely this reason why there will never be a pot of gold waiting for any of us by the time the pair take all of Dwayne Johnson's 20 steps (or however many it is now) to the end of the rainbow.
It's been three decades, and still, Rocky sucks. Enveloped in the idea of self-satisfied storyline "chaos" whilst instead just serving to legitimately tear through whatever plans happen when he's not around, Johnson is a rotten fit when he makes his creative presence felt. That's not to say good things don't spring forth from some of his interjections, with 2024's 'Final Boss' iteration in particular making good on perhaps his best ever temporary return to the weekly product. But he repeatedly sets or creates half-baked expectations that can't be met, is very clearly most concerned with the integrity of his own detached persona more than anybody else's, and effectively stands now as the figure of influence most reminiscent of WWE's creatively bankrupt nadir.
Rock pinned Cody at WrestleMania 40, 24 hours before he became WWE Champion. Cody told Rock to "go f*ck" himself at Elimination Chamber 2025 when Rock wanted his soul, having put him over glowingly at the Raw Netlfix premiere just a month earlier. They will surely have a match down the line, but like everything else, it will reek of something else made up as they went along rather than a detailed, elegant story spanning years.