25 Worst Wrestling Moments Of 2024
4. The Rock (Almost) Steals Cody's Spot
Though ultimately everything worked out in the end, a political turf war between Triple H and The Rock that almost made a casualty out of Cody Rhodes as WWE's top draw.
A version of the full story can still be viewed on the company's own in-house documentary, so dramatic was the road to the year's 'Show Of Shows', but Dwayne Johnson may have been a little liberal with the whole truth when it wasn't making him out to be a generational creative genius. There had clearly been one plan in WWE's, Triple H's and Cody's head, and another in The Rock's, with Roman Reigns presumably deciding to wait out the consequence and make his own stance as and when it suited.
All intertwining roads made it to WrestleMania, but few that lived through it will ever forget this fateful SmackDown route that was anything but scenic. Rhodes finished his story, but at no point was potential career-killing heartbreak supposed to make up one of the final chapters.