25 Worst Wrestling Moments Of 2025
6. Brock Lesnar's Return
Like everything in the Vince McMahon/WWE sex trafficking lawsuit, the reality of everything going on behind the scenes with Brock Lesnar's return is far worse than anything as trivial as some bad wrestling or nonsensical booking. So in the interest of keeping this list strictly about things that happened on screen, let's instead focus on useless 'The Beast' has appeared since his bewildering SummerSlam return.
Surprises draw pops, especially ones as unexpected as Brock's comeback with the lawsuit still ongoing, so the noise greeting his return was less shocking that many might have considered. The true extent of how phoned-in it all was revealed itself during an abysmal face-to-face with Cena's new-old best friend R-Truth on the September 12th edition of SmackDown. Forgetting/fluffing their lines, the two attempted some risible WWE comedy, Lesnar battered him, split his trousers and laughed off the whole mess.
It sucked. Both performers looked terrible. Cena's inconsistency didn't inspire confidence, but a total lack of stakes and effort from all invovled was foreboding in the extreme. This, effectively, was the only in-arena sales pitch for Cena/Lesnar one last time at WrestlePalooza.
What could possibly go wrong?