25 Worst Wrestling Moments Of 2025
4. The Rock On Raw Is Netflix
There's an awful lot of The Rock's presence in this year's worst-of lists, much like there should have been at WrestleMania 41.
More on him not working the 'Show Of Shows' and other surrounding events elsewhere on this list, but ahead of parking wrestling to promote (in vain, as it turned out) his Oscar-baiting performance in The Smashing Machine, Dwayne Johnson had a near-devastating impact on two separate WrestleMania money matches when he strolled to the ring to kick off WWE's brand new year on a brand new platform.
The Raw Is Netflix debut edition of the flagship on January 6th was its own kind of nightmare for reasons also explored elsewhere, but Johnson got it off to a rather fitting start by spouting a load of nonsense and burning his lingering tensions with Cody Rhodes and Roman Reigns to the ground. 'The American Nightmare' (and, by then still first-time WWE Champion and company quarterback) got a hair-ruffle ahead of a shared drink backstage, confusing fans that had waited months to see how a white hot tension established in April 2024 would be followed up on. Rock pinned Rhodes at WrestleMania 40, 24 hours before Cody "finished the story" at Reigns' expense. The afters were potentially captivating, until 'The Great One' bizarrely capsized the boat by attaboy-ing 'The Tribal Chief' following his win over Solo Sikoa.
Two money programmes that had asked for your time and your feelings, suddenly put out to pasture because it felt like a past-it icon had forgotten what he was actually there for.
Or part of an even grander plan, apparently...