25 Worst Wrestling Moments Of 2025
3. The Rock On NXT The Night After Raw Is Netflix
Fresh off blowing WrestleMania up on the Netflix debut (as opposed to blowing it off come showtime itself), The Rock had apparently spent his time online reading feedback when he appeared on the developmental brand for the very first time.
The January 7th 'New Year's Evil' show appearance was an earthquake of sorts for Shawn Michaels, but rather than the ground opening up and swallowing 'HBK' up as he may have wished, Rock simply opened fire on his haters and swallowed up time from the advertised matches instead. Inarticulately so too.
It was admittedly quite fascinating to see a star of his magnitude in a relatively small wrestling setting of the Shrine Expo Hall in LA, but but the novelty wore off the longer Rocky wore on. And on and on and on. Swearing up a storm and stumbo bumbo'ing his way through some absolute nonsense about the 'Final Boss' being 20 steps ahead in response to the criticism his Netflix performance had received, Rock attempted to tether himself to an NXT concept he'd never had anything to do with, recapped his nicknames, continued to reference how little time he had to speak despite having nothing to say.
48 hours that ultimately defined a year...