25 Worst Wrestling Moments Of 2025
1. John Cena's Heel Run
Was it ever even supposed to happen?
WWE Unreal told us so, and all as part of an Ocean's Eleven-style plot between all the key players and Travis Scott, but the reality of the situation was reflected by how terribly it was handled in the aftermath.
Per multiple sources, The Rock decided in early-2025 that he wanted Cody Rhodes to turn heel and be the reason for said switch. Fortunately, enough people - including Cody himself - pushed back on this objectively bad idea and John Cena fulfilled the spot as perennial good soldier. The Rock subsequently never appeared on television in the aftermath, nor was he really referenced by 'The Champ' in the multiple different explainer speeches he gave before winning the WWE Championship for an historic 17th time at WrestleMania 41. Multiple because none of them worked; he tried some shtick about an abusive relationship that was stuck in 2014 when he still received the odd boos, he acted his WWEShop socks off trying to be a violent psychopath in the build to the Cody match but dropped it when the bell rang, he was a coward, a cheat, an enemy of R-Truth, a friend of Logan Paul, he was every kind of villain to the sound of every kind of sigh.
Grand design for his last year or not, the whole thing was abruptly dropped on the SummerSlam go-home edition of SmackDown in a move that was so much of a relief that people gave up highlighting the mountain of problems caused by the run.