12 MORE Weird Periods WWE Icons Would Like You To Forget - Stardust! Drew McIntyre In 3MB! Deacon Batista! Big Show’s Impersonations?!
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🗓️ 4 February 2026
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Generational WWE fumbles. Simon Miller presents 12 MORE Weird Periods WWE Icons Would Like You To Forget...
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| 0:00.0 | Sometimes wrestling goes weird. I say this all the time, but it does make sense. |
| 0:04.3 | There's so much sports entertainment programming nobody could ever have a perfect scorecard, |
| 0:08.7 | it does not possible. I also imagine the creative team gets quite bored here and there, |
| 0:12.7 | so they throw manless at the wall. So what are some of these times we've scratched our heads and |
| 0:16.7 | gone what a flub is going on? I'm Summer Miller. Let's go. Number 12, The Rock in 2025. At least we do have a reason for this, whether you do like it or not. It seems very likely Dwayne Johnson received some pretty huge acting opportunities and he jumped on them. I don't begrudge him this. We all would have done it. It's still a shame because it took what we were seeing on wrestling TV and made it totally bizarre. |
| 0:38.1 | Now, one of the rain reasons it made people so sad is because the Rock in 2024 was excellent. |
| 0:42.9 | The final boss heel term was some of his finest work and the build to WrestleMania ruled. |
| 0:47.6 | That Cody Rhodes in the rain angle will forever be all time. |
| 0:50.8 | It meant we wanted more the following year and it was teased. |
| 0:53.4 | Before the great one left, |
| 0:54.7 | he told Cody, I'll be back for you soon, and then, nothing. Instead, Dwayne Johnson returned on the Netflix debut of Road to be nice to Rhodes, which threw that story out the window, and then there was the elimination chamber, and the fact he wasn't at WrestleMania 41. I will die on the hill that if Travis Scott hadn't have been there, it wouldn't have been as bad. It was just the worst |
| 1:13.1 | tease. It was a massive total. wasn't at WrestleMania 41. I will die on the hill that if Travis Scott hadn't been there, |
| 1:10.9 | it wouldn't have been as bad. It was just the worst tease. It was a massive total 180 from the |
| 1:15.6 | year prior and as of me talking to you, the last appearance of The Rock was at that chamber |
| 1:20.1 | pay-per-view. So he corrupted John Cena's brain and then left. That's a little bit odd. Number 11, |
| 1:25.8 | Triple H's terror rising. That is right. Brand new wrestling fans when Triple H was in WCW, he was called Terror Rising. Exactly what you think as well. It's a pun. A bad one at that. Who could ever take this seriously? And actually, the word is this came from his trainer, Killer Kowalski. That dude was a legend too, but even then, it was a silly name. The character was still basically who he would play when he became Hunter Hurst-Helmsy with the big robe, and yep, the Rick Flair influences were clear to see. Now, I really should have taken that shot at WCW because the books tell us they changed it quite quick to Jean-Paul Lavec, but they also told him to speak in a French accent. I'm sure you know this, but he is not French. Maybe Terra was better. Number 10, Dolv Ziegler. I mean, it did spark his incredible run on the main roster is Dolv Ziegler, so I don't know. I doubt he wants to talk about it, mind. But the Spirit Squad, when he did debut, were absolutely hilarious. They all debuted on |
| 2:18.5 | Roar in 2006 and yeah. The five together made up a male cheerleading squad. And I don't actually |
| 2:23.3 | think this is as bad as some people make out. They were so over the top and insufferable. They |
| 2:27.6 | made for great heels. And they even had a feud with Degeneration X, although that did end badly. |
| 2:32.9 | Triple H and Sean Michaels literally put them in a box and sent them back to developmental. |
| 2:38.1 | Nikki as Dolve was part of the act, however, and they did win the tag team titles twice, |
| 2:42.5 | and it was Freebird rules, so everybody got their moment. |
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