Year End 2023: Best WWE Moments of 2023

From CM Punk’s return at Survivor Series to Jey Uso capturing undisputed WWE Champion Roman Reigns, here are the biggest WWE moments from 2023.

New Delhi: The year 2023 witnessed many great competitions, achievements and moments. The rise of American Nightmare Cody Rhodes and fan favorite LA Knight as two of the biggest stars. The gripping drama between Bloodline. The return of the most controversial star CM Punk. John Cena returns for what is likely his final WWE run. There were some of the most spectacular matches that had fans on the edge of their seats and there were moments that surprised everyone in the WWE Universe.

Here are the biggest WWE moments from the year 2023

Rise of LA Knight

Every time LA Knight’s music came on, the entire arena sang “Yes.” The wrestler received perhaps the biggest pops all year. There were times when LA Knight wasn’t even participating and fans were just chanting his name. It would be safe to say that Knight was the most predominant superstar in the year 2023 and WWE realized it and he was soon brought into the picture with John Cena where he competed against the Bloodline and Roman Reigns. However, like the rest of the competitors, Knight failed to wrest the title from Roman Reigns.

Reunion of The Rock and John Cena

The Rock surprised everyone with his shocking return to SmackDown, eliminating Austin Theory. Fans were expectedly excited to see the hottest WWE superstar. However, this was not the biggest moment of the evening itself. It came later that night when John Cena met the Rock. After an intense staredown, both legendary superstars hugged each other. Both John Cena and The Rock had a lot of history together, facing off in the main events of WrestleMania 28 and 29. The moment of Rock’s return became one of the most viral moments of the year.

Randy Orton returns after 18 months

The team of Cody Rhodes, Seth Rollins, Jey Uso and Sami Zayn would face Judgment Day and Drew McIntyre. The good guys needed another man on their team and Cody Rhodes called his old friend Randy Orton, who was out for 18 months after Bloodline’s attack. He made his return at Survivor Series 2023: War Games as the fifth member of team Cody Rhodes and helped them defeat Judgment Day. He later signed with SmackDown to get revenge on the Bloodline and Roman Reigns. He will most likely challenge Roman for his Undisputed Title at Royal Rumble.

Cody Rhodes earns the respect of Beast Brock Lesnar

Cody Rhodes was far from done with Bloodine after losing at WrestleMania 39. He appeared on the next episode of RAW ready to face Roman Reigns and Solo Sikoa in a tag team match and it was none other than Brock Lesnar , which came in aid of American Nightmare. However, the alliance didn’t even last a few hours as Brock eliminated Cody before the match could even begin. This led to three matches between two superstars. Cody won the first outing at Backlash, Brock bounced back with a win at Night of Champions and finally Cody got a big and clean victory in the rubber match at SummerSlam. After the match, Brock shook Cody’s hand as a sign of respect.

Sami Zayn and Kevin Owens have their WrestleMania moment

The history between Sami Zayn and Kevin Owens consists of some bittersweet memories. They have fought together, fought for each other and even fought against each other. However, their biggest moment together came at WrestleMania 39, when they defeated the Usos to win the undisputed tag team titles. After weeks of drama, Owens and Zayn finally joined forces to settle the score with Bloodline and they succeeded by winning the Undisputed Tag Team Gold.

After more than three and a half years, Jey Uso becomes the first person to capture the Roman government

Roman Reigns’ ongoing historic title streak of over 1,200 includes many great matches and three WrestleMania main events, but no one has been able to take the undisputed title away from him yet. Big names like Brock Lesnar, Edge, John Cena, Daniel Bryan, Kevin Owens, Sami Zayn and many more tried and failed. Credit for this dominant run also goes to Roman’s cousins ​​The Usos and Solo Sikoa. That’s why when the Bloodline started to fall apart, Roman Reigns and Solo Sikoa had to face their own brothers, Jimmy and Jey Uso, Roman took his first pinfall. Jey Uso became the first man to pin Roman Reigns during his dominant run.

Sami Zayn betrays the bloodline

Sami Zayn did everything he could to secure his place within the Bloodline and soon Roman Reigns recognized him as the ‘Honorary Uce’. He put himself on the line many times to earn everyone’s trust and was MVP in Bloodline’s victory against Brawling Brutes and Kevin Owens at War Games. However, he had enough when Roman Reigns tortured his best friend Kevin Owens. He grabbed a steel chair and hit Roman in the back. This marked his departure from The Bloodline and the beginning of one of its most gripping storylines.

Return of CM Punk

The biggest wrestling moment of the year 2023 could be none other than the return of the most controversial superstar, CM Punk. This may also go down as one of the top moments in WWE history. He made his long-awaited return to his home in WWE after nearly a decade at the WWE Survivor Series 2023. Punk’s reign in AEW always gave fans hope for his possible return and that finally happened when he parted ways with All Elites. Punk will now likely win the 2024 Royal Rumble and will likely face Seth Rollins for the World Heavyweight title at WrestleMania 40.