WWE's Best and Worst Trends of 2018

Best: Seth Rollins

The (other) man.

For a long while, Seth Rollins was the sole reason to watch Raw. His open challenge Intercontinental Championship defenses were the highlight of the show.

It was all par for the course. Rollins had his best year ever in 2018, far exceeding his long WWE title run in 2015. Finally finding his footing as a babyface, Rollins became the hottest act in the company in the first half of 2018, lasting an hour in the famous gauntlet match in February and setting the world on fire from there.

His momentum sapped in the second half of the year, saddled by a tedious Shield reunion and then a disappointing feud with Dean Ambrose, but he remains the most popular male babyface on the red brand, and one feels like he just needs that big breakout moment to get his stride back.

That moment might well come on 27 January, where he's the favorite to win the men's Royal Rumble match. There's no better choice this year, and no better choice to finally begin rebuilding the main event of Monday Night Raw.

If the Intercontinental Championship was a test of how a main event run would go, as that title used to be, Seth Rollins passed easily. He's a much better performer now than he was in 2015.