Very cool thread, FatTony.
My faves:
1. Raven / Dreamer
The one thing that ECW really did right.
2. Flair / Steamboat
These two put on some of the best wrestling matches of all time. To this day, I have yet to see anyone in North America create such perfection as these two did with their 1989 series, although many have come close.
3. Koloff / Magnum T.A.
No need to feel old, Peachy, this was a GREAT feud. It's a great tragedy that Magnum's career was cut short. He could have gone on to become of the greats in the business.
4. Sting / Vader
Sting always put on a good show against Vader, and Vader proved that size doesn't matter - big men CAN have good workrate.
5. Bret Hart / Shawn Michaels
Better, IMO, than the Hart / Austin feud, because this one had actual hate. So strong you can feel it just radiate between the two of them.
6. Austin / Vince
Have to include it, as it was the feud that literally brought the WWF(E) back from the brink and made them dominate the business once again. Of course, as usual in the wrestling business, the storyline was eventually run into the ground. Then drug up again, and ran into the ground AGAIN. Then drug up...you get the idea.
7. Hulk Hogan / Savage vs. Dibiase / Andre
I'm consolidating these, because the two sides often teamed with each other to take on their enemies. Hogan and Andre had arguably one of the most (if not THE most) memorable feud of the 80s, and Dibiase was bar none one of the best heels in the business during his prime who had memorable feuds with Savage, and Hogan (although the latter never became what it should have been due to politics).
8. Sting / Flair
A feud that lasted for over a decade, every since a young Sting took the legend to the limit at the Clash. Be ye not deceived by the bastardized version you saw on WWE TV - the REAL WCW died on the final Nitro, when these two met for the last time, embracing one another after the match.
9. Toshiaki Kawada / Mitsuhara Misawa
The feud which arguably led to some of the best heavyweight matches of ALL TIME. What was once a competition to see who would become the "ace" of All Japan degenerated into true hatred, especially after Misawa pissed upon the memory of Baba by defecting and forming his own company - taking most of the roster with him, and sending All Japan into a downward spiral that it still has not come out of.
The end has not come for these two yet - rumor has it that they may yet face again.
10. Antonio Inoki vs. Shohei "Giant" Baba
You think the battle between Vince McMahon and Eric Bischoff was heated? Fuck that. The war between Inoki and Baba, strong style vs. king's road, was strong enough to make Vince & Eric's squabbles look like Torrie fighting against Dawn Marie.
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