Austin continuously disparaged Tyson before making an unfriendly gesture towards the former boxing heavyweight champion. Then all hell broke loose. Ironically enough, it would be Tyson who double crossed Michaels and assisted Austin in his historic victory.
Sure, this angle made Don Meltzer of the Wrestling Obstruction Newsletter cry back in , but the American Hero turned Iraqui Sympathizer angle inadvertently coincided with the Gulf War of , adding a layer of danger to how the angle was received by live crowds. During a small window of history, WCW ruled the wrestling world. Much of their success was due to outside the box thinking, but one of the more captivating storylines was as simple as having a marketable big man go undefeated for a lengthy period of time.
Bill Goldberg became a hit with the fans almost immediately, upsetting Hugh Morris in a rather decisive victory. Goldberg would then enjoy the most epic winning streak in the history of pro wrestling, winning consecutive victories before finally losing the World Championship to Kevin Nash at Starrcade.
Goldberg's loss, in many ways, signaled WCW's peak and the company would experience a precipitous decline in the months following the epic loss. Much like the Ultimate Warrior, Goldberg was an overnight sensation who was great for a brief period of time, but achieved a level of greatness worthy of hall of fame consideration. Paul Heyman is one of a few men who was truly a genius in pro wrestling. The head booker in ECW had a host of ambitious ideas that lead to compelling on screen angles, and the alternative promotion was highlighted by a two year feud between two of its biggest stars.
Tommy Dreamer and Raven were booked as childhood friends who had both scratched and clawed their way into the wrestling business. During their lengthy feud, Dreamer was never able to gain a victory over Raven, and his arduous quest to conquer this demon was finally realized in a "Loser Leaves Town Match" in The brilliance of this victory by Tommy Dreamer was, unlike the status quo in pro wrestling, this victory would truly signal Raven's last appearance in ECW as he departed for WCW.
Proving to be the exception to the rule of TNA's inept booking patterns, the promotion scored on a uniquely booked feud between Samoa Joe and Kurt Angle, where they took cues from the red hot sport of MMA to build up to an shoot-style bout between the two stars at the Lockdown pay-per-view. At the pay-per-view, multiple big name talents were interviewed as to whom they felt would win between Joe and Angle.
The match was treated as a big deal throughout the pay-per-view, and it did not disappoint as Samoa Joe captured his first TNA Heavyweight Championship. Like all great wrestling storylines, the feud was simple.
Chris Jericho, the heel, accused Shawn Michaels of being a liar and a hypocrite as Michaels faked an injury to win a match against Batista. Jericho was right in his accusations, but became obsessed with them to the point of delusion.
The angle's peak began when Jericho inadvertently struck Michaels' wife at SummerSlam, and the two would blowoff the hot feud with an incredible ladder match at No Mercy in The forbidden romance caused a large amount of controversy in TNA, as TNA President Dixie Carter was legit disgusted by Jarrett's actions and urged him to take a leave of absence from the company.
Nobody was more disgusted by all this than Kurt Angle, who has admitted that he almost quit the company entirely after learning of his ex-wife's relationship with Jarrett.
Once things blew over, TNA was presented with the perfect opportunity for a storyline, and the Angle-Jarrett s saga was born. The rivalry featured a handful of stellar matches between Angle and Jarrett, including a death-defying match at Lockdown from earlier this year. The feud was blown off in a parking lot brawl between Angle and Jarrett, and after Angle got the better of Jarrett, the former TNA Champion implicitly announced he was going to Mexico.
When Austin became WWE Champion, the sky seemed to be the limit for the promising antihero, but he needed a villain who matched his potent popularity with shear evil. Enter Vincent Kennedy McMahon, who had slowly evolved into a maniacal boss, stemming from the events of the Montreal Screwjob where there was no going back to his straight laced announcer image.
Once Vince McMahon became Mr. McMahon, he and Austin were able to effortlessly captivate the emotions and sentiments of any average wrestling viewer who wants nothing more than to attack authority figures.
The rivalry helped carry the WWE to never before seen heights as Austin and McMahon managed to keep their feud fresh through a variety of angles, stunts, and even matches. Hall and Nash teased that a third man would be joining them, and at Bash at the Beach in , the shocking third man was revealed to be none other than Hulk Hogan who turned on team WCW.
In the next, he won the title, only to have the decision reversed because of a controversy with the referee the next night. In the next big show, he was cheated out of the title.
Daniel Bryan is put in the opener of the show and loses the match. The vocal, dedicated WWE fans in Pittsburgh then hijack the rest of the show.
It remains to be seen what WWE will do. And, when word circulated last week that the performer who plays C. If this all culminates in some big storyline payoff, with Punk back in WWE rings and Daniel Bryan in the main event of WWE Wrestlemania 30, fans may remember this as a stroke of creative genius. A WhiteHouse.
Punk and likewise called for Daniel Bryan at times when the performer was not on stage. At the last pay-per-view event later this month before the WWE Network launches, Bryan is one of five people challenging for the WWE title inside a cage.
Hardy, of course, did not take this well, but his public reaction to it got him released from WWE. Fans took notice and felt Hardy was treated unfairly, so they turned on Edge and Lita, regularly chanting for Matt at shows. WWE rehired Hardy and made a kayfabe feud out of the real-life animosity, which proved popular with fans and ended up making Edge even more hated.
But that was simply the apex of years of growing resentment between the two as they competed for the top spot of the company. The sons of Dusty Rhodes, Cody and Dustin Rhodes were half-brothers who teamed up in WWE in the mids but never got to wrestle the emotional brother vs. However, by , Cody Rhodes had co-founded his own promotion, All Elite Wrestling, and got to finally have his match with Dustin at the inaugural pay-per-view, Double or Nothing.
Over the course of their two years together as The Mega-Powers, Savage got increasingly jealous of how Hogan interacted with Elizabeth until he finally turned heel on The Hulkster, resulting in a huge main event bout at WrestleMania V.
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