Tyler Durden

In no particular order, and all really from my favourite period in wrestling -

Stone Cold -vs- The Rock

A feud that culminated in, not only many excellent skits and matches, but was showcased three times in Wrestlemania as well. I was at WM17 and the heat and quality of their match there will always stay with me. No gimmicks, cages, shortcuts, just stayed in and around the ring, and it was godly!!

Triple H -vs- The Rock

Worked for me with either as heel or face, both seemed able to knock up a tremendous match with each other just off the cuff, witness there Summerslam triple threat with Angle (where Angle was KO'd) Rock comes running down and they seemlessly knocked up 15 minutes of great action whilst Angle recovered to comeback for the closing segment. Two workers that were even more together than the sum of their parts.

Shawn Michaels -vs- The Undertaker

Bought fresh to the mind following the Rumble was their classic feud from nearly 10 years back. It started at Summerslam with Michaels accidentally costing Taker his title. It continued through to the Royal Rumble and had some very fine matches (the ones at Ground Zero and Royal Rumble were good....the first Hell in A Cell was unbefuckinglievable).

Kurt Angle -vs- Chris Benoit

In my mind, this generations version of Flair and Steamboat. There are way way too many matches to even start going into them all individually, but probably my stand out was there Royal Rumble encounter, perhaps even more so since it followed the Hunter - Steiner debacle.

Hardys -vs- Dudleys -vs- E&C

A fantastic time to be a tag team fan, which I am, three teams that were all very different but equally excellent and who just had a way of bringing out the best in each other. Again, I saw their match at WM17, which also featured Rhino, Spike & Lita. Tore the house down, as did their other matches.

Chris Jericho -vs- Chris Benoit

They did it well in Japan, WCW and WWE together. Always an excellent chemisty and very fine matches. Made a pretty fine tag team together as well in TLC (4?)

Cactus Jack -vs- Triple H

Mick's last full feud whilst on the full roster, and he made sure it was a good one. Hunter played his part very well and this feud both put a great full stop on Mick's original time with the group (yes I know he sadly came back the next month for Mania!!) and cemented the, up to then unconvincing in the main role, Hunter.

Chris Jericho -vs- Shawn Michaels

This feud was so "old school" and was so excellent for it. It started around November and ran all the way round to Wrestlemania managing to stay fresh and without either man competing in a one on one match with each other in all that time. There was logic to it (in the way they used the history of Jericho as a wannabe HBK in his very early career, and used the footage of him utilising Michaels moves). It stepped up a pace with their brutal exchange in the Rumble. And you watch the match and it's just the best example I can ever give people (along with Austin - Hart at Mania) for two guys going out and telling a story through their actions. The crowd were so hot as hell throughout, even the ending was godlike with it looking as though they were going to be friends and then Jericho kicking HBK in the nuts and leaving him a crumpled (but victorious) guy. A terrific exaple again of a feud helping enhance both guys regardless of who won. HBK speaks well of this match and feud in his book, I think he enjoyed it!!

Vince McMahon -vs- Stone Cold

Oh yeah the matches pretty much reeked (though I did think Vince at the time was better than I thought he was going to be) but the feud was sensational for a few years. It didn't really involve many matches (and certainly not great ones) between the two involved, but it did provide us with great storylines and feuds that span off it, Stone Cold - Dude Love, Stone Cold - Undertaker and many more.

Los Guerreros -vs- Edge & Rey Rey -vs- Kurt Angle & Chris Benoit

Strange one this, it yielded an incredble three or four months of matches on Smackdown between all of those involved, be it in single, matches with two teams against each other, matches with all three involved. It was just a lot of fun, it had tension (Angle and Benoit were the typical combustible pair always likely to fall out) and made Smackdown a show that had to be viewed. It also kick started Eddie's main event push.