[CaptainCrunch]

CaptainCrunch's Top 10 Wrestling Feuds of all time



Feuds are simple in nature. One wrestler has a beef with another wrestler, and they fight. But its slightly more complex in the make-believe world of professional wrestling. For one thing, Feuds are meant to sell tickets to events. In the older territory days it was to promote mainly house shows, while the build up would happen on TV, all to promote a super show. Feuds would usually end in some kind of special match, like a cage match or a dog collar match, or in Japan something involving explosives. But to get there you as a fan had to believe that these two wrestlers or tag teams hated each other enough to risk death or crippling injury to get their hands on each other. The other big factor in feuds is the concept of Kayfabe, the secretive code of protecting the predetermined nature and the secrets inside the dressing room. Wrestlers would sell injuries in their real life, walking around with casts on, or in the case of the Junkyard Dog, pretending he was blinded. In the territory days you would see two wrestlers feuding across multiple territories over a number of years. The Rock and Roll Express feuded against Jim Cornette and the Midnight express for more then a decade across most of the South States territories.



I love classic wrestling and classic wrestling feuds a bit more then I love modern wrestling feuds. For wrestling to really work you have to have a suspension of disbelief. Yeah, I know its fake or predetermined, but in the old days you could at least get a feel that there was something at stake, or that these two wrestlers hated each other, or The Iron Sheik actually threw fire in Hulk Hogan’s eye. Nowdays with the death of Kayfabe you rarely get that.



So I’m going to give you my top 10 feuds. I’m probably only going to give out one at a time and try to give some real detail to it, so you understand why I ranked it where its at. You might disagree with some or all of them, there will be ones from WWE, NWA, the territories, and even some that you ask what I was thinking. As always, I hope to elicit some discussion.

Enjoy.