10 Most Shocking WWE Betrayals

The best of enemies.

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Friendships in the world of WWE always appear to be running on borrowed time.

Regardless of how much common ground you and your BFF think you share, you're never really more than a trivial misunderstanding away from trying to maim one another with the use of steel chairs, wooden tables and sledgehammers (it's a lot like real life in this regard).

That's just the way it is inside the squared circle, and there's been a litany of evidence over the years - going right back to the company's 1980s Golden Age - to prove it. Even buddies who go as far as to coordinate their in-ring outfits have before long found themselves at each other's throats.

A lot of the time, eagle-eyed fans manage to spot the potential fault-lines in their relationship long before they ever begin to show on screen - in fact, many of us started predicting Dean Ambrose's (doomed) feud with Seth Rollins way back in the summer - but you can never be sure exactly when tensions are going to reach boiling point.

And that's where the WWE creative team really earn their money.

10. Matt Gets The Mondays

Poor Jeff Hardy. It took him a proverbial lifetime to finally get his hands on the WWE Championship, and just one month later the dream ended at the hands of his own brother, who wrapped a steel chair around his head after intervening in his match at the 2009 Royal Rumble.

This followed a series of mystery attacks on SmackDown in the weeks leading up to the show, including pyro malfunction and a hotel room ambush on the eve of Survivor Series, which left the Charismatic Enigma unable to compete in a WWE Title match, his place taken by Edge instead.

Though still a nominal face in front of the cameras, Matt always seemed like one of the most likely suspects to be outed as Jeff's assailant, but it was still viscerally shocking when he decided to swing the chair in the direction of his own flesh and blood instead of the Rated-R Superstar.

The feud that followed was, to many, something of a disappointment. Their WrestleMania encounter was a touch underwhelming, and though Matt got an equal share of the matches it didn't really succeed in catapulting him to the heights of which we now know him capable.

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