10 Backstage WWE Feuds That Changed Everything

10. Mick Foley Vs. Ric Flair

Ever since the old days of wrestling, there have been dozens of ways that top stars can get on each other's bad sides, but in the 2000s, there came a new one - criticizing one another in their autobiographies. In Mick Foley's very candid 1999 book Have a Nice Day!, he characterized Ric Flair as a bad booker. In Flair's 2003 book - in what some saw as retribution - he described Foley as a "glorified stuntman". This led to a backstage confrontation between the two, but after some bad blood, they managed to put their differences aside.

Still, the animosity became fodder for a storyline, with Flair getting Foley's goat on a 2006 episode of Raw by bringing the "glorified stuntman" line out of mothballs. This led to two dream matches between the two men - a two-out-of-three falls at Vengeance which Flair won (Foley lost the second fall by DQ) and a brutal "I Quit" match at SummerSlam which Flair won after threatening Foley's real-life friend Melina, once again blurring the lines between shoot and work.