10 Wrestling Rivals Who Seriously Can’t Stand Each Other
Becky and Charlotte, Shawn and Bret, and other times art imitated life in wrestling feuds.
Professional wrestling remains the foremost form of entertainment where what happens behind the cameras is often more compelling than what's going down on-screen.
This has been the case for decades. A cloak and dagger industry built on creaky kayfabe foundations, the truth behind the stories told between the ropes sustains an entire economy of commentators, including the one whose words you are currently reading. Years ago, the appeal was uncovering sacred secrets in a business that still held such things dear. Now, it's the never-ending churn of the news cycle and an unquenchable thirst for content, which compensates for any mystique lost by the sport's increased transparency.
Real-life beef remains a juicy, juicy topic. Backstage politicking, brittle egos, insecurity, and inferiority complexes are a destructive combination. Art imitating life is common in a sport where somebody always has to triumph at somebody else's expense and sometimes, a simple booking decision is akin to tossing a lit match into a barrel of oil.
Other times, people are just straight-up rotten to each other.
Creative teams around the sport wish they could script rivalries as bitter as these...