10 Wrestling Grudges That Changed The Business
1. Sasha Banks Vs Bayley
Good Friends, Better Enemies was the legendary subheading of an In Your House with a legendary main event, but if Shawn Michaels and Diesel's wild No Holds Barred marked something coming to an end, Bayley and Sasha's 2015 classic (and fabulous sequel) proved to be the start of something special.
The road to total equality unfortunately remains a long and rocky one in pro wrestling, but never had North American women's wrestling felt so vital, on-the-pulse and game-changing as it did when 'The Hugger' and 'The Boss' went to war over the NXT Championship.
As with 'Big Daddy Cool' and 'HBK', Banks and Bayley were real life best friends, and the competitive and collaborative will to coax all-time displays out of each other became a staple of their iconic series. TakeOver: Brooklyn played host to a long-awaited title win for Bayley and a match that was firmly the most important of the 2010s for WWE. Fans tore the roof off SummerSlam's venue one night earlier before the show itself, and nothing topped it for the remainder of the weekend. An Iron Woman rematch the following month was yet more history made, and never had the chants been louder for this to be replicated everywhere across the company.
By WrestleMania 32 the following spring, the "Divas" division was dead and buried, with the Women's Championship reborn in the process. The three years that followed brought about an all-women's pay-per-view, overdue gimmick match inclusion across the calendar year, and a WrestleMania 35 main event.
It all started with the believable spark of hatred between two women that clearly loved their work.