Ranking The Biggest Rivalries In Wrestling Every Year 1990-2020
21. 2000 - Triple H Vs The Rock
With WWE reaching a commercial apex they'd not touch until television rights fees changed the game (and a creative one they'd never managed to hit again), the real magic of Triple H Vs The Rock was in just how little the recently-departed Stone Cold Steve Austin was missed.
The pair's hated informed every major main event programme for the first half of one of the company's greatest ever years. A four way at WrestleMania justified a singles rematch at April's Backlash, drawing one of the company's biggest ever B-show buyrates.
The money was earned - Hunter and Rock worked a magnificent hybrid style that merged the big fight feel with some extraordinarily good in-ring. This was celebrate in their absorbing 60-minute Iron Man match at May's Judgment Day. Neither were ever at the in-ring level of Shawn Michaels and Bret Hart respectively, but their chemistry and creativity crafted a far superior exhibition of the marathon stipulation.