Ranking The Biggest Rivalries In Wrestling Every Year 1990-2020
20. 2001 - WWE Vs The Alliance
For better and tragically worse, there was no rivalry more pronounced in 2001 than the one between WWE and what remained of the fallen WCW and ECW.
The company had unknowingly bid farewell to their second golden era with the magical WrestleMania X7, and a panicked attempt to pay off the longest outstanding money feud in wrestling was wrecked by a year spent forgetting that the rivals were no longer actually rivals.
Dominating television and pay-per-views from July through to November, the series saw almost every match divided up between WWE and Alliance, often with no other story beyond that determining why wrestlers were fighting. A sinkhole that captured opportunities and expectations, it was wrapped up by Survivor Series with a 10-man tag featuring eight that were already WWE mainstays before the opposition buyouts.