Line #15 ArchEnemy/ProWrestling


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8	->''"I hate you. I ''hate'' you. Hate, hate is a strong word, but it sums up everything I feel for you, Cena. I hate your hat, I hate your t-shirts, I hate your wristbands, I hate your shoes, I hate your music, I hate the Ce-nation, I hate everything that you stand for! And John, whether you want to admit it or not, this, all the years between you and I, it's exhausted you as much as it has me."''
9	-->-- '''Wrestling/{{Edge}}''' to Wrestling/JohnCena
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11	Wrestling tends to avoid this and stick to shorter-term rivalries, due to frequent {{Heel Face Turn}}s (and {{Face Heel Turn}}s), as well as how one of the most common ways to make a {{tag team}} is to pair wrestlers who know each other well, be they friends or not. There are quite still a few, most notably...
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13	!In multiple promotions:
14	* Wrestling/HulkHogan and Wrestling/RandySavage, in both the [[Wrestling/{{WWE}} WWF]] and Wrestling/{{WCW}}.
15	* Wrestling/CMPunk and Wrestling/{{Raven}} in Wrestling/RingOfHonor and various other indies. However, at the same time that they were feuding in Major League Wrestling in 2003, they were allies in Raven's group the Gathering in Wrestling/{{TNA}}.
16	* Wrestling/SamiZayn and [[Wrestling/KevinSteen Kevin Owens]], a rivalry that dates all the way back to their independent days as El Generico and Kevin Steen. As Zayn himself put it, they're destined to do this ''forever''. Crosses over with VitriolicBestBuds, when they're not trying to kill each other they're usually in a tag team together.
17	* Wrestling/SurvivalTobita's was Ken the Box, the one monster he could never defeat. This is because Ken is played by a guy in a cardboard box and has limited mobility. In fact, he can only throw punches. It also meant that he couldn't be knocked down.
18	* Wrestling/AdamCole and Wrestling/KyleOReilly. They are this in every promotion they're in together, not unlike the Zayn-Owens rivalry above, and not unlike Zayn-Owens when they're ''not'' at each other's throats they're in a faction together.
19	* Wrestling/RicFlair and Wrestling/HulkHogan
20	* Wrestling/RicFlair and [[Wrestling/RickySteamboat Ricky "The Dragon" Steamboat]]
21	* Flair has specifically named the likes of Wrestling/DustyRhodes, Wrestling/LexLuger, Wrestling/RandySavage and Wrestling/RoddyPiper among his most heated rivalries.
22	* Wrestling/MasatoTanaka and Wrestling/MikeAwesome, who feuded across Japan and Wrestling/{{ECW}}.
23	* Wrestling/BryanDanielson has both Wrestling/AustinAries and Wrestling/NigelMcGuinness.
24	!Wrestling/{{WCW}}
25	* Wrestling/{{Sting}} and Wrestling/RicFlair. Flair turned on Sting so many times throughout the years that it should be its own trope.
26	!Wrestling/{{WWE}}
27	* [[Wrestling/VinceMcMahon Vince [=McMahon=]]] to Wrestling/StoneColdSteveAustin, with Vince representing the kind of corrupt authority that Stone Cold made it his life's mission to rebel against, and the two never missing an opportunity to screw each other over and make each other's lives miserable.
28	%%* Stone Cold and Tripe H
29	* Wrestling/TheRock: Although Stone Cold could be considered TheRival to the Rock, there has always been a level of mutual respect between the two. However, this is not present with the Rock's true nemeses, Wrestling/TripleH and Wrestling/ChrisJericho, for whom he has generally had nothing but mutual hatred.
30	* [[Wrestling/BretHart Bret 'Hitman' Hart]] and Wrestling/ShawnMichaels. On [[HostilityOnTheSet and off screen]]. Before Shawn it was Wrestling/JerryLawler.
31	* In the early 1980s, Wrestling/RoddyPiper and Wrestling/HulkHogan embarked on a feud that was not only intensely personal, but also historically pivotal and influential, as it launched not only the very first WWF Wrestlemania, but arguably spearheaded the worldwide prominence of professional wrestling as we know it today. And the rivalry has spilled over not only into WCW, but TNA and even animation (''WesternAnimation/HulkHogansRockNWrestling'').
32	** "The Hot Rod" would also count Wrestling/JimmySnuka, Wrestling/PaulOrndorff, Wrestling/AdrianAdonis, and Wrestling/RickRude as candidates for most hated foe.
33	* Hogan has had a longstanding war with Wrestling/BobbyHeenan, which has manifested over the years in the form of feuds with various members of The Heenan Family, like Wrestling/PaulOrndorff, Wrestling/KingKongBundy, Wrestling/HarleyRace and Wrestling/HerculesHernandez. But the most noteworthy Heenan-inspired feud of all was Hogan's legendary battle against Wrestling/AndreTheGiant.
34	* Wrestling/TheUndertaker, being in the business a long time, has had several.
35	** Wrestling/{{Kane}}, when they aren't the [[BashBrothers Brothers of Destruction]].
36	** [[Wrestling/MickFoley Mankind]]; he and Taker fought in the most violent match in the history of Wrestling/{{WWE}}. As ''Pro Wrestling Illustrated'' so eloquently put it: "Mankind did more than beat Wrestling/TheUndertaker in a match-- he changed his very essence."
37	** Wrestling/ShawnMichaels, the rivalry that changed history. He fought Taker in the first ever Hell in a Cell, a Casket Match, a World Championship match, and ''two'' Wrestling/{{WrestleMania}} matches. Taker also had the honor of being the one that retired Michaels in the second Wrestling/{{WrestleMania}} match between the two of them.
38	** Wrestling/BrockLesnar, who broke the Deadman's legendary Wrestling/{{WrestleMania}} streak.
39	* Wrestling/JohnCena had many enemies during his time as TheHero of WWE, but several stand out as particularly personal and recurring foes:
40	** Wrestling/{{Edge\|Wrestler}}, especially during their feud in 2006. It started with Edge taking advantage of Cena being fatigued from a gruelling Elimination Chamber match to cash in his Money in the Bank contract and take Cena's WWE title. The two engaged in a very intense feud, exacerbated by Edge constantly using Wrestling/{{Lita}} to help him weasel out of fights and keep the title on technicalities. The feud ended with Cena defeating Edge in a TLC match in Edge's hometown of Toronto, though the two would still feud on and off through the rest of their time as main eventers.
41	** Wrestling/RandyOrton, who has been a very frequent opponent for Cena throughout the years and has taken their rivalry to extremely personal lengths, including attacking Cena's father and subjecting him to ColdBloodedTorture in their "I Quit" Match.
42	** Wrestling/CMPunk, who sought to challenge the perception of Cena as being the best in WWE and positioned himself as the man of the people rebelling against WWE, hating Cena for being a quintessential company man.
43	* Wrestling/MattHardy and Wrestling/{{Edge\|Wrestler}}. Also, [[Wrestling/MattHardy The]] [[Wrestling/JeffHardy Hardys]] and Wrestling/{{Edge\|Wrestler}} & Wrestling/{{Christian}} for that matter (Wrestling/TheDudleyBoys, too, although they aren't as intense rivals for the two teams as each other). Or Matt and Jeff.
44	* Wrestling/TheAuthority is certainly Daniel Bryan's biggest arch nemesis in WWE.
45	%%* Wrestling/BeckyLynch and Wrestling/CharlotteFlair.
46	* Notable archenemies of Wrestling/JeffHardy's, including Wrestling/CMPunk and Wrestling/{{Edge\|Wrestler}}.
47	** CM Punk and Wrestling/PaulHeyman and [[Wrestling/BrockLesnar the]] [[Wrestling/CurtisAxel Heyman]] [[Wrestling/{{Ryback}} Guys]]
48	%%* Wrestling/DeanAmbrose and Wrestling/SethRollins
49	%%* Wrestling/RomanReigns and Wrestling/BrayWyatt
50	%%* Wrestling/JohnnyGargano and Wrestling/TommasoCiampa
51	!Other
52	* Wrestling/KentaKobashi and Wrestling/MitsuharuMisawa
53	** Which became the case after politics ended the eternal rivalry between Misawa and Toshiaki Kawada.
54	* Wrestling/BoboBrazil and [[Wrestling/EdFarhat the Original Sheik.]]
55	* LegacyCharacter Manga/TigerMask's arch enemy has always been Black Tiger.
56	* [[Wrestling/{{Tazz}} Taz]] and Wrestling/{{Sabu}}
57	** For a time, Sabu and Wrestling/RobVanDam
58	* Wrestling/TommyDreamer & Wrestling/{{Raven}}
59	* [[Creator/HardGay Razor Ramon HG]] and [[FemmeFatale Yinling The Erotic Terrorist]]
60	* In the fandom, Website/{{WrestleCrap}} and Kent Jones (their MessageBoard went as far as to filter Kent Jones' name as "Can't Shoot," "I like tired fads," etc.). They also hate [=420Chan=]'s /wooo/.

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