Wrestling tends to avoid this, due to frequent Heel Face Turns (and Face Heel Turns) as well as the fact 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...
- Sting and Ric Flair
- Ric Flair and Hulk Hogan
- Ric Flair and Ricky "The Dragon" Steamboat
- Flair has specifically named the likes of Dusty Rhodes, Lex Luger, Randy Savage and Roddy Piper among his most heated rivalries. "The Nature Boy" also had a well-documented Real Life contempt for Eric Bischoff.
- Bret 'Hitman' Hart and Shawn Michaels (also true in Real Life).
- Before that, Hulk Hogan and Randy Savage, in both the WWF, WCW, and in Real Life.
- In the early 1980s, Roddy Piper and Hulk Hogan 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, bt TNA and even animation (Hulk Hogan's Rock 'n' Wrestling).
- "The Hot Rod" would also count Jimmy Snuka, Paul Orndorff, Adrian Adonis, and Rick Rude as candidates for most hated foe.
- Hogan has had a longstanding war with Bobby Heenan, which has manifested over the years in the form of feuds with various members of The Heenan Family, like Paul Orndorff, King Kong Bundy, Harley Race and Hercules Hernandez. But the most noteworthy Heenan inspired feud of all was Hogan's legendary battle against André the Giant.
- Triple H and The Rock
- "Stone Cold" Steve Austin and Vince McMahon... or whoever else happened to be in charge.
- Also, Stone Cold and The Rock.
- The Undertaker, being in the business a long time, has had several.
- Kane, when they aren't the Brothers of Destruction.
- Mankind, he and Taker fought in the most violent match in the history of WWE. As Pro Wrestling Illustrated so eloquently put it: "Mankind did more than beat The Undertaker in a match - he changed his very essence."
- Shawn Michaels, 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 WrestleMania matches. Taker also had the honor of being the one that retired Michaels on the second WrestleMania match between the two of them.
- Brock Lesnar, who broke the Deadman's legendary WrestleMania streak.
- John Cena and Edge.
- Matt Hardy and Edge. Also, The Hardys and Edge & Christian for that matter (The Dudley Boys, too, although they aren't as intense rivals for the two teams as each other). Or Matt and Jeff.
- Bryan Danielson has both Austin Aries and Nigel McGuinness.
- And in 2012, there's the word "YES!" and goats.
- The Authority is certainly Daniel Bryan's biggest arch nemesis in WWE.
- Kenta Kobashi and Mitsuharu Misawa
- Which became the case after politics ended the eternal rivalry between Misawa and Toshiaki Kawada.
- Legacy Character Tiger Mask's arch enemy has always been Black Tiger.
- Bobo Brazil and the Original Sheik.
- Tommy Dreamer & Raven
- Masato Tanaka and Mike Awesome, who feuded across Japan and ECW.
- Taz and Sabu
- For a time, Sabu and Rob Van Dam
- Notable archenemies of Jeff Hardy's including CM Punk and Edge.
- In Real Life Jim Cornette and Vince Russo.
- CM Punk and Raven in Ring of Honor and various other indies.
- John Cena and Randy Orton
- Razor Ramon HG and Yinling The Erotic Terrorist
- Dean Ambrose and Seth Rollins
- Roman Reigns and Bray Wyatt
- Sami Zayn and 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.
- Johnny Gargano and Tommaso Ciampa
- In the fandom, WrestleCrap and Kent Jones (their Message Board went as far as to filter Kent Jones' name as "Can't Shoot," "I like tired fads," etc.). They also hate 420Chan's /wooo/.
- Due to pro wrestling's nature as a staged sport, as well as the close bonds of trust most wrestlers have with one another (putting their lives in each other's hands), many of the cases listed here (not all) are actually good friends in real life, with a great amount of respect for one another. Even Bret Hart and Shawn Michaels, whose real life rivalry was as legendary as any staged rivalry in the sport (before they finally buried the hatchet), expressed tremendous respect for each other's skill and ability, while personally despising one another.
- Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling considered All Japan Pro Wrestling, New Japan and to a lesser extent, Universal Wrestling Federation, the so called "Japanese mainstream" to be its arch foes. The former two due to Giant Baba and Antonio Inoki rejected Atsushi Onita's radical ideas about what pro wrestling should be, the latter for rejecting him when he tried to join. They also entered into direct competition with W*ING but later it became more like The Rival and was almost completely absorbed into FMW in between sporadic revivals. Then came IWA Japan, who eventually became the official arch enemy of both FMW and W*ING in the form of the "Puerto Rican Army".
- AJPW and NJPW themselves considered Super World Of Sports to be their main adversary for being a corporate owned upstart that was buying up many members of their roster, especially All Japan for pushing Genichiro Tenryu, who had retired to become that corporation's spokesman, back into the ring.
- WCW to WWF and to a lesser extent ECW, for stealing stars from both feds, the cruiserweight divsion idea from ECW and almost putting the WWF into bankruptcy. Paul Heyman who was fired from WCW fostered this with both the wrestlers and the fans. ECW and WWF were somewhere between Worthy Opponent and Friendly Enemies.
- IWA Puerto Rico's collective arch enemy was "Capitol" or "Consejo" referring to the two incarnations of Carlos Colon's company, CSP and WWC, though for a brief period NWA-TNA overshadowed them and were presented as being a potential threat to all Puerto Rican based promotions. While there were some irreconcilable issues, all companies involved fell more into the "friendly enemy" category behind the scenes.
- Survival Tobita'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.
- Becky Lynch and Charlotte Flair.
