Flair v Steamboat the greatest all-time feud?

[dlg3000]

Is the Flair v Steamboat feud the greatest wrestling feud of all time in your opinion?

[millionurkle]

Feud? No. Mcmahon vs. Austin is the greatest in my opinion. It defined an era and bits and pieces of this feud in particular are still used today.

In terms of greatest series of matches between wrestlers? Quite possibly. Those two men were polar opposites in-ring and character wise but meshed so well together. However, Mcmahon/Austin still seemed to have a greater impact culturally and professionally.

[Evilution E5150]

Dreamer and Raven is up there if you ask me

[bagsley]

HBK/Hart has to take the feud for me. Just because it was both in and outside the ring.

["Playboy" Don Douglas]

Their series from '89 is my favorite matches of all time. But as far as feuds go, I think Flair's feud with Dusty had more heat than the one with Steamboat.

[Evilution E5150]

yeah exactly while the fued itself isnt the greatest or most heated the matches are some of the greatest

[Milkman Norm]

No. But the matches are awesome.

[Big Evil]

Flair/Steamboat wrestled four times in that entire feud. All four matches were amazing. Does that make it an amazing feud? No. It was makes it a series of amazing wrestling matches. In the long run, thanks to Steamboat's hasty departure 7 months after returning, the only thing that feud did was turn Flair babyface and give us the Flair/Funk feud which WAS a legitimately great feud, and could've been even better if they didn't jump the gun on it.

[RowdyRobbyPiper]

The matches made that angle work and it is the matches that people remember when they think of Flair vs. Steamboat.

I loved Flair inducting Steamboat into the WWE HOF. Who else but Ricky Steamboat and Ric Flair as old men get a massive pop just from a collar and elboe tie-up?

[Paul Is Deadpool R.I.P]

I like the matches but in my opinion the best feuds are one that cause emotion:

Hogan VS Savage
Hogan VSAndre
Hogan VS Piper
nWo VS WCW
Austin VS McMahon

[Johnny Flamingo]

I don't think the best feud as Vince-Austin and Hogan-Andre were better and meant more to pro wrestling in my opinion.

I also think that Raven-Dreamer was a better feud as it was very revolutionary for the time and was a key feud in ECW that spawned many side angles and careers.

[Wolf Hurricane]

Dunno if it counts, but I'd say McMahon/Bischoff/Heyman. American wrestling as a whole was made better by the three of them competing with each other.

[Baixo Astral]

best series of exhibitions, more like - best feud was Palumbo/Noble, closely followed by Austin/McMahon.

[Deleted]

No but you'd have to look at rivals like Tiger Mask/Dynamite Kid or Funk/Brisco to find guys who had a comparable series of matches.

[FUNK_US/BRODUS]

Sting vs the NWO (Despite the horribly botched ending at Starrcade) or McMahon/Austin.

[Deleted]

I believe it was a very competitive "rivalry". Maybe the best of all time. It had 4 different pockets of time over 3 decades. (I believe only the first series could be considered a "feud"; with Flair busting up Steamboat's face on the concrete.)

But best feud? No. I agree that Flair's feud with Dusty Rhodes or Ricky's feud with Savage was better and more heated.

[wwefan71080]

Its up there in the top 3 but not number 1

[RowdyRobbyPiper]

My top 3 feuds.

1. (non-kayfabe) The Monday Night Wars. Think of how much great wrestling fans saw on both Raw and Nitro.

2. Randy Savage vs. Ricky Steamboat. I cried when Macho rammed Steamboat's throat with the bell. Seriously.

3. nWo vs WCW

[Bishblast]

Nah. Bret/Austin, if you ask me.

Best series of matches goes to Tiger Mask and Dynamite Kid, though, for me.

[ICBM]

Great matches and I'd love to say it was the greatest fued but I can't. The psychology was there, the interviews were solid(except for Ricky's lack of inflection) and the in-ring work was great. But, they couldn't promote the fued to make it draw. Had the WWE marketing machine been at work every sports section in america would have been covering it as if wrestling were real and that this fued was proof. So what fued are better? As mentioned Austin/McMahon-they produced a vhs/dvd special about the fued alone, it was all over tv during the higest viewership in the history of telivised pro wrestling, the psychology and logic were sound, the spots were creative(the beer truck and Austin stalking McMahon come to mind), the in-ring work was very good. Austin made Vince's punch/kick look like a legit matchup to his technical and brawling ability. At the end of it all it Drew and drew and drew. Hogan vs Andre, the otch gets passed from the biggest draw wrestling had to the next biggest draw wrestling got. The logic was great(good guy gone bad via the influence of money and a great heel manager), Hulkster has beaten everone else except the largest athelete in the world. Then it drew 90,000+ fans and a then closed circuit record, but it didn't stop there. That fued continued to draw houses for another year after the first match and helped establish not only Ted Debiase but galvanized Macho as a legit World Championship caliber draw. Of all thee above I have to give the nod to Hogan/Andre