Favourite wrestling storyline

[nakedmideon]

Pretty simple but what is your favourite wrestling storyline/angle of all time?
I loved Brets heel turn and the whole Canada v Usa angle.i thought the Hart Foundation were brilliant at this time if only for a short period and Brets mic work was the best it had ever been in my opinion.add in to that the rise of Stone cold around this time and i thought it was a truly magical period.
What about you?doesn't have to be the greatest story or writing but what had you really gripped and felt like must see tv

[Bo Rida]

Best was the HBK Vs Jericho fued built off Flairs retirement, featuring Batista. Felt organic with logical progression in a way few wrestling storylines do.

But it's still hard to say I enjoyed it more than Austin Vs Vince at the time, there's a reason so many have tried to capture just a bit of that magic.

["Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay]

I am not sure I could decide on just one, so some contenders

Charlie Morgan from coming out in the ring through the She 1 to winning the EVE title

Austin Aries Option C in 2012

Kofi's run up to the title

Lance Storm - triple champion in WCW

Heel Cactus Jack in ECW

The Cactus Jack/Triple H rivalry in early 2000

[GodzillaIsMyMonster]

The Mega Powers.

The single best story WWF/E ever told.

[jason1980s]

Jul 21, 2022 17:14:21 GMT -5 GodzillaIsMyMonster said:

The Mega Powers.

The single best story WWF/E ever told.

I was just thinking about that yesterday. The stories went for close to 2 years with them. There was a small period of time when Macho was doing the feud with Honkytonk and Duggan feud and Hogan and Andre were feuding but everything Wrestlemania IV to No Holds Barred was almost exclusively with Hogan and Macho stories on PPVs, SNMEs and other shows.

[XIII]

Mega Powers explode is almost Shakespearean with its universal themes of jealousy and madness. The series of promos that Macho did sinking ever deeper into jealousy, paranoia, and madness are probably the best in wrestling history.

[Ben Wyatt]

Dreamer/Raven

[Jindrak Mark]

Copy and pasted from a comment a few months ago:

That 2009-12 series with Undertaker vs. Michaels/HHH was legendary and the entire over-arching story beginning in 2007 is probably the best thing WWE has done in the past 20 years. It all technically began in 2007 when Vince put the career threatening stipulation on Flair which led to:

HBK retires Flair at Wrestlemania 24.

Batista getting pissed at HBK for retiring his mentor/friend.

Jericho getting involved in the Batista/HBK feud, saying Michaels is an egomaniac who secretly loved ending Flair's career.

Jericho smashes Michaels' head through the Jeritron.

HBK completely unravels, he gets destroyed and concussed by Jericho at GAB, his wife gets punched at Summerslam, he loses the blowoff match to Jericho at No Mercy then the recession in late 2008 plus bad investments result in him going broke.

JBL takes advantage of Michaels needing the money and makes him his lackey.

HBK beats JBL in a stipulation match to regain his freedom and financial security.

Now full of confidence again and realizing he only has one goal left to accomplish in his career, HBK challenges Undertaker for Wrestlemania 25.

Michaels comes up short in a classic match but it eats at him for the next year and he gets more and more unhinged in his attempts to get another shot at the streak.

Michaels is so desperate to get the match, he costs Undertaker a chamber match which hands his bitter rival Jericho the world title.

Undertaker finally agrees to the rematch on one condition, Michaels puts his career on the line.

Undertaker retires Michaels at Wrestlemania 26.

A year later on 2/21/11, HHH returns to challenge Undertaker for Wrestlemania, looking to avenge his best friend's loss/retirement the previous year.

Undertaker beats HHH at Wrestlemania 27 but takes such a beating that he has to be carried out on a stretcher.

HHH says he was the "last man standing" and Undertaker is the one demanding a rematch this time, unsure if he's still got what it takes or if the toll of the streak is finally getting to him.

HHH finally accepts on the condition it's hell in a cell and bringing things full circle, Michaels returns as special referee.

Undertaker defeats Triple H inside hell in a cell at Wrestlemania and the three of them embrace after the match.

I think the only thing that comes close to this is the Batista/HHH feud but as great as that was it was 6 months or so. This thing lasted 5 years with major players being Vince, Flair, Michaels, Batista, Jericho, JBL, Undertaker, HHH and all the other supporting players throughout.

The image of Taker/HHH/HBK at Wrestlemania 28 I think is the perfect ending of the entire saga but if you really wanted to you could probably stretch it even further than 2012.

In the end the streak was the key theme so you could say it all evolved into Lesnar ending it at Wrestlemania 30 then going on to squash Cena, win the WWE title and feud with Roman which unfortunately continues to this day.

[Clash, Never a Meter Maid]

MegaPowers exploding.

The Warrior/Savage feud leading to the Elizabeth wedding and then to the Jake/Savage feud.

Eddie Guerrero’s rise to world title status.

The entire Cena vs. AJ Styles feud.

Daniel Bryan goads HHH into a Wrestlemania challenge, proceeds to embarrass Evolution.

Jay White joins CHAOS and becomes one of Okada’s top rivals.

The Golden Lovers saga.

Bret vs. Owen, and then the Crazy Backlund feud that was also linked into it.

“Elizabeth was mine before she was yours!”

Flair vs. Vader 1993.

When Mankind had enough of Rock being a smart ass and he told him off.

When Jericho had enough of Rock being a smart ass and he told him off two years later.

The DDP/Savage feud.

The rise of 123 Kid and Razor Ramon’s face turn.

Kurt Angle sings Jimmy Crack Corn.

Bayley and Sasha Banks’s NXT feud.

The Cena/Del Rio Christmas fight.

Main Event Mafia takes over Impact.

Austin trolls Vince with a gun.

Booker T and Goldust’s misadventures.

Okada breaks Tanahashi’s title defense record.

Tanahashi’s rise back to the world title from G1 Climax to WK13.

Mad Vegan Champion Daniel Bryan and Kofi’s rise to topple him.

Goldberg’s run to the world till the end of 1998.

Team Hell No.

Cena’s US Open Challenge.

Shawn Michaels and Taker’s 1997 and 2009/2010 feuds.

Batista turning on Evolution.

[Ben Wyatt]

Ooo. Good call on DDP/Savage. That feud was them just beating the shit out of each other

[James Fabiano]

Mega Powers yes, but I'll go one further and say Randy Savage in general.

[Clash, Never a Meter Maid]

Oh, a long term minor one- when I watched and old match with Toru Yano beating up a young lion Hiromu Takahashi, back when he was in his GBH gimmick and he cut off some of Hiromu’s hair. Years later in another match, Yano’s the master thief and Hiromu is the junior superstar, and Yano wants to cut his hair again, and he waves the scissors at Hiromu and just yells “Raaaahhhh!” And then Hiromu gets revenge and wins by countout when he traps Yano in the elevator. I was crying laughing.

["Playboy" Don Douglas]

Hogan-Andre. I know there was some foreshadowing involved, but I’m thinking mainly from the time Andre showed up with Heenan to make the challenge for WM3 through the twin refs and Andre trying to sell the belt to Dibiase.

The first Flair-Sting arc, from the 45 minute draw at the first Clash to Sting coming to Flair’s aid against the J-Tex Corporation to Sting winning the Iron Man tournament at Starrcade to Sting becoming a Horsemen to the awesome Ole promo and beat down, the unfortunate injury, and finally, Sting winning the title at the Bash.

For that matter, the Flair vs Funk feud, from Funk’s awkward challenge to, “Are you telling me I’m not good enough? You’re saying I’m not a contender?,” to the piledriver on the table, Gary Hart and the Great Muta, the plastic bag over the head, and ultimately the I Quit match and Funk shaking Flair’s hand.

The Mega Powers, as others have described.

Flair and Race leading up to Starrcade’83 and the passing of the torch. “Take the damn money!”

[Cranjis McBasketball]

Bret Hart “turns” heel. He was always a face from Mania 4 on.

[tafkaga]

The precarious alliance between Hogan, Savage, Sting, Luger in late '95 WCW. After Luger showed up, almost every Nitro ended with the four of them in the ring almost getting into a scuffle, and then a few minutes later they would all be posing and high fiving. Luger joining the DoD was terrible, but the thing where Luger was basically a heel unless he was with Sting, and the constant "What's Luger's deal brother?" from Hogan and Savage made it very interesting to watch.

[Dub H]

That I watched was Hangman's Journey to the title.

[James Fabiano]

Jul 22, 2022 8:46:41 GMT -5 tafkaga said:

The precarious alliance between Hogan, Savage, Sting, Luger in late '95 WCW. After Luger showed up, almost every Nitro ended with the four of them in the ring almost getting into a scuffle, and then a few minutes later they would all be posing and high fiving. Luger joining the DoD was terrible, but the thing where Luger was basically a heel unless he was with Sting, and the constant "What's Luger's deal brother?" from Hogan and Savage made it very interesting to watch.

We NEEDED Megapowers vs. WCW Franchises at that time, stat.

[James Fabiano]

Jul 21, 2022 20:26:02 GMT -5 James Fabiano said:

Mega Powers yes, but I'll go one further and say Randy Savage in general.

To elaborate...Savage entering the WWF is the starting point, with him wanting titles and mistreating Liz. He gets a title, then we see how possessive of both he is with the Steele and Steamboat feuds. It took someone questioning him being the greatest I-C champ and then mistreating Liz himself to turn him face and have him join Hogan in the Megapowers. They get involved with DiBiase and Andre, which also harks back to Hogan's feud with Heenan, which goes back to the AWA days, 4-5 years before Savage arrived. You can vaguely tie in the Hogan/DiBiase deal from 1987-88 in this too. The team doesn't last, again, because of jealousy and paranoia about titles and Liz. Savage tries denial and a rebound in Sherri to get back his confidence. But Liz's appearances with Hogan and Dusty still get to him. When we get to the Warrior, if Savage can't have the WWF title, no one can so he costs him against Sarge. Leading to the career match, leading to Sherri abandoning Randy, then Liz taking him back. Love evnetually softens him again and the marriage happens, then the Jake stuff. Once that's done, he got Liz back and defended her honor, now it's time to go for the title again...against someone else who tries to antagonize him using Liz. And really, Flair vs. Savage would have been the perfect climax to his arc...but real life wrote the plot.

Still, Savage and Liz's overall story lived on somewhat when Savage continued to feud with Flair...and it led to Mr. Perfect turning face, which in turn led to Lex Luger's WWF career. Shoot, Undertaker being the phenom might be thanks to Macho Man, as his face turn happened defending Liz. A lot of this carries over in WCW too. In fact, I'd say the OG Savage arc pretty much ends when Liz goes with Lex, and Savage with Gorgeous George.

I have an even more detailed timeline saved somewhere. Was trying to change it to essay/book form.

[government mule]

I love that Rock/Austin had a continuous rivalry that kinda boiled to the surface every now and again for big moments, such as their IC fued/WM15/17/19. Even when they were both massive babyfaces, you always felt the tension between the two and I loved that intensity.