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Post by Magic knows Black Lives Matter on Jul 23, 2022 14:40:08 GMT -5
Yeah, it’s Eddie. Iconic, genre defining type feud
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Post by tirtefaa on Jul 23, 2022 14:49:05 GMT -5
I'm surprised a lot of people are saying Eddie.
No doubt their matches were good, but the feuds themselves were very corny and I remember a LOT of people hating their 2005 feud, finding it very tasteless. And if we're basing this off the last 20 years, then I still don't know since Rey usually brought it in his matches, but the storylines themselves were usually quite weak.
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Post by attitudeeraguy22 on Jul 23, 2022 23:48:01 GMT -5
Eddie and it's not really close in my view. They had incredible matches and feuds across two different major promotions. Their WWE feud was super one-sided. Rey won every PPV match between the two in 2005.
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Post by "Evil Brood" Jackson Vanik on Jul 24, 2022 0:23:31 GMT -5
Eddie and it's not really close in my view. They had incredible matches and feuds across two different major promotions. Their WWE feud was super one-sided. Rey won every PPV match between the two in 2005. And that's what made it great. That's what the whole story was. Eddie was the more accomplished wrestler but he couldn't beat Rey and it drove him insane. He couldn't beat then as tag champs. He couldn't beat him when they split up. And he couldn't beat him when he played psychological warfare. And the SummerSlam match did prove Eddie was the better wrestler. He had the match won. But the lives he destroyed on the way to getting there cost him the match. So yes, one sided but still a great feud in my view. And technically Eddie did win in the end when he beat Rey in a cage match that September to set him up for the Batista feud.
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Post by Fade on Jul 24, 2022 0:27:36 GMT -5
I’m surprised more people aren’t saying Eddie haha. Yeah, it’s Eddie. Their matches, their WWE storyline work, perfectly complimented one another. It’s Eddie.
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Post by "Evil Brood" Jackson Vanik on Jul 24, 2022 0:31:10 GMT -5
I do wish Jericho and Rey had another major feud in recent years since they're both still active. If they did, I think it could at least rival Eddie. And that just makes me wish Rey had done at least some matches in AEW. He's had a decent run all things considered lately with WWE given his age and size but I still feel like they could do more with him as a consistent main event level tier talent.
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Post by Fade on Jul 24, 2022 0:39:30 GMT -5
I do wish Jericho and Rey had another major feud in recent years since they're both still active. If they did, I think it could at least rival Eddie. And that just makes me wish Rey had done at least some matches in AEW. He's had a decent run all things considered lately with WWE given his age and size but I still feel like they could do more with him as a consistent main event level tier talent. Yeah, those two could have had a killer program. In a parallel universe that Rey joined AEW, he probably would have been absolutely killing it in matches (as he was before coming back to wwe) and at least a title victory I’d think.
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Post by CubsFan71 on Jul 24, 2022 2:06:15 GMT -5
Height
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Post by "Trickster Dogg" James Jesse on Jul 24, 2022 2:19:19 GMT -5
Trying to get Dominik over.
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Post by mcmahonfan85 on Jul 24, 2022 2:24:06 GMT -5
has anyone said Eddie yet? cause if not, i'll say Eddie
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Post by Mozenrath on Jul 24, 2022 2:30:05 GMT -5
I'm sort of surprised I'm the only person who has said Chavo. Yeah, the Eddie matches were very good. So were the Chavo ones. Like, put their I Quit match against almost any match Rey has had in WWE, and it's as good or better than most of them.
That said, Eddie's Eddie, so I get it, especially since as corny as the Dominik feud was, it was Eddie in "piece of shit" mode that he perfected in WWE after his charisma in WCW having been kind of a roll of the dice on if you got great Eddie or "Eddie cutting a humiliatingly bad promo" Eddie on any given night.
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Post by Woo on Jul 24, 2022 5:28:03 GMT -5
Overall Eddie.
If we are talking about an isolated feud rather than a career long rivalry then Jericho. The mask-removal from the 619 is one of the greatest spots I've ever seen.
Punk and Angle were great too.
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Post by Cvslfc123 on Jul 24, 2022 11:32:58 GMT -5
Friendship
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Post by Hypnosis on Jul 24, 2022 11:47:21 GMT -5
That time Chavo did a parody of Rey on Smackdown was hilarious.
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Post by Mozenrath on Jul 24, 2022 14:54:31 GMT -5
That time Chavo did a parody of Rey on Smackdown was hilarious. I love after he beat Rey in an I Quit Match, he took over Rey's website. If you went, it'd play Chavo's music, show him standing over a defeated Rey, and displayed, "Quitters don't deserve a website!"
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Post by DZ: WF Legacy on Jul 24, 2022 15:02:20 GMT -5
Jericho/Rey for the IC belt was probably my favorite. I loved everything about it, from the matches to the storytelling, and it had history given their WCW roots.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 24, 2022 15:18:54 GMT -5
Eddie.
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Post by fg on Jul 24, 2022 15:23:20 GMT -5
Eddie Guerrero. Great chemistry in the ring, great feuds in both WCW and WWE (even if the second one was proper telenovela stuff), they just worked together. He also worked with Chavo.
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Post by fg on Jul 24, 2022 15:24:47 GMT -5
Eddie and it's not really close in my view. They had incredible matches and feuds across two different major promotions. Their WWE feud was super one-sided. Rey won every PPV match between the two in 2005. Eddie did win the steel cage match between the two…that took place AFTER Rey won custody of Dominik from Eddie. But by that time, it was too late.
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Post by Dave the Dave on Jul 24, 2022 15:43:17 GMT -5
I think Jericho. Spanned two promotions like Eddie. Didn’t involve a ladder match over a kid. Good stuff
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