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WWE: Ranking the 10 very best feuds of the 2010’s

By Joe Anthony Myrick

DUESSELDORF, GERMANY - FEBRUARY 22: Chris Jericho (R) is attacked by Kevin Owens (L) during to the WWE Live Duesseldorf event at ISS Dome on February 22, 2017 in Duesseldorf, Germany. (Photo by Lukas Schulze/Bongarts/Getty Images)
DUESSELDORF, GERMANY - FEBRUARY 22: Chris Jericho (R) is attacked by Kevin Owens (L) during to the WWE Live Duesseldorf event at ISS Dome on February 22, 2017 in Duesseldorf, Germany. (Photo by Lukas Schulze/Bongarts/Getty Images) /
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6. The Usos vs. New Day

I’m a tag team guy. My favorite brand of wrestling is tag team wrestling and prior to 2017, I cannot remember the last time WWE put on a truly amazing tag team rivalry on the main roster. There’s been plenty of great tag team matches, sure, but I’m talking about an actual tag team feud that people hail with the same regard as a singles feud like Rock vs. Austin.

The Usos and The New Day delivered that kind of feud in 2017. They had squared of plenty of times over the years, but 2017 is when they had a bonafide feud that was simple. It wasn’t overproduced with jokes or overexplained with complicated story mechanisms. It was just two of the best tag teams that WWE had to offer battling for the right to call themselves the best.

Whether it be on PPVs like SummerSlam or on episodes of SmackDown, both teams straight up stole the show every single week and every time they shared the ring. And culminated in not only the best match of their rivalry (Hell in a Cell), but with both teams holding admitting a mutual respect for each other.

Which, given the typical bombasticness of sports entertainment, is a surprisingly mature way to end a feud under the WWE banner.

5.  Chris Jericho vs. Kevin Owens

When the Festival of Friendship segment first aired, I heard a lot of people in the wrestling community call it WWE’s most heartbreaking breakup angle since The Rockers. That’s how good this feud was.

Feel free to debate just how good this segment was (or wasn’t) compared to The Rockers angle, but given how strong the reception was to it, that’s enough to justify this as one of WWE’s top feuds of the decade.

I also think what made this feud so good is because of how good the chemistry was between Kevin Owens and Chris Jericho as a team. If they weren’t so great together (and, by proxy, if this wasn’t the best version of Jericho under the WWE banner in about five or six years), then it wouldn’t have hurt so much to see them breakup.

People cared about this feud in a way that it’s hard to get fans emotionally invested in WWE (and wrestling in general) anymore.

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