15. CHRIS JERICHO & TETSUYA NAITO. IT SEEMS LIKE NOT EVERYONE IN THE WRESTLING
BUSINESS IS TOTALLY SOLD ON THE ONCE-IN-A-LIFETIME MATCHUP FEATURING JERICHO AND OMEGA. NAITO
HAD SOME CHOICE WORDS WHEN TALKING ABOUT WRESTLE KINGDOM; HE MADE THE CLAIM THAT THE SHOW WILL
FEATURE CO-MAIN EVENTS. ANOTHER BOUT THAT SHOULDN’T BE TAKEN LIKELY FEATURES A CHAMPIONSHIP
MATCH BETWEEN NAITO AND OKADA. YOU HAVE TO UNDERSTAND WHERE NAITO WAS COMING FROM BUT
JERICHO WAS HAVING NONE OF IT, RIPPING NAITO. ACCORDING TO JERICHO, HE HAD NO IDEA WHO NAITO
EVEN WAS, WHICH IS A BIT OF SLAP IN THE FACE TO THE JAPANESE CULTURE. CHRIS REMAINED ADAMANT
THAT THE SHOW WILL BE HEADLINED BY ONE MATCH FEATURING HIMSELF AND KENNY. WHETHER THIS
WAS A SHOOT OR NOT IS UNKNOWN, BUT RUMORS ALSO INDICATE THAT JERICHO MIGHT BE SETTING
UP ANOTHER FUTURE MATCH WITH NAITO DOWN THE LINE. FOR NOW HOWEVER, IT SEEMS TO BE VIEWED
AS A SHOOT. 14. BECKY LYNCH & LIV MORGAN.
YOU HAVE TO LOVE BECKY LYNCH. DESPITE THE FACT SHE’S OUT SHOOTING A MOVIE WITH WWE
FILMS, SHE STILL KEEPS IN TOUCH WITH THE PRODUCT. LYNCH POKED FUN AT THE NEW SMACKDOWN FACTION
THE RIOT SQUAD, FOR THEIR LACKLUSTER PERFORMANCE AT CLASH OF CHAMPIONS. IN THE TWEET, LYNCH
WAS SPECIFICALLY TAKING A SHOT AT LIV MORGAN FOR HER TOTAL FAIL IN HITTING HER OWN PARTNER
WHILE THE TEAMS BATTLED OUTSIDE. MORGAN DID THE WRONG THING HERE BY ANSWERING
BACK – TRULY A ROOKIE MISTAKE. SHE RESPONDED BY TWEETING OUT THAT SHE CRINGES EVERY TIME
LYNCH YELLS “STRAIGHT FIRE”. AGAIN, BECKY HAD THE EASY COMEBACK OF RIPPING MORGAN, CLAIMING
SHE FEELS THE SAME WAY WHEN WATCHING HER WRESTLE. YIKES! CLASSIC CASE OF A VETERAN PUTTING A
YOUNGSTER IN THEIR PLACE – THANKFULLY, THE VERBAL JOUSTING ENDED THERE.
13. COREY GRAVES & VINCE RUSSO. WE’LL MAKE AN EXCEPTION HERE AS BOTH AREN’T
WRESTLERS. NOWADAYS, GRAVES IS ARGUABLY THE TOP COMMENTATOR IN ALL OF THE WWE WHILE VINCE
RUSSO CONTINUES TO COVER THE WWE PRODUCT FAR AWAY FROM HIS RESIDENCE. HE’S ALSO BEEN
QUITE HARSH VIA TWITTER AND IN ONE INSTANCE HE DECIDED TO TAKE A SHOT AT COREY GRAVES
MOST RECENTLY. RUSSO TOOK THE FIRST SHOT BASHING THE COMMENTATORS FOR NOT SELLING THE JASON
JORDAN/BRAUN STROWMAN MATCH. HE ENDED THE TWEET TELLING GRAVES THAT PEE WEE WANTED HIS
SUIT BACK…. WELL, COREY WASN’T ABOUT TO LET THINGS SLIDE.
IN HIS COMEBACK, GRAVES INDICATED HOW SAD IT WAS THAT THE “DRIVING FORCE” (YES HE
PUT IT IN QUOTATIONS AS WELL) OF THE ATTITUDE ERA USES SIMILAR INSULTS THAN HIS OWN NINE
YEAR OLD. GRAVES ENDED THE TWEET TELLING RUSSO TO CREDIT HIM FOR GETTING EXTRA VIEWS ON HIS
PODCAST – WINNER BY UNANIMOUS DECISION: COREY GRAVES.
12. ROMAN REIGNS & BROCK LESNAR. THIS ONE FLEW UNDER THE RADAR BUT ROMAN REIGNS
WAS BRUTALLY HONEST WHEN DISCUSSING HIS MATCH AGAINST BROCK LESNAR. REIGNS DIDN’T HAVE
THE GREATEST EXPERIENCE IN DEALING WITH THE BEAST AHEAD OF THEIR WRESTLEMANIA 31 CLASH;
ROMAN CALLED THE PROCESS EXTREMELY WEIRD AND WAY TOO LAST MINUTE. REIGNS WAS ALSO PINPOINTING
THE FACT THAT BOTH HEYMAN AND LESNAR REALLY WEREN’T OPEN TO MANY IDEAS, INSTEAD THEY
SIMPLY WANTED TO OBLITERATE ROMAN DURING THE MATCH BECAUSE ACCORDING TO THEM, THAT’S
WHAT THE PEOPLE WANTED TO SEE. DESPITE THE BIZARRE PRE-MATCH ENCOUNTERS, ROMAN WAS GRATEFUL
FOR HOW THE MATCH PLAYED OUT; YOU KNOW YOU DID WELL WHEN BRET HART TELLS YOU IT WAS AN
INSTANT CLASSIC. FOR WHAT IT’S WORTH, FELLOW SHIELD MEMBER
DEAN AMBROSE, ALSO DISCUSSED HIS TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE IN DEALING WITH BROCK THE FOLLOWING
YEAR. 11. LIV MORGAN & ENZO AMORE.
LET’S GIVE THE 23 YEAR OLD SOME PROPS HERE; SHE’S NOT AFRAID TO MAKE WAVES OUTSIDE OF
THE RING, AS CONTROVERSY SELLS AND IT CAN ONLY HELP HER CAREER. SHE MIGHT HAVE RECENTLY
GOTTEN DESTROYED VIA TWITTER BY BECKY LYNCH BUT THE SAME COULD NOT BE SAID FOR HER TWEET
THIS PAST SEPTEMBER. MORGAN HAD THE WRESTLING COMMUNITY BUZZING WHEN SHE TWEETED OUT, “ME
KNOWING THAT I’M SINGLE AND NOBODY CHEATING ON ME”, THE MESSAGE WAS FOLLOWED BY A GIF
OF MORGAN SMILING AND SIPPING ON SOME WATER. OF COURSE, HER TWEET WAS IN REGARDS TO HER
RELATIONSHIP WITH ENZO AMORE. THE TWO WERE AN ITEM FOR QUITE SOME TIME, THOUGH THEY FINALLY
SPLIT DUE TO ENZO BEING UNFAITHFUL. MORGAN CONTINUED VIA SOCIAL MEDIA EVEN PUTTING A
PICTURE WITH TYLER BATE SUGGESTING THAT THE TWO WERE AN ITEM.
10. FINN BALOR & BARON CORBIN. ONE OF THE LESSER KNOWN TWITTER WARS FEATURED
A LIKELY CANDIDATE TAKING ON AN UNLIKELY OPPONENT. CORBIN HASN’T SHIED AWAY FROM BACKSTAGE
ANTICS CLASHING WITH FANS AND EVEN PERSONNEL BACKSTAGE. THE OPPOSITE IS TRUE WHEN IT COMES
TO FINN BALOR AS HE’S REGARDED AS ONE OF THE MOST POPULAR FACES BEHIND THE SCENES DUE
TO HIS INFECTIOUS AND POSITIVE ATTITUDE. OF COURSE IT WASN’T TOO SHOCKING THAT THE
BATTLE WAS LAUNCHED BY BARON CORBIN. AFTER FINN TWEETED OUT THAT HE FORGETS TO DO CRUNCHES,
CORBIN RESPONDED BY SAYING HIS ABS HAD NO CHOICE BUT TO STICK OUT DUE TO THE FACT THAT
HE WEIGHS 162 POUNDS… BALOR ENDED THE WAR INSTANTLY WITH ONE INCREDIBLE TWEET ASKING
CORBIN FOR THE FEW EXTRA POUNDS HIDING UNDER HIS T-SHIRT. JUDGING BY THE TWEETS, YOU CAN
DEFINITELY SEE SOME PAST ANIMOSITY BETWEEN THE TWO. TO CORBIN’S CREDIT, HE’S DONE
A GREAT JOB IN KEEPING KAYFABE ALIVE OUT OF THE RING.
9. NIA JAX & THE WOMEN’S LOCKER ROOM. NIA JAX RECENTLY MADE HEADLINES FOR AN INSTAGRAM
POST COMPLETELY UNRELATED TO HER CHARACTER INSIDE OF THE RING. INSTEAD, SHE BROKE KAYFABE,
MAKING THE CLAIM THAT NOT ONLY IS SHE BODY-SHAMED ONLINE ON A REGULAR BASIS BUT THE ISSUE IS
ALSO TAKING PLACE IN HER OWN BACKYARD. ACCORDING TO JAX, SHE’S BEEN BODY-SHAMED BY HER OWN
CO-WORKERS WHILE GETTING CHANGED IN THE WOMEN’S LOCKER ROOM. THE CLAIMS WERE CERTAINLY ALARMING
ESPECIALLY GIVEN THE SENSITIVITY OF THE WWE PRODUCT NOWADAYS WORKING UNDER A PG ENVIRONMENT.
TO NIA’S CREDIT, HER POST WAS SEEN AS A SOURCE OF INSPIRATION FOR MANY THAT STRUGGLE
WITH THE SAME TYPE OF PROBLEM. IT SEEMS AS THOUGH THE WWE DEALT WITH THE SITUATION BY
TURNING JAX INTO A S*X SYMBOL – SHE’S CURRENTLY WORKING A ROMANCE STORYLINE ALONGSIDE
ENZO AMORE. 8. RYBACK & RUSEV.
IN TRUTH, WE COULD HAVE DONE AN ENTIRE ARTICLE ON RYBACK TAKING SHOTS AT CURRENT WWE SUPERSTARS.
OTHERS WE WON’T MENTION IN THIS ARTICLE INCLUDE SETH ROLLINS, TRIPLE H AND VINCE MCMAHON,
WHO WERE ALL TARGETS OF RYBACK FOLLOWING HIS RELEASE. OH, AND HE EVEN TOOK A SHOT AT THE
ENTIRE WOMEN’S DIVISION… YOU CAN’T MAKE THIS STUFF UP.
RECENTLY, HE WAS AT IT AGAIN BUT THIS TIME AROUND, RYBACK WAS DISHING IT OUT VIA INSTAGRAM.
FOLLOWING A POST BY THE USOS SHOWING RUSEV CURLING, RYBACK RESPONDED BY TAKING A SHOT
AT THE LIGHTWEIGHT BEING PUSHED BY THE BULGARIAN BRUTE. THE WITTY WWE SUPERSTAR WON THE BATTLE
IN ONE TWEET BY RESPONDING, “ALL NATURAL WORKOUTS HERE”. YIKES! UNFORTUNATELY FOR
RYBACK, THIS ISN’T THE LAST INSTANCE OF A WRESTLER TAKING A SHOT AT HIM IN THE ARTICLE
(WE’LL HAVE ANOTHER EXAMPLE A LITTLE LATER). 7. ROMAN REIGNS & ENZO AMORE.
ROMAN REIGNS TOLD CM PUNK BACK IN THE DAY THAT HE’D BECOME THE NEXT LOCKER ROOM LEADER
BEHIND THE SCENES. WELL, IT SEEMS AS THOUGH “THE GUY” WASN’T WRONG AS HE’S TURNING
INTO ONE OF THE MOST RESPECTED FACES BEHIND THE CURTAIN. REIGNS TOOK HIS POWER A STEP
FURTHER BY RECENTLY STANDING UP FOR ALL OF THE BOYS DURING A TOUR OVERSEAS.
WHILE TRAVELLING ON A BUS, ENZO WAS SAID TO BE TALKING WAY TOO LOUD ON HIS PHONE ALONG
WITH TALKING ABOUT OBNOXIOUS TOPICS SUCH AS HOW MUCH MONEY HE WAS MAKING DUE TO MERCHANDISE
SALES. ROMAN TOOK THE INITIATIVE AS THE LEADER TO KICK ENZO OFF THE BUS FOR HIS BEHAVIOR.
HIS PEERS WERE SAID TO BE ECSTATIC BY THE DECISION AS AMORE WASN’T AND STILL ISN’T
THE MOST LIKED BACKSTAGE AMONG HIS PEERS. ROMAN WAS VERY OPEN ABOUT THE ORDEAL DISCUSSING
IT IN DETAIL DURING THE CHRIS JERICHO PODCAST. HE ALSO KICKED ENZO OUT OF THE MEN’S LOCKER
ROOM. 6. LANA & DANA BROOKE.
THIS HEAT TOOK PLACE DUE TO THE APPARENT STEALING OF A FINISHING MOVE. TOTAL DIVAS INITIATED
THE FUEL BY MAKING THE CLAIM THAT DANA HAD STOLEN LANA’S FINISHING MOVE WHICH IS JUST
LAUGHABLE ON SO MANY LEVELS. BROOKE TOOK EXCEPTION TO THE TWEET MAKING THE CLAIM THAT TOTAL DIVAS
AND LANA “PLAYED ME DIRTY” WITH THE ACCUSATION. BROOKE WENT ON THE DEFENSE STATING SHE’D
BEEN USING THE MANEUVER FOR YEARS DOWN IN NXT AND PROOF OF THAT WAS AVAILABLE FOR THOSE
THAT HAD FOLLOWED HER CAREER. WISELY, LANA CHOSE TO STAY OUT OF THIS ONE.
SHE’S BEEN CAUGHT IN TWITTER WARS IN THE PAST AND IN HER LAST EXCHANGE, SHE GOT THE
WORST SIDE OF THE BATTLE AGAINST PAIGE, WHO ISN’T AFRAID TO SPEAK HER MIND. NOWADAYS,
LANA IS LETTING HER FRUSTRATIONS OUT ON THE FANS ONLINE INSTEAD…
5. RANDY ORTON & BUBBA DUDLEY. A “DIVE” RELATED TWEET STARTED THIS WAR.
BUBBA TWEETED ABOUT A DIVE WHICH ORTON TOOK EXCEPTION TO THINKING IT WAS A SHOT AT HIM.
BEFORE YOU KNEW IT, THINGS BLEW UP AND WRESTLING OUTLETS WERE SALIVATING OVER THE DISPUTE.
BUBBA OPENED UP ABOUT THE ISSUE DISCUSSING PAST BEEF BETWEEN THE TWO, WHICH WENT BACK
TEN YEARS AGO. ACCORDING TO BUBBA, THINGS SOURED BETWEEN THE TWO AFTER A TOUGH MATCH
THAT FEATURED THE DUDLEYS AGAINST BATISTA AND ORTON. FOLLOWING THE BOUT, BOTH RANDY
AND DAVE REQUIRED MEDICAL ATTENTION FOR INJURIES FROM THE MATCH. THE TWO SIDES HAD CHOICE WORDS
FOR ONE ANOTHER AND THE HEAT NEVER SUBSIDED TILL BUBBA’S RETURN WHEN THE TWO FINALLY
PUT THE DISPUTE ON THE BACKBURNER. HOWEVER, THE TWITTER WAR JUST ADDED NEW FUEL TO THE
FIRE. AT THE END OF THE DAY, IT WAS A MISUNDERSTANDING BY BOTH SIDES THAT TURNED INTO A PRETTY LENGTHY
DEBATE. 4. LIO RUSH & THE WWE & NXT LOCKER ROOMS.
SIGNING A WWE SUPERSTAR IN THEIR EARLY 20S IS ALWAYS A RISK, ESPECIALLY WHEN THEY’RE
PROJECTED TO BE MAJOR STARS DUE TO THEIR PAST WORK. WELL, IT SEEMS AS THOUGH RUSH WAS A
LITTLE TOO CONFIDENT WHEN TWEETING OUT A DISTASTEFUL STATEMENT, CLAIMING “THINGS ARE TRULY BAD
WHEN YOU’RE NOT READY FOR ASUKA”. THE TWEET WAS TERRIBLY INSENSITIVE AS A WWE SUPERSTAR,
EMMA, HAD JUST LOST HER JOB. POKING FUN AT SOMEONE FOR GETTING RELEASED IS NEVER A GOOD
IDEA. THE COMMENTS CAUSED A STORM ONLINE WITH THE
LIKES OF KEVIN OWENS, SAMOA JOE, PEYTON ROYCE, DASH WILDER, BUDDY MURPHY, JACK GALLAGHER
AND HECK EVEN X-PAC, JUST TO NAME A FEW, ALL TAKING SHOTS AT RUSH FOR HIS COMMENTS. LUCKILY
FOR HIM, HE WAS NOT RELEASED BY THE WWE AND HE’S NOW LAYING ON THE DOWN LOW, EVEN DISABLING
THE COMMENTS SECTION VIA HIS INSTAGRAM ACCOUNT BECAUSE OF ALL THE HATE.
3. ROMAN REIGNS & CODY RHODES. GIVE ROMAN SOME CREDIT HERE; HE’S GOT A
BIG PAIR OF YOU-KNOW-WHAT, NEVER AFRAID TO CHALLENGE ANYONE ONLINE. HECK, HE EVEN GOT
INTO IT WITH JOHN CENA IN NUMEROUS EXCHANGES. ANOTHER ONE OF HIS TARGETS WAS CODY RHODES
AFTER THE FORMER WWE SUPERSTAR REGARDED HIMSELF AS THE BIGGEST DRAW IN WRESTING FOLLOWING
HIS RELEASE FROM THE WWE AND RISE AS AN INDIE STAR.
AFTER A FAN ASKED ROMAN FOR HIS THOUGHTS ON THE MATTER, REIGNS REACTED BY TWEETING OUT,
“I DON’T EVEN NEED TO CLICK AND THE LINK AND WATCH HIS VIDEO. IF THAT HOUSE DIDN’T
DRAW OVER 100K HE’S JUST TALKING SILLY”. ROMAN ENDED THE TWEET BY WRITING, “WALK
OVER TALK”. REIGNS ENDED THE JOUSTING, CLAIMING HE’S ALONE ON TOP OF THE MOUNTAIN WITH NOBODY
IN SIGHT. IT’S HARD TO ARGUE WITH THAT FACT NOWADAYS.
2. SASHA BANKS & ALEXA BLISS. ONE OF THE GREATEST REAL-LIFE FEUDS CURRENTLY
GOING ON FEATURES TWO HUGE STARS OF THE WOMEN’S DIVISION – ALEXA ADMITTED THAT THE HEAT
BETWEEN THE TWO GOES BACK TO THEIR NXT DAYS. WHEN IT COMES TO DISHING IT OUT, SASHA’S
BEEN A LOT MORE VOCAL IN VOICING HER DISPLEASURES TOWARDS BLISS.
SASHA HAS STATED SEVERAL TIMES THAT BLISS IS SIMPLY PLAYING “DRESS UP” AND NEVER
GAVE A DAMN ABOUT THE WRESTLING BUSINESS, CALLING HER A PHONY. SHE EVEN TOOK THINGS
A STEP FURTHER MAKING THE CLAIM THAT BLISS CAN’T EVEN TELL THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN MATT
AND JEFF HARDY. RECENTLY, SASHA SHOWED THE ANIMOSITY STILL EXISTS WHEN SHE REFUSED TO
ANSWER A QUESTION AT A Q & A THAT REGARDED HER RELATIONSHIP AND THOUGHTS ON ALEXA BLISS.
WITH SUCH A GREAT REAL-LIFE FEUD, IT’S A MYSTERY HOW THE COMPANY HASN’T GIVEN THE
TWO A LENGTHY STORYLINE INSTEAD OF ONE THAT LASTED A MERE COUPLE OF WEEKS.
1. GOLDBERG & RYBACK. OH, RYBACK! ONCE AGAIN HE MADE HEADLINES PERTAINING
TO A STORY IN RELATION TO GOLDBERG’S RETURN. ACCORDING TO THE BIG GUY, GOLDBERG WAS BROUGHT
BACK IN ORDER TO “SPITE” HIM. OH GOODNESS. RYBACK EVEN MADE THE CLAIM THAT VINCE REFUSED
TO END RYBACK’S WWE NETWORK SUBSCRIPTION SO HE COULD WATCH WHAT WENT ON AND THAT WOULD
RESULT IN HIM MISSING THE COMPANY…. GOLDBERG RECENTLY SPOKE OUT PERTAINING TO
COMPARISONS MADE BETWEEN HIMSELF AND RYBACK. BILL DID NOT SEEM FLATTERED BY THE SIMILARITIES
BETWEEN THE TWO, CLAIMING RYBACK DOESN’T HOLD A CANDLE TO HIMSELF AND SOMEONE LIKE
ROMAN IN TERMS OF BEING ATHLETICALLY GIFTED. GOLDBERG CALLED RYBACK MORE OF A ROBOT-TYPE
OF WRESTLER DUE TO HIS BODYBUILDING BACKGROUND. GOLDBERG ENDED THE QUESTION BY STATING HE
DOESN’T THINK TWICE ABOUT RYBACK DUE TO THE FACT THAT HE NEVER MET HIM.