9 Current Pairs Of Wrestlers Who Have Beef With Each Other
You've probably even had beef with a co-worker, because that's normal since not all humans can get along. Well, in wrestling the same thing happens, some wrestlers have beef with each other, and it becomes a public thing sometimes.
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These real-life problems can happen for various reasons, such as a clash of personalities or egos, a bad look, a misplaced comment (even on Twitter), a specific event that broke their relationship, or simply an on-screen rivalry that can turn into a real-life feud. So, without further ado, let's take a look at nine pairs of wrestlers who have beef with each other across WWE, AEW, and beyond.
9 Seth Rollins & Cody Rhodes
Seth Rollins and Cody Rhodes delivered a phenomenal trilogy of matches in 2022, proving that they have a lot of chemistry in the ring. However, they have beef with each other, and Cody admitted so recently on The Dan LeBatard Show.
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“I think Seth Rollins is the closest I’ve ever had to, backstage that turning into a fist fight in front of all of our peers and upper management. It didn’t happen. Him and I absolutely can’t stand one another, I’d probably try and rip his eyes out and have a situation like DDP and Scott Steiner here,” Cody Rhodes said.
8 Ronda Rousey & Mercedes Moné
Ronda Rousey and Mercedes Moné (formerly known as Sasha Banks) never got along, as Mercedes didn't agree with a UFC fighter coming to WWE and having more screen time and better pay than her. But things got worse in 2022 when Rousey made her WWE return.
It seems Mercedes was the one who was going to win the Royal Rumble match and face Charlotte Flair at WrestleMania 38, but plans changed when Rousey returned. Then Mercedes didn't want to work with Rousey and eventually walked out of WWE.
7 Eddie Kingston & Claudio Castagnoli
Eddie Kingston has openly said that he doesn't like Claudio Castagnoli at all. Their beef was born in Ring Of Honor many years ago when Claudio allegedly didn't want to put Eddie over.
Kingston is not afraid to say publicly that Claudio is a bad person and that he can't stand him. Despite the fact that they don't get along, they recently delivered an amazing match at ROH Supercard Of Honor 2023.
6 CM Punk & Eddie Kingston
Another current wrestler Eddie Kingston has beef with is CM Punk. Kingston admitted that he doesn't like Punk, and didn't hold back on Twitter, taking shots at him on more than one occasion.
Meanwhile, Punk made it clear that he doesn't like Eddie either when during a promo with Jon Moxley, he said that Eddie was the second-best Kingston he had ever shared a locker room with. That line was totally unnecessary, but we know what Punk's personality is like.
5 CM Punk & Adam Page
Speaking of unnecessary lines during CM Punk's promos, it's impossible to forget when he took a shot at Adam Page during a promo. Punk called out Page for a rematch, but when Page didn't show up, Punk called him a coward.
This was something completely off-script that shocked everyone in AEW. That episode made it clear that the reported animosity between them was in fact real.
4 CM Punk & KENTA
Yes, CM Punk is on this list for the third time, but that's really not surprising. You probably knew that CM Punk stole KENTA's finisher, and that has brought a lot of trouble between the two.
KENTA and CM Punk were supposed to collide at AEW/NJPW Forbidden Door 2023, but the match was canceled, and it looks like it was because neither wanted to. In fact, KENTA said on his social media that he would never work with CM Punk.
3 CM Punk & AJ Styles
Once again, and this is the last time on this list that we talk about CM Punk. "The Straight Edge Superstar" has had a beef with AJ Styles for several years, which came to light in 2020. Punk took a shot at Styles insinuating that he was a racist for not speaking out about the Black Lives Matter movement.
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Sometime later, in an interview with The Times of India, Styles said "I will not react at all coming from a guy that I don't have any respect for anyway." And it's also worth mentioning that during a Twitch stream, the Phenomenal said he would never work with Punk again.
2 Charlotte Flair & Becky Lynch
Charlotte Flair and Becky Lynch used to be friends, but over time, as they both grew up and became megastars, their relationship deteriorated and nowadays, they have beef with each other.
It seems that they simply became more self-centered, and there came a point where their egos could no longer stand each other. Both Lynch and Flair have arguments to be the greatest female wrestler of all time, and they compete every day to prove it, so that surely fed their real-life beef.
1 Kenny Omega & Will Ospreay
Kenny Omega and Will Ospreay delivered two all-time classics in 2023, but the funny thing is, they don't get along. They have a real-life beef with each other, that competitiveness you see in the ring, it seems to be real.
They have had several exchanges of words on Twitter and Ospreay spoke openly about why he is not on good terms with Omega on the "WRESTHINGS" Podcast.