AJ Lee and Paige may have the strangest friendship/rivalry ever.
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AJ came to Paige’s aid in March 2015 when The Bellas attacked The Diva of Tomorrow.
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They first met in 2014, when Paige ended AJ’s 295-day Divas Title reign. They then battled over the title at four pay-per-views that year.
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Nearly a year before they squared off for the WWE Title at WrestleMania XIV, Shawn Michaels and “Stone Cold” Steve Austin turned a mutual hatred into an uneasy partnership.
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Michaels & Austin actually captured the World Tag Team Titles against Owen Hart & British Bulldog.
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John Cena and Shawn Michaels joined forces to fend off Rated-RKO and Batista & The Undertaker before their WrestleMania 22 WWE Championship Match.
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Cena made a near fatal mistake, though: He trusted HBK would never Superkick him.
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Before WrestleMania 23, SmackDown’s main event competitors teamed up to face Raw’s.
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Batista and The Undertaker worked wonderfully together, but not for long.
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Nearly all of 2009, they alternated between standing together and battling against each other.
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Randy Orton and Sheamus fought for supremacy over SmackDown in 2011 and 2012.
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But they sometimes found their rival in their corner.
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“Stone Cold” Steve Austin and The Rock have one of the greatest rivalries of all time.
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But the WWE Universe has also watched them sing Jimmy Buffet together and pal around. That competitive drive to one-up the other still lingers beneath the laughs, though.
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The Rock and Chris Jericho were the key to WWE’s victory over The Alliance.
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But their larger-than-life personalities eventually drove a wedge between them.
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MVP and Matt Hardy hated each other, but they became buds when they won the WWE Tag Team Titles.
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After they lost the title gold, however, MVP dropped the facade and turned on Hardy.
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Mankind and Al Snow shared an affinity for chair-strikes.
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But they didn’t always work well together.
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Two of WWE’s greatest monsters have been “frenemies” for more than a decade.
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They’ve captured the tag titles together on two occasions, 2005 and 2011.
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But they’ve also had their share of battles.
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Steve Blackman never had much use for friends, but Al Snow just wouldn’t leave him alone.
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When Lex Luger and Sting weren’t squaring off, they were standing united.
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Luger even sported Sting’s signature face paint at Bash at the Beach 1996.
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They collided as rising stars and again as main eventers.
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The Rock and Mankind battled in some of the most brutal matches in WWE history in early 1999.
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But toward the end of the year, the rivals reluctantly (at least for The Rock) formed The Rock ’n’ Sock Connection to even the odds against Big Show & The Undertaker.
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John Cena and The Miz captured the tag titles before their WrestleMania WWE Championship bout.
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Miz turned on Cena that same night, though, fueling more fire to their WrestleMania XXVII showdown.
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Kane and Daniel Bryan became reluctant tag team partners in 2012 — thanks to anger management.
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They amicably split at the end of their WWE Tag Team Championship reign.
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But things turned irrevocably sour when Kane joined The Authority and Bryan sought to bring them down.