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Worst Feud                              

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To be given to the feud that nobody cared about at all this year. When
they were pushing the feud on TV, you'd go to the fridge for a snack.

Previous Winners:

  1990: Hulk Hogan vs. Earthquake 
  1991: Hulk Hogan vs. Sgt. Slaughter 
  1992: Ultimate Warrior vs. Papa Shango 
  1993: The Undertaker vs. Giant Gonzalez 
  1994: Doink vs. Bam Bam Bigelow 
  1995: Hulk Hogan vs. Dungeon of Doom
  1996: Big Bubba vs. John Tenta
  1997: Nation of Domination vs. Disciples of Apocalypse vs. Los Boricuas
  1998: Warrior vs. Hollywood Hogan
  1999: No Limit Soldiers vs. West Texas Rednecks
  2000: Big Show vs. Big Boss Man
  2001: Undertaker vs. Diamond Dallas Page
  2002: Triple H vs. Kane

**2003**: Stephanie McMahon vs. Vince McMahon

127 first place votes
123 second place votes
120 third place votes

 23 15 12  184   Stephanie McMahon v. Vince McMahon (& Sable)
 11 14 10  117   Shane McMahon v. Kane
 13  9 11  114   Jim Ross & Jerry Lawler v. Jonathan Coachman & Al Snow
 14  9  7  111   Scott Steiner v. Triple H
 11  8 16  111   Torrie Wilson v. Dawn Marie
  9  9  6   84   Scott Steiner v. Test
 11  6  4   81   Hulk Hogan (Mr. America) v. Vince McMahon
  4  9  9   65   Kevin Nash v. Triple H
  4  8  3   50   Dudley Boyz v. La Resistance
  2  7  7   45   Zach Gowen v. Vince McMahon
  6  3  1   41   Booker T v. Triple H
  2  3  4   27   Scott Steiner v. Christopher Nowinski
  2  4  1   24   Kane v. Triple H
  0  2  7   20   Rikishi v. Roddy Piper
  2  1  3   19   Eddie Guerrero v. Big Show
  0  3  2   13   Jim Ross v. Kane
  1  0  3   11   Matt Hardy v. Zach Gowen
  2  0  0   10   Pierroth v. Gran Markus Jr.
  1  1  1   10   Chris Benoit v. Rhyno
  1  1  0    8   Undertaker v. Vince McMahon
  0  2  1    8   Undertaker & Nathan Jones v. Big Show & A-Train
  0  2  0    6   Chief Morley v. Dudley Boyz
  0  2  0    6   Booker T v. Christian
  1  0  0    5   Zach Gowen v. Brock Lesnar
  1  0  0    5   Sasuke v. Onita
  1  0  0    5   Rey Mysterio v. Big Show
  1  0  0    5   Raven v. Jeff Jarrett
  1  0  0    5   Kurt Angle v. Brock Lesnar
  1  0  0    5   Kenta Kobashi v. Yoshinari Ogawa
  1  0  0    5   Goldberg v. Rock
  1  0  0    5   Eric Bischoff v. Jim Ross
  0  1  1    5   A-Train v. Chris Benoit
  0  0  2    4   Undertaker v. FBI
  0  1  0    3   Shane McMahon v. Eric Bischoff
  0  1  0    3   Jeff Jarrett v. Vince Russo
  0  1  0    3   Dusty Rhodes v. Jeff Jarrett
  0  1  0    3   Brock Lesnar v. John Cena
  0  0  1    2   Steve Austin v. Eric Bischoff
  0  0  1    2   Steve Austin v. Chris Jericho
  0  0  1    2   Sonny Rogers v. Butcher
  0  0  1    2   Mr. America v. Roddy Piper
  0  0  1    2   Los Guerreros v. Basham Brothers
  0  0  1    2   Lita v. Eric Bischoff
  0  0  1    2   Krakow Konnection v. Sal Sincere & Biggie Biggs
  0  0  1    2   Goldberg v. Triple H
  0  0  1    2   Eddie Guerrero v. Chavo Guerrero

DON DEL GRANDE: #2 should be Stephanie v. Vince & Sable & Zach
Gowen & Mr.
America, but I didn't think that would fit.  I don't consider Vince v. Mr.
America a "separate" feud as Stephanie was an integral part of it.

C FRARACCI: Steiner and Test had the feud that never ended. If Test had
not been injured they'd still be feuding. Announcers should not wrestle,
end of it.  Eddie vs Big Show, way to bury your most over guy to a big
sloth that no one has cared about for a long time. If I was looking for a
conspiracy I'd swear Triple H had something to do with this. Eddie was too
over so Triple H wanted him squashed? Just my opinion.

PAUL ZOROVICH: I can't care about Zach Gowen, so why should I care about
him feuding with Vince?  Shane vs. Kane also doesn't bring the happy for
me, probably because Shane ISN'T A WRESTLER!  Torrie vs. Dawn Marie was
just stupid.

BIGDADDYLOCO:  Kane vs Triple H, "The Katie Vick Feud", a new low for
wrestling?

JON RICHARDSON: No contest.  Any feud involving repeated near-death
experiences, testicles being shocked and a series of progressively
ludricrous promos is easily the worst feud.  Racist feuds get #2, so there
slots Booker T-HHH.  Feuds that involve eveery conceivable way of getting
2 people to square off but doesn't involve wrestling (cause they both suck
as wrestlers) gets #3, so there's HHH-Scott Steiner.

CRIMEFIGHTER:  Boy this one is tough, so MANY bad feuds out there.  But I
pick Triple H vs. Steiner, cause it bore out two of the worst matches of
the year.  Ross/Lawler vs. Coach/Snow was a glaring example of why pushing
the announcers above the talent was a horrible promotional move.  The rest
ugh, just for diversity I'll say Wilson vs. Marie was a boring, worthless
feud that did nothing for anyone.  Test vs. Steiner was equally as
horrible, that feud would NEVER end.

MICHAEL: 1st:  Booker T v. Triple H.  Started out with the outcome obvious
as being a title change.  The HHHubby decided he didn¹t want to drop the
title and (HORROS!) elevate another wrestler. 2nd:  Stephanie McMahon vs.
Vince McMahon (& Sable).  THIS was pushed as a Main Event fued?!?!?! 3rd:  
Shane McMahon vs. Kane.  So a part-time (at best) wrestler is the ONLY man
who can give Kane a run for his money?

YNAE316: J.R. & King's feud with Coach and Snow was just about as bad a
feud as their was this year.  While the "rival announcers" bit would be a
cool thing to play on the side they made the feud front and center on Raw
devoting tons of promo time and match time to it.  A telling thing here:
my wife and I couldn't quite believe when we saw the PPV promo graphic
with J.R. & King & Coach & Snow all trying to look menacing.  Quite
frankly we burst out with laughter at the thought of J.R. or Coach trying
to look like they could kick someone's ass.  The steph and Vince feud, a
huge highlight of Smackdown's year, was a nice storyline in theory, right
up there with Bischoff vs. Austin.  Unfortunately there was a huge logic
hole (as in why Vince couldn't just fire her) PLUS it subjected us to more
"Lecherous Vince" scenes with Sable which NO one in there right mind wants
to see.  The mind-numbingly dumb antics of the Shane vs. Kane feud speak
for themselves (jump starting testicles anyone?)

CHRIS BIRD: The unstoppable monster Kane, the UNSTOPPABLE MONSTER who
walked through any wrestler in his path - fought to a standstill by a
shrimpy McMahon. Truly, one of the most moronic
should-have-been-a-slaughter feuds of all time. And let us not forget that
this was in a year with Triple H and Scott Steiner bringing us multiple
shitburger main events and gay pushup challenges, and in a year with the
War of the RAW Announcers.

SCOTT CHRIST: Kane-Shane McMahon is one of the worst feuds in recent
memory. Stephanie-Vince isn't far behind. The RAW commentary feud, well,
jeez. You know, in most other years, something like Dudleys-La Resistance
would make my top three, but there's just so much stupid non-wrestler shit
this year.

STEFAN TORNGREN: I would have been ok with the horrendous announcers match
at Unforgiven, if it had actually lead to something new. Since it didn’t,
if was just a huge waste of time. Nash vs Triple H was horrible since
their friendship wasn’t established on tv.

CHRISTOPHER SHEA: You know it's been a bad year for feuds when the Dudleyz
vs. La Resistance feud, which I hated with the fire of a thousand burning
nuns, still wasn't hateful enough to make the list. J.R./Coach and
Torrie/Dawn Marie make it for filling up lots of TV time with people who
can't wrestle (well, except Dawn Marie, sorta), and Test/Steiner gets in
on the strength of never, never, never ending despite not drawing a
calorie of heat.

JOHN DONALDSON: Rhyno vs Benoit?  What feud?  There was a feud, you fooled
me.  Vince McMahon gave the same spiel every single week about how he knew
Hogan was under the mask, it got stale really quick.  They could have done
so much better with that feud, by putting other people under the mask and
what not.  Steiner and Nowinski, horrible feud lowlighted by a silly
political debate which saw more of Steiner's spit than intelligent banter.

RICK SCAIA: Another category where there is a giant divide between the
winner and everybody else.  Torrie Wilson vs. Dawn Marie sucked so badly
and on so many levels that, almost a year later, I still can't believe it
was allowed to happen.  I don't want to say any more about it, it was just
that bad.  A distant second: I vote for the Feud That Would Not End
between Test and Scott Steiner.  It seemed a simple enough project, with a
clear enough outcome, but it wound up taking the Fed about 9 months to
start, execute, and pay off on the feud, severely reducing the impact that
it had.  Kane vs. Shane McMahon earns the three spot on the "strength" of
its many retarded stunts, sometimes even more retarded dialogue, and my
general belief that WWE leapt before they looked in the matter of the
Unmasking of Kane.

RYAN FAULCONER: A clean sweep for the WWE here with Shane vs Kane,
Stephanie vs Vince and Triple H vs Kevin Nash taking all three spots.  
WWE really had the market cornered on the bad and tasteless feuds in 2003
and I could have listed ten more.

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