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I was just watching the often forgotten classic between Shawn Michaels and Mick Foley at In Your House: Mind Games from September in 1996 and it got me thinking that everytime these two were in the ring they had a great match although they didn't wrestle enough times for my mind considering how great they worked together. So after watching that it then made me think about who else had great chemistry in the ring that you wouldn't expect to work well together but always did regardless of what stage they wrestled on.
Feuds like Michaels/Angle, Steamboat/Flair, Michaels/Hart, Benoit/Angle and Savage/Flair are the types of feuds you always knew you'd get a great match from because of how truly great they were in the ring but then you'll get something like The Ultimate Warrior having great in ring chemistry with Randy Savage and Rick Rude or Goldberg working very well with Diamond Dallas Page. When they first feuded and had their first match at The Royal Rumble in 2006 i never expected John Cena and Edge to then go on to have brilliant chemistry and in 2006 they ended up having a couple of Match Of The Yea contenders.
On the flipside there have been people over the years that despite being great in ring workers simply didn't click in the ring at all with the one that stands out most to me being Eddie Guerrero and Kurt Angle who were arguably the two best all round in ring performers in WWE in 2004 yet never clicked. The Undertaker was someone who didn't click with a lot of the top stars and his matches with Stone Cold Steve Austin, Bret Hart, Ric Flair and Jake Roberts never living up to the hype yet he clicked well with Randy Orton and Brock Lesnar so list the people who surprised you most with their great in ring chemistry and then the people who disappointed you most with their lack of in ring chemistry.
Feuds like Michaels/Angle, Steamboat/Flair, Michaels/Hart, Benoit/Angle and Savage/Flair are the types of feuds you always knew you'd get a great match from because of how truly great they were in the ring but then you'll get something like The Ultimate Warrior having great in ring chemistry with Randy Savage and Rick Rude or Goldberg working very well with Diamond Dallas Page. When they first feuded and had their first match at The Royal Rumble in 2006 i never expected John Cena and Edge to then go on to have brilliant chemistry and in 2006 they ended up having a couple of Match Of The Yea contenders.
On the flipside there have been people over the years that despite being great in ring workers simply didn't click in the ring at all with the one that stands out most to me being Eddie Guerrero and Kurt Angle who were arguably the two best all round in ring performers in WWE in 2004 yet never clicked. The Undertaker was someone who didn't click with a lot of the top stars and his matches with Stone Cold Steve Austin, Bret Hart, Ric Flair and Jake Roberts never living up to the hype yet he clicked well with Randy Orton and Brock Lesnar so list the people who surprised you most with their great in ring chemistry and then the people who disappointed you most with their lack of in ring chemistry.