10 Best WWE Feuds of The Attitude Era

#4 Triple H vs. Stone Cold Steve Austin

Epic rivals

Stone Cold Steve Austin and Triple H had a pretty long on and off feud between 1999 - 2001.

They began feuding in the summer of 1999 for a Triple Threat at SummerSlam, also involving Mankind. As Austin would be leaving TV for a few weeks to deal with a knee injury, he was written off on the following episode of RAW, by way of a Triple H beat down. The two would repeatedly assault each other, very violently for weeks, leading to an Anything Goes match for the WWE Championship at No Mercy, which was won by Triple H.

Austin would then leave WWE TV right before his scheduled Championship match with Triple H and The Rock at Survivor Series, to have neck surgery, and was taken off TV by being hit by a car. Austin would return just under a year later and after taking down his assailant Rikishi, he would be informed that Rikishi had an accomplice, who constructed the hit and run.

That of course, would be revealed as Triple H, who wanted Austin out of the way so he could be WWE Champion. After several vicious attacks led by Triple H, this would lead to a No Holds Barred match at Survivor Series, which ended in a no contest after Triple H got into his car but was trapped by Austin and a forklift, who picked up Triple H's car and dropped it off the forklift from 30 feet in the air, landing on its top with Triple H inside.

Over the next few months, the two would have more matches and brawls, including Austin costing Triple H a Championship match, and Triple H costing Austin a Championship match and almost the Royal Rumble. This would all lead to their final encounter, a historic and incredible 3 Stages of Hell match at No Way Out 2001, won by Triple H.

The two would go onto briefly form a tag team post-WrestleMania following Austin's heel turn, but that would come to a premature end when Triple H went down with his quadriceps muscle tear. It was later revealed that Austin and Triple H had been planned to reopen their feud in the summer of 2001, with one of them having turned babyface, had Triple H not gotten injured.