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#1 Stone Cold Steve Austin vs. Triple H (WWE No Way Out 2001)
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There has never been another feud in WWE that spanned years or had the drama of Stone Cold Steve Austin vs. Triple H. In the Survivor Series 1999, Austin was scheduled for a triple threat match against WWE Champion Triple H and The Rock.
On that faithful night, Stone Cold was run down by an automobile and would be out of action for the next 10 months.
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Upon his return to WWE at Unforgiven 2000, Stone Cold Steve Austin was hell bent on finding out who ran him down and took almost a year out of his career. After a lengthy investigation by Austin and Commissioner Mick Foley, it was revealed that Rikishi was behind the wheel at Survivor Series 1999. However, he wasn't the man who came up with the devious plan.
A month following the revelation, Triple H admitted to being the mastermind behind Austin being run over. This led to a showdown at Survivor Series 2000 that went to a no contest when the two men battled outside the building. Austin got a forklift and elevated Triple H in the car to flip it over.
Triple H returned and once again targeted Austin, costing him a WWE Championship Match against Kurt Angle, but Austin would get revenge by doing the same for The Game at Royal Rumble 2001.
This set the stage for the finale of this tension at No Way Out, where they faced in the first ever 3 Stages of Hell Match.
Triple H was long viewed as the best wrestler in WWE during this time, but Austin proved to be better on that night in the first fall, a straight-up wrestling bout. The next fall was a Street Fight.
The Game used his trusty sledgehammer and a Pedigree to even the matchup at one fall a piece. Everything came down to the third and final fall, which was a Steel Cage Match.
The cage match was obviously brutal and hard-hitting, with both men laying everything on the line to walk away with the win. The closing stretch saw Austin grab a 2x4 wrapped in barbwire and Triple H grab his sledgehammer. Both men swung and connected, but Triple H landed on Austin and got the pin for the win.
This was an outstanding encounter that was among the very best that the Attitude Era had to offer. It was a violent war that told a perfect story that fit their classic feud with a stellar finish.
It set the bar extremely high for 3 Stages of Hell matches that have never quite been reached again. That's why Stone Cold Steve Austin vs. Triple H is the greatest 3 Stages of Hell Match in WWE history.
