Top 5 rivalries between friends who turned into foes

#4 Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn

When they debuted as a tag team in ROH in 2007, Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn were like brothers. They'd won the ROH tag team championship once and then Zayn got signed on NXT in 2013.

For the past 15 years, they've been friends and they have had each other's side through thick and thin.

On being asked about his friendship with Zayn, Owens told Give me Sport,

“I would say that we are more like brothers than we are friends. You know you don’t choose your relatives, you don’t choose who your brother is, you don’t choose who your sister is, you don’t choose your family.

You were born into a family. In this case, we weren’t born into each other's families but we, from the start of our careers when we started wrestling on the independent scene in the U.S and even back home in Canada. Once we started getting our name out there and more recognized, people just booked us together all the time, and that wasn’t our choice.”

In 2014, Owens made his debut at NXT Takeover: R Evolution against TJ Parker. The main event was a match between Zayn and Neville for the NXT Championship. Zayn won the title, and Owens came out to congratulate his best friend but ended up attacking him viciously and powerbombing him on the apron which acted as a catalyst for their feud. In 2015, at

NXT Takeover: Rival, Owens won the title from Zayn after mercilessly powerbombing him continuously which led to his win via knockout. That led to Zayn's injury, and he went on a hiatus for seven months.