grudge match

noun

: a contest or fight between players, teams, etc., who dislike each other

The race had turned into a grudge match between the two teams.

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If this were 1974, TV fans could have seen this knock-down, grudge match play out in real time. —Whitney Friedlander, Los Angeles Times, 12 Sep. 2024

The bottom half quarters featured a grudge match between the Johns brothers and their long-time rival in Riley Newman, teamed up here with Alshon. —Todd Boss, Forbes, 3 Sep. 2024

Devin Haney didn’t officially lose to Ryan Garcia in their April grudge match, but he was still beaten up. —Brian Mazique, Forbes, 3 Sep. 2024

Pheu Thai and its predecessors have borne the brunt of Thailand's turmoil, with two governments removed by coups in a long-running grudge match between the party's founders, the billionaire Shinawatra family, and their influential rivals in the conservative establishment and royalist military. —Fox News, 14 Aug. 2024

So why is an intense college football grudge match getting so much attention in connection with the race for the White House? —Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 9 Aug. 2024

Lok-kwan jets off with a bag of Mr. Big’s blow and catches the eye of Cyclone (Louis Koo), a barber/gangster with cred and connections to a decades-old grudge match. —Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 7 Aug. 2024

The grudge match between Nelson Peltz’s Trian Fund Management and Robert Iger’s Walt Disney Company rang up total bills estimated to be $65 million or higher. —Amanda Gerut, Fortune, 30 July 2024

Because air pressure prevented him from flying a week later to Kansas City for the grudge match at Arrowhead Stadium, the Bills hired a driver to transport Poyer and his family for 15 hours in a Mercedes-Benz Sprinter van. —Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 9 July 2024