Kurt Angle’s Top 10 WWE Matches

6. vs. Shane McMahon – King of the Ring 2001

On a night that Angle pulled triple duty, he sure saved his best for last.  All in one night, Kurt manged to make it to the finals of the King of the Ring tournament and go to war with Shane McMahon as well.  His first two matches of the night were against Christian, in which he was victorious, and then against Edge in which he wasn’t.  In losing to Edge, Angle missed out on being the first ever 2-time and back to back King of the Ring winner having capture the 2000 version but it was Shane McMahon’s distraction on this night that made the difference.

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So by the time their street fight went down later in the show, Kurt was a tad bit upset and he showed Shane the consequences of crossing him.  It started off in the ring but quickly went outside and that’s when the violence level ramped up.  Angle sent Shane through the King of the Ring Commemorative glass not once but twice and by the time they got back to the ring, they were both busted open.

Angle finished his foe off with a highlight reel Angle Slam off of a table positioned on the top rope and the 26 minutes of mayhem was over.  And when it was all hats were off to “Shane-O-Mac” but all jaws were dropped for Angle.  This was the first the wrestling world had really seen of his mean streak and he’d keep that level of rage up for a long time.  Just when you thought he was just a technical mat wizard, out came the other side of “The Olympic Hero” and it was a joy to see.