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WWE: Ranking The Top 10 Kurt Angle Matches

By Joe Anthony Myrick

31 Jul 1996: Kurt Angle of the United States holds the American flag at the free-style wrestling competition during the Summer Olympics at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, Georgia.
31 Jul 1996: Kurt Angle of the United States holds the American flag at the free-style wrestling competition during the Summer Olympics at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, Georgia. /
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5. VS Brock Lesnar – Iron Man – SmackDown Sept. 18, 2003

There was something about the in-ring chemistry between Brock Lesnar and Kurt Angle that made them such perfect rivals. A legitimate argument can be made for why they could have been in-ring equals destined to wrestle each other in the same vein as Rock and Austin or Lita and Trish. Such an argument can be made based solely on their initial trilogy of one-on-one matches.

Their first pay-per-view contest saw them headline WrestleMania XX in a main event for the WWE Championship. While the match is best remembered for Brock’s fatal Shooting Star Press where he lands straight onto his neck, the match itself is spectacular on its own merits. Lesnar came out on top to establish himself as The Next Big Thing. Next up, there was a rematch at SummerSlam that somehow surpassed the Mania match.

Both men would round out their trilogy and wrap up their tie-breaker the only way that two heavyweight mat masters knew how: a 60-minute Iron Man match. On free television no less! Both men certainly did everything in their power to not only give us a match that was better than their previous two matches – spoiler alert: they succeeded – but they tried to deliver a pay-per-view quality contest in one of the longest matches in SmackDown history. Again, they succeeded.

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