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Old 06-07-2021, 05:20 AM   #4861
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Lately I’ve been going over 2002 SmackDown stuff. I remember watching a lot of it at the time, and obviously some of it has been mythologized over the years, so you feel like you’ve seen it even if you haven’t. But holy fuck. I had somehow forgotten how good Kurt Angle was. How good Chris Benoit was. How good Eddie Guerrero was. Like...you know, but sometimes you need to actually see it again.

Eddie Guerrero vs. Edge in the No DQ Match and Angle vs. Benoit vs. Guerrero vs. Edge, both from SmackDown, kind of have that modern “keep the pace going” mentality. You can see where the modern guys have plucked it from. But they just don’t have the *intensity* or the psychological focus that these guys had.

I bring this up in the AEW thread just because we’re talking about Meltzer. It’s ridiculous that Kurt Angle has never had a five star match, as good as he is. Yeah, it’s just the guy’s opinion. But it’s a bad take. Watch Angle wrestle and then go and watch Omega. They’re two entirely different leagues.
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