10 Best Matches From WWE ECW

10. Kurt Angle Vs. Brooklyn Brawler (1 August 2006)

On the very first televised ECW event held at the Hammerstein Ballroom since One Night Stand, the hardcore homecoming of WWE's extreme revival was a memorable and rowdy affair.

While the main event of Batista vs. Big Show for the ECW Championship will forever go down in history as the prime example of booking without consideration for the audience, the undercard was every bit what the crowd wanted to see.

One such example of this was Kurt Angle's decimation of The Brooklyn Brawler. The Olympian had undergone a violent rebirth since switching to the extreme brand, and had become noticeably more intense in the ring as well as increasingly more stiff to boot.

Angle's a**-kicking of The Brawler in his hometown made for brilliant TV; the vicious headbutt in the early going from 'The Wrestling Machine' was simply brutal. A quick ankle lock to follow spelt the end for Brooklyn's favourite son, and Angle's transition into the extreme badass of ECW continued.

Angle would wrestle just one more time on TV for WWE, before emerging in TNA two months later, headbutting Samoa Joe and appearing just as violent and intense as he left off.