10 Seriously Underrated WWE World Title Matches

10. Batista Vs. Eddie Guerrero - No Mercy 2005

Eddie Guerrero held the WWE Title for five testing months in 2004, before he was relieved of the strap for his own good (he was beginning to crack under the pressure of being Smackdown's standard bearer). Over the next year-and-a-half, Latino Heat would prove to WWE that he belonged to be fighting for the company's biggest prize by producing some of the best work of his career.

In September of 2005 he was coming off the back of a hot feud with longtime frenemy Rey Mysterio and was chosen to be World Heavyweight Champion Batista's next major opponent. Eddie became a tweener for the buildup, forming a tag team with The Animal all while big Dave wasn't sure what to make of his new partner's apparent change of heart.

This was, after all, a man who had tried to break up a family just a couple of months prior.

That was the hook going into their WHC showdown at No Mercy; would Eddie revert to his old lying, cheating and stealing ways in his pursuit of championship gold? Was the friendship with Batista a ruse?He spent the match trying to stay reformed and fight his natural, devious instincts, working over the back of the champion expertly but doing so by keeping it within the rules.

Towards the end of the match, the ref was bumped and Eddie had the opportunity to crack Batista with a steel chair, but he declined. It would turn out to be his downfall. After missing a Frog Splash, Guerrero succumbed to a thunderous spinebuster and went down for the three.

It was a good end to a great, seriously underrated World Heavyweight Title match. It's even more impressive when you take into consideration the very real amount of pain Guerrero was in at the time. He worked very hard to get the match and the story over, a true superstar worker until the end.