10 Times WWE C-Shows Were AMAZING

10. Rob Van Dam Vs. Jerry Lynn - Sunday Night Heat

If the ECW programme between Rob Van Dam and Jerry Lynn was a video game, Star Fox for the SNES is the best comparison: groundbreaking and jaw-dropping for its time, the frame rate crumbled whenever the ambition became too lofty. The inventive, rapid, chair-assisted offence required fluid motion, but the two men perhaps asked too much of themselves, just as Nintendo asked too much of a 16-bit system with only an illusion of 3D tech.

Transposed to and resumed in the WWF for one night only, shoved to the sidelines amid the ongoing Alliance storyline, this was a shorter, less glorified addition to the canon - but arguably better for its streamlined discipline.

RVD and Lynn rolled through the hits early on, reminding an audience that gauging by the booming E-C-Dub chants didn't need reminding of their sumptuous chemistry with and inside-out knowledge of one another. Lynn in particular wrestled with something-to-prove abandon, controlling his body in a high-pressure environment to rid himself of the botches that plagued the weaker, overlong entries of the series. Van Dam was at his best, too, in keeping with his incendiary 2001 form; the angle at which he took a German suplex was a proper lip-purser.

In the end, it was all for nothing. Lynn failed to impress WWF officials. Still, if they didn't know what they were missing, we still remember it fondly over a decade and a half later.