10 WrestleMania Matches History Deprived Us Of (That Weren't Actually Impossible)

10. Kurt Angle Vs. Edge - WrestleMania X8

2002 was (in patches) a much better year than conventional wisdom has it, but the WWF made a right mess of the WrestleMania X8 undercard.

Kurt Angle, fully established as a headline act and the company's in-ring Ace, was booked in a weirdly meta arc in which the WWF basically admitted that they had nothing for him. He fought Kane in Toronto in as much of a TV quality match as they come. Edge's match with Booker T at least had a premise behind it - but that premise was one of the most infamously naff in company history. Their dispute was predicated on a Japanese shampoo commercial. Booker T was incensed that Edge beat him to it, so they had a wrestling match. Jesus wept. Still, Booker T's introductory gambit - "Yo! Japanese people!" was brilliant, in a schadenfreude sort of way.

Angle and Edge initiated hostilities in the post-'Mania season, in a series of matches so good that they established Edge as a major singles player - but the dross that was the first hour of 'Mania X8 could have been saved, had the WWF got 'round to it that little bit quicker.

Instead, Edge and Booker T wrestled a nothing 06:32 match. If Angle Vs. Kane was a RAW bout, Edge Vs. Booker T was Jakked.