10 Awesome WWE Survivor Series Matches You Totally Forgot About

8. Shelton Benjamin vs. Christian (Intercontinental Championship Match, 2004)

There was a time when WWE believed it had found its star of the future and his name was Shelton Benjamin. A tremendous athlete who stared on the mats of the NCAA before signing with the company right out of college, Benjamin was primarily a tag team performer before a breakout victory over Triple H on an episode of Raw in April 2004 jump-started a singles career. An injury put a halt to his momentum but in October, he returned and immediately captured the intercontinental title from Chris Jericho in a very good match at Taboo Tuesday. At the same time he was making his rise up the ranks in WWE, Christian was rebounding from an injury that had killed the heel heat he had garnered earlier in the year and brought a premature end to his on-screen relationship with Trish Stratus. With Tyson Tomko as his bodyguard of sorts and a rivalry with Benjamin brewing, he was climbing back into the thick of things in the Raw midcard. Based on the considerable talent of both Superstars, there was reason to be excited about the prospect of a match between them. What they delivered in November 2004 was a match that not only lived up to expectations but nearly stole the show out from underneath one of the most stacked rosters in Survivor Series history. http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x28uzo_christian-vs-shelton-benjamin-at-su_sport Christian is a master of sequencing in that the knows what move to put where to garner the desired reaction while Benjamin brought with him the amateur background and counter-wrestling that was very reminiscent of Kurt Angle, with whom Christian had some quality matches. They fused those two strong suits together to create a dramatic, athletic match that not only cemented Captain Charisma as one of the most underappreciated performers on the planet but also proved that Benjamin was capable of being that future star for WWE, at least from an in-ring perspective. The competitors traded control of the contest before the champion caught his challenger in the Exploder suplex for the pinfall victory.