10 Best Split-Brand Pay-Per-Views In WWE History

4. No Way Out 2006 (Smackdown)

The Undertaker vs. Kurt Angle - No Way Out 2006
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Though Kurt Angle and The Undertaker battled each other at Survivor Series 2000, it was many years before their paths would cross again in a major pay-per-view match.

By No Way Out 2006, much had changed. Angle was no longer a laughingstock of an undeserving world champion - he was a wrestling machine who was booked as one of the company's top stars. Likewise, Undertaker wasn't the American Bad Ass anymore - he was the Phenom once again. The cards were all in place for the two men to have a classic match.

Even those lofty expectations were exceeded. The two men had a masterpiece of a match, with submissions, finishing maneuvers, and tons of counters. In the end, Undertaker locked Angle in a triangle choke, but the Olympic Gold Medalist flipped forward and turned it into a cover, scoring the three count.

With that match on top and a very solid undercard, No Way Out 2006 remains a gem of the brand-split era.

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Scott Fried is a Slammy Award-winning* writer living and working in New York City. He has been following/writing about professional wrestling for many years and is a graduate of Lance Storm's Storm Wrestling Academy. Follow him on Twitter at https://twitter.com/scottfried. *Best Crowd of the Year, 2013