10 Best Wrestling PPV Matches (That Actually Were On Free TV)
1. Kurt Angle Vs. Brock Lesnar (SmackDown, 2003)
Angle and Lesnar shared a few encounters during the brief time their paths crossed in WWE, and by popular consensus the pick of them happened not at WrestleMania or SummerSlam, but on a September 2003 episode of SmackDown.
Months of fighting over the WWE Championship came to a head in a pulsating 60-minute Iron Man match, and the pair somehow managed to make every millisecond of it thrillingly entertaining - so much so that the bout regularly appears on fans' top 10 lists over a decade later.
With the aid of a steel chair, Lesnar built up what appeared to be an unassailable lead in the early goings, but Angle fought back, and the drama of the closing moments - when the Olympic Gold Medalist had his desperate opponent trapped in the Angle Lock with seconds left on the clock - belonged on the Silver Screen, let alone a WWE PPV.