10 Best WWE Smackdown Main Events

9. TLC 3 - May 24 2001

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Also known as 'the forgotten TLC match', this out-of-the-blue stunt show saw then-Tag Team Champions Chris Jericho and Chris Benoit join TLC veterans Edge and Christian, The Dudleys and the Hardy Boys for more career-shortening mayhem.

It might have been a regular old television taping with little hype behind it, but that didn't stop the four proud teams putting on an awe-inspiring spectacle. Everyone out there took full-on shots with the steel weaponry, neck-jarring table bumps and other huge falls from up high.

Benoit was taken out relatively early, stretchered out of the arena after missing a diving headbutt through a table on the outside. Despite that, he was able to come back into the fray later on (as all good babyfaces should), and he and Jericho ended up winning the match against the odds.

There were so many ludicrous bumps and spots in this one that to name them all would be an exercise in triteness. Particular standout moments include Y2J's bone-bending Walls of Jericho on top of two ladders, Bubba Dudley superplexing Jeff Hardy from the top of a ladder, Hardy responding with a massive leapfrog legdrop through the announce table and Edge spearing Jericho off the top of a ladder.

This one doesn't get as much play as WrestleMania 2000, SummerSlam 2000 or WrestleMania X-Seven, but it's just as exciting and the same amount of effort and passion is there. And it happened on free television, in the main event of the supposed 'B' show!

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