10 Classic WWE Matches (That Nobody Remembers As Classics)

This is a match in which you can witness a bonafide headliner emerging. It helped that Michael Cole and Tazz were instructed to go all in on getting Edge over, even parroting the regrettable Edgeheads nickname - but the man lived up to the hype in an excellent 19 minute war.

Edge, as a stalwart of the SmackDown Six, was teeming with confidence having levelled up to his more experienced peers - so much so that he matched Guerrero's mat work by doing some good lucha things early on, sending Eddie across the canvas with a smooth monkey flip. Eddie's subsequent heat spot was controlled with the crispness and intensity you would expect from a man also approaching the peak of his immense powers. The No Disqualification stipulation announced itself when the referee took a brutal face-first ladder shot to the face, following which Edge, on fire as a pure babyface, outwitted Eddie by playing possum and avoiding the Frog Splash Eddie set up following the confusion.

The metal materialised in the bout's searing second act in which Eddie, recognising Edge's threat was greater on the night, ramped up the violence by smashing Edge with a ladder-assisted sunset flip powerbomb - even going to the lengths of sacrificing his own back on a sandwiched Edge with a tope con hilo. This was one of few occasions on which that spot made any sort of sense as an offensive strategy.

Edge, after detonating his old Edgecution finisher from atop the ladder, won a great, brutal face versus heel match in an era that almost rendered them extinct.