10 Great TNA Matches You Completely Forgot About

by John Bills

1. Kurt Angle Vs. Desmond Wolfe - Turning Point 2009

Kurt Angle has had some special matches in TNA. Everyone speaks of his bouts with AJ Styles, his timeless classics with Samoa Joe. Heck, some even speak of his matches with Bobby Roode and Jeff Hardy. For me, his matches with Desmond Wolfe deserve all the plaudits that the above bouts do and more.

When Wolfe (Nigel McGuinness) attacked Kurt Angle on his first night in the company, a number of people weren't entirely sure what to make of it all. Would Wolfe just be fed to Angle, looking strong in a number of defeats? Not quite. From the get-go, despite Angle claiming not to know who he is, Wolfe was portrayed as the wrestling equal of Kurt.

They had many great matches, but their bout at Turning Point in 2009 over gets overlooked. The match begins with Wolfe outwrestling Kurt Angle, something that quite simply shouldn't happen but worked perfectly. The truth was that Wolfe could more than keep up, meaning that this looked natural as opposed to forced.

Sure, the match was heavy on suplexes and finisher counters, but it was also heavy on on-point ring psychology. The two were so evenly-matched that Kurt needed to bust out something new to win in the end, using a rare arm-bar/triangle choke to get Wolfe to tap out.

Injuries (and predictably awful booking) would stop Wolfe from becoming a big star in TNA, but on this night he looked like he could have been someone for the company to pin their hopes on. Next time you think of going back to watch Kurt Angle vs. AJ Styles or Samoa Joe, why not give this match a go instead.

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Born in the middle of Wales in the middle of the 1980's, John can't quite remember when he started watching wrestling but he has a terrible feeling that Dino Bravo was involved. Now living in Prague, John spends most of his time trying to work out how Tomohiro Ishii still stands upright. His favourite wrestler of all time is Dean Malenko, but really it is Repo Man. He is the author of 'An Illustrated History of Slavic Misery', the best book about the Slavic people that you haven't yet read. You can get that and others from www.poshlostbooks.com.