10 Worst Booked Dream Matches
6. Kurt Angle Vs Chris Benoit (WrestleMania X7)
The 2001 series between Kurt Angle and Chris Benoit kicked off in a manner which foreshadowed much of how WWE would book major matches and angles in the future.
Excellent work obscured fading creative genius, but arguably the two best technical wrestlers in the world meeting on the industry's biggest ever stage couldn't have had a more rushed and ramshackle set-up. And worse still, it existed mostly to promote sequels than to celebrate itself.
Ahead of the 'Showcase Of The Immortals', Angle rocked up on Raw and rather justifiably complained that he'd somehow been left off the card despite only recently holding the WWE Championship and being - as mentioned - one of the best in the entire world. Benoit laid claim to that label, rushed the ring and secured a crossface on the Olympian that supposedly proved it. Graphic sorted, match booked, see you Sunday.
There's an admirable simplicity to it, but the superb story between the two that emerged in this encounter's post-script highlighted what could have been first time around had WWE remembered their existence.