10 Wrestling Matches Everybody Gets Wrong
6. Kurt Angle Vs. Baron Corbin - WWE WrestleMania 35
Baron Corbin was a terrible and almost insulting opponent for Kurt Angle's last ever match. He sucks. He isn't getting over. He can't carry Kurt to an awesome last stand befitting of his legend. This match isn't even happening. A bait-and-switch is imminent. The idea is that awful.
Nobody could carry Angle to an awesome last stand befitting of his legend. Kurt Angle was cooked by 2019, if not several years before, and WWE did experiment - to at best politely "decent" results in a RAW match opposite Chad Gable - with this sort of dream match. Perhaps it might have resonated with more heft on the Grandest Stage, or perhaps everybody would have been too tired after six hours to care.
Corbin was the ideal opponent because it allowed for measured expectations, and he was equipped with the sh*t-eating grin promo material to gloat over the heartbreak of it all. The match wasn't special - again, no match would have been - but it was laid out well enough to just about capture the gravity of the occasion and Angle's willingness to put it over, particularly with one last beautifully-arced moonsault.
Corbin won, got his heat, and no milk was spilled because there wasn't any left.