20 Greatest WWE SmackDown Matches Ever

4. Kurt Angle Vs Brock Lesnar (September 18, 2003)

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Mirroring the 60-minute Judgment Day blinder between The Rock and Triple H rather than the divisive original between Shawn Michaels and Bret Hart, Brock Lesnar and Kurt Angle's taped Iron Man Match is now 15 years old but still hasn't aged a day.

Sweat soaks the canvas by the contest's gripping conclusion - Angle was all in as usual whilst this was the Brock Lesnar that once got beaten four times in an hour instead once in two years. Different and more dangerous times, but gripping in an era where both have survived and thrived beyond them.

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