Lewis Howse's 10 Favourite WWE Matches Of All-Time

Just a month after Eddie Guerrero did the seemingly impossible, his best friend and longtime riding partner Chris Benoit also climbed to the top of the WWE mountain when he won the World Heavyweight Title in the main event of WrestleMania XX.

Along with Eddie, Benoit was one of my absolute favourites (until June 25th 2007, anyway). Like Eddie, Benoit was just so f*cking good. He eat, slept and breathed professional wrestling, becoming one of the best in the world by wrestling all over it, including lengthy spells in Mexico and Japan, where he earned the respect of everyone in the industry.

By the time WrestleMania XX came around, Benoit was a nearly twenty-year veteran who had seen and done it all besides headline WrestleMania and win the WWE Title. He accomplished both by besting Triple H and Shawn Michaels in an absolute stunner at Madison Square Garden that night.

Triple threat matches can be tough to do well but these guys kept it simple and focused on the flow and psychology of the match (rather than trying to overload it with cool-looking spots). The result was a twenty five minute affair that was always exciting and had the audience guessing which way it was going to go as the combatants traded finishers and near falls.

Would Triple H cause an unhappy ending and walk out as champion? Would outside bet Shawn Michaels get another WrestleMania moment? In the end, it was the Rabid Wolverine that got the duke by forcing The Cerebral Assassin to tap out clean in the middle (it's crazy to think how paranoid everyone was about HHH playing a political card and depriving us this scene).

While the match, result and post-match celebration with Eddie Guerrero have been tainted by Benoit's unforgivable actions three years later, I have to go with this one because I remember how I felt watching it then and, objectively, the standard of the action is first-class all the way.

The best WWE triple threat ever, Brock/Rollins/Cena be damned.