WrestleMania 33: 10 Matches That Should Have Happened
3. Kurt Angle Vs Samoa Joe
Kurt Angle's Hall of Fame induction will be a worthy re-introduction of the 'Olympic Gold Medallist' into the WWE family, but with a generation of fans never having seen the legendary performer under the brightest spotlights, a contest with one of his fiercest rivals would have been an incredible spectacle.
By any metric, Angle and Samoa Joe had TNA's greatest ever rivalry. Their three battles upon Kurt's shocking 2006 arrival with the company yielded the most attention ever paid to the smaller organisation, and Joe's climactic TNA World Title victory at Lockdown 2008 drew one of the company's best ever pay-per-view buyrates.
Furthermore, their matches were absolutely outstanding. Hybrids of the pioneering X-Division style and WWE's modern main events, the contests were hard-hitting technical masterclasses, with the two forging immediate chemistry that would be constantly revisited in their TNA tenures.
With now both accessible to the roster and Samoa Joe currently frozen out of the WrestleMania card altogether, an in-ring comeback for Kurt a year out from a Hall of Fame induction would have meshed the company's penchant with returning superstars and the need to protectively feature NXT stand-outs.
A maiden WrestleMania victory for Joe over the iconic Olympian would have been an epic launchpad for the 'Samoan Submission Machine'.