WWE: 10 Best Tag Team Matches Ever

1. Kurt Angle & Chris Benoit vs. Edge & Rey Mysterio (No Mercy Oct. 20, 2002)

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xz6sw9_kurt-angle-and-chris-benoit-vs-rey-mysterio-and-edge-no-mercy-2002-tag-team-match-to-crown-the-first_sport They had a tag team tournament on Smackdown to crown the first holders of the new WWE tag team titles. Raw had their own tag titles, so they made these ones for Smackdown. Angle and Benoit were partners even though they didn't get along. Mysterio and Edge were the babyfaces. Angle was really the only heel in the match. That didn't matter, though. Once the action began the crowd was into everything. The match was a clinic in what great tag team wrestling is. There were plenty of quick tags, isolating both Edge and Rey at various points, the nearfalls were believable throughout and as I mentioned the crowd was hot for all of it. This was Little Rock, Arkansas too. No offense to them, but they're not the Chicago or NYC crowd. They made a lot of noise because the work of the guys in the ring warranted it. When talking about the best tag match ever you know the finish was going to be epic. Edge worked with Mysterio at one point to launch Rey into Kurt while he was sitting on the top rope and Rey hit a top rope hurricanrana. Not easy to do. Benoit nailed Angle accidentally with a headbutt to play up their issues. Angle tried a comeback, but Edge tossed Mysterio into him again. Benoit had Edge in the Crossface, so Mysterio broke that up with a 619 in a very innovative spot. What about Rey's moonsault off Edge's shoulders? Incredible! Angle applied the Ankle Lock, Edge countered into one of his own and then Angle did an amazing counter into another Ankle Lock of his own for the tapout win. It's one of those matches where you remember seeing it live, but when you watch it back again all these years later you appreciate just how special it was as they wrestled a tag match about as perfectly as four guys could. As a fan, you can't ask for much more than that. They actually had a lot of tag matches between these teams as well as Los Guerreros (Eddie & Chavo) in the second half of 2002. The six of them were known as "The Smackdown Six" because of all the matches they had together. Paul Heyman was head writer for Smackdown too. It's a shame that period didn't last longer. Even though it won't be mentioned by WWE today because of the Benoit involvement, it's still the best tag team match in WWE history and one of the best WWE matches ever as well.