WWE: Brock Lesnar's 10 Best Matches

6. vs. Kurt Angle vs. Big Show (Vengeance 2003)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-kippQLO3c Lesnar was the WWE Champion heading into this match. It was Angle's first match on PPV since he had neck surgery following WrestleMania XIX four months prior. He came back to massive ovations from the crowd because they missed him and because of that awesome video package WWE played a lot with that song "Clocks" by Coldplay. When he came back, he proclaimed that the one person who supported him the most was Brock Lesnar, his onetime rival who was now his friend. Big Show was Lesnar's main adversary when Angle was out, so it fit to have him in this match too as a clear-cut heel. This came at a time when WWE did a lot of triple threat matches featuring big names and a lot of times they didn't really work out well, but in this case it was pretty damn good. What I liked about it was that they went non-stop for about 20 minutes with each guy looking like they had the chance to win. Angle ended up winning clean after the Angle Slam on his buddy Lesnar. I was surprised they'd have Lesnar take the pin because I had assumed that they'd be doing Lesnar/Angle again in the future, so it didn't seem right to have Lesnar take a pin here. As we learned in the future, it was the right idea because this is what facilitated Lesnar turning heel. I also liked that it was a no DQ match because I feel with that stipulation guys are able to be more creative and more realistic in terms of a triple threat match. A lot of times in triple threat matches it seems like the guys are too crowded in the ring, but in this one it wasn't like that. It was Show dominating early on, then it was Lesnar and by the end it was Angle when he hit the Angle Slam on both guys in impressive fashion. I was also amazed at how quickly Angle recovered from his neck surgery and had such a good performance in this match. The man is a freak, in every good way imaginable.