The Definitive List of Must-Watch Matches from Kurt Angle | News, Scores, Highlights, Stats, and Rumors

SmackDown was by far the best wrestling show on TV in the fall of 2002, thanks to head writer Paul Heyman's focus on six Superstars: Angle, Chris Benoit, Rey Mysterio, Edge, Eddie and Chavo Guerrero.

At No Mercy in October of that year, in the finals of the tournament to crown SmackDown tag team champions, Angle and Benoit battled Mysterio and Edge in an instant classic.

The match included four of the best wrestlers of all time, so it is no real surprise that it wound up being as great as it was. It was almost expected given how extraordinary that in-ring content between them and Los Guerreros had been in the lead-in to the show.

With a red-hot crowd, some superb sequences and a finish that saw Angle tap out Edge to the ankle lock for the clean win, the contest exceeded even the loftiest of expectations.

For the Olympian, it was merely the latest stepping stone on his journey to pro wrestling immortality.

No one doubted he was among the best in the industry, but his performance in the match only intensified chatter suggesting he was one of the best ever. And rightfully so. Just three years into his career, he had analysts tossing around star ratings few had ever achieved as consistently as him. He was at the top of his game as a singles competitor and had now conquered the industry as a tag performer, too.

Adaptable, intense, cerebral, funny; Angle he was a complete performer and no one could touch him at this point.