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#1 Kurt Angle and Samoa Joe brawl (Bound For Glory 2006)
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Days before Bound For Glory 2006, one of the biggest debuts in IMPACT Wrestling history occurred with Kurt Angle making his TNA debut. In an iconic encounter, Angle went face to face with Samoa Joe and head butted the Samoan Submission Machine, bloodying him. This was the start of what would become the most monumental rivalry in company history, but things heated up further just days later at the PPV.
Making his PPV debut, Kurt Angle was just supposed to be the special enforcer for the main event of Sting against Jeff Jarrett for the TNA Heavyweight Championship at Bound For Glory 2006. However, Samoa Joe wanted some vengeance for what happened on Spike TV earlier in the week. With Angle in the ring speaking to TNA authority figure Jim Cornette, Joe came down to the ring and got into a physically intense, pull-apart brawl with the Olympic Gold Medalist.
On a night that featured LAX winning back the NWA Tag Team Titles from AJ Styles and Christopher Daniels as well as Sting beating Jarrett to win the NWA World's Heavyweight Championship in a Title vs Career Match, this brawl between Angle and Joe is still the most memorable of any moment from Bound For Glory 2006. It marked that this would become the premier feud in the company and one that led to many fans putting eyes on the promotion.
The Joe vs Angle feud would bring TNA their biggest buyrate for a PPV not once, but twice. The following month at Genesis being the first occasion where Angle gave Joe his first loss in TNA after 18 months. It would also last for over two years after with Joe finally defeating Angle at Lockdown 2008 to win his first TNA Heavyweight Championship.
For the importance of this feud and the impact that this had on the company, their initial brawl at Bound For Glory is the greatest moment in the PPV's history, if not IMPACT's history overall.
