10 Best WWE King of the Ring PPV matches

#2 Kurt Angle vs. Shane McMahon - 2001

Shane narrowly escapes a broken neck

Now, this match was just pure violence. It was just seriously brutal.

As a performer in the ring, if Shane McMahon knew how to do anything, it was to take one hell of a beating. An angry Kurt Angle kicked things off with a one-sided attack on McMahon, throwing him around, still furious from earlier in the evening when Shane had cost him the King of the Ring crown. After McMahon fought back, Angle messed around with him with some mat-wrestling moves, which saw McMahon soon grow tired of and decided to go dirty on Angle instead.

Now on the floor, McMahon got on the railing behind Jim Ross and Paul Heyman and jumped over both them and the table to hit Angle with a clothesline in a great spot. Some kendo sticks and trash cans were soon introduced for some fun.

Now fighting up to the top of the ramp, Angle suplexed McMahon over his head into one of the bulletproof glass walls (placed there by mistake instead of soft sand glass), but it didn't break, and McMahon would land on his neck with a sickening thud.

That was one of the sickest spots ever. It is amazing how he didn't break his neck. It was later revealed that Vince McMahon almost put a stop to the match here but was convinced otherwise not to. Angle picked McMahon up for another suplex, this time successfully breaking the glass.

Angle did the same thing through the other glass and again, and it didn't break, but again, did the second time. Somehow McMahon isn't dead. Back in the ring, after another amazing performance by McMahon, Kurt hit an Angle Slam from the top rope, putting an end to this brutal war.