10 Best WWE Matches of The Year 2001

#3 Kurt Angle vs. Shane McMahon - King of The Ring

Pure violence

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 taking one hell of a beating. An angry Kurt starts with a one-sided attack on Shane, throwing him around, still furious from earlier in the evening when Shane cost him the King of The Ring crown. After Shane fights back, Kurt messes around with him with some amateur moves, which Shane soon grows tired of and just goes dirty on Angle instead.

Now on the floor, Shane gets on the railing behind JR and Heyman and jumps over both them and the table to hit Kurt with a clothesline in a great spot. Some kendo sticks and trash cans are soon introduced for some fun.

Now fighting up to the top of the ramp, Angle suplexes Shane over his head into one of the bulletproof glass walls (placed there by mistake instead of soft sand glass), and as it doesn't break, Shane lands very loudly on his neck.

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

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