#8 Brock Lesnar vs. Kurt Angle (SmackDown - September 18, 2003)
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The first Ironman match on WWE television
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Kurt Angle and Brock Lesnar became bitter rivals in 2003 after Lesnar won the Royal Rumble match and started chasing Angle for his WWE Championship. Brock did successfully take the belt at WrestleMania, but something changed.
After such a gruelling match and a gutsy performance by Lesnar in the main event of WM 19, the two men began to grow a mutual respect for each other.
By the summer they were a pair of ultra-competitive pals. Both men were good guys, but their nature forced upon them, the overwhelming need to find out once and for all who the better man was. Angle was coming off a very recent and unproven neck surgery at WrestleMania that year. Now, both men were healthy.
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How do two men like them settle a score? Why, an Ironman match, of course.
An episode of SmackDown in September hosted the historic contest, which saw Angle fall short, 5 falls to 4.
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Nicholas A. Marsico
I got my first big break writing for 411Mania back in 2004. I did a small spot in a big weekly piece that was written by one of the site's top writers. I quickly added the duty of being the live recapper for episodes of SmackDown, and in 2005 was given my own weekly column, which I did for a few years. I gave up writing (mostly) to start a family but got back into it, still at 411, a little over 3 years later. For another couple of years, I wrote 2-3 columns per week for the website before finding paid work elsewhere, and eventually wound up at SportsKeeda.
I am also the co-founder of the RBR: Weekly Wrestling Talk podcast, which started in the summer of 2005 and is still going strong today, almost 15 years later. Due to school, work, and family commitments, I left the team in 2011 but still remain a part of the family.
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