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#10 Eddie and Benoit close out Wrestlemania as champions
For many different reasons, the year 2004 will always have a bittersweet feel to it as far as professional wrestling is concerned. Whether it was the realisation of having to leave behind our favourite wrestlers from the Attitude Era or the fact that the product overall was starting to go downhill, there weren't as many reasons to be excited about the WWE product anymore.
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That being said, some of the PPVs from 2004 were not at all bad. In particular, Wrestlemania 20 managed to deliver in a way that made the event feel like the most important show of the year. The company might not have had The Rock, Austin or Hogan any longer, but they did deserve credit for using what they did have at their disposal.
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Eddie Guerrero and Chris Benoit might not have been the most notorious, loud-mouthed megastars like the aforementioned trio, but they could sure put on a show for the people in attendance.
In a time when the WWE was overreliant on people like Triple H and Brock Lesnar, to see two individuals who the fans respected standing tall at the end of Wrestlemania 20 was a truly shocking and heartwarming experience for everybody.
After Eddie once again found a way to beat Kurt Angle and retain his title, and after Benoit overcame huge odds and defeated both Shawn Michaels and Triple H in the same match, the crowd were treated to one of the most memorable endings to a show in the company's history.
But here again, we have the bittersweet element coming into play. Sometimes it can be difficult being a wrestling fan when so many of your heroes lose their lives before their time. In 2004 Benoit and Guerrero were on top of the wrestling world, by 2007 both men were no longer with us.
The circumstances surrounding their deaths are now big talking points amongst wrestling fans, but when we look back to Mania 20 and the way the two were celebrated for how good they were at their work, the least we can do is stop and remember them in more positive lights.
