#5 Kurt Angle vs. Samoa Joe
Kurt Angle’s return to WWE programming has led many to believe that a match involving the Olympic hero is a matter of when and not if.
The fact that he still seems to be in tremendous shape and was wrestling pretty actively in the independent circuits prior to his Hall of Fame induction has only served to embellish the conjecture further.
The most suggestive aspect in all of this, however, is that the pieces of the puzzle for an organic storyline are already present. All that is remaining is for the WWE to stitch them together.
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His current designation as the Sheriff of Raw puts him directly at odds with the Authority, but when they do return, one suspects that Triple H would rather put over younger talent than rehash his rivalry of lore against Angle.
The Authority’s hired gun, on the other hand, should have no such reservations.
Samoa Joe and Angle share quite a spicy backstory, having feuded against one another extensively in their TNA days. Both of them are top-of-the-line workers, rivalling each other in unbridled intensity and ring generalship.
The fact that both their styles’ are heavily derived from submission grappling also lends a touch of aestheticism to the storytelling.
Caught in the middle of a lukewarm feud with Seth Rollins – in which he isn’t even the antagonist-in-chief – Samoa Joe’s main roster run is in acute need of legs to stand on. How deliciously ironic that it could find exactly that, trapped in Kurt Angle’s patented Ankle Lock.
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