10 Best WWE Backlash Matches Of All Time

8. Kurt Angle vs Chris Benoit – Ultimate Submission – Backlash 2001

From the same card, is it highly sports entertaining. Actually not quite so much. Is it a good technical match: oh you betcha.

You really don’t hear this match get talked up enough, although to be honest there’s probably a very good reason for that, but it’s one of the better Iron Man matches in WWE history, a match format that the big dub usually excels at as well, so that’s high praise. Off the back of their hastily thrown-together match at WrestleMania X-7, Backlash saw Angle and Benoit continue their stellar rivalry with yet another contest, this time to find out who can make their opponent tap the most times in 30 minutes.

Honestly, these guys had something like half a dozen PPV singles matches together and there’s not a dud between them. This is a more methodically paced affair, but it builds and builds really satisfyingly to a thunderous crescendo as Benoit comes from 3-1 down to win in overtime. Smart, brutal and a technically amazing achievement, this is a shining example of why WWE had the best midcard around in the early 2000s.

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