Kurt Angle's 5 best Tag-Team matches

#2 Kurt Angle & Chris Benoit vs. Edge & Rey Mysterio (SmackDown - November 7, 2002)

Kurt Angle & Rey Mysterio, two of the SmackDown Six.

This was a 2-out-of-3 falls match for the newly minted WWE Tag Team Championship that had been created for SmackDown after the show lost the tag titles in the original brand split. It was a rematch of the Tag Team Title Tournament final that took place at No Mercy a couple weeks earlier, which is regarded by many as the 2002 Match of the Year. Angle and Benoit were the inaugural champions, but their reign was short-lived, as they were not a cohesive unit and were thus bested by Edge and Mysterio, who were good friends and even better tag-team partners.

This match took place near the end of the “SmackDown Six” era that saw a pretty average RAW program being outshined, both in storylines and in the ring, by Paul Heyman who led blue brand on a weekly basis. Much of this was thanks to Eddie & Chavo Guerrero, Edge & Rey Mysterio and Kurt Angle & Chris Benoit, who were putting on amazing matches against each other in various combinations for months upon months.

There was some unbelievable work in this match, and it was free on television! It often goes forgotten because it was overshadowed by the first match back in October, but this one is absolutely worth going out of your way to watch.