5 times WWE Superstars lost to their own finishing move

#3 Angle reaches his breaking point

An Iron Man match saw the Olympian tap out to his own submission.

Kurt Angle is arguably the toughest opponent Brock Lesnar has faced in his career. Their feud over the WWE Championship remains one of the greatest rivalries in the company till date. While Angle has made Lesnar tap out to his Ankle Lock on multiple occasions (including their war at SummerSlam 2003), he got a taste of his own medicine during the WWE Championship Iron Man match on the September 18, 2003 episode of SmackDown.

In the first-ever Iron Man match to take place on free TV, Lesnar defeated Angle with a final score of five to four where Lesnar got one fall by making the Olympic Gold Medalist tap out to the Ankle Lock. This point proved to be a difference-maker, and also showed that though he was much bigger than the Olympian, Lesnar had a quickness and submission skill set most Superstars could only dream of.

This wasn’t the only time Angle had tapped out to the Ankle Lock though, as Drew McIntyre made him submit to the move on the November 6, 2018, episode of Raw.