00:00Can you imagine that collision?
00:04Oh, man, that is humongous.
00:08Wow.
00:21The following contest is scheduled for one fall,
00:25making his way to the ring from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,
00:27weighing in at 237 pounds,
00:31one half of the WWE Tag Team Champions, Kurt Angle.
00:37Angle goes one-on-one with his tag team partner, Benoit, next.
00:44We are back on SmackDown.
00:45It is Tag Team Champion versus Tag Team Champion.
00:48Kurt Angle versus Chris Benoit.
00:50That's what it's all about.
00:51Earlier on tonight, SmackDown General Manager Stephanie McMahon
00:55would present the new Tag Team Champions with his special trophy.
00:59And what does Stephanie get for our troubles?
01:01Right there.
01:02She got knocked down.
01:03I mean, some people, you know,
01:05would consider Benoit and Angle immature.
01:08I consider them extremely competitive.
01:10Well, we're going to see how competitive they are.
01:12Because of that incident, Stephanie set up this one-on-one matchup.
01:16Angle versus Benoit.
01:17And from Edmonton, Alberta, weighing in at 229 pounds,
01:30one half of the WWE Tag Team Champions,
01:34Chris Benoit.
01:35You know, Taz,
01:36I will never criticize SmackDown General Manager Stephanie McMahon,
01:39but something weird tells me that maybe he should have made two trophies.
01:44Yeah, I know.
01:46I don't know why he didn't do that.
01:49Look at Benoit.
01:50Benoit and Kurt Angle don't believe that they deserve the trophy.
01:52Angle even told himself the captain of the team.
01:55And they're so competitive, these two men.
01:57I mean, no.
01:59At the time, I mean, that didn't look really sharp.
02:02They're fighting over a trophy, but all kidding aside,
02:05Benoit and Angle are so competitive,
02:08they just want to outdo each other all the time.
02:10That's what makes a great team champions.
02:11Well, they're two of the greatest competitors in the history of the WWE,
02:15Kurt Angle and Chris Benoit.
02:16And don't forget,
02:17Chris Benoit owns a victory over Kurt Angle last month at Unforgiven
02:21in what I believe may very well be the match of the year.
02:25Well, I agree with that.
02:26And look at Kurt Angle,
02:27the takedown of Chris Benoit to start this matchup.
02:30Look at this.
02:30To sit out and to sit out, Kurt Angle.
02:32Right now, this is going to be the ankle up versus the crossface.
02:36Yeah, two great submission specialists,
02:37Chris Benoit and Kurt Angle facing off center of the ring.
02:40And yes, folks,
02:41these two are indeed the new WWE Tag Team Champions.
02:45Look at this.
02:45Both Ben low and level.
02:47Nice ankle pick right there by Kurt Angle going behind Chris Benoit.
02:50Look at how quick angle this man.
02:52Benoit's just trying to sit out.
02:53Whoa.
02:54Nice.
02:54Takedown.
02:56Look at Kurt.
02:58This machine-like.
02:59Kurt Angle putting on a clinic early.
03:01And there's an elbow.
03:01Well, nothing fancy about a good old fancy Canadian elbow.
03:05And now, Chris Benoit, the rabid Wolverine on the attack.
03:09I mean, you know, Kurt Angle, 225 freestyle champion.
03:12Ah!
03:13Only Olympic gold medalist in WWE history just got dropped by an elbow by Chris Benoit.
03:19SmackDown General Manager Stephanie McMahon tried to do the right thing out here tonight.
03:23Tried to present the new Tag Team Champions with a very special trophy.
03:26But then Benoit Angle began to pick it.
03:29That victory led to Stephanie getting knocked down.
03:32It ticked Stephanie off and fall.
03:33Here we go with the matchup.
03:34Oh!
03:36Wow.
03:37What a shot.
03:39You know, these guys are Tag Team Champions, Benoit Angle.
03:41And we learned earlier tonight that the number one contenders for those finals are the same team that they met at No Mercy,
03:47Edge and Rey Mysterio.
03:48And that will be a great, great tag matchup as we've seen before.
03:52But right now, the Tag Team Champions are picking each other on.
03:57You hit the nail on the head earlier.
03:59Competitiveness between Chris Benoit and Kurt Angle.
04:03Nice surprise by Angle.
04:05Close into the cover.
04:05Hooks the leg on Benoit, who gets his shoulder up.
04:08So much pride involved here in the ring.
04:11These men are two tremendous competitors.
04:13And sure, they have egos.
04:14But those egos are born from the pride that they have and the pride they take with their actions in the ring.
04:19Let's go.
04:19Wow!
04:21Now it's a fight, my man.
04:23It's all out fighting.
04:24We're just swinging now.
04:25Slugfest.
04:25You know, both men are world-class athletes.
04:27I mean, tremendous condition.
04:29Prime of their careers.
04:31They got Tag Team Gold.
04:33And they're beating the holy hell out of each other.
04:35Holy on SmackDown.
04:36I love it.
04:37Look at Kurt Angle using the rook for leverage and driving that boot into the throat of Benoit.
04:41You know, as we always say, the spirit of competition, that's what Stephanie McMahon's all about.
04:46And showing it right here with the Tag Champs.
04:50Look at this.
04:50That's suplex.
04:51Boom!
04:52And Kurt Angle into the cover on Benoit.
04:54Hooks the leg.
04:55Benoit gets the shoulder up.
04:56You think this fight here tonight will finally allow these two to settle their differences so they can get along as a tag team?
05:02My personal opinion, no.
05:03These guys will never get along, I think.
05:07Kurt Angle is like a surgeon in the ring.
05:09Extremely precise with every move.
05:13He is, man.
05:14He's a great condition in that ring.
05:16I mean, he's the master.
05:17He's the ring general, as is Chris Benoit.
05:20You know?
05:20Oh!
05:21There's a chop for you.
05:23Oh!
05:23And another one by Kurt Angle.
05:26Still yet to receive word on the condition of The Undertaker after...
05:29Oh!
05:29He just tossed off that steel stage.
05:31Tally to knock hands with the big show.
05:33Oh, look at Benoit.
05:35Quiet in the elbow.
05:36Now the pitch just squint the dunk and squinting that elbow right in the back of Kurt's head.
05:41And here's the reversal.
05:42Benoit off the rope.
05:43Look at his backdrop.
05:45He likes to get beat up as then he comes back with big-time, big-time relentless revenge.
05:49And here is the reversal.
05:51Angle off the rope.
05:52Oh!
05:52That's a body drop of his own.
05:53I bet to you.
05:55Angle misses right hand.
05:56Oh!
05:57And German suplex.
05:58Beautiful.
05:59Nice.
05:59Hands still locked around the waist.
06:01And another German suplex.
06:03It'll be a hat-trick, man.
06:05Hat-trick from Benoit.
06:06Coming up.
06:08Switch.
06:09Oh, look out.
06:10And a German suplex in his own for Angle.
06:13These two guys, believe it or not, spent 30 minutes together as teammates on Sunday at No Mercy.
06:18They're the tag-team champions.
06:20They're beating the hell out of each other.
06:22Only up-spank now.
06:24And here we go.
06:26Hook of the leg by Angle.
06:27Benoit gets his shoulder up.
06:29And this is all for, as Stephanie McMahon said, that stupid broken trophy that these two busted in half.
06:35It's not just a trophy.
06:37It's the pride, man.
06:38Kurt Angle right now wanting that ankle lock.
06:42Maybe the ankle slam.
06:44He's just stalking Benoit.
06:46There he is.
06:47Angle's feeling it.
06:48And Benoit knows it.
06:49He sees him, man.
06:50Walk too late, though.
06:51Angle slam!
06:52Wait for it.
06:53Benoit countered.
06:55Oh!
06:56Oh!
06:57Damn!
06:58Turning, turning Kurt Angle inside out, Chris Benoit did.
07:01It's a suplex fest.
07:03I dig that.
07:04Folding Kurt Angle up, and Angle is barely moving.
07:08Yep, man.
07:08Up and over.
07:09Oh, boy!
07:11Canadian Cripple saying the end is near.
07:14Chris Benoit.
07:16Oh, wait a minute, Cole.
07:17He's going up to the top of that headbutt, and Kurt Angle's just about on the other side of the ring.
07:21Remember, Benoit's got the way he can do this.
07:23The next headbutt almost nearly across the ring into the shoulder of Angle, and Benoit may have injured himself.
07:30Well, Chris, Benoit, you know, he's got that injured neck that he's recovered from.
07:35Chris is up.
07:35He's moving.
07:36He's trying to cover Kurt Angle.
07:38Kurt Angle is out.
07:39Here's the cover by Benoit.
07:41Stack.
07:41And Angle somehow kicked out.
07:44Oh, and into the crossface.
07:44The crossface is locked into Kurt Angle.
07:49Will Kurt Angle tap out?
07:51Oh, he's going to tap.
07:53Kurt's going to tap.
07:54Angle desperately clawing.
07:57Sliding.
07:58Kurt trying to get to those ropes.
07:59Here's what his match sets here.
08:00And Angle makes it to the bottom rope.
08:03Now Benoit using his foot to kick the rope away from me.
08:06Ring, ring, press this by Kurt Angle.
08:08It's a rope.
08:08Let's grab you all right there.
08:09It's a back into the crossface.
08:11Wow.
08:12Chris Benoit, the ferocity of the crossface.
08:15The intensity in the eyes of Benoit.
08:17Will Angle tap out to the crossface?
08:20Well, look at the hands.
08:21To the Kurt's hands.
08:22Ankle locked.
08:23And Benoit's shoulders were down.
08:25And look at that.
08:26The ankle lock.
08:28Benoit had to release the crossface when his shoulders were on the mat.
08:31And Kurt Angle reverses into the ankle lock.
08:33This is wrestling, ladies and gentlemen, right here.
08:36And Benoit counters the ankle lock.
08:38Angle off the ropes.
08:39Small package.
08:40Packed into the ankle.
08:41Oh, ho, ho, ho.
08:44What a matchup.
08:46On SmackDown.
08:47And the ankle slam connects.
08:51Kurt Angle found an opening.
08:52And he's going to win this one.
08:54The hook in the leg.
08:55And Benoit kicked out.
08:57Toughness by Chris Benoit.
08:59Benoit kicked out of the ankle slam.
09:01That normal man would have been pinned already.
09:04Back to the ankle lock.
09:05Again, the ankle lock locked in.
09:06Chris Benoit's in the center of the ring.
09:08He has nowhere to go.
09:10Will Benoit tap out to the ankle lock?
09:12Kurt walled down Chris Benoit with that ankle slam.
09:16And then right back to that ankle lock.
09:18Chris Benoit trying desperately.
09:21And he does.
09:22And he reverses into the, look at this, countering to the cross face.
09:26And he forced Kurt Angle to break the ankle lock.
09:28Clasp.
09:29And Kurt Angle desperately trying to fight out of this thing.
09:35Look at this.
09:35Nice roll.
09:36Just grabbed a wrist.
09:39And Benoit rolled out of that.
09:40Two submission specialists carrying one another here on SmackDown.
09:46Now where's Benoit going?
09:48Not another head bump.
09:51He's gonna fly, man.
09:52Benoit, look out.
09:54Angle.
09:55In the belly.
09:56The top roll.
09:57What impact.
09:59Angle crawling.
10:01Into the cover.
10:02Hooks the leg on Benoit.
10:03One, two, three, got the shoulder up.
10:07A hair away.
10:09A hair.
10:11What a matchup.
10:14Grabs are coming down.
10:16Oh, look at this.
10:17Look at Chavez.
10:18He's got a title belt.
10:19And the tag title of gold.
10:21Benoit into the cover.
10:25What the hell is going on Benoit stonework thanks to the damn Dorellos?
10:29Here's your coach, Benoit.
10:34I'm not even sure if Chris Benoit is aware that the Guerrero's helped him.
10:39Well, what's up for the Guerrero's?
10:42About me, I don't know.
10:43Are they trying to prove themselves to Benoit?
10:48They lost that number one contender matchup.
10:53The Edge and Rey Mysterio only denied it.
10:55Now they came out of here.
10:57I don't think Benoit realizes what happened.
10:58But he just sees the Guerrero's making their way out through the crowd.
11:02And Kurt Angle from behind.
11:04Kurt Angle.
11:05Kurt Angle.
11:06The Angle slay to Chris Benoit.
11:09Kurt Angle and Chris Benoit can't stand each other.
11:12They despise each other, but they're town team champions.
11:17And Angle, Angle realizes what the Guerrero's did to him.
11:21The Guerrero screwed Kurt Angle tonight.
11:23Oh, Angle's hot, man.
11:25That's one angry Olympic gold medalist.
11:28And what has the tag champs?
11:31Well, that trophy by rights of winning this matchup.
11:33Betloch.
11:34Betloch!
11:35What the hell is he doing?
11:37Well, I think it's safe to say he's breaking his trophy.
11:44Well, I guess if Kurt can't have the trophy, no one can.
11:47Well, that was a nice trophy.
11:59Man!
12:02Good point, man.
12:04First in mind.
12:05Kurt Angle wasn't going to win if he was going to allow anybody to have it.
12:08My question is this.
12:10Benoit and Angle are still tag team champions.
12:13And they hate each other.
12:16How the hell are they going to stay champions?
12:18How are they going to get along?
12:19That's a great question, my friend.
12:21We're out.
12:34Hey, we're out.
12:34I'm we're out.
12:36I'm we're out.
12:37I'm we're out.
12:38Of course.
12:39We're out.
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