Austin v. Angle

Thanks to my fellow blog of doomers, i found the match i was asking you about.  Figure this could act as match of the day:


Kurt Angle vs. Stone Cold - WWF Title by sir-roddick

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As a bonus, here's my original rant on the match:

-         WWF Title match:  Kurt Angle v. Steve Austin.  Austin stomps him to start and rams him into the turnbuckles about a thousand times.  Superplex attempt is blocked and Angle kicks him down.  Austin comes back with the Thesz Press and a pair of elbows for two.  Gut wrench gets two.  Vertical suplex gets two.  Angle reverses another suplex into a legsweep.  Crowd is surprisingly quiet.  Angle goes to the headlock, and gets a crossbody off the criss-cross for two.  Small package gets two.  Austin tosses Angle, and they brawl on the floor.  Austin puts him into the crowd, and William Regal joins us, but gets beat up.  Angle gets dumped into the crowd, again, and Austin comes off the barricade with a clothesline.  LUCHA STEVE~!  Austin posts Angle, and covers for two back in the ring.  The crowd TOTALLY buys that as a near-fall.  Wow.  10 shots to the head get two, and now the crowd is WAY into it.  Austin goes up, but gets caught with a belly-to-belly.  Angle gets another one to block a stunner attempt.  Another suplex, and two more follow, which gets two.  Two backdrop suplexes, and Austin is out of it.  Great psychology, but the announcers are too busy thinking of new ways to pimp the XFL to follow up on the neck injury storyline and Austin having his own tactics thrown back at him with better success by the champion.  Angle gets a gutwrench suplex, but Austin tries for a slam.  Angle falls back on him, showing Austin’s weakened back and neck, and gets a two count.  Another gutwrench follows, but Austin blocks the Olympic Slam with a HUGE kneelift for the double-KO.  You can never go wrong with a double knockout in a big match, because the crowd always counts along and it builds the drama.  Slugfest, and surprisingly Angle wins it before Austin makes the comeback and stomps the requisite mudhole.  Spinebuster and double-bird elbow, and Austin doesn’t cover, preferring to wait for the finisher.  Stunner is blocked, Angle’s reversal is blocked, KICK WHAM STUNNER…and in what is the saddest sight for me to see, the crowd IMMEDIATELY looks to the aisleway, just like they were trained to do by WCW when they did all those screwjob finishes on Nitro.  And indeed, here’s HHH to punk out the ref at two and give us a non-finish for the best TV match I’ve seen since almost a year ago.  ****1/4