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Originally Posted by hulkamania320
Chris Benoit vs. Steve Austin for the WWF Championship on...Smackdown!, right?
Anyways, this was an awesome match, with Steve as the heel. They kept flipping and reversing and exchanging sharpshooters, it was a great mark out moment that nobody seems to remember.
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I actually liked the first Benoit/Austin match, right after Austin's return in late 2000. Earlier in the night, Benoit was basically saying that Austin was an inferior worker, and only brawled because he couldn't wrestle. So for most of the match, Austin out-wrestled Benoit again and again, and Benoit ended up resorting to punch-kick tactics instead.
Not exactly a classic, and Benoit did kind of look like a chump in it, but it told the story well, and Austin got to showcase his technical moveset that he hadn't used in a long while.