AJ Styles vs The Hurricane - WWF Metal

[AareDub]

Have many of you seen this match? I just stumbled upon it recently when looking for a match between AJ and Paul London.

It's the standard "lower middle carder crushes unknown jobber" type match you'd expect to see on Metal, but damn, AJ was pretty impressive in his defeat. I hadn't been that impressed by an "unknown" since I saw Tommy Dreamer vs Jimmy Yang on Sunday Night Heat. After seeing this match I'll never understand why Styles wasn't given an opportunity with the WWF/E. I'm not complaining, in fact it doesn't bother me at all, I'm just baffled. He sold all the moves perfectly and his offensive moves looked pretty impressive. Sure, it was nothing compared to what we see him do in TNA each week, but that's not the point.

I'd like to hear other people's thoughts on the match, so get to it...