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  • His ECW matches with Dean Malenko are master classes in wrestling technique.
  • Even though he lost, his match with Rey Mysterio Jr. at WCW's Halloween Havoc 97 is considered a classic.
    • Hell, any match he had with Mysterio is recommended watching. Those two had tremendous chemistry.
  • Did you know that one of Eddie's greatest matches was against Rey Mysterio... and CM Punk? And that it was in front of a crowd of around 200 people at an indie show? We're not even kidding.
  • In a no-DQ match against Edge on WWE SmackDown in 2002, Eddie and Edge put on such an amazing show that both wrestlers got a standing ovation and name-cheer after it was over. In the original broadcast, WWE even went so far as to show the pop Eddie got as a defeated Heel as he walked back to the dressing room during the commercial break. WWE considers it "one of the best matches in SmackDown history." Special mention goes to that insane Sunset Flip Powerbomb (at around 16:20 in the above video) off the top of the ladder. The crowds's reaction says it all.
  • After Chris Benoit won the 2004 Royal Rumble and chose to challenge for Raw's World Heavyweight Championship, a 15-man Royal Rumble was booked for the following SmackDown and despite being attacked backstage by an unknown assailant, Eddie still makes it to the match and eliminates Kurt Angle to win and earn a WWE Title shot against Brock Lesnar.
  • Eddie's defeat of Brock Lesnar at No Way Out 2004 to win the WWE Championship. Brock at this point was, as he has always been, a dominant champion, steamrolling over legends and former champions like Kurt Angle and The Undertaker. Eddie was just some midcard mook who had never been a world title contender, and was literally a head shorter than Brock. But despite getting tossed like a ragdoll from pillar to post, Eddie refused to quit, and with assistance from Goldberg and using a little creative cheating, Eddie beat the Beast. It was the culmination of a Career Resurrection that stands as one of the greatest in Professional Wrestling.
  • His match with Kurt Angle at WrestleMania XX a month later. He outsmarted Angle by loosening a boot, allowing him to slip free of the Angle Lock and roll up a confused Angle for the win.
  • Not just one for Eddie himself, per se, but at Judgment Day 2004, the crowd was white-hot for Eddie. Not only was he at perhaps the height of his popularity, but he was in the middle of a feud with the pseudo-racist conservative JBL, who had garnered heat by denigrating Eddie's Mexican heritage. Judgment Day that year was held in Los Angeles, and the sheer outpouring of rabid support dominated the entire card, where "Eddie!" chants were being yelled all night long. His match with JBL is also the infamous match where Eddie gets split wide open after a chairshot. note  Although he got disqualified for using the title belt as a weapon, he ended the show standing tall after one of the most brutal brawls of the year, and looking all the more like a Determinator for it.
  • With the possible exception of their ECW One Night Stand match in 2005 (Eddie was still playing his "selfish prick" heel persona and didn't want to break character even for the one night), pretty much much any match with Chris Benoit.

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