[2000-10-12-WWF-Smackdown] Kane vs Kurt Angle

[soup23]

Steph announcers herself as being permanently in Kurt's corner. Nice bit when Kurt comes to the ring and goes for a hug but Steph offers a handshake. Kane still feels motivated but his character is really slipping as he is right back to mr. face here going after Angle and especially Steph to a big reaction from the crowd. Overall this was a fine match and Angle matches up well as a Kane opponent. Angle picks up the win after kane was occupied with Steph allowing himself to be rolled up. This puts over the tandem as a big threat for Rock at No Mercy. *3/4

[GSR]

We’re informed that earlier in the show Triple H and Stephanie McMahon-Helmsley got into a heated argument when he refused to reconsider her request to be at ringside for his matches.  Not one to take that lightly, Stephanie is out before the two wrestlers and announces that from this point on she will be in Kurt Angle’s corner permanently, the man who she decrees will be the next WWF World champion.  Kurt does try to get a hug from her but she’s all business, only offering her hand.  Angle scoots out the ring on Kane’s arrival and back pedals away from him, the opening moments seeing him try all he can to get as far away from the ‘Big Red Machine’ as possible.  Kane catches up with him in the crowd and carries him back to ringside where he then military presses and dumps him over the top rope into the ring.  He’s completely manhandling him until running into a back elbow.  Release belly to back suplex by Angle.  A baseball slide dropkick sends Kane out to the floor where Stephanie proves her worth by throwing a drink in his face.  Kane blocks a second belly to back so Kurt switches him around and lands a release overhead suplex instead.  Angle starts celebrating, prematurely, unaware that Kane is already up to his feet.  His shots now are having no effect, Kane shrugging each one of them off.  Nice powerslam from the ‘BRM’ who heads upstairs for a clothesline.  Chokeslam, but Stephanie is up on the apron distracting the referee, again showing the value that she has to offer.  Kane has had enough and goes over to her grabbing her by the hair, Kurt however quickly rolls  him up from behind and with some additional leverage from the ropes gets the win.  The referee gets a post-match chokeslam for his incompetence while Michael Cole and ‘the King’ put over Stephanie saying that she wasn’t a liability at all and was a real asset out there.