5. Chris Benoit vs. Chris Jericho – SummerSlam – 8.27.00
The year 2000 was an amazing one for the WWF. With the influx of almost all of WCW’s best workers, the WWF roster was now loaded with tremendous in-ring talent creating fresh matchups and feuds galore, possibly the best of which involved the two Chrises.
Jericho and Benoit had worked together for years, both in Japan and in Atlanta, and in the spring/summer of 2000 they resumed their feud, facing each other three times on PPV and several more times on RAW and Smackdown. The rivalry reached a fever pitch at SummerSlam, in a 2/3 Falls match. While not quite given enough time to fully steal the show, Jericho and Benoit nevertheless delivered a forgotten near-classic that ended the feud for the time being.
