speaking of idk if this is a hot take, but Kojima should have won this. You could still have Kawada get the long run later on, but they waited way too long to give Kojima a big win. Especially considering they had Goldberg squash him in one of the weirdest booking decisions in 2002. And that's with the WWE going batshit insane on RAW at the same time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMckUQ17i-I