World Wrestling Federation – No Way Out 2000 – 27th February 2000
Traditionally the Royal Rumble is the pay-per-view which sets the scene for the main event at Wrestlemania – but in the year 2000 that just didn’t happen. HHH retained his WWF Championship in a violent Street Fight against Cactus Jack, but it was The Game who left on a stretcher and Cactus’ dream of headlining a Wrestlemania remained tantalisingly out of reach. Meanwhile The Rock won the Royal Rumble, but couldn’t shake off the sizeable shadow of the Big Show who found video evidence that it was he who should have won. Tonight those four go at it again – with Mick Foley gambling his career on beating HHH in his return to Hell In A Cell tonight, and becoming champion just in time to headline the biggest show of the year, and The Rock defending his right to be there waiting for him against his 7-foot nemesis too. Jim Ross and Jerry Lawler are in Hartford, CT.
Chris Jericho vs Kurt Angle – WWF Intercontinental Title Match
Despite suffering a memorable loss to Tazz at the Royal Rumble, Kurt’s career really started to gain momentum in the aftermath of last month’s ppv. He won the European Championship and tonight faces Jericho looking to add still more gold to his collection.
Chyna’s irritation at being relegated from IC Champion to Chris Jericho’s valet is etched all over her face as she makes her entrance. It’s a quick start in front of a lively crowd…with Angle eventually getting catapulted out of the ring with a wild back body drop. He’s sent packing again with a springboard dropkick but then looks strangely at home brawling on the floor with the champion. He tricks Chris into accidentally clotheslining the ringpost…only for Jericho to hit back with a QUEBRADA OFF THE STEPS! Belly to belly superplex gets a 2 for Kurt. He cranks the arm that Jericho wrapped around the ringpost earlier for good measure and establishes a measure of control for the first time. Y2J escapes and counters to the double underhook backbreaker…so Angle puts him on the deck again with a German suplex. I like how Kurt is latching onto Jericho’s bad arm even as he works a basic chinlock spot. Armbar DDT nailed next, and even though he kicks out Y2J’s arm is causing him increasing amounts of discomfort now. He manages to catch Angle in the rolling powerbomb, but buckles himself in pain and is locked into a cross armbreaker! Angle Slam nailed – but only gets a 2. Angle is frustrated and tries to give Y2J a beating with his own title belt…only to be put into the WALLS OF JERICHO! Somehow Kurt makes the ropes and takes the fight to the floor again. He takes a swing at Chyna with the European Title belt and although he misses, Chyna still ends up taking a rough bump against the steps. Jericho looks to capitalise with the Lionsault…but Angle blasts him in MID-AIR with the IC belt! The ref doesn’t see it, and Kurt wins another title at 10:14
Rating - *** - Super-hot opening match. Back at this point the WWF was so over they had super-hot crowds everywhere they went, and this one was no exception. Everything Jericho did was cheered to the rafters, and equally Kurt was getting nuclear heat. They could have gotten by with doing less such was the ravenous nature of the crowd, but to their credit these two really brought the workrate and had a heated and exciting back and forth contest. Angle’s assault on the arm was surprisingly intelligent, albeit totally no-sold by Y2J. At this point Jericho really didn’t need the IC Championship to be over anyway, and it cements Kurt’s continuing meteoric rise up the card.
New Age Outlaws vs Dudley Boyz – WWF Tag Title Match
Despite losing that Tables Match at the Royal Rumble, the Dudleyz emerged from that with a newfound respect and credibility from the WWF fanbase. They are rewarded for their outstanding performance here with a title shot against popular champions the New Age Outlaws. Billy Gunn put Bubba Ray through a table on Smackdown – so the Dudleyz are desperate for both revenge and their first taste of WWF Tag Championship gold.
No waiting around for the Dudleyz. They make a point of walking around the entrance set rather than coming through it then sprint to the ring straight into a fight with the champions. Wassup Headbutt nailed in the early going as the multi-time former ECW Tag Champions isolate Road Dogg. He takes a real beating from both Bubba and D-Von, who don’t let him near his corner for a tag. Finally Ray makes a mistake, getting distracted by Billy as he sets up for a senton bomb – allowing RD to hit a superplex and finally get that hot tag. Gunn in to get an instant 2-count on D-Von with the Fame Asser. Bubba hauls Billy out of the ring and SMASHES him in the shoulder with a lead pipe. He slides into the ring for the 3-D on Road Dogg…and the Dudleyz win the belts at 05:18
Rating - * - Not a whole lot going on here. Billy Gunn suffered a severe shoulder injury before this show, and since one arm was pretty much immobile he spent most of the match standing on the apron whilst the Dudleyz and Road Dogg worked a pretty non-eventful formula tag around him. The finish was hot (although Dogg was so obviously not the legal man it was stupid), writes Billy out of television whilst he rehabs the injury, and seeing the Dudleyz get a chance with the Tag Titles as we lead in to Wrestlemania is really cool.
Road Dogg, unaware of what happened to Billy Gunn on the floor, berates him for not coming to his aid and clearly blames him for their loss.
Mark Henry vs Viscera
Yes, this is really going on ppv. Viscera fatty-splashed Mae Young on Raw, and since Mae was the elderly, ‘pregnant’ girlfriend of Mark at the time he was obviously irate and desperate for revenge. Like I said during my Royal Rumble review, watching old WWF ppvs from 2000 is like watching a totally different promotion to the PG, totally child-focused product of 2013.
Jerry Lawler joking about Mae miscarrying or dying (as Viscera strolls to the ring, accompanied by one of the most uninteresting entrance themes of all time) is all kinds of wrong. Jim Ross informs me that I won’t be giving this match many stars. As Viscera flops into his hideous spinning heel kick I get a deflating sense that he may be right. Mark takes a fierce bump as Vis clotheslines him over the ropes. He continues throwing himself around on the outside, crashing into the ring steps on multiple occasions. ‘Boring’ – Hartford. Mae Young sprints out, but as Viscera lines her up for another fatty splash Henry nails him with a football tackle and wins in 3-minutes-ish (I dropped my watch).
Rating - DUD - JR’s assessment that I wouldn’t be giving many stars to this match was correct. Fair play to Mark Henry, who clearly has a sense of humour if he agreed to this laughable angle with Mae, and he took some really rough bumps trying to generate any kind of interest in this car crash. He failed – but I appreciated that he was at least trying.
In the locker room EMT’s check on Billy Gunn who’s shoulder is causing him obvious distress.
Hardy Boyz vs Edge & Christian
This is a #1 contenders bout for the Tag Championships, meaning the winner here will be in prime position to challenge new champions the Dudley Boyz at Wrestlemania next month. That’s significant as Terri is returning to the Hardyz corner tonight after taking a few weeks off with injuries sustained at the hands of the Dudleyz on TV.
The Acolytes (now rebranded as the APA) are at ringside, having been hired by Terri as bodyguards for the evening. Edge starts with Jeff, diving to the deck to avoid a springboard corkscrew press attempt from Hardy. The Hardyz have better luck hitting a double leg drop combo on Christian for the first nearfall of the contest. Matt then tosses Christian out of the ring, where Jeff is waiting to drill him into the guardrails. There is a heelish intensity and energy to the Hardyz this evening, and it’s led to them dominating the opening minutes. Poetry In Motion scores, as does an Arabian press from Jeff for another 2. Matt looks for a Razor’s Edge only to see it countered into a diving neckbreaker. Christian puts the boots to Jeff as he sails off the top again, and finally gets the hot tag to Edge. SPRINGBOARD PLANCHA TO THE FLOOR from Christian to Matt! The tables are soon turned, with E&C working hard to isolate and wear down Jeff Hardy. Rolling backbreakers into a dragon sleeper by Edge! Hardy escapes, and they roll through some wild counters until Edge catches him again in a JUMPING PILEDRIVER for 2! He stays on the neck too, putting all his weight on it as he cranks on a chinlock. Hardy tries a hurricanrana…but it is COUNTERED into a brutal Ligerbomb. Such is the ferocity of the match by this point that they end up dragging each other to the deck by their hair. And as Christian sneaks in for some cheap shots on Jeff, Matt scales the ropes to deliver an illegal but unseen diving elbow drop to a fallen Edge. Despite that Edge thinks about a spear from the top…and is met with a mid-air dropkick. Tags all round! The Hardyz look for a Doomsday Crossbody…but Christian counters. JEFF GETS EDGE INSTEAD! DOUBLE PIN…FOR 2! FROG SPLASH/LEG DROP COMBO on Christian! POETRY IN MOTION COUNTERED WITH A MID-AIR SPEAR! TWIST OF FATE ON EDGE! Jeff sets up the Swanton…only to be shoved off the ropes by Terri! Matt is completely bewildered, and slapped for his troubles. UNPRETTIER! E&C win at 15:17
Rating - **** - For a throwaway midcard tag, this was all kinds of awesome. People like to dump on Matt during his current run in ROH and other indies, whilst Jeff’s problems have been very well documented over the years. But it was action-packed, high-octane spot-fest tags like this one in the late 90’s and early 00’s which really established them as one of the top tag teams on the planet, with Edge & Christian right alongside them. They came into this with high expectations on them as a result of their Ladder Match at No Mercy ’99, so to deliver this level of performance in a tag match without any smoke, mirrors or ladders shows just how talented these guys were at this point. The Terri stuff was rather goofy (are we going to get a clean finish tonight?) but the Hardyz had outgrown her by this point anyway, so are better off without her.
The Hardyz grab Terri wanting answers as to why she turned on them…and are duly annihilated by the APA – who fulfil their duties as Terri’s bodyguards for the evening.
Big Show tells Lillian Garcia that tonight is about redemption. He asks the production guys to re-run the footage of Rock’s feet hitting the floor before his at the end of last months Royal Rumble, and guarantees he’ll win tonight and take his rightful place in the main event of Wrestlemania
Up next it’s supposed to be Big Bossman against Tazz, but the match falls apart after less than a minute after Prince Albert (I can’t remember why he and Bossman were team-mates/allies for the life of me) attacks Tazz when he puts the Tazmission on Bossman. What follows is a farcical, 5+ minute long assault on Tazz, boring the hell out of the fans making all three men look like total jackasses. Absolutely lousy segment, indicative of the problems WWF had in booking Tazz during his stint as an active wrestler with them
X-Pac vs Kane – No Holds Barred Match
I remember being this being a surprisingly entertaining little feud. Kane and X-Pac were friends, and former Tag Champions together. But X-Pac turned on Kane and assaulted him along with the rest of D-X, then went on to tell him how he’d also seduced and stolen Kane’s girlfriend Tori for good measure. Kane vanished from TV supposedly re-institutionalised thanks to the mental anguish of losing his best friend and girlfriend all at once – then spectacularly returned to Smackdown to give Tori a Tombstone Piledriver. He defeated HHH and Big Show in a handicap match to earn this match with Pac, and is planning a big dose of retribution for his former tag partner this evening.
Pac’s offence has no impact whatsoever, and after getting tossed out of the ring he tries to round up Tori for an immediate walk-out. Kane chases him up the aisle and sends him flying with a trash can shot to the head. He is forcibly dragged through the crowd back to the ring and has to take evasive action as Kane swings the ring steps at him. Waltman lands a shot with the ringbell but is then attacked by Paul Bearer – which leads to a hilarious cartoon chase around the ring between Bearer and Tori. A trio of kicks lands in the corner for X-Pac, which is the usual set up for the Bronco Buster. Kane no-sells…so Pac thinks working the leg is a better strategy. Sadly for him Kane manages to kick free of a spinning toehold with such ferocity that it propels him clean over the top rope. Tombstone countered with a low blow into the X-Factor…but it’s no sold too. Tori hops onto the apron looking to distract Kane, but no dice on that as he nails him with a chokeslam. She’s in the ring now! TOMBSTONE! For the second time Kane lays her out with that move…but Pac strikes to pin him with the steps at 07:48
Rating - ** - Surprisingly short with a tad too much reliance on the outside interference of Paul and Tori for my liking…but it was certainly packed with a lot of energy too. X-Pac gave a very realistic performance as the hopelessly outmatched heel, taking a real ass kicking for most of it but using various nefarious tactics (along with some smart moves and a very intelligent finish) to hold his own.
Michael Cole is in the back with The Radicalz in their ppv debut. Eddie Guerrero is out with an elbow injury, but is bringing a weapon to the ring concealed in his sling it seems…
Too Cool/Rikishi vs Chris Benoit/Dean Malenko/Perry Saturn
As good as the Royal Rumble ppv was, the one thing the actual Rumble match itself showed was that WWF’s midcard was starting to look a little tired. The days of the Bossman, Gangrel, the Bulldog, Al Snow, D-Lo and the Headbangers were coming to an end and things needed a bit of a refresh. Cue the Raw after that show, when a quartet of WCW’s most recognisable faces showed up. These were major steals for the WWF (Benoit in particular) and instantly the amount of talent on the undercards had swollen. Branded as ‘The Radicalz’, they make their ppv debut against the popular trio of Too Cool and Rikishi – and are actually looking for some revenge after Rikishi flattened the injured Eddie Guerrero with the Bansai Drop on Raw. Rikishi himself comes in carrying an ankle injury.
Eddie Guerrero goes straight into the ring trying to waffle Rikishi with an iron bar from his sling…but the Samoan steals it and blasts him in his injured elbow with it. The match starts legally with Saturn and Grand Masta, as Eddie retreats to the locker room seeking medical treatment. Early success for Sexay who scores with a few decent offensive strikes on both Perry and Benoit. The Crippler has seen enough and toasts Scotty with some savage forearm smashes on the apron. Rikishi tags to stand up for his buddy, scattering The Radicalz like skittles before giving Benoit the Stinkface. Malenko sneaks in to dropkick his bad ankle from under him as he sets up the Rikishi Driver. The Radicalz do such a number on Rikishi’s leg that he can’t even walk, so makes a much needed tag. Scotty lines up The Worm…but Dean sneaks in to block a second finisher and wipes him out too! Backbreaker/knee drop combo from Malenko and Saturn gets 2. Rikishi tries to get in as The Radicalz use their numbers to wear Scotty out, but is again dropkicked in the ankle by Malenko (who has been awesome in this match). In the end Benoit tries too hard to beat the sh*t out of S2H, causing them to knock skulls which gives Scotty the opportunity to make a hot tag that he really didn’t deserve. In comes a hobbling Rikishi…with the Rikishi Driver on Saturn. That should be it, but Grand Masta tells him to wait up so Scotty can hit The Worm too. Malenko chops out the Rikishi’s leg AGAIN, as Benoit legit suplexes Scotty OVER THE TOP ROPE! Sexay lands the Hip Hop Drop…but with no ref to count the fall he lies there in prone position for the FLYING WOLVERINE! Too Cool, Saturn and Benoit all collapse out of the ring leaving Malenko alone and in position for the Rikishi Driver. BANZAI DROP! WITH LEG SELLING! That was very well done, and Rikishi is rewarded with a win at 12:42
Rating - *** - We could discuss the merits of putting an undercard comedy act over a hot new force like The Radicalz for hours, but lets first focus on the fact that this was a great little match. Benoit as a no-nonsense ass-kicker was great, we saw flashes of the ‘lie, cheat and steal’ Eddie Guerrero before the bell, but it was Dean Malenko who topped them all with his wily veteran act this evening. He continually attacked Rikishi’s injury, he was always the guy tagging in when an opponent was injured, and he was always the guy running away when Rikishi was on offence. To that end, booking the finish to have Rikishi squashing him (with an awesome sell-job) made total sense. Like I said, I’m not sure I agree with putting Too Cool over, but this was 2000 and (as we’d find out later in the year), Vince really wanted to push Rikishi hard. Even in defeat The Radicalz looked great.
Big Show vs The Rock
This is a #1 contendership match, with the winner going onto face the WWF Champion at Wrestlemania. That’s an honour which usually goes to the Royal Rumble winner, but after losing the Rumble to The Rock, Show went out and found an eye-witness and video evidence that supported his claim that Rock’s feet touched the ground first. HHH and Stephanie granted him a rematch with Rocky tonight, setting into a motion a chain of events which has seen these two mean tearing arenas apart brawling with each other. One way or another it should all be settled in this one.
Rock slaps Show right in the face…and the fight is underway. Float-over DDT takes the giant off his feet for the first time, but an early attempt at the Rock Bottom is easily blocked. They brawl to the floor and spill into the crowd with Earl Hebner trailing along behind them hopelessly trying to coax them back into the ring. Rock takes a hell of a bump on the concrete floor, but responds by BACK DROPPING SHOW OVER THE GUARDRAILS! When compared to the immobile, slovenly worker Big Show is now over a decade later, that’s a totally unbelievable bump. He’s not even down for long and is soon whipping Rock hard into the ringpost. Another DDT from The Rock is dusted off, with Show scooping him up for an effortless sidewalk slam. Show goes for a chair (‘that doesn’t make any sense’ – JR spot on the money), but misses with his swing and as bodies fall everywhere the referee is bumped. Chokeslam scores, but there’s now no Earl Hebner to count the fall. Earl and Tim White end up bickering about who should count the fall…as Shane McMahon makes his return to the WWF. Big Show is completely distracted and lumbers blindly into the Rock Bottom. Rock lines up the People’s Elbow…but is laid out with a chair by Shane! Big Show takes a cheap win at 09:28
Rating - * - I’ll say it now, I absolutely hate Big Show. I’ve never liked him, I rarely enjoy his matches, and the LOUD groan of disbelief that WWF would book him in the Wrestlemania main event over The Rock mirrors my own sentiments (although of course, it was all part of the bigger scheme/ego trip of Vince to put a McMahon in every corner of the title match instead). At times this was a lusty brawl, but Rock isn’t the most expansive of workers and he needed more than his usual four moves to drag something decent out of the lumbering giant. The goofy Hebner/White referee fight didn’t help. The groan you could hear at the end was the sound of thousands of people NOT buying Wrestlemania if (as it seemed) they had stuck with HHH vs Big Show
In the parking lot Kurt Angle is heading to his car singing ‘We Are The Champions’. He’d been celebrating at various spots around the arena all evening, despite Jericho warning him to stop rubbing his victory in his face. Jericho and Chyna (in a laughable purple lycra outfit) jump him and stuff him in the trunk of his own car…
Triple H vs Cactus Jack – WWF Title Hell In A Cell Match
At Royal Rumble these two tore each other part in a Street Fight which, to this day, remains one of the most violent and exciting WWF Title Matches of all time. HHH survived, and thought he’d put pay to the title aspirations of Jack. But Foley, driven by his ‘dream’ of main eventing a Wrestlemania, stayed in hot pursuit of The Game and demanded another title shot. Hunter offered him any kind of match he wanted, only for Cactus to shock the world by demanding Hell In A Cell – voluntarily returning to the same structure that saw him come close to killing himself against Undertaker back in 1998. A petrified Triple H demanded he put his career on the line for it – and the terms were agreed. Hunter puts his belt on the line, Foley puts his career on the line, and both men put their health in serious jeopardy in what, at this stage, was the WWF’s premier grudge match decider.
HHH delivers the first psychological blow, as the Cell lowers to reveal that he has had the door heavily padlocked shut to prevent Cactus from fulfilling his promise of jumping off it onto him in this match. An unimpressed Jack does his best to bash HHH’s brains against the canvas for that. Just as we saw last month, Hunter has to endure some early punishment – with every attempt he makes at landing an offensive strike quickly brushed off by his maniacal challenger. He drives Jack from the apron into the Cell with a jumping knee then violently hurls him into the steel steps and the ringpost. But unlike last month, he actually expects Foley to get up for more…and this time stands waiting for him to THROW the steps into his face! Now buried under the steps, HHH destroys a chair using it to batter them into Cactus’ prone torso. Cactus gets up again, but again Hunter is ready for him, still wielding the chair to repeatedly nail him with it. And in another clever twist, it’s now Foley who uses some mind games whilst Triple H has been getting hardcore. He suckers him in to another shot and lays in wait to give him a crafty low blow! Double Arm DDT on a chair…but Jack is too beaten up to cover! Roared on by Stephanie, HHH drives Jack’s head into the Cell a few more times! Amazingly, the challenger absorbs all that to catapult Hunter into the cage – with such force that he starts bleeding instantly afterwards! SECOND ROPE CACTUS ELBOW…WITH A CHAIR! The Game is in full retreat, so Cactus throws the steps at him. Hunter ducks – but they go clean through the side of the cage! CACTUS THROWS HIS OWN BODY THROUGH THE CELL TO GET OUT! He rips his own arm open doing that, but is now free to take the fight to the champion wherever he wants.
PILEDRIVER THROUGH THE ANNOUNCE TABLE! Cactus doesn’t even pause to celebrate that move, and is already staring up at the top of the Cell like a lunatic. Stephanie stops him going upstairs then…so Jack fishes around by the timekeeping position to pull out a barbed wire 2x4! It’s the Royal Rumble all over again as he smashes The Game in the face with barbed wire! HHH CLIMBS THE CELL TO ESCAPE! And Foley is going up after him! But HHH gets hold of the barbed wire! BARBED WIRE 2x4 RAKED DOWN CACTUS’ FACE! HE GOES OFF THE CELL THROUGH THE OTHER ANNOUNCE TABLE! Triple H raises his arms in victory, only to drop them in shock as Cactus (now bleeding from the face as well as the arm) emerges from the wreckage of the table. HHH arms himself with the barbed wire 2x4 again, and absolutely hammers Cactus with it as he climbs to the top to meet him. They brawl on the cell, with several panels of chainlink almost giving way as HHH bumps around on them. DOUBLE ARM DDT ON THE CELL! Cactus picks up the barbed wire 2x4…AND SETS IT ON FIRE! BURNING BARBED WIRE 2x4 TO THE FACE! And Foley isn’t done! He positions it to piledriver HHH on the fire! HHH F*CKING COUNTERS IT…HE BACK DROPS HIM THROUGH THE CELL AND THROUGH THE RING! He lays motionless in the wreckage of the canvas, with even Triple H looking on in shock now. He tests to see if Jack is even alive…AND CACTUS CRAWLS TO HIS FEET! Hunter punches him in the face, almost pleading with him to stay down. One last burst of effort…PEDIGREE NAILED! IT’S OVER! Foley’s storied career as a full-time professional wrestler ends at 23:59
Rating - **** - It’s not on the same level as the Street Fight, and unlike that match I don’t think this one has aged quite as well. BUT, this was still an outstanding match, once again highlighted by some brilliant pieces of story-telling. The way they flipped the script on their Rumble match, with Hunter showing his in-ring intelligence and changing up his game to EXPECT Cactus to shake off his offence was very clever, as was, in turn, Jack using a few little tricks to land shots on HHH. Mick returning to Hell In A Cell, after he so famously did his best to kill himself at King Of The Ring 1998 was very poignant and rightly became the focal point of the match – with Mick trying to avenge the demons of ’98 by jumping off the cage again, and HHH doing everything in his power to stop it. In the end, they set things up really well. Every stage of Mick’s ascent up the cage was built up, with every big spot majorly hyped to draw maximum heat from the crowd. Hunter wasn’t up on the Cell for no reason – he was climbing up there to escape the same barbed wire treatment he suffered in MSG last month. The final moments, with Cactus frantically getting out of the broken hole in the ring to his near certain demise (but doing it anyway) were hugely emotional. As a critic, I thought the opening minutes were pretty slow going. They established some themes, but I felt they could have comfortably shaved a few minutes from what they were doing at that stage without damaging the story of the match. Equally the sequence where Mick tried (and failed) to throw a chair onto the Cell unintentionally provided some comic relief which wasn’t really welcome at that stage of the contest. It’s still an epic match, well worth seeing, and a fitting conclusion to the (full-time) career of a legitimate pro-wrestling legend.
The bloody champion and his wife make a swift exit, which leaves Cactus Jack to receive a deserved standing ovation as the curtain comes down on him. He refuses medical attention, wipes away a few tears and walks out unaided with a packed arena chanting his name.
Tape Rating - *** - Much like Royal Rumble, this show has a great main event which people remember to this day – but an undercard which is far more patchy and inconsistent than most fans recall. Lets not beat around the bush, as the end to Foley’s full-time career, the Hell In A Cell Match is absolutely something you need to see. It’s a worthy successor to their MOTY Street Fight and an absorbing, bloody fight. Even though it is now a little dated, it still stands up as one of the better Hell In A Cells (that I’ve seen anyway). There is some awesome stuff on the undercard too. Angle/Jericho was a great opener, showcasing both men’s athleticism, workrate and skill. The Too Cool/Radicalz 6-man was miles better than most people expected (and featured great individual performances from Malenko, Benoit and Rikishi), and for anyone who thought the Hardyz and Edge & Christian could only have good matches with ladders and tables involved, they need to check out their outstanding straight-up tag match on this show. Sadly there’s also a lot of crap to sit through too. The less said about Henry/Viscera the better, but there’s also the dire Bossman/Albert/Tazz angle (which basically killed Tazz’s WWF career within a month of it starting) and the huge disappointment of Rock/Show. It was obvious from the Royal Rumble last month that the MONEY match for the main event of Wrestlemania 2000 was HHH vs Rock. How WWF screwed that up with the multi-McMahon skits I really don’t know, and that slightly egotistical booking from the McMahon’s started tonight. If you can find this now, and have a working skip/fast forward button on your DVD player to avoid the crap, this is still a great show.
Top 3 Matches
3) Too Cool/Rikishi vs Chris Benoit/Dean Malenko/Perry Saturn (***)
2) Edge & Christian vs Hardy Boyz (****)
1) Triple H vs Cactus Jack (****)