By the time
Wrestlemania 2000 came along, the Attitude Era was in full swing. Unfortunately,
this was not the best part of the Attitude Era. Storylines in the mid card were
getting embarrassingly ridiculous, the women’s division was an insult and the
main event was overcrowded with McMahon’s. The only one on one match was the
women’s match and I have a hard time even calling this a match. The only 2 good
matches were the triangle ladder match and the triple threat with
Angle/Benoit/Jericho. Other than that, this felt like a B pay per view you
would find in July, not Wrestlemania, your showcase of the year.
The Godfather and D`Lo Brown with Ice
T vs Big Bossman and Bull Buchanan
The event begins with a Ho train,
not a good start. Ice T is the extent of the celebrity involvement at the show,
not necessarily a bad thing. I`m not sure why this match happened, it just
seems like something you would find thrown together in the middle of Raw to
kill time. I`ve got to say though, Bull Buchanan is extremely agile for a guy
his size. His leg drop from the top turnbuckle was something spectacular, maybe
the best I’ve ever seen.
Winners: Big
Bossman and Bull Buchanan
Hardcore Championship: Hardcore
Battle Royal
While the previous match was serviceable
and decent to watch, the event quickly falls off the rails with this. They call
this a battle royal, but it`s actually a championship scramble. There is a time
limit. When you pin the champion, you become the champion and whoever has the
last pinfall once the timer runs out becomes the actual champion. This match
though is a terrible mess. It`s just people hitting each other with cooking
sheets and punches. Most of the time participants don`t seem to know what the
hell is going on. Totally uncoordinated. Bradshaw looks like he`s pissed off
just being there so he`s extra violent with everyone. This is why the Hardcore
Championship became garbage, it was matches like these that made it worthless.
It mercifully ends after 15 minutes and a botched ending.
Winner: Hardcore
Holly (new champion)
Test and Albert with Trish Stratus vs
Head Cheese (Al Snow and Steve Blackman) with Chester Mccheeserton
Holy shit, look at Trish Stratus!
Before she became a respected women`s wrestler and brought some prestige to the
Women`s Championship, she was just eye candy. But boy, she sure did her job
here. Oh yeah, and Al Snow and Steve Blackman have a little person in a cheese
suit. Sadly Steve Blackman is wasted here. All I remember is how hot Trish
looked and the little cheese guy being beat up at the end.
Winners: Test
& Albert
Tag Team Championship Ladder Match: Dudley
Boyz (c) vs Hardy Boyz vs Edge & Christian
Now we`re talking here. This would
be the beginning of an amazing series of matches between these 3 teams. They
had such great chemistry and were able to create fantastic high spots. Unlike
the hardcore championship match from earlier, this is how you book an extreme
rules match. Do less but say more with it. Make sure to sell and give the crowd
some time to register what happened. Everything done here was marvellously done.
I`m looking forward to seeing their later matches.
Winners: Edge
& Christian (new champions)
Cat Fight: The Kat with Mae Young vs
Terri Runnels with Fabulous Moolah
How did something like this end up
on Wrestlemania? This wasn`t a match, it was an abomination. I`m not even sure
what the rules were. I think if one of the women got thrown out of the ring
they lost. Why is that the stipulation? Luckily we had Val Venis as the special
guest referee. I feel bad for everyone in this. Moolah and Mae Young were legends
who were capable of much better than this. The only point of this was to watch
2 chicks rip their clothes off. While this could work for a throwaway Raw
match, it`s unacceptable that this made it to Wrestlemania.
Winner: Terri
Runnels, but really we`re all losers
Too Cool (Scotty 2 Hotty and Grand
Master Sexay) and Chyna vs The Radicalz (Perry Saturn, Dean Malenko and Eddie
Guerrero)
As stupid as this match sounds, it
turned out much better than it had any right to be. Chyna could actually work.
She had the strength to keep up with the guys and could move well. What could
have been if she didn`t go down that weird path. Eddie Guerrero is great as his
character. Latino Heat!!! The match worked well enough.
Winners: Too
Cool & Chyna
European and Intercontinental
Championship: Kurt Angle (c) vs Christ Benoit vs Chris Jericho
This is the second great match of
the card. Although it only lasted a little under 10 minutes, these 3 men put on
a clinic. They are pros at this and it shows. Everything was perfectly timed
and the matched flowed so smoothly. It was the first Wrestlemania for all 3 of
them but they already looked better than anybody else on the card. Benoit made
everything feel authentic, those chops looked devastating. There was a weird
stipulation where the first fall was for the Intercontinental Championship and
the second was for the European Championship. This is the kind of match you
need at Wrestlemania. There`s not much more I can say, it just needs to be
watched.
Winners:
Chris Benoit (new Intercontinental Champion) and Chris Jericho (new European
Champion)
Rikishi and Kane with Paul Bearer vs
X-Pac and Road Dogg Jesse James with Tori
Another damn tag match! This isn`t
the Survivor Series, cut it with all the tag matches. The only purpose of this
was to have Rikishi give a stinkface to Tori and Pete Rose. Yes Pete Rose comes
back one last time to get beat up by Kane. Nothing to say about this. Rikishi
danced and stuck his ass in people`s face.
Winners:
Kane and Rikishi
WWE World Championship: Triple H (c)
with Stephanie McMahon vs The Big Show with Shane McMahon vs Mick Foley with
Linda McMahon vs The Rock with Vince McMahon
While I do appreciate giving The Big
Show and Mick Foley a chance to main event Wrestlemania, this should have just
been The Rock vs Triple H. That was the feud of the time and it`s always best
when Wrestlemania ends with a 1 on 1 mathc. The big problem with this match
though is that it`s not even about the wrestlers or the championship, it`s
about the McMahon family turmoil. This took away everything that was going on
in the ring. There was more focus on Vince and Shane fighting then there should
have been. The match picks up once it`s just Triple H and The Rock left but it
gets ruined by a non sensical finish and The Rock losing. He still gives a Rock
Bottom to 3 McMahon family members but that`s once again a Raw ending, not one
fitting your biggest event of the year.
Winner:
Triple H (retains World Championship)
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