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Old 04-29-2004, 04:43 PM   #1
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Blast from the past: WWF in 2000
The hottest year to date in WWE (IMO). Damn I miss those days when "sports entertainment" was watchable. Not missing any Monday or Thursday shows because Rocky chasing the title was

Now it's not the same. I can stop watching, (well atleast, if there's something better to do, I'd rather ditch the TV and go outside)

Favorite 2000 moments here....





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Old 04-29-2004, 04:45 PM   #2
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4 years ago around this time would be leading up to the Ironman match with HHH and Rock yeah? And UT's return.
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Old 04-29-2004, 04:50 PM   #3
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Seeing Rock chase the title was entertaining as hell.
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Old 04-29-2004, 04:56 PM   #4
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Twas indeed. Tag division was pretty sweet too with Hardyz, Dudleyz, E&C, T&A, and Too Cool, DX.

Along with matches between Eddie, Angle, Benoit, and Jericho.
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Old 04-29-2004, 07:09 PM   #5
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2000 was a hot year, after wrestlemania, backlash, fully loaded, judgement day, summerslam all kicked ass, but then after that is where it seemed to fall off, somewhere around unforgiven and no mercy, i miss those days...
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Old 04-29-2004, 07:19 PM   #6
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98/99 was was pretty hott
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Old 04-29-2004, 07:31 PM   #7
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I enjoyed 99 as well.
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Old 04-29-2004, 07:44 PM   #8
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Old 04-29-2004, 08:08 PM   #9
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I thought 1998 and 1999 were both far better than 2000. 2000 was a great year because the Rock stepped up, but the pay-per-views just had far better quality in 1999.

My favorite moments of 2000 were everything with Mick Foley's feud with the McMahon-Helmsley regime and Chris Jericho winning the title on raw, only to give it right back.
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Old 04-29-2004, 08:32 PM   #10
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WWF/WWE peaked at WrestleMania X-7, after that... shit.
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Old 04-29-2004, 08:35 PM   #11
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In my opinion, 2000 was the year that they enjoyed the fruits from the previous few years. Alot of guys became superstars. Triple H, Austin, The Rock, Undertaker, all them. They ALL got over.

My favorite 2000 moment was The Rock cheating the Big Show out of the decision in the Royal Rumble. LOL, that rocked.
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Old 04-29-2004, 09:23 PM   #12
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Lots of good moments from 2000. Foley's Commisioner reign was good. New stars of Benoit, Angle, and Jericho being elevated, the birth of TLC.

Even though I'm not big of a Benoit fan, he gave one of my favorite matches from the year at Fully Loaded. It was a time where anything could happen in a title match. If I remember right, The Rock could've been DQ'd and lose the title. Shane kept interfering, actually hitting the ref. The ref thought it was Rocky and DQ's him. Foley came out and said there was no DQ and Rock retains.
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Old 04-29-2004, 09:59 PM   #13
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Even though I'm not big of a Benoit fan, he gave one of my favorite matches from the year at Fully Loaded. It was a time where anything could happen in a title match. If I remember right, The Rock could've been DQ'd and lose the title. Shane kept interfering, actually hitting the ref. The ref thought it was Rocky and DQ's him. Foley came out and said there was no DQ and Rock retains.
That sort of annoyed me to be honest.
At two consecutive PPV's (i beleive), Benoit won the title, b4 Foley said "game on"
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Old 04-29-2004, 10:28 PM   #14
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I really didn't find the year 2000 that exciting. I have just about every PPV from that year, and all of them sort of blow compared to most of today's PPVs. I guess the athleticism just wasn't as good then as it is now.

Personally, I find Kurt Angle, Eddie Guerrero, Chris Benoit, and even Triple H fighting over their respective titles more exciting and entertaining than Rock's title chase.
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Old 04-29-2004, 10:38 PM   #15
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Watching HHH slowly turn face, when the net actually liked him

Seeing Benoit, Malenko, Eddie, and Saturn all jump ship

The return of Cactus Jack, then the "end" of Foley's career

But most of all, "the match that never happened" BUT I REMEMBER DAMMIT, see my sig







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Old 04-29-2004, 11:28 PM   #16
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I put in a tape from 2000 and promptly laughed my ass off. That was an entertaining year. Wish I had more of it (BTW, if anyone has a video of the Rock's HHH impersonation involving "The People's Vomit", PM me).

The first half of the year was owned by The Rock, and the latter, by Kurt Angle.

HHH was a net favorite, and slowly becoming a fan favorite, only to turn on the fans at the right moment. (Plus, he wasn't winning the title all the time)

I remember The Rock was regarded back then on the net during his title reign in a similar manner as HHH is now, but...because Rock actually did jobs for people he never reached HHH's level of scorn.

99 as far as in-ring product was concerned, was doo-doo, but I have to say, the next-to-last heel incarnation of DX (just the guys: X-Pac, Road Dogg, Mr. Ass and HHH) was great. If only Billy Gunn hadn't gotten injured...that killed DX.

Chris Jericho's match that "didn't happen" was golden.

I loved seeing Chris Benoit's feuds with Jericho and The Rock during that year. If anything, it made later Benoit happenings (Benoit stealing the medals, and most recently his alliance with John Cena) incredibly hilarious because he was one of the more "serious" wrestlers on WWE TV. The Rock feud made Benoit a bonafide WWE main-eventer.

The return of Steve Austin was genius except for one thing: using Rikishi as the sacrificial lamb. Heel Rikishi was interesting but not for the lame motive they gave him... also when they took Rikishi off TV for a while only to reintroduce him as the dancing butt-bomber the fans loved out of the blue was kind of crap.

For the most part, Stone Cold was their biggest star, the one who had gotten WWE where it was at that point, and The Rock had to take over the top spot in his absence. A few people didn't think he or anyone else could do it, but he did, and quite well, to the point it had WWE fans proverbially salivating over the many possibilities of angles when Austin finally returned from his neck injury. We wanted to see just what the heck he would do with all the new faces that joined WWE since he left (Angle, Benoit, etc.)...

and has everyone forgotten one of THE most hilarious and winning tag teams that year? Edge and Christian!!

The tag team struggle between them, the Dudleys and the Hardyz was hilarious. Except where non-WWE origin wrestlers that weren't Eddie Guererro or Chris Benoit were concerned, a lot of new stars were made that year. A lot of existing stars were elevated...

only beef I have with that year was the use of Tazz...he looked like he was gonna have a feud with Benoit, then got injured, and that was it for the man in orange and black.

It seemed WWE was a lot cooler when it had WCW to kick around.
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Old 04-29-2004, 11:46 PM   #17
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on another note, WCW was cooler when it had WWE to kick around, too.

their "2000" was probably 1997.
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Old 04-30-2004, 09:16 AM   #18
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It all started with Cactus/Hunter at the Rumble and 2000 flew from there
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I just watched that match again on Foleys DVD, it was pretty intense
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Old 04-30-2004, 09:43 AM   #20
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Jericho/Triple H Last Man Standing at Fully Loaded was gold.
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Old 04-30-2004, 10:38 AM   #21
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2000 was a hot year, after wrestlemania, backlash, fully loaded, judgement day, summerslam all kicked ass, but then after that is where it seemed to fall off, somewhere around unforgiven and no mercy, i miss those days...
Hmmmmm. Didn't Austin return to TV at Unforgiven and return to the ring at No Mercy?

On the whole, 2000 was probably the best year in the WWF/WWE. DX, Rock as champ, The Radicalz, Foley as commissioner, Austin at the end, Undertaker as a Bad Ass, a Triple H that people liked...

2000 "Reeked of Awesomeness!"

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For a singular moment, Jericho "winning" the title still stands out for me. As far as matches go, the Cactus/HHH match at the Rumble still stands as one of my all time favourite matches.
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Old 04-30-2004, 09:39 PM   #23
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watched that match on that same DVD yesterday too
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Jericho/Triple H Last Man Standing at Fully Loaded was gold.
hahhah, wasn't that a great of a match, but its hilarious if you watch the video build up for the match were Hunter says 'I want Jericho's ass!!' about 5 times in the segment

Little did Jericho know that Hunter would have his ass with a Job at mania for the undisputed title
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