Kurt Angle- habitual line stepper Lmao "It's not like i would just go around sittin' on Undertaker's bike, like it's something to do... C'mon man, i got more sense than that. Yeah, i remember sittin' on Undertaker's bike...."
I know these guys are professionals, but you can't tell me Val Venis wasn't shitting himself the entire time when he saw a 400 lb man dive off the top of the cage.
@Steve Winwood It might've been belly, but that was a 400-500 pound man jumping on him. The butt is soft but Yokozuna almost killed a guy or two with the bonzai drop
I remember being in the crowd for this event. When Benoit won, I was smashed with a full cup of beer thrown from the rafters. WWF was not happy seeing a child cry, they gave me a 6 pack of WWF RC Cola.
I wonder what would have been better, WWF RC Cola or a T-shirt. I feel like they found the first free thing they could find back stage. Still cool but they could've done something so much cooler. Like here is a the 6 pack, here is a shirt, and here is Mark Henry (or any random wrestler who hasn't left)
Because of the Invasion Angle. Basically. It's still the highest grossing non-Big 4 pay per view. The Invasion Angle could of been better if they had bigger WCW stars
That was a really good business decision. Regardless of how the Invasion Angle turned out, the InVasion PPV was a huge success. One of the WWE's highest grossing non Big 4 PPVs.
Val Venis had to have a helluva lot of trust in Rikishi to take that bump off the cage. There is no way in hell that I would have taken that bump, no matter how good Rikishi was. At the same time, this bump showed how good Rikishi was. To me, he is one of the most underrated workers in the history of the business. He was amazingly athletic for his size, and rarely had a terrible match with anyone. It took a lot of skill for him to dive on Venis from that height without injuring either one of them.
It's that or the stinkface, where Rikishi may not have cleaned his wrestling gear for weeks because he wanted to put people he didn't like through misery. I'll take the 400lb "Supafly" Rikishi off the cage, thank you very much.
Around this time he was great but he got way way bigger later in his career to the point he was to big to really wrestle. Watch him in tna around 2004 I think, he was so so bad. If he’d look after his body he would have had a much much better career.
@@mikeprice2556I doubt it, they could risk either one being injured giving it a trial run leading up and having to call it off the day of. I would say it was just an all or nothing spot they just went for 🤷♀️
Ah, the Chyna breaking the table spot. Jericho's second book talks about that. The table was rigged for their Last Man Standing match so they could go through it and even had warning out like "don't touch the damn announce table". Then Chyna just goes through it. Apparently Jericho just walked into the dressing room to Triple H and went "so Chyna just went through the announce table, we need a new finish" or something to that effect.
I think the new finish worked perfect too. And I love the idea of how the face (Jericho) gives such a valiant out numbered against all odds type fight to the heel who has been a multi time WWF champion (I think 4 times) and takes him to his limit to the point that despite the bad guy winning he collapses immediately afterward leaving it clear to everyone that it could’ve gone either way in kayfabe, it’s a good ending.
What's even funnier is that 18 years later this happened again at Wrestle Kingdom 12 with Jericho & Kenny Omega. They had some unique weapon under the ring I can't remember what it was, then iirc in the junior heavyweight match iirc kushida got it out and even had a "wth is this doing under the ring" face & expended it, so jericho & Omega had to come up with something different before their match.
@@LiberatorGalore that He'll in the Cell bump to me was terrible. So fake looking and they could have done better than a truck full of hay for landing. Yes they should try to make such things safer for the wrestlers but it was cheesy to me. Plus Rikishi's fall was just odd. Straight down with no movement or emotion. Like Shane from the Titantron. Although I liked the match and the fall it was still odd
I think alot people forget when he wrestled under his real make in the headshrinkers that he would always end a match with a frog splash so to see him to it from the cage was insane.
Ah, Reunion arena, brings back memories of going to Stars games as a little kid. Also I can’t even be mad at Edge and Christian because that JFK thing was hilarious 😂
Same dude. This was the first ever wrestling show I went to. I remember when the speakers would blast Austin's theme whenever a fight broke out during Stars games. Also Belfour was my favorite hocker player back then. Good times.
Austin Burras. One was a porn star whose promos were all innuendos and sex puns and the other was a jolly dancing fat man who would stick his ass in people’s faces. Yeah, how were they not comedy acts? Cause, while those gimmicks got over, nothing about them sounds serious.
Michael Bandada Haha I'll never forget what Taker told Kurt during that segment.. "Kurt, I tell you what... I'm gonna punch your teeth so far down your throat, you're gonna be able to chew your own ass out for pissin' me off." Lol
"Scaredy cat-itis, which is, of course, inflammation of the scaredy cat." Thank you so much for pointing that out. I hate when people slap "itis" on the end of things when they don't know what it means. It's like when people put the suffix "-gate" at the end of every controversy.
It must be said : Trish was incredible. Started as a mere model, learn from scratch,paid Her dues in Her willingness To bump and became, in my opinion, the very best woman worker of the era. Good as a face, exceptional as a heel, a real bonafide heel magnet. Seeing Her perform always bring a smile.
Test was such a underrated wrestler for a big guy I feel like he was agile & could do high flying moves almost as good as the guys like the hardys & edge + Christian
That Benoit/ Rock main event is one of my favorite non Big 4 main events ever. This is imo Rock's best wrestling match as he was completely able to keep up with Benoit and man that fake out finish with Benoit winning only for it to be restarted was wonderful. Also that LMS was amazing.
2000 was tough for collecting the PPVs. Only the bigger ppvs got DVDs while the ones in between got VHS. Yet all the 2000 PPVs were DVD worthy. Fully Loaded is one of the few PPVs I don't own unfortunately.
Great review! I was there live in the 2nd row. I was 10 at the time and I have so many fond memories of that night. After the show I met The Rock and he was the nicest guy ever. I love this PPV and it holds a special place in my heart. I still have the folding chairs too
IIRC, the Dusty Finish was supposed to lead to a Rock/Benoit rematch (the original plans for SummerSlam 2000 was Rock/Benoit in a gimmick match, Taker/Show and Triple H/Angle), but the whole Shane McMahon Conspiracy angle was dropped when Big Show was demoted to OVW due to weight issues (Kane suddenly turned heel, Rock was inserted into H/Steph/Angle very late in the build, Benoit was moved down to face Jericho)
In the best year of the Attitude Era in terms of quality of writing, creativity, and in ring action, this stands as the best pay per view. It gets overlooked sometimes, but I think this is for sure one of the high water marks of the WWF's second golden age.
So fun fact, the Go home week of King of the Ring 2000 was the first time I actively started following wrestling, and this was the first event where I knew of all the performers going in and saw all the build up.
“VPN: Very Personal Narcotics Stash” 😂 But for real, the show was fantastic. I hadn’t watched it before, but after watching it after you announced that it’ll be the next review, I loved it.
The undercard being stacked is why the Attitude Era was best Era. It wasn't just 2 or 3 guys on top with everyone else treading water and having nothing to do. Even the midcarders had interesting storylines.
9:07 I do reviews of older ppvs too and I've heard that a couple of times, particularly with some ECW shows and I've never understood it. One time they were chanting boring during an RVD and 2 Cold Scorpio match, which was really good. I think "boring" and "you can't wrestle" are probably the most disrespectful chants and I really wish people would shut those down.
Jamel Watson but nothing will ever be peak disrespect than the what chants. Heel or face, nothing ruined cutting a promo than having fans obnoxiously shouting WHAT after every damn sentence. It wasn’t cool or funny the first month or year,never mind over a decade
In reference to the opening hype package saying, “These dice are Fully Loaded!”, The Rock in Walking Tall says “Your dice are loaded.” I believe WWE studios produced that movie as well.
In Jericho's second book, he said that the Spanish announce table that breaks in the Eddie match was supposed to be used in the finish of their match. I think they were supposed to suplex from one table to the other or something. After that table broke, Jericho and Triple H had to come up with a new finish to their match.
I have first hand memories of this: I wonder how many people were salty with this PPV because ads promoted Steve Austin. But it was post-Backlash, pre-Unforgiven. Obviously not Austin's comeback. And I wonder if that clouded people's judgements on what was a damn good PPV
Well not really cause Shane hit the ref with a chair cause remember if The Rock got DQed he would lose the title, the dumb ref thought The Great One hit him he saw the chair and call for the bell thankfully Mick saw this and restarted the match.
Completely with you on Edge and Christian being my favourite tag team of all time. Love them! Christian is IMO one of the most under used guys in WWE history.
This is the show that started it all for me as a professional wrestling fan! The build for Rock/Benoit hooked me in, the undercard was never better than this and the Jericho/HHH match is one of my favorite matches ever! Definitely the greatest wrestling PPV up to this point.
Loved the double call of the last ride. It was in one of the smackdown games IIRC. Every time you hit the move, Michael Cole would say it twice... every time.
Saturn was one of the more underrated under utilized wrestlers of that era imo. His moppy gimmick WAS kinda stupid. If not outright offensive to a lot of ppl. But I mean. He DID make it work! Sadly that's all I really remember of any gimmicks he may have had after. I kinda fell outta the loop for awhile. But I DO REMEMBER that he go just as well if not BETTER than most of his "peers."
Moppy was punishment for shooting on Mike Bell. Seriously though, Saturn was a mess by the end of his run in the WWF. He was drugged up like crazy, it's a good thing he managed to get sober.
www.fanfiction.net/s/2094087/1/Hugs-and-Kisses Here you are! If you click on the author's profile, there's actually two, but I'm not sure what's the difference besides chapter count.
Dont forget the poster had Austin on it rolling snake eyes on the dice i heard he was meant to return at this event but was postponed to Unforgiven since Raw was moving to TNN the next night, basically to get a high rating
Stone Cold "returned" at Backlash by helping the Rock beat HHH. He took zero bumps, absolutely destroyed everyone bit Rocky with a chair, and then celebrated with him after the match as well as towing the carcass of the DX Express. Then he was gone again until Unforgiven. BTW, the pop that Austin gets when the glass shatters is fucking insane. Almost as huge as when he helped Foley win the title in '99.
Yeah, they wanted to save his return and first match for Unforgiven and No Mercy respectively since they could easily pop ratings and buyrates that way.
Had this recorded as it was on Channel 4 here in Ireland and it still is one of my favourite PPVs. Every match delivered. Rikishi leaping from the cage was insane and the last man standing match was a work of art. Fantastic show
This show has, in my opinion, the best back and forth on commentary in WWE history. The bit where King is going on about all the names Jericho calls Steph, and asks HR if he'd like it if someone said that about his wife. JR's reaction is so authentic and it's one of the rare times commentary acknowledges a heel being justified.
Speaking of underrated, your impressions are great, Brian. My favourite is that time when Austin got his foot caught in the ropes and Triple H had to come save him: “HELP!” 😂
The Rock pretty much carried WWE in 2000, if it weren’t for him who knows what they would have done. Austin didn’t return full time until September at Unforgiven 2000.
That's why Rock started dominating the TV time from the summer of 1999 onwards. They knew Austin was gonna be on the shelf for a while so they had to get Rock ready for the top spot. Mick Foley also helped legitimize HHH as the top heel to feud with Rock, so he deserves a lot of credit for the early part of 2000 as well. It was simple forward thinking that WWE just doesn't do nowadays.
One of the reasons I love this channel: you review these shows with nostalgia having seen them originally WHEN THEY AIRED. You're a true fan from a ways back - unlike some of this channels with guys playing Catch Up as they quickly binge PPVs on the WWE Network so they can make their review videos. Great work as always, bud
If I had to rank the AE years I’d go 1.1997 2.2000 3.1998 4.2001 5.1999 I don’t cont 02 or anything to do with the invasion angle as AE, it died at wm 17 or at the very latest early summer 01.
I think 2000 is better overall than any year of the Attitude Era great undercard and main event card but I personally like 1997 more because of classic storylines and the basically sets up the events of the Attitude Era.
Tre Redding yea the first half of 97 wasn’t that great but by the time the summer hit that year it was like a completely different product than what was happening in the beginning of the year. 97 put the rest of the AE in motion plus we still had guys like Bret, Sid, Vader, and LOD in the company.
@@MikeJohnson-lt1il 2000 had better quality overall but 1997 is much more significant and influential on wrestling. It kickstarted the boom period and led to a drastic change in tone and writing. My personal favorite is 1998 for the wrestling business because all 3 companies were on fire at the time.
Kurt Angle- habitual line stepper
Lmao
"It's not like i would just go around sittin' on Undertaker's bike, like it's something to do...
C'mon man, i got more sense than that.
Yeah, i remember sittin' on Undertaker's bike...."
Percocets are a helluva drug.
He know he could buy another bike. What's Angle gonna do about his ass, Undertaker?!?
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@@eriqlacks413
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This is hilarious when reading it in Angle's voice.
"The Von Erich's! The Freebirds! Sports!" - Yeah, that's pretty much how I remember that Bradshaw shouty promo too.
RIKI TENRYU! THE GREAT CHONO! AKEBONO INOKI!
He does the same type of promo at Wrestlemania X-Seven in Houston TX
Texas!
BIG KEESH
THE GREAT KHAKI
SEXUAL ASSAULT OF ROOKIES IN THE LOCKER ROOM! YEAH!
I know these guys are professionals, but you can't tell me Val Venis wasn't shitting himself the entire time when he saw a 400 lb man dive off the top of the cage.
21:02 Val Venis: That wasn’t fun.
I was lucky and got to see that live. I thought he killed Val lmao
Rikisihi had to have fucked his legs up
@Steve Winwood It might've been belly, but that was a 400-500 pound man jumping on him. The butt is soft but Yokozuna almost killed a guy or two with the bonzai drop
I know I would
I remember being in the crowd for this event. When Benoit won, I was smashed with a full cup of beer thrown from the rafters. WWF was not happy seeing a child cry, they gave me a 6 pack of WWF RC Cola.
Definitely will have to tell your grandchildren that story! Too unique
I wonder what would have been better, WWF RC Cola or a T-shirt.
I feel like they found the first free thing they could find back stage. Still cool but they could've done something so much cooler. Like here is a the 6 pack, here is a shirt, and here is Mark Henry (or any random wrestler who hasn't left)
Its cool atleast you have story to tell!
Reminds me, I haven't had RC cola in YEARS. I wonder if it's still as mediocre as I remember it...
I don't think they can just give away Mark Henry.
Let the record show that Big Hoss McGraw's mask does a better job at covering a mustache than Rick Rude's Phantom mask did at Halloween Havoc '91.
Amazing!
Big Hoss McGraw's mask also did a better job at covering a mustache than DC did with Superman 😂
+Chris Breezy
*LOL*
@@godlevel5495
#SAVAGE
Big hoss McGraw stole my VPN and I dont mean surf shark...
Man that card was stacked with talent
You could say it was "Fully Loaded?" Maybe? Maybe not?
@@jcutt2718 was thinking that exact thought haha, dad jokes for life
The 2000 roster was stacked
Every match on the card was solid to great.
@@jcutt2718 😂😂😂
Fun fact: There was scheduled to be a Fully Loaded 2001 but it was changed to InVasion
That's right
Because of the Invasion Angle. Basically. It's still the highest grossing non-Big 4 pay per view. The Invasion Angle could of been better if they had bigger WCW stars
I recently watched kotr 01 and this was promoted as fully loaded just weeks before
That was a really good business decision. Regardless of how the Invasion Angle turned out, the InVasion PPV was a huge success. One of the WWE's highest grossing non Big 4 PPVs.
@@MrLatrunks14
I wish we would have seen Austin vs Goldberg
Val Venis had to have a helluva lot of trust in Rikishi to take that bump off the cage. There is no way in hell that I would have taken that bump, no matter how good Rikishi was. At the same time, this bump showed how good Rikishi was. To me, he is one of the most underrated workers in the history of the business. He was amazingly athletic for his size, and rarely had a terrible match with anyone. It took a lot of skill for him to dive on Venis from that height without injuring either one of them.
It's that or the stinkface, where Rikishi may not have cleaned his wrestling gear for weeks because he wanted to put people he didn't like through misery.
I'll take the 400lb "Supafly" Rikishi off the cage, thank you very much.
Around this time he was great but he got way way bigger later in his career to the point he was to big to really wrestle. Watch him in tna around 2004 I think, he was so so bad. If he’d look after his body he would have had a much much better career.
It was prob rehearsed at least 2-3 times/ also have serious doubts if Val had enough pull, to even say no.
At one point an NFL recruiter said Rikishi "slipped through the system because someone that big and athletic should be in the NFL."
@@mikeprice2556I doubt it, they could risk either one being injured giving it a trial run leading up and having to call it off the day of. I would say it was just an all or nothing spot they just went for 🤷♀️
Ah, the Chyna breaking the table spot. Jericho's second book talks about that. The table was rigged for their Last Man Standing match so they could go through it and even had warning out like "don't touch the damn announce table". Then Chyna just goes through it. Apparently Jericho just walked into the dressing room to Triple H and went "so Chyna just went through the announce table, we need a new finish" or something to that effect.
That’s so funny to me thinking about how Jericho was hiding from Triple H in Kayfabe
Hahaha I forgot about that story. I read his book years ago so thanks for the reminder!
Adds some credibility to Corny's shoot on Chyna where he lambastes her for being clueless.
I think the new finish worked perfect too. And I love the idea of how the face (Jericho) gives such a valiant out numbered against all odds type fight to the heel who has been a multi time WWF champion (I think 4 times) and takes him to his limit to the point that despite the bad guy winning he collapses immediately afterward leaving it clear to everyone that it could’ve gone either way in kayfabe, it’s a good ending.
What's even funnier is that 18 years later this happened again at Wrestle Kingdom 12 with Jericho & Kenny Omega. They had some unique weapon under the ring I can't remember what it was, then iirc in the junior heavyweight match iirc kushida got it out and even had a "wth is this doing under the ring" face & expended it, so jericho & Omega had to come up with something different before their match.
Angle's cartoon wrench, The Stephanie's panties sign and Benoit wearing Rock's tattered expensive shirt made me laugh out loud more than they should.
I can't believe those fans had the balls to hold up a sign with panties stapled onto it, I wonder if they got in trouble?
@@apere431 Back then, anything goes
Can't lie, the "Jericho's ass" portion popped me.
+D'Metrus Reece
*LOL*
The Ass of Jericho
I completely forgot about rikishi doing that splash. My god that was insane
The biggest bump I’ve seen Rikishi take.
It’s forgotten because in the same year he takes a bigger bump, 6 man hell in a cell match by getting thrown off.
@@LiberatorGalore that He'll in the Cell bump to me was terrible. So fake looking and they could have done better than a truck full of hay for landing. Yes they should try to make such things safer for the wrestlers but it was cheesy to me. Plus Rikishi's fall was just odd. Straight down with no movement or emotion. Like Shane from the Titantron. Although I liked the match and the fall it was still odd
I think alot people forget when he wrestled under his real make in the headshrinkers that he would always end a match with a frog splash so to see him to it from the cage was insane.
Ah, Reunion arena, brings back memories of going to Stars games as a little kid.
Also I can’t even be mad at Edge and Christian because that JFK thing was hilarious 😂
Same dude. This was the first ever wrestling show I went to. I remember when the speakers would blast Austin's theme whenever a fight broke out during Stars games. Also Belfour was my favorite hocker player back then. Good times.
@@BloodTampon Eddie The Eagle was a beast, helluva goalie.
i went to my first smackdown at Runion Arena and had my 04 gradution at Reunion. So along ago.
Used to go to Mavericks games at Reunion Arena as a kid....when they were horrible!!!
God Level Love those Triple J’s team.
*Random but I miss when a big spot happened, cameras would start flashing. Tbh it made big spots that much more of a big deal*
Yeah, Brian goes over that in his review of Shawn Michaels return at Summerslam and that HUGE torrent flashes whenever he did a top spot.
I miss that, it made it feel important
+Sim ?
Agreed wholeheartedly.
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Yep.
@@fthomason93
I miss that too.
The angle leading to Kish/Venis was amazing. Two comedy characters having a crazy bloody southern style brawl on Smackdown!
Summer of 2000 was great!
They were never comedy characters
Austin Burras the guy who stuck his ass in people’s faces was never a comedy character? What? Lol
Yeah, the guy pretending to be a porn star that talked about his dick all the time? Serious bznz
Austin Burras. One was a porn star whose promos were all innuendos and sex puns and the other was a jolly dancing fat man who would stick his ass in people’s faces.
Yeah, how were they not comedy acts? Cause, while those gimmicks got over, nothing about them sounds serious.
Kurt Angle used to mock The Undertaker by riding the Olympic scooter, a clear parody of Undertaker’s entrances with his bike
Then next year Kurt Angle would dress as the Olympic Gold Medal-Ass when he partnered with Undertaker. th-cam.com/video/hPclophQHaw/w-d-xo.html
Michael Bandada Haha I'll never forget what Taker told Kurt during that segment.. "Kurt, I tell you what... I'm gonna punch your teeth so far down your throat, you're gonna be able to chew your own ass out for pissin' me off." Lol
Sadly how the tables turn the Tazz vs Snow match would've been applauded if donr in ECW 3 years prior
Trish Stratus At This Time & That Pink Outfit....Lawddd
+MoneyMay
Yep.
I wish my face was her chair
before she let that surgeon destroy her face.
shhh dont say that around brian, hes feminazi and thats sexist according to him
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What???
"Scaredy cat-itis, which is, of course, inflammation of the scaredy cat."
Thank you so much for pointing that out. I hate when people slap "itis" on the end of things when they don't know what it means. It's like when people put the suffix "-gate" at the end of every controversy.
Hey, inflammation of the scaredy cat is serious stuff, it can end careers! 😂
This is sort of an itis-gate if you will
It must be said : Trish was incredible. Started as a mere model, learn from scratch,paid Her dues in Her willingness To bump and became, in my opinion, the very best woman worker of the era.
Good as a face, exceptional as a heel, a real bonafide heel magnet.
Seeing Her perform always bring a smile.
Test was such a underrated wrestler for a big guy I feel like he was agile & could do high flying moves almost as good as the guys like the hardys & edge + Christian
If you ever forgot how incredible Eddie Guerrero was in the ring just watch that Frog Splash into the front roll.
I love the "Bradshaw gets blown up doing a promo" line.
Bradshaw was more blown up than Kalisto was during his “Good Lucha Things” promo.
Goddamit! Woooooooooooooo!
That Benoit/ Rock main event is one of my favorite non Big 4 main events ever. This is imo Rock's best wrestling match as he was completely able to keep up with Benoit and man that fake out finish with Benoit winning only for it to be restarted was wonderful. Also that LMS was amazing.
Man Benoit vs Rock And Jericho vs HHH LMS Were Amazing Matches
Three real wrestlers...and The Rock, not surprised.
Thank you for the "habitual line-stepper" line. That got me. RIP Charlie Murphy & Rick James
“He’s Thug Life, He’s Thug Bread, and if he loses he’ll be thug dead.” I’m currently thug dead laughing right now
Brian "The Beard" Zane is giving us great content everyday #Respect
Agreed,he does such thorough reviews. 👍
That rikishi spot with Val venis damn! Great times!!! Such a shame it wasn’t on dvd!
You can watch it on the WWE Network, but I forget the cost. 🤨
@@elmagnificodep 9.99 a month
elmagnificodep i did watch it there but I prefer to own it on dvd! Lol
2000 was tough for collecting the PPVs. Only the bigger ppvs got DVDs while the ones in between got VHS. Yet all the 2000 PPVs were DVD worthy. Fully Loaded is one of the few PPVs I don't own unfortunately.
EmmettXIV I think Backlash, Judgment Day and Fully Loaded should have been on dvd in my opinion
Trish in 2000 was absolutely amazing.
Insomniac got their inspiration for Ratchet and Clank from 2000 Kurt Angle, who would have thought
No? wtf
@@MrAjking808 obviously a joke
Great review! I was there live in the 2nd row. I was 10 at the time and I have so many fond memories of that night. After the show I met The Rock and he was the nicest guy ever. I love this PPV and it holds a special place in my heart. I still have the folding chairs too
I can see Brian C-Walkin to the Intro song of this
Me too
IIRC, the Dusty Finish was supposed to lead to a Rock/Benoit rematch (the original plans for SummerSlam 2000 was Rock/Benoit in a gimmick match, Taker/Show and Triple H/Angle), but the whole Shane McMahon Conspiracy angle was dropped when Big Show was demoted to OVW due to weight issues (Kane suddenly turned heel, Rock was inserted into H/Steph/Angle very late in the build, Benoit was moved down to face Jericho)
You could say the last main event was "Foley Loaded".
The Classic PPV Reviews are my favorite part of your channel. They're always the funniest and most entertaining
In the best year of the Attitude Era in terms of quality of writing, creativity, and in ring action, this stands as the best pay per view. It gets overlooked sometimes, but I think this is for sure one of the high water marks of the WWF's second golden age.
You had the best talent from WCW and ECW
You didn’t have the Russo writing, instead you had some of the best writing in wrestling
I agree 2000 is the best year but I personally like 1997 more.
Great camera work on the Rikishi splash with the zoom in on his face
It's crazy that the 3 participants from the IC/EU title match at Wrestlemania were all in the Triple main event within just a couple of months
So fun fact, the Go home week of King of the Ring 2000 was the first time I actively started following wrestling, and this was the first event where I knew of all the performers going in and saw all the build up.
Fun fact: My brother went to this show. Top level near the giant "Rock" sign.
That fact wasnt fun at all......
That's not a fun fact more like a family fact lol.
I'm assuming he won't stop talking about it XD
That's awesome, I bet he had a blast! What a great memory he's going to remember for a lifetime!!
@@Justindedwards215 lol
One of the BEST attitude era PPV's of all time! Was stoked all week to watch this review
“VPN: Very Personal Narcotics Stash” 😂
But for real, the show was fantastic. I hadn’t watched it before, but after watching it after you announced that it’ll be the next review, I loved it.
Literally go to the Classic PPV Review playlist and hit play.. can't go wrong with any
The look Christian has when he gets caught should really be a meme. It's that hilarious.
That Last Man Standing match was awesome!
The undercard being stacked is why the Attitude Era was best Era. It wasn't just 2 or 3 guys on top with everyone else treading water and having nothing to do. Even the midcarders had interesting storylines.
More so in 00 than 98.
My uncle used to tell my and my cousin "You guys are so totally busted!" Like Foley every time he'd catch us smoking or something.
9:07 I do reviews of older ppvs too and I've heard that a couple of times, particularly with some ECW shows and I've never understood it. One time they were chanting boring during an RVD and 2 Cold Scorpio match, which was really good. I think "boring" and "you can't wrestle" are probably the most disrespectful chants and I really wish people would shut those down.
Agree very much - although having said that, EC3 made a virtue of the "you can't wrestle" chant in TNA.
Jamel Watson but nothing will ever be peak disrespect than the what chants. Heel or face, nothing ruined cutting a promo than having fans obnoxiously shouting WHAT after every damn sentence. It wasn’t cool or funny the first month or year,never mind over a decade
In reference to the opening hype package saying, “These dice are Fully Loaded!”, The Rock in Walking Tall says “Your dice are loaded.” I believe WWE studios produced that movie as well.
"The Von Erichs! The Freebirds! Sports!" Yeah thats a good Huey Lewis album Bradshaw
I actually had no idea that rikishi cage splash existed. That's amazing. Fair play to val venis taking that!
The Christian/JFK promo with Edge immediately changing the tone is the funniest off the wall promo in wrestling history.
“Rosie O’Donnell” vs. “Donald Trump” was definitely deserving of a boring chant. 💁♀️
Hey man that trump look-a-like did more than tweet so hes done exponentially more than the real deal...
@@glennrugar9248 Don't forget when the real Trump clotheslined Vince at Wrestlemania 23
@@droskiato in a fair fight Vince would kick Trumps ass.
Brian Tobar Yeah, it was so much more entertaining when she kicked Larry David’s ass
In Jericho's second book, he said that the Spanish announce table that breaks in the Eddie match was supposed to be used in the finish of their match. I think they were supposed to suplex from one table to the other or something. After that table broke, Jericho and Triple H had to come up with a new finish to their match.
15:47 Chappelle Show rules!!!!
I had to watch that part again to understand that reference. Damm that's funny.
I have first hand memories of this: I wonder how many people were salty with this PPV because ads promoted Steve Austin. But it was post-Backlash, pre-Unforgiven. Obviously not Austin's comeback. And I wonder if that clouded people's judgements on what was a damn good PPV
It was unanimously classed as a classic PPV then.
@@liquidgeorge Yeah, it was critically applauded by the IWC. It also helped that it followed KOTR 2000, a very lackluster show.
Was one of the highlights of my late childhood.
I miss 2000's WWF. It was always entertaining and the star power on this show alone is just crazy.
Fully Loaded Dice are just regular dice with cheese, sour cream, AND bacon.
Brian: "next PPV is Living Dangerously"
Me: *flashbacks to New Jack and Vic Grimes falling*
20:23 Holy Shit! Underrated moment, underrated match, underrated ppv
Props to Rikishi, he had a standout year in 2000.
It's amazing how good Trish would get. Shows her dedication and how much work she put in.
I get pissed how that Rikishi spot never gets the recognition it deserves. The match is even a good match. It’s needs so much more love.
25:13 'Magnificent match! What will happen next!?'
'You can fell the electricity in the air!'
'Pinfall!'
'The Undertaker...won the match.'
Damn is Brian training in the Siberian mountains to fight a soviet on Christmas? Sick beard
Hearts on Fire lol
Sadly I think he’s waiting for his right moment to leave his family and become a lumberjack
Saturn was so vastly underrated. Between that clothesline sell and the step bounce he was a modern Rick rude
@bigevilworldwide1 tell that to moppie
i seem to remember recording this on VHS from Channel 4 in the UK.
Yes! Same.
Yep.
Me too.
.... and then passing around mates to watch
@@simonmorley2934 Trade it for one of those friday night Channel 5 softcore pornos!
Such an underrated PPV. I remember thinking Benoit actually beat The Rock for the title.
Well not really cause Shane hit the ref with a chair cause remember if The Rock got DQed he would lose the title, the dumb ref thought The Great One hit him he saw the chair and call for the bell thankfully Mick saw this and restarted the match.
I never thought he would win but I was happy he looked like a million bucks
Wave Wrim that’s what got me so mad as a kid. I was yelling NO WAY HE CHEATED
@@bosoxfan38 I hear ya brother thankfully Mick Foley saw this error and restarted the match.
Chris Benoit is the shortest wwe champion
I honestly forgot what a great PPV this was, especially Rikishi's dive off the cage in the Intercontinental Cage match.
I've been waiting on this review. The Jericho-HHH Last Man Standing match is one of my all time favorites.
Oh my goodness, I wore the hell out of this VHS! I loved this PPV - every match was good.
Adam Clark The inter-gender match that opened the show and the Kurt/Taker match.
Completely with you on Edge and Christian being my favourite tag team of all time. Love them! Christian is IMO one of the most under used guys in WWE history.
This is the show that started it all for me as a professional wrestling fan! The build for Rock/Benoit hooked me in, the undercard was never better than this and the Jericho/HHH match is one of my favorite matches ever! Definitely the greatest wrestling PPV up to this point.
Loved the double call of the last ride. It was in one of the smackdown games IIRC. Every time you hit the move, Michael Cole would say it twice... every time.
Love the Dave Chappelle reference 🤣🤣🤣
the Rock actually put that figure four on correctly, unlike so many others
The gambling mediator works for Double or Nothing
How is your comment a day old when this was released an hour ago?
@@GOTMILK36 [x files theme intensifies]
@@GOTMILK36 probably patrons get to see videos early.
I Heard somewhere, that Christian attended Sheiky Baby’s world famous promo class on the subject of getting heat
This one my fave PPV's of all time
Saturn was one of the more underrated under utilized wrestlers of that era imo. His moppy gimmick WAS kinda stupid. If not outright offensive to a lot of ppl. But I mean. He DID make it work! Sadly that's all I really remember of any gimmicks he may have had after. I kinda fell outta the loop for awhile. But I DO REMEMBER that he go just as well if not BETTER than most of his "peers."
Moppy was punishment for shooting on Mike Bell.
Seriously though, Saturn was a mess by the end of his run in the WWF. He was drugged up like crazy, it's a good thing he managed to get sober.
Speaking of Jericho and Stephanie McMahon, when will you cover the 503-chapter fan fiction of them two?
Are you for real? Someone wrote that?
www.fanfiction.net/s/2094087/1/Hugs-and-Kisses Here you are! If you click on the author's profile, there's actually two, but I'm not sure what's the difference besides chapter count.
Dont forget the poster had Austin on it rolling snake eyes on the dice i heard he was meant to return at this event but was postponed to Unforgiven since Raw was moving to TNN the next night, basically to get a high rating
Stone Cold "returned" at Backlash by helping the Rock beat HHH. He took zero bumps, absolutely destroyed everyone bit Rocky with a chair, and then celebrated with him after the match as well as towing the carcass of the DX Express. Then he was gone again until Unforgiven.
BTW, the pop that Austin gets when the glass shatters is fucking insane. Almost as huge as when he helped Foley win the title in '99.
Yeah, they wanted to save his return and first match for Unforgiven and No Mercy respectively since they could easily pop ratings and buyrates that way.
I popped for the Just Bring It “THE LAST RIDE” call 😂😂
Had this recorded as it was on Channel 4 here in Ireland and it still is one of my favourite PPVs. Every match delivered. Rikishi leaping from the cage was insane and the last man standing match was a work of art. Fantastic show
I had this PPV on VHS
I had most of them on VHS.
I'd say Tazz winning the Tag titles with Spike was his last positive moment in his wrestling career
This show has, in my opinion, the best back and forth on commentary in WWE history. The bit where King is going on about all the names Jericho calls Steph, and asks HR if he'd like it if someone said that about his wife. JR's reaction is so authentic and it's one of the rare times commentary acknowledges a heel being justified.
Speaking of underrated, your impressions are great, Brian. My favourite is that time when Austin got his foot caught in the ropes and Triple H had to come save him: “HELP!” 😂
The Rock pretty much carried WWE in 2000, if it weren’t for him who knows what they would have done. Austin didn’t return full time until September at Unforgiven 2000.
And triple h
That's why Rock started dominating the TV time from the summer of 1999 onwards. They knew Austin was gonna be on the shelf for a while so they had to get Rock ready for the top spot. Mick Foley also helped legitimize HHH as the top heel to feud with Rock, so he deserves a lot of credit for the early part of 2000 as well. It was simple forward thinking that WWE just doesn't do nowadays.
I mean Angle, Triple H, Taker, Benoit, Eddie, Jericho. They had plenty of people who could have been top stars
@@toptiertech7291 Eddie and Benoit were small guys from wcw .no way they gotten a push this quickly
@@mikebadaoa8525 So you just ignored Angle, Taker and HHH?
I really enjoyed rock and Benoit's matches in 2000
He should have been champion that night!
One of the reasons I love this channel: you review these shows with nostalgia having seen them originally WHEN THEY AIRED. You're a true fan from a ways back - unlike some of this channels with guys playing Catch Up as they quickly binge PPVs on the WWE Network so they can make their review videos. Great work as always, bud
It was the first time I have seen Rikishi dive, and I jumped out of my chair!
If I had to rank the AE years I’d go
1.1997
2.2000
3.1998
4.2001
5.1999
I don’t cont 02 or anything to do with the invasion angle as AE, it died at wm 17 or at the very latest early summer 01.
The rankings sounds about right.
I think 2000 is better overall than any year of the Attitude Era great undercard and main event card but I personally like 1997 more because of classic storylines and the basically sets up the events of the Attitude Era.
Tre Redding yea the first half of 97 wasn’t that great but by the time the summer hit that year it was like a completely different product than what was happening in the beginning of the year. 97 put the rest of the AE in motion plus we still had guys like Bret, Sid, Vader, and LOD in the company.
@@MikeJohnson-lt1il 2000 had better quality overall but 1997 is much more significant and influential on wrestling. It kickstarted the boom period and led to a drastic change in tone and writing. My personal favorite is 1998 for the wrestling business because all 3 companies were on fire at the time.
Right when you mentioned "Triple H vs Jericho" I knew instantly who was going to win.
Hearing Edge, Christian,and Brian Gerwitz talk about that JFK joke on their podcast is hilarious.
I had totally forgotten about that Rikishi splash. It's incredible.
This so insane. I was just watching this ppv a couple hours ago on Dailymotion lol
A retrospective review of one of my favorite WWE pay per views on my birthday. That is awesome.
Every time I see the Angle wrenching Taker's leg bit, all I can think of "Jingly ass medals".
I had never even heard of that Rikishi cage dive before, and had to stop this video immediately to go look up a clip for it. Jesus, that was insane.