WrestleMania 2000
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WrestleMania 2000 (chronologically known as WrestleMania XVI) was the sixteenth annual WrestleMania professional wrestling pay-per-view produced by the World Wrestling Federation. It took place on April 2, 2000 at the Arrowhead Pond in Anaheim, California. The event was the second WrestleMania at the Arrowhead Pond, but the fourth to take place in the Southern California metropolitan area (following WrestleMania 2, WrestleMania VII, and WrestleMania XII).
The commentators for the event were Jim Ross and Jerry "The King" Lawler. The Spanish commentators were Carlos Cabrera and Hugo Savinovich. Howard Finkel did the ring announcing for the matches.
Match results
- The Big Bossman and Bull Buchanan vs. The Godfather and D’Lo Brown (w/Ice T and The Godfather's Ho's)
- Buchanan pinned Brown following a guillotine legdrop (9:05)
- 15-minute Hardcore Battle Royal for the WWF Hardcore Championship
- T and A (Test and Albert, w/Trish Stratus) vs. Head Cheese (Al Snow and Steve Blackman, w/Chester McCheeserton)
- Three Way Ladder match for the WWF Tag Team Championship: The Dudley Boyz (Bubba Ray Dudley and D-Von Dudley) (c) vs. Edge and Christian (Edge and Christian) vs. The Hardy Boyz (Matt Hardy and Jeff Hardy)
- Catfight: Terri Runnels (w/The Fabulous Moolah) vs. The Kat (w/Mae Young) (w/Val Venis as special guest referee)
- Chyna and Too Cool (Grandmaster Sexay and Scotty Too Hotty) vs. The Radicalz (Eddie Guerrero, Perry Saturn and Dean Malenko)
- Two-Fall Triple Threat Match for the WWF Intercontinental and WWF European Championships: Kurt Angle (c) vs. Chris Jericho vs. Chris Benoit
- Rikishi and Kane (w/Paul Bearer) vs. D-Generation X (X-Pac and The Road Dogg, w/Tori)
- Fatal Four Way Elimination Match for the WWF Championship: Triple H (w/Stephanie McMahon-Helmsley) (c) vs. The Rock (w/Vince McMahon) vs. Mick Foley (w/Linda McMahon) vs. The Big Show (w/Shane McMahon)
Trivia
- This was the second WrestleMania to be held at the Arrowhead Pond in Anaheim, California. The first one was WrestleMania XII.
- There were no standard one-on-one matches with normal rules in the event.
- Kurt Angle lost both his championships despite not being pinned or made to submit either fall.
- Chris Jericho became the third WWE Grand Slam Champion after he won the WWE European Championship.
- Triple H became the third man (following Hulk Hogan and Diesel) and the first heel to retain the WWF Title in the main event of WrestleMania. He would duplicate this feat at WrestleMania XIX. In all previous main events the heel lost his title, a face successfully defended his title, or the title was not up for grabs.
- This was the second WrestleMania not to feature Undertaker since his debut.
- WrestleMania 2000 featured a preshow entitled WrestleMania All Day Long, which went through the history all of the previous WrestleManias. It is the longest WrestleMania preshow in WWE history, lasting over 8 hours long.
- This WrestleMania's logo was the first to not make use of the classic font used in past WrestleManias (1 - XV) and also the first and only WrestleMania logo to use the font Neo Sans.
- Mick Foley's "dream" of being in the main event of WrestleMania was realized at WrestleMania 2000. Previously, the closest he had gotten to this point was being guest referee for the main event at WrestleMania XV. (Ironically, the "dream" of main eventing WrestleMania was a storyline creation; Foley has written that his real dream was to retire with a quality match and that his WrestleMania match was a disappointment after his "retirement" match at the prior month's No Way Out PPV.)
- This is the only WrestleMania to be generally referred to by year, rather than a number.
- In the Triangle Ladder match for the WWF Tag Team Championship, Edge, Christian, Bubba Ray Dudley, D-Von Dudley, Matt Hardy and Jeff Hardy all made their WrestleMania debuts on this event. After that match, it was then noticed as one of the best ladder matches that was ever seen on WrestleMania. This match was the unofficial first, and also gave birth to the infamous TLC match.
- When Jeff Hardy attempted the Swanton off the ladder onto Bubba Ray Dudley, it was the 2nd time he tried a Swanton off a high surface onto someone on a table at one of the "Big 4" WWE pay-per-views. (The other times being at [Royal Rumble 2000[SummerSlam (2000)|SummerSlam 2000]], WrestleMania X-Seven and Survivor Series 2001).
- Kurt Angle, Chris Benoit, Chris Jericho, Eddie Guerrero, Dean Malenko, Perry Saturn, Bull Buchanan, Funaki, Mean Street Posse, Tazz, Crash Holly, Steve Blackman, Albert, The Kat, Trish Stratus & Terri Runnels, all made their first WrestleMania appearances. This WrestleMania featured a lot of debuts more than any other with the exception of the first few WrestleManias.
- To help promote this WrestleMania, its main eventers (HHH, The Rock, Big Show and Mick Foley) all appeared on Saturday Night Live.
- Gangrel was supposed to be in the hardcore battle royal but couldn't compete due to injury.
- The three competers in the European, and Intercontinental title matches all went on to face Shawn Michaels in three consecutive WrestleManias. Chris Jericho faced Michaels at WrestleMania XIX, Chris Benoit faced him in a Triple Threat match at WrestleMania XX (with Triple H), and Kurt Angle faced him at WrestleMania 21.
- Triple H is the only competitor from WrestleMania XII to return to the Arrowhead Pond for WrestleMania 2000, which is rather surprising considering the relatively short time peiod between events (four years).
- Celebrities that appeared at the event included Ice-T, Martin Short, Michael Clarke Duncan, Pete Rose, Dustin Diamond, and French Stewart.
- This is the first WrestleMania to feature Triple H in the main event
- This is the only WrestleMania to feature The Big Show in the main event.
- This was the first WrestleMania not to feature "Stone Cold" Steve Austin since his debut.
- This WrestleMania was held in the month of April for the first time since 1995.
- This would be the final WrestleMania to take place while WCW and ECW wrestling promotions where still active as the two companies would fold and be bought by the World Wrestling Federation before WrestleMania X-Seven. ECW would later be revived as a new brand in Extreme Championship Wrestling (WWE)
- WrestleMania 2000 was the third time that Pete Rose, WWE Hall of Famer, was attacked by the Big Red Machine, Kane. The other times were WrestleMania XIV and WrestleMania XV.
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