10 Worst WWE Moments Of 2000
The worst of the worst content from one of WWE's greatest years ever.
Ask fans of a certain age which Royal Rumble is their favourite and there's a decent chance they'll say "2000". Ask them to name one of the best stunt shows in WWE history and they'll surely answer with "TLC at SummerSlam 2000". Ask them to name the greatest tag team ever and they'll say "Tekno Team 2000". OK, maybe that last one is pushing it.
The year 2000 gets a lot of love from most even 25 years on though. It was the year Triple H came into his own as a main event powerhouse, The Rock exploded into the mainstream as the industry's top babyface, The Undertaker rebranded himself as an 'American Badass', Steve Austin returned from a potentially career-ending neck injury, and the WWF was so edgy that even South Park could barely keep up.
The place was bursting with 'Attitude', but not everything was flawless. Federation bosses produced a staggering amount of content that year - Raw was ever-present, SmackDown was matching it as an ongoing concern, Sunday Night Heat was still there as a 'C' show, and Vince McMahon was printing money faster than anyone could count.
That sheer volume of programming made it impossible for everything to be good, and it's the worst of the worst that's focused on here. You might've forgotten some of the rubbish McMahon's minions served up in between all of those critically lauded matches and memories in 2000.
Get your sick bags at the ready, because some of the fed's formatting was vomit inducing. The rest? The rest was just creatively bankrupt, and select bouts were never going to sneak onto lists looking at the greatest matches of all time.
You can't win 'em all.
10. Chyna & Chris Jericho = Co-Champions
Individually, both Chyna and Chris Jericho had merit to varying degrees as Intercontinental Champions. The belt was one Chyna richly deserved when trying to establish herself as someone who could mix it with the guys, and IC gave Jericho a solid platform to build his first year around in the WWF. That "co-champions" deal they tried in early 2000 though? Nah, that was balls.
A match between Chyna and 'Y2J' ended with a double pinfall on the 30 December 1999 Smackdown. So, come the next TV, they were made co-champs on the 3 January 2000 Raw. The general gist here was that they were enemies who'd now have to work as friends - if one party dropped the belt, then they'd both drop it. That idea had some potential, but this was the wrong pairing to try it with.
The company corrected things by putting Jericho over in a Triple Threat (that randomly also included Hardcore Holly) at Royal Rumble on 23 January. It hadn't taken long at all for the writing team to say: 'Yeah, yeah this sucks'. They decided to plough ahead with Jericho as sole champ, at least for a while.
Being honest, even Chris and Chyna looked like they hated it whilst they were working the gimmick. Jericho's first book revealed that he found her difficult to work with behind the scenes anyway, and it didn't help that Vince McMahon called him out for errant potato'd shots during matches they'd had against one another in late-'99.
Again, co-champions could've worked with another duo, but this was rotten to begin with and got worse before they finally pulled the plug.