One MIND-BLOWING Secret From EVERY Month Of The WWE Attitude Era

10. July 2000 | You Are Joking…Not Another One?!

The WWF’s main event scene was loaded in 2000 - so loaded that the promotion was unable to resist the temptation of shoving loads of them in one match and telling them to just smash their signatures and finishers until a McMahon appeared and one guy simply won. 

Where WrestleMania 2000 was a McMahon-infested elongated TV main event, Armageddon was as much a celebration of the Attitude Era as the vaunted WrestleMania 17. Steve Austin, the Rock, Triple H, Kurt Angle, the Undertaker and Rikishi in Hell In A Cell: short of positioning a jumbo-breasted woman in a shark cage, it was the most Attitude-themed match ever. 

Somewhere in the middle was SummerSlam 2000, which ended up being the biggest possible version of every booker’s favourite cop-out match. The Rock Vs. Angle Vs. Triple H main event featured the three biggest deals in the company and advanced its hottest story. As Triple Threats go, the Fed gave you the biggest one possible on the second biggest show of the year. A fair compromise, really, but this was not the original plan.

You almost got a No Mercy-ass Fatal Four-Way, if the July 10 issue of the Observer is to be believed. 

That planned and tweaked match was the Rock Vs. Triple H Vs. Chris Benoit Vs. Kane. There is a version of WWE, almost legally old enough to drink alcohol in the United States, that spent its entire lifetime trying to cram Kane into World title matches that nobody really asked for. It’s not all bad, though, because Kane wasn’t the only choice as fourth man. The other option?

The Big Show.