10 Awful WWE Match Finishes That Ruined Everything

It didn’t help that Wrestlemania 2000 was a clusterf*ck of a card, the apogee of the Attitude Era’s tendency to go for overbooked crash TV over coherent pro wrestling narratives that had a proven track record. Out of nine matches, only one was a one-on-one bout: a three-minute catfight between Terri Runnels and Stacy Carter, neither of whom were wrestlers, with a special guest referee and WWF legends at ringside causing interference. That’s Wrestlemania 2000 in a nutshell: far too much going on, and far too little reason to care about any of it.

The main event, though… good grief. That it was a four-way elimination match for the WWE championship held by top heel Triple H was bad enough. That one of the participants was an out-of-shape Mick Foley (appearing only five weeks after retiring at the No Way Out event) was worse. But then there was a McMahon in every corner: Stephanie for Triple H, Vince for The Rock, Shane for Big Show and Linda for Foley. That’s storylines and feuds between eight people in one match, complete with a screwjob ending as Vince inexplicably turned heel on The Rock and hit him with a chair not once, but twice, allowing Triple H to pin him to retain the title.

Vince’s turn was out of the blue and made very little storytelling sense: in fact, it directly contradicted almost all of his recent actions. Added to that, the main event of Wrestlemania ended on a massive downer as the despised heel won and kept the championship. It was a terrible mistake, as was the majority of the overbooked, underfed card: the crowd had the wind taken completely out of them and left the arena in the foulest of moods.