6. Most Memorable Matches 2000
The year 2000 was a great one in the ring for the WWF, with seemingly every pay-per-view offering up a new Match of the Year candidate. The WWF was learning how to survive without The Undertaker and Steve Austin, both of whom were on the shelf injured for a good portion of the year, and with the pair gone the WWFs working style began to change. Main event players Triple H and The Rock upped their games with the arrival of super-workers Chris Benoit, Eddie Guerrero and Dean Malenko (Saturn was there too, but, yknow), not to mention Chris Jericho (who joined the WWF a few months earlier) and the rapid emergence of the freakishly talented Kurt Angle. This tape plucks five of those PPV matches and throws them onto one tape, giving the viewer a feast of world class wrestling to enjoy. There is plenty of variation too, with Triple Hs unbelievably street fight with Cactus Jack from Royal Rumble 2000 kicking things off, before the tape take an entirely different turn with the Angle-Benoit-Jericho three-way from WrestleMania 2000. That match is the weakest on show by far and an odd choice for inclusion, but it is still a strong outing and the tape doesn't suffer from its inclusion at all other than making its title seem a little bit far-fetched. The rest is gold, with two great bouts coming from Fully Loaded 2000 (Triple H and Chris Jerichos epic Last Man Standing battle and one of Rocks finest singles performances ever against Chris Benoit), then the glorious TLC bout from SummerSlam rounding out the tape. Like the other comp tapes it is fairly pointless if you already own the respective pay-per-views the matches took place on, but if you dont it is a gem.
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The author of the highly acclaimed 'Titan' book series, James Dixon has been involved in the wrestling business for 25 years as a fan, wrestler, promoter, agent, and writer. James spent several years wrestling on the British independent circuit, but now prefers to write about the bumps and bruises rather than take any of them. His past in-ring experience does however give a uniquely more "insider" perspective on things, though he readily admits to still being a "mark" at heart.
James is the Chief Editor and writer at historyofwrestling.co.uk and is responsible for the best-selling titles Titan Sinking, Titan Shattered, and Titan Screwed, as well as the Complete WWF Video Guide series, and the Raw Files series.
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