10 Confusing Wrestling Moments That Nobody Understands

6. Overblown, Overcrowded And Overbooked

WrestleMania 2000 was a nightmarish mess of an event. Only one out of the nine matches on the card was a singles match (the scrappy catfight between two non-wrestlers, Terri Runnels and Stacy 'The Kat' Carter). Even that one had a special guest referee and nothing but outside interference in every one of the three minutes it lasted for.

It was typical of the Attitude Era's tendency to overbook the big matches, instead of relying upon stories that made sense. And that was WrestleMania 2000 - overblown, overcrowded and overbooked. Nothing really made sense, and nothing got over.

The main event was the final straw, though. A four-way elimination match for the WWF Championship was bad enough, and the fact that one of the participants was an out-of-shape Mick Foley (appearing only five weeks after 'retiring' at No Way Out) was worse. But the participants (rounded out by the Rock and the Big Show) were there representing the feuding McMahons, like champions in some kind of rubbish Gladiator knock-off.

That meant that there were eight people involved in the main event, each with storylines and angles going on with some or all of the others. The match was hard enough to follow on its own but, at the end, Vince McMahon turned heel (because of course he did) and attacked the Rock with a chair, allowing Triple H to make the pin and close WrestleMania with a heel champion retaining the title.

Vince's turn was a typical Attitude Era swerve, and made very little storyline sense. It actually contradicted almost all of his recent actions, just as his "higher power" turn the previous year had. The WWF had successfully annoyed and confused their audience at the biggest pay-per-view of the year. Good job, guys!