10 Forgotten WWE Matches Followed By Something Infamously Terrible
8. The Undertaker & Kane Vs. Rikishi & Haku (Followed By Vince McMahon Humiliating Trish Stratus)
Ahead of playing some gross hybrid of himself and his character in one of the company's grimmest ever segments. Vince McMahon probably considered this match the biggest he could offer from all of his roster, despite the league's vast improvement thanks to the six men that were just weeks away from making history on the company's 'Grandest Stage'.
WWE - in a move pretty bloody cheeky considering all the whining they'd done back when the opposition had all the momentum - had signed WCW Hardcore Champion Haku whilst he was Champion in January 2001 in order to make him a surprise entrant in that year's Royal Rumble. His alliance with Rikishi was a half-baked Hail Mary from the company trying to make hay from the former Headshrinker's horribly misguided heel turn the year prior, as was their feud with The Brothers Of Destruction.
Did any of it matter? Did it f*ck. Edge, Christian, The Hardy Boyz and The Dudley Boyz had ushered in a paradigm shift too great for these lumbering units to compete with. McMahon's treatment of Stratus was abhorrent in the extreme, but these four assembled matches that could be deemed outliers at the height of the Attitude Era - they were completely forgettable.