10 Incredible WWE Attitude Era Moments Nobody Ever Talks About
4. Rikishi's Death Drop
No-one would have imagined that the steel cage match at Fully Loaded 2000 for the Intercontinental Championship would have been the time and place that Rikishi would re-enact the moment Jimmy "Superfly" Snuka dived from the top of a steel cage on to a prone Don Muraco at Madison Square Garden in 1983.
Rikishi was billed as 400lbs at the time, and the cage Snuka jumped from was much smaller than the one used in 2000. Despite the devastating force of Rikishi landing on him, Val Venis was able to retain the Intercontinental championship... albeit with a little help from Tazz.
Not long after this slobberknocker, the ever-popular Rikishi Fatu turned heel, admitting that he was the person who ran over Stone Cold Steve Austin the previous year. After a programme with The Great One, he was put into the "6 Man Hell in a Cell" match at the Armageddon PPV. As was tradition for Hell in a Cell matches of the Attitude Era, someone was going to have to take the fall off the top/side/through the cage to the announcers table/ring/random truck parked in the entrance way. Since Mick Foley was (temporarily) retired, that responsibility fell to the only other person with a history of cage diving; one Rikishi Fatu. One Undertaker chokeslam off the top later, and another Rikishi fall was complete.
Strangely, these two moments seem to overshadow each other. Fans will either point to Rikishi's Fully Loaded dive, or the Armageddon Chokeslam as the more impressive.