10 Times WWE Got The WrestleMania Main Event Wrong

2. WrestleMania 2000: Triple H Vs. The Rock Vs. Mick Foley Vs. Big Show

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What The Main Event Should Have Been: Triple H vs. The Rock

The only singles match on the entire WrestleMania 2000 card pitted Terri Runnels against The Kat in a Catfight match, with the rest of the show made up of triple threats, scrambles, four-ways, and multi-mans. It was a mess, and one of the WWF’s low points in an otherwise incredible 2000.

After months of Hunter ruling the WWF with an iron fist alongside his storyline wife Stephanie, fans were tiring of the duo’s omnipotent double act and were desperate to see Triple H unseated at the annual extravaganza. After all, the heel champion always lost and received their comeuppance at WrestleMania. The man deigned as the fans’ hero was The Rock, who was perhaps the most popular he had ever been. A Rock vs. Triple H match was what everyone wanted to see, and if their classics at Backlash and Judgment Day in the following months are anything to go by, it would have been sensational.

Instead the WWF decided to shoehorn the overweight Big Show and the recently retired and similarly-overweight Mick Foley into the match, giving a four way that nobody wanted to see with the supposed draw of the bout featuring “a McMahon in every corner". It was egomaniacal, nepotistic booking at its most extreme, and one of the most underwhelming WrestleMania main events on record. Even worse, the heel won the match, going against years of established WWF convention and leaving fans with a bitter taste in their mouths once the curtain fell on the sixteenth edition of the show.

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