10 Times WWE Was Legitimately The Best Wrestling On The Planet
1. 2000
In spite of a lackluster WrestleMania, 2000 was the year that the WWF clutched its hands around the neck of WCW and wouldn't stop squeezing. Their recent acquisitions of guys like Kurt Angle, an Olympic gold medalist who oozed intensity, Jericho one of the most charismatic and enduring characters wrestling has ever known, and the Radicalz, WCW's last bastion of hope, were all coming into their own in ways they never could in other promotions.
These acquisitions blossoming coincided with WWF's homegrown talent like Edge and Christian along with the Hardy's reaching their potential. All this greatness supplemented further greatness as The Rock, Stone Cold, Mick Foley, The Undertaker (now a biker) and Triple H continued to dominate the main event scene of every episode of Raw and SmackDown.
They had the talent to have a compelling match at every slot of the card. They no longer needed crazy storylines and the swerves that came out of the demented mind of Vince Russo. With Russo seeing the writing on the wall, and his touch overvalued by the folks in Atlanta, he walked from one company to another, actively making WWF better by his absence and making WCW worse by his presence.
2000 was a rare year where the WWF had everything it needed, and nothing that it didn't. Absolute perfection.