10 Worst WWE Moments Of 2000

WCW was creatively cooked long before they lost The Radicalz quartet in early-2000, but shedding a talented group like Chris Benoit, Eddie Guerrero, Dean Malenko and Perry Saturn in one go was a painful hit to the roster down south. That loss was the WWF's gain, but you wouldn't have known it watching the faction's first forays onto TV.

For the 3 February SmackDown, creative dreamt up a scenario whereby Triple H would green light contracts if The Radicalz could win 2 out of 3 matches that evening. Rather incredibly, all 4 members lost in their matches: Malenko jobbed to X-Pac in 4 minutes, Guerrero and Saturn lasted just as long vs. The New Age Outlaws, then Benoit stared at the lights for Trips himself in the main event. This did not make the incoming WCW group look like a threat.

At all.

It was a thoroughly repulsive flexing of muscles from the WWF side. Clearly, someone in the office (maybe everyone in the office) thought the fed would seem weak if they let some incoming WCW stars look deadly next to their own roster. That was stupid, because Benoit, Guerrero, Malenko and Saturn weren't WCW property any longer, so it would've been best had they at least looked competitive against members of the McMahon-Helmsley Regime to get them started.

Mick Foley endorsing The Radicalz was a neat move, but it seemed like the Mickster was going to bat for a ragtag bunch of out of their depth losers immediately. You've really got to wonder why such a fictional business gets in its own way sometimes. WWE and AEW still do it today!