10 Worst WWE Roads To WWE WrestleMania
8. WrestleMania 2000
Lost in the posthumous praise of the Attitude Era is that the McMahon family often dominated the landscape to an eye-rolling extent. If even the awesome Mr. McMahon character lost its lustre, the cyborg that was Linda McMahon stood no chance.
The show was headlined by a Fatal 4-Way match between WWF Heavyweight Champion Triple H, The Rock, The Big Show and Mick Foley - but that the match was comprised of four of its biggest (uninjured) stars on the roster wasn't enough. There had to be a McMahon in every corner! Stephanie naturally sided with onscreen husband Triple H, but the remaining pairings were more contrived. Shane went with Big Show to engineer his inclusion in the main event. Similarly, Vince wrapped his arm around The Rock's to enable Triple H's match-winning swerve.
The Road to 2000 also made an unreliable deadbeat dad out of the avuncular Mick Foley, who had retired less than six weeks earlier. He was asked to renege on his promise to fans and weaken his bond with them purely to ensure Linda McMahon's presence on the biggest show of the year (!), only to bow out fairly quickly (!) and leave The Rock and Triple H to duke out the singles match everybody wanted to see in the first place (!).
The bloated main event picture bulged out and into the wider card; the WWF roster was so stacked and its creative direction so unfocused that the only singles "match" on the show was a catfight between non-wrestlers The Kat and Terri Runnels.
The Attitude Era was defined by its excess. The Road to WrestleMania 2000 is the perfect summation of it.