Triple H and Kane's match was an objective stinker before the complex character arcs were wrapped up in a closing stretch that wouldn't quite hang together until later on that night.
To recap: Babyface DX Chyna had turned heel to join The Corporation in January, but within the stable had joined forces with trapped babyface Corporation slave Kane. Meanwhile, babyface Triple H fumed, promising revenge on Chyna (reasonably so) and, subsequently, Kane (less so).
Ultimately, there wasn't really a true heel in the match until Chyna appeared on the scene, but her role was to turn babyface (?) on the quasi-babyface Kane to help babyface Triple H deliver a decidedly heelish beatdown to Kane as part of a mammoth babyface triumph. Were they in cahoots all along, or had they mended fences? It wasn't clear until later. Little was.
It was a lot to keep track of, and barely saved by the mammoth pop for Chyna's supposed rejoining of DX at the contest's conclusion.
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