7 WWE Attitude Era Memories That Aren’t As Good As You Remember

6. WrestleMania 2000

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Another example of the '2000' fixation, WrestleMania 16 was a card stacked full of matches more suited to television than pay-per-view. Were bouts like The Godfather and D'Lo Brown vs. Bull Buchanan and The Big Boss Man or Rikishi and Kane vs. D-Generation X ever going to be 'Mania-worthy? They should've been on Raw.

Even the show's main event was overbooked beyond belief. Retrospect reveals the gaping plot holes in Mick Foley's return (so much for No Way Out being his last match, and don't get us started on WWE's assertion that only Cactus Jack had retired), not to mention the overblown 'McMahon in every corner' gimmick of the headline Fatal-4-Way.

At the time, WrestleMania 2000 seemed huge, and yet WWE themselves would blow it out of the water just one year later at X-Seven. This was one of the last 'Mania shows to take place in a bog-standard arena for a reason, and it just doesn't feel big enough when watching it back now.

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