The best sh*t-roster shortcut solution during the company's lean years, this show-opening battle royal served as a perfect reintroduction of the Legion Of Doom, even if their "LOD 2000" repackage would be dead long before the new millennium even arrived.
Alongside Sunny, Hawk and Animal were utterly electric in their small-burst segments en route to a cathartic victory that shielded audiences one last time from a duo in deep decline.
Contests such as these are always great snapshots of the roster at the time, and it's easy to spot why so few broke through in times built for the beguiling charisma of Stone Cold Steve Austin and The Rock. Spotting eventual success stories Hardcore Holly, JBL, Mark Henry and Too Cool amongst the chaos is presumably reassuring for rank-and-files filling out Andre The Giant Battle Royal spots in the modern era.
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