Every WWE Backlash PPV Ranked From Worst To Best

If any one pay per view perfectly encapsulates the energy of the Attitude Era, it could well be Backlash 2000. The main event is, quite simply, one of the most joyous occasions in WWE history, and the archetypal babyface return angle to boot.

Although many claim that The Rock should have won the main event of WrestleMania 2000, if he had done so, we wouldn't have been able to enjoy this amazing moment for what it was. With the Brahma Bull struggling against desperate odds (ultra-heel champion Triple H; various McMahon family members; Patterson and Brisco), the return of Stone Cold Steve Austin shook the MCI Center - and the wrestling world in general - to its very core.

The event had not only a sports entertainment finish done right; it had the sports entertainment finish done right, but the undercard was also punctuated by several workrate classics.

Scotty 2 Hotty and Dean Malenko provided a sleeper hit of an opener, while Eddie Guerrero and Essa Rios did their best to top it later in the night. Just prior to the main, Jericho and Benoit - two men with some of the best chemistry ever seen in WWE - went 15 minutes in a worthy high point of their rivalry.

Backlash 2000 was a brilliant show from top to bottom, and its very hard to argue against its status as the best show in the (pretty damn impressive) history of the event.