One MIND-BLOWING Secret From EVERY Month Of The WWE Attitude Era
14. March 2000 | A Terrible WWE Run Almost Went Better
WrestleMania 2000 was notable, even infamous, for its dearth of singles matches.
It was a strange and underwhelming show as a result, but if nothing else, it was a measure of the WWF’s huge popularity. The promotion could essentially use ‘Mania as a prelude to Backlash, just to get two massive buy numbers, and they did. Two singles matches were discussed within creative beyond the solitary one Vince McMahon promoted. No, that match was not The Rock Vs. Triple H; it was Terri Runnels Vs. The Kat.
One was Kane Vs. X-Pac in an Exploding Death Match of some sort, not that the WWF was likely to use the proper FMW verbiage. They’d have called it a Brimstone Blast match or something. That got scrapped because Bruce Prichard thought the idea was stupid. Also under consideration, per the March 27 Observer, was Perry Saturn Vs. Tazz. That seems like a strange one to promote at WrestleMania, of all shows. (Yes, a suplex-heavy match is all Brock Lesnar has done at ‘Mania for a decade, but he’s big and they were small.)
This rumour is a glimpse into life before Tazz got de-pushed in depressingly record time. He’d have surely won, potentially elevating him as a PPV-level challenger for Triple H at a B-level pay-per-view. That of course didn’t happen, either: WWE quickly realised that Tazz was quite short. Who did they think they were signing in the first place?
On the subject of Triple H, around this time, he did a radio show with Mancow Muller on which he buried Goldberg for being injury-prone. Trips had some nerve. In 1998, he could barely make it into the ring.