Ranking EVERY WWE Royal Rumble Pay-Per-View From Worst To Best
2. 2000
The Good: Taz' debut and victory over Kurt Angle in the opener is electrifying, setting the tone for the evening and event as a whole. Though painfully predictable, The Rock's Royal Rumble win is amazing because he's wildly over to the Madison Square Garden crowd like virtually everybody else in the match. Triple H and Cactus Jack's WWE Championship street fight is comfortably one of the best matches in the history of the pay-per-view. The Hardy Boyz and The Dudley Boyz just stop short of killing each other in a breathless and brutal tag team tables match.
The Bad: The New Age Outlaws and The Acolytes are bygone teams from a bygone era by the year 2000, but at least it was kept short. On other shows, Chris Jericho and Chyna's Intercontinental Title defence against Hardcore Holly wasn't great, but only because it was surrounded by greatness.
The Ugly: Booking Mae Young to expose prosthetic breasts was both extremely off and on-brand for a white hot product at the time. WWE lost live UK terrestrial coverage for the stunt, and never went as far (nudity-wise, at least) with Young again.