WWE 2003 PPVs From Worst To Best

2. WrestleMania XIX

The Good: One of the best WrestleManias ever, this one boasted several incredible matches. Best of the bunch was the Brock Lesnar versus Kurt Angle main event, during which Angle was wrestling with a severely damaged neck (and Brock nearly did his in with that crazy shooting star press).

The Rock versus Steve Austin was a worthy finale to their trio of WrestleMania matches. Austin's last match as an active wrestler, the gravity of the situation only sunk in after it became apparently that he was walking off into the sunset. Stone Cold hadn't told the public prior to the event.

On the Raw side of things, Triple H versus Booker T was pretty good (although the result left a bitter taste in the mouth). Better than that was Shawn Michaels and Chris Jericho's hotly-anticipated contest which came very close to stealing the show. Hulk Hogan and Vince McMahon's twenty-years-in-the-making battle was good quality sports entertainment.

Although rushed, Matt Hardy versus Rey Mysterio and the Team Angle/Los Guerreros/Benoit & Rhyno triple threat match were entertaining.

The Bad: Big Show/A-Train versus The Undertaker was bad, but Undertaker was very over. That WWE removed Nathan Jones from the match on the Sunday Night Heat before the show tells you how !*$% Jones was as a worker. They didn't want him screwing up the match, and he was rightly taken out of it.

The whole Miller Lite Catfight Girls stuff was the worst. To think, RVD & Kane versus Storm & Venis got dumped on Heat for this nonsense.

The Rest: The event drew a pretty terrible 550,000 PPV buys. That was way down from what WWE were expecting. They felt with the star power on top that they could top 1m buys. They'd have to wait a year for that.