Wrestlemania 2000 Review

Sounds like a title of a video game, oh wait it was.

The Big Boss Man and Bull Buchanan defeated The Godfather and D'Lo Brown (w/Ice T and The Godfather's Ho's) (9:05)
Buchanan pinned Brown following a guillotine legdrop
Ice-T performed The Godfather's entrance music live.
*1/2
Ice-T was awful, you could almost call him the equivilant of this match.

Hardcore Holly won a 15-minute Hardcore Battle Royal for the WWF Hardcore Championship featuring: Crash Holly (c), Tazz, Viscera, Joey Abs, Rodney, Pete Gas, TAKA Michinoku, Funaki, Headbanger Thrasher, Headbanger Mosh, Faarooq and Bradshaw (15:00)
Tazz pinned Crash with a capture suplex. (0:26)
Viscera pinned Tazz after a Powerslam. (1:00)
Funaki pinned Viscera with a flying shoulderblock from Bradshaw. (7:51)
Rodney pinned Funaki after throwing him into a backstage wall. (8:11)
Joey Abs pinned Rodney with a gutwrench suplex. (8:24)
Thrasher pinned Joey Abs after a clothesline. (8:46)
Pete Gas pinned Thrasher after a fire extinguisher shot. (9:29)
Tazz pinned Pete Gas with a T-bone suplex. (10:17)
Crash pinned Tazz after a cookie sheet shot. (14:20)
Hardcore won by pinning Crash last after hitting him with a candy jar to win the title. (14:59)
***
Fun garbage match that probably should have opened the show.

T & A (Test and Albert) (w/Trish Stratus) defeated Head Cheese (Al Snow and Steve Blackman) (w/Chester McCheeserton) (7:05)
Test pinned Blackman after a Flying Elbow Drop.
¾*
Yawn.

Edge and Christian defeated The Dudley Boyz (Bubba Ray and D-Von) (c) and The Hardy Boyz (Matt and Jeff) in a Triangle Ladder match to win the WWF Tag Team Championship (22:29)
Edge and Christian ascended the ladder and took possession of the title belts.
****1/2
Not yawn. Great match that gets overlooked because it wasn't a TLC match. They still used T's and L's. That's gotta count for something.

Terri Runnels (w/The Fabulous Moolah) defeated The Kat (w/Mae Young) (w/Val Venis as special guest referee) in a Catfight (2:25)
Terri defeat Kat after Moolah pulled The Kat out of the ring while Venis was distracted.
No Rating
2:25 too,long.

Too Cool (Grand Master Sexay and Scotty Too Hotty) and Chyna defeated The Radicalz (Eddie Guerrero, Perry Saturn and Dean Malenko) (9:38)
Chyna pinned Guerrero after a Sleeper Slam.
**
Soild enough.

Two-Fall Triple Threat Match for the WWF Intercontinental and WWF European Championships: Kurt Angle (c) vs. Chris Jericho vs. Chris Benoit (13:35)
Benoit pinned Jericho following a diving headbutt in the first fall to win the Intercontinental Championship. (7:54)
Jericho pinned Benoit with a Lionsault in the second fall to win the European Championship. (13:35)
***3/4
Great match. I always wondered why they put the IC title on the line first. I guess it's becuase they wanted Jericho to get the final pinfall, but wanted Benoit to be IC champ. Anyhoo, awesome stuff here from all as Angle continues to grow in to the legend that he is today.

Rikishi and Kane (w/Paul Bearer) defeated D-Generation X (X-Pac and The Road Dogg) (w/Tori) (4:16)
Kane pinned X-Pac after a Tombstone Piledriver.
After the match, Too Cool came out to celebrate with Rikishi. However, The San Diego Chicken came out to celebrate as well. Kane, suspicious of the Chicken from last year, went after the Chicken but was met with Pete Rose and a baseball bat. Rikishi saved Kane from Rose and the two gave him a chokeslam and a stinkface.
¾*
Short and sweet...ok maybe not sweet.

Triple H (w/Stephanie McMahon-Helmsley) defeated The Rock (w/Vince McMahon), Mick Foley (w/Linda McMahon) and The Big Show (w/Shane McMahon) in a Fatal Four Way Elimination Match to retain the WWF Championship (36:28)
Rock pinned Big Show after a Rock Bottom. (4:41)
Triple H pinned Foley after a Pedigree. (19:41)
Triple H pinned Rock after a chair shot from Vince McMahon. (36:28)
***1/2
Even with all going down in the match, it was still good. Too many McMahons? Yes. But that doesn't take away from how solid the match was.

3 *** matches and a ****1/2 match are on the show. Probably not the classic they were hoping for, but an OK Mania.