WrestleMania 2000
Actual main event: The Rock vs. Triple H vs. The Big Show vs. Mick Foley
What the main event should have been: Triple H vs. The Rock
Outside of a couple of matches (Triangle Ladder Match & Benoit vs. Jericho vs. Angle), WrestleMania 2000 was a bit of a train wreck. Of the nine matches on the card, only one was a one-on-one affair, and that was a “Catfight” between The Kat and Terri Runnels with Val Venis as the special guest referee. If you don’t remember that match, do yourself a favor and don’t go back and watch it. It’s one of the worst matches in WrestleMania history and set back the women’s division quite a bit.
The main event that night was a Fatal Four-Way Elimination Match for the WWE Championship with Triple H defending against The Rock, Mick Foley and The Big Show, with each competitor having a McMahon in his respective corner — and it was not a good idea. The Big Show was just sort of there and was eliminated in less than five minutes, and Mick Foley had lost a retirement match not long before the event and was thrown in by Linda. I suppose Foley getting a main event was a good thing, but he ended up once again losing to Triple H during the match, so why do it? Just have The Rock and Triple H, who’ve had one of the great rivalries in WWE history, have a one-on-one match to close the show and be done with it.
The two put on a great show after Show and Foley were out so I suppose that’s what it became anyway, but the focus was more on the McMahon family drama so it just didn’t matter, did it? Not shockingly, Vince went back to being a heel and helped Triple H retain. Yawn. The Rock and Triple H were fully capable of telling a good story on their own, but this was a casualty of the time. It was all about getting to Monday night and the main event of WrestleMania suffered for it.