Ranking every WWE SummerSlam PPV in history

6. WWE SummerSlam 2000

• Right To Censor def. Too Cool (6-Man Tag Match)
• X-Pac def. Road Dogg
• Eddie Guerrero & Chyna def. Trish Stratus & Val Venis (Intergender Match-Chyna won Venis’ Intercontinental Championship)
• Jerry Lawler def. Tazz
• Steve Blackman def. Shane McMahon to win the WWE Hardcore Championship
• Chris Benoit def. Chris Jericho (2-out-of-3 Falls Match)
• Edge & Christian def. The Hardy Boyz and The Dudley Boyz to retain the WWE Tag Team Championship (Tables, Ladders & Chairs Match)
• The Kat def. Terri (Stinkface Match)
• Kane vs. The Undertaker ended in a “no contest” (No Disqualification Match)
• The Rock def. Triple H and Kurt Angle to retain the WWE Championship (Triple Threat Match)

There were definitely a few bad matches on the SummerSlam 2000 card but the good and great ones easily overshadowed them and nearly got this edition into the top five.

The night started with Too Cool taking on Right to Censor. Too Cool was so over with audiences at that time, even if they weren’t the best team in the world. RTC was just getting started so it made sense to give them the win here. The match got the crowd going, which is what the opener is supposed to be.

A battle within D-X was next as Road Dogg took on X-Pac in a forgettable match, while Chyna won her second Intercontinental Championship in the following match, an intergender bout with she and Eddie Guerrero taking on champ Val Venis and Trish Stratus. The match wasn’t great but the stipulation was interesting, as whomever got the pinfall won the title. Eddie would take the title from her eight days later.

Jerry Lawler left the announce table for his match with Tazz, who had been at him and Jim Ross for a while, which is why this match was happening. Lawler got a victory after a ref bump and a little help from JR. This was decent at best and certainly beneath Tazz at the time.

One of the most memorable bumps in SummerSlam history came next as Shane McMahon took on Steve Blackman for the Hardcore Championship. The lead-up to the finish wasn’t anything spectacular, but it was fun enough and the end was excellent.

After fighting off interference from Test and Albert, Blackman followed Shane up the apparatus on the stage, which looked to be a legit 40 to 50 feet up once they got to the top. Blackman was beating on Shane with a kendo stick and after one last shot, McMahon just dropped all that way back down to the ground. Yes, it was a padded area but it still looked fantastic. Blackman made his own way back down and go the 1-2-3 to a big ovation.

One of the best matches of the night was the Two-out-of-Three Falls Match between Chris Jericho and Chris Benoit, who had a great rivalry. This was an excellent match that allowed both men to shine. Benoit took the first fall by making Jericho tap to the Crippler Crossface but Jericho evened things up with a submission of his own, using the Lion Tamer to win fall No. 2. The third fall was a lot of fun as the two went back and forth with some great spots and Benoit got the cheap win by holding the bottom rope as the ref counted to three.

A match like that is usually very difficult to follow, but what we got next was the match of the night and one of the most entertaining matches in SummerSlam history, the first TLC Match between Edge and Christian, The Hardy Boyz and The Dudley Boyz. What can I possibly about this match that hasn’t already been said? Wow. The chemistry all of these teams had with one another was incredible and then you throw tables, ladders and chairs in there, you’ve got pure wreckage. What’s crazy is that as great as this was, this wasn’t even the best one, which came at WrestleMania the following year.=

With that really being impossible to follow, Vince threw The Kat and Terri out there to show some skin in a Thong Stinkface Match, which was as bad as it sounds. The Kat won — somebody had to. The Undertaker and Kane were next and this was not one of their best efforts. They went about six minutes and it was just ‘Taker trying to take the mask off of his “brother,” which he did end up doing but we still didn’t see Kane’s face (and we wouldn’t for a few more year)s. While yes, we’d already seen it with Isaac Yankem and Fake Diesel, we’re not supposed to remember that.

The main event was a star-studded affair as The Rock defended his WWE Championship in a Triple Threat Match with Kurt Angle and Triple H. The big story coming in was Angle having kissed Stephanie on SmackDown and this served as the fallout. How that actually played out was quite interesting.

Before the match even started, and before The Rock got out there, Trips attacked Angle and went for a Pedigree on the announce table. However, the table collapsed before they could hit the spot and Angle went down hard, actually getting a concussion in the process. However, he would return later on, which would never happen today.

So it was The Rock and Triple H by themselves for a while, rarely a bad thing. They went back and forth until Angle made his way back down, looking dazed. He told the story years later about that match and how everyone had to help him with the spots because he was so out of it. Yet, it still came off wonderfully and The Rock sent the crowd home happy with the win.