Pay-Per-View Rewind of: WWF/WWE
WrestleMania 2000 [16] 02/04/2000 Match 2/Part 2 by AverageMansReviews -
Spoiler Alarm!
Warning: there are flashing effects in the first participant's
entrance [Tazz]
Match/Stipulations: Tazz vs. Viscera vs. The Mean Street Posse [Pete Gass,
Rodney & Joey Abs] vs. Hardcore Holly vs. Kai En Tai [Taka Michinoku &
Shoichi Funaki] vs. The Headbangers [Mosh & Thrasher] vs. The Acolytes
[Farooq & Bradshaw] vs. The WWF Hardcore Champion Crash Holly: Hardcore
Battle Royal for the WWF Hardcore Championship; we have 13 participants all
going for this Championship and whomever is the WWF Hardcore Champion when 15
minutes have expired is your New WWF Hardcore Champion, so there is plenty of
opportunities for this Championship to change hands in this time frame.
Match Attributes:
Match Quality: 7/10
Match Storyline: 7/10
Crowd Participation: 8/10
On Commentary: Jerry Lawler & JR Jim Ross 7/10
Satisfying Conclusion: 7/10
Recommend Watch: 7/10
Match Total: 43/60 - this match is good
Comments: as I have already said this match is good as you would
come to expect in these kinds of matches there is carnage and blood, unlike the
current 24/7 Championship the WWF Hardcore Championship had credibility and
respect, basically the 24/7 Championship is just the censored and tame version of the WWF Hardcore
Championship; it's like watching Challenge of the GoBots 1984-1985 when you should be watching The Transformers
1984-1987 [before I receive a backlash about my comparison the Go-Bots were
good, but The Transformers were/are supremely galaxies upon galaxies better;
yes I’m aware of the health and safety aspect as well, but still the WWF
Hardcore Championship is still much better.
Now at the very final stages of this
match the Commentary Team were being vocal about Crash Holly; Lawler saying
"He kicked-out!" Which there is very little evidence to suggest this;
I mean you could say he may have wanted to do this by his ever so slight leg
movements, but we are talking about a pinch of salt of movement hear and Ross
saying "He got the shoulder up!"And likewise there is a pinch of salt
of movement; but this is where things go either very well or not at all
according to plan, where we have Crush being exhausted to the point where he
either doesn't kick-out convincingly or get his shoulder up likewise
convincingly consequently the Referee [Tim White] has to quickly work with as
if Crush kicks out [or there is enough here to suggest that White may have
slowed or stopped his three count which it is common knowledge by today
standard that Mr. McMahon hates this. Because he sees it as the Referees are
there to call it; it is down to the characters/performers to kick-out,] but I
digress with White's body language to indicate and the word out, but with a
split-second look on his face that says "We may be in trouble here"
with the Referees reversing their decision and still going with this result,
which I am speculating here they go on-the-fly backstage before the next match
just to show an action replay and building it into a narrative of there wasn't
a three count.
Basic Result: Hardcore Holly is your New WWF Hardcore Champion?
