No Way Out 2000 Review
This is another show I liked from the WWF ppv series. Actually, I think 2000 as a whole had one of the overall best WWF ppv seasons ever. There's more to enjoy matchwise in the 2000 shows then both 1999 and 1998 I think. The majore thing about this show was the end of Mick Foley's career......or until 2004 atleast. Well, he stayed retired longer than the usual do. Live from a fogged in Hartford Conneticut your hosts are good ol JR and Jerry The King Lawler.
Match #1
Intercontinental Championship Match
Chris Jericho Vs European Champion Kurt Angle
Chyna is in Jericho's corner but doesn't help him in any way or really contribute anything. Y2J controls to start and they punch it out. Angle drop toeholds Jericho onto the bottom rope in a rather nasty spot, but gets backdropped bigtime over the top. Jericho hits the springboard dropkick and they fight on the floor. Jericho hits a moonsault off the steps, kicking Kurt in the face. Back in, Angle crotches him up top and hits an overhead belly to belly superplex for two. Vertical suplex gets two. Crowd with the Angle sucks chant. Jericho comes back with a doublearm backbreaker for two. Angle gets a release german suplex for two. Singlearm DDT gets two. Angle works the arm. Jericho blocks a blind charge with a leg lariat. Flying forearm gets two. Angle tries a rana, which is blocked into the doublepowerbomb for two which hurts Jerichos arm and Angle reverses the pin attempt into a crossarmbreaker, but Jericho makes the ropes. Angle gets annoyed grabs the IC title belt, but Jericho catches him with the Walls of Jericho. Angle makes the ropes after a struggle and they fight on the floor. Angle grabs the European title belt. Chyna gets involved and bumped into the steps and the ref gets occupied with her. Back inside Jericho drops Angle and goes for a lionsault but Angle grabs the euro belt and holds it up and Jericho knocks himself silly and Angle pins him at 10:08 to become the eurocontinental champion. Good way to start the night. 3 stars.
Match #2
Tag Team Championship Match
The New Age Outlaws Vs The Dudley Boyz
Funny, the title flashes up Intercontinental Championship match. Bubba with a bubbabomb on Roadogg out of the gate and a whazzzup follows. Billy wrecked his shoulder the smackdown before and is on his way out on injury so he's useless. Outlaws have outlived their usefullness and the Hardyz/E+C/Dudleyz are about to break new ground. Billy tags in and noticably only punches with the right arm and has his left one pulled in like it's broken. JR doesn't point it out. Bubba pulls him out and smashes him in the bum arm with a lead pipe and a 3D on Dogg gives the Dudleyz their first belts at 5:20. Gunn is kicked out of DX the following night but would be on and off teaming and buddies again with Roadogg by late 2000. 1 star.
Kurt Angle celebrates backstage with some fans.
Match #3
Singles Match
Mark Henry Vs Viscera
Viscera beat up Mae Young and JR is trying to sell that horrible pregnancy angle but Lawler yucks it up. Big fat guys clubbing eachother until Mae runs in gets attacked and almost splashed by Vis but Henry gets a standard bodyslam and the pin at 3:46. 1/2 to be nice.
Match #4
#1 Contender Tag Team Match
The Hardy Boyz w Terri Vs Edge And Christian
Terri has paid the APA to stand at ringside for protection against the Dudleyz. Jeff misses a corkscrew moonsault, Hardyz doubleteam Christian. Backdrop suplex gets two for Matt. Christian fights them off but get pounded. Jeff gets a springboard moonsault for two. Pancake gets two. Christian escapes a powerbomb and gets a neckbreaker. Jeff tries the senton but Christian gets the feet up to block. Hot tag to Edge. Edge cradles Jeff for two. Powerbomb for two. Christian drop toeholds Edge, who headbutts Jeff in the groin for two in an inovative spot. Jeff comes back with a rana that looked dangerous. Edge follows with a nasty powerbomb. Matt nails Edge and Jeff gets two. Edge spinebusters Jeff and goes upstairs, but gets dropkicked coming down. Hot tag to Matt, who hits the drop sleeper on Christian for two. Hardyz hit rolling thunder on Christian for two. Hardyz do poetry in motion but Edge spears Jeff in midair, but Matt gets him with twist of fate. Jeff goes for the swanton bomb, but Terri suddenly turns on them and pushes him off? Matt goes over to say WTF but gets slapped, allowing Christian to hit unprettier for the pin at 15:05 and the #1 contendership. Hardyz go after Terri and the APA lay waste to them including an ugly dominator on Jeff. 3 stars.
Match #5
Singles Match
The Big Boss Man w Prince Albert Vs Tazz
Brawl on the floor and Tazz dominates and goes for the tazzmition and Albert jumps in for the dq at 1:12. Tazz gets destroyed and the refs have to save him. DUD!!!
Match #6
No Holds Barred Match
Kane Paul Bearer Vs X-Pac w Torri
Torri turned on Kane recently and were nearing the end of the feud. The blowoff is at Mania 16. Paul Bearer is back and in Kane's corner. Pac jumps Kane on his way in and Kane fights back with a tiltawhirl backbreaker and Pac and Torri run away. They fight by the entranceway and Pac hits Kane with a garbage can then Kane returns the favor. They fight into the crowd and back to ringside. Bearer attacks Pac and Torri goes after him and he chases her which is futile. Back in the ring Pac gets the Broncobuster, which is basically shrugged off by Kane. X-Pac works the leg and they botch a dragon screw legwhip. X-Pac hits a heel kick and goes upstairs. Kane catches him, but X-Pac wriggles free and hits the X-Factor after a low blow. He stops to dispose of Paul Bearer, Kane comes back with a flying clothesline and a chokeslam. Tori comes in and gets tombstoned, but when Kane charges at X-Pac with the stairs, X-Pac dropkicks them back into his face and pins Kane while leaning on the steps to hold Kane down at 7:47. Ill go 2 1/2 stars.
Radicalz cut a promo and Eddie Guerrero has a metal rod in his arm sling.
Match #7
Six Man Tag Team Match
Rikishi And Too Cool Vs Chris Benoit, Dean Malenko And Perry Saturn w Eddie Guerrero
Freshly defected from WCW the Radicalz were invited over by Mick Foley then turned on him. This is their first WWF ppv. Eddie attacks Rikishi with the metal weapon and Rikishi takes it and hits him in his bad arm and Eddie gets helped back to the dressing room. Rikishi with a bad ankle so the Radicalz work it over whenever they can. Grandmaster Sexay starts with Saturn, Benoit comes in and gets hiptossed and bulldogged for two. Scotty 2 Hotty suplexes Benoit and brings in Rikishi, who gives him stinkface back when it was still a new comedy move. He goes for the Rikishi Driver, but Dean clips him from behind. Radicalz stomp the ankle good. Scotty comes back in and gets wormy and Malenko decks him mid move. Benoit kicks his ass and a sick knee drop decapitation from Malenko/Saturn double team. Benoit chops away. Scotty reverses a suplex for two. Scotty and Benoit bang heads and collapse. Hot tag to Rikishi, who cleans house. Rikishi Driver on Saturn sets up the Worm and Saturn oversells it just a bit. Malenko clips Rikishi again, then clips him a third time. Makes him look one dimentional regardless of common sense. Sexay hits the hiphop drop, but the ref is distracted, and Benoit drops the headbutt to break it up. Fight breaks out and Too Cool and Benoit/Saturn fight on the floor. Malenko works on the injured ankle of Rikishi but gets driven and banzai dropped for the pin at 13:32. Too Cool do a dance number. I liked it. 3 stars.
Kurt Angle is still celebrating with the fans outside.
Match #8
#1 Contender Match
The Rock Vs The Big Show
Because of the clusterfk surrounding the ending to the 2000 Rumble, wher Rock actually touched the floor first. This is a match to settle the dispute. Rock gets a floatover DDT for two. Rock Bottom is blocked with an elbow that sends him flying outside. They brawl outside, and Show goes shoulder first to the stairs. They fight into the crowd and Show drops him with a short clothesline then Rock backdrops him over the guardrail back to ringside. Show presses him onto the railing. Back in, powerslam gets two. Rock comes back with a Russian legsweep for two. DDT gets two. Show hits a sideslam for two. He gets annoyed and grabs a chair and the ref gets wiped out and Show manages a chokeslam without a ref to count. Tim White runs in but Hebner stops him short and they argue on the floor. Shane McMahon shows up and the crowd roars. Rock nails Big Show with the chair and goes for the People’s Elbow, but Shane kils him with a chair shot to shock JR and the crowd and Big Show gets the pin at 9:29. Shane McMahon?? Heel Turn??? Shocking??? 2 stars.
Kurt Angle is still celebrating, gets jumped by Jericho and Chyna and they lock him in his cars trunk. Hah!!!
Match #9
Title Vs Career Hell In The Cell Match
HHH w Stephanie McMahon Vs Cactus Jack
Jack tries the door but it's got about 12 padlock and chains on it. Facebuster, but Jack backdrops him to the floor. HHH tosses Jack into the stairs and into the ringpost. Jack gets up, so HHH tosses the stairs and beans him right in the head. HHH pounds the stairs with a chair with Foley underneath. HHH goes to town with a chair. DDT gets two. Cactus gets a low blow and a DDT on the chair for two. Russian legsweep on the chair gets two. vJack seats HHH in the chair, but charges and gets droptoeholed face first into the chair. Back outside, HHH rams Jack into the cage a couple of times. HHH tries a pedigree on the bottom half of the stair and Jack gets an extra torqued slingshot into the cage and HHHH bleeds. Jack grabs the chair and does a second rope elbow drop onto HHH on the floor. He tosses the stairs at HHH, who , but they bust through the bottom corner of the cell and Foley throws himself at it to make an opening. Foley is bleeding from that huge scar area on his arm. They fight on the announcers table as JR and Lawler scatter and Foley piledrives him on the announce table, it doesn't give. He climbs the cage, but Steph pulls him down. Mick shoves the timekeeper aside and finds his barbed-wire 2x4. HHH takes it in the face, and climbs to the top to escape, crowd is slowly rising. Mick follows, and gets shoved off onto the Spanish table. Jack blades. He tries three times to chuck a chair up top but can't, oops. He climbs up, and HHH gouges his face with the barbwire. They slug it out on top. Foley suplexes him and DDTs him. Foley ups the anty by igniting the 2X4 and giving HHH a shot to the head. Foley tries to piledrive him on the flame but HHH backdrops out of it, Foley goes THROUGH the cell roof AND THROUGH the ringmat below. Holee Shiat!!! HHH slowly climbs down and gives Foley a poke, he musters up the strength to stand but HHH just pedigrees and pins him at 24:10 to retain and retire Foley. Probably the best retirement match ive seen. I give it my top score for hardcore cage style matches. 4 stars. It might just be me but the crowd didn't seem as crazy for this HITC as they were at KOTR.
Overall Opinion: Great show. Three 3 star matches and you close with a 4 star match.
Final Score: On a scale of 1.0 to 10.0.....I give this show a 6.5. The WWF was definately doing something right in 2000 for their ppv booking.