10 Best WWE Pay-Per-Views: 2000 - 2002
You should always expect to see some pretty damn good wrestling matches from WWE on a weekly basis throughout all of their weekly programmings, especially in today's situation.
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However, the WWE Universe always expect the best matches to be saved for WWE's monthly pay-per-views, and that is because they generally are.
WWE PPVs can be any fans highlight of the month because we quite often get to see so many great matches.
These can be big storyline pay-offs, a bout to extend a feud or even one that was just thrown together last minute. Regardless, it is more often than not that these are the matches you think of when you think of the year's best.
With that said, I will be looking over some of the WWE's best pay-per-views over a series of lists, starting with what I feel are the top 10 best WWE pay-per-views of the years 2000 through 2002.
#10 Fully Loaded 2000
WWE Fully Loaded 2000 was a bit of a test for WWE, as they decided to push three up and comers in the main event scene.
Kurt Angle, Chris Jericho and Chris Benoit were each given a huge match against an established main eventer to help see if they were ready for the big time, and I think they proved it.
Live from Dallas, Texas, the show opened up with a Six person Tag pitting The Hardy Boyz and Lita against Test, Albert and Trish Stratus. I thought this was an action-packed opening contest. The crowd was super hot for the Hardyz and Lita of course and went crazy for everything they did. Lita took in the pin for her team over Stratus.
In a match that would have main evented an ECW show three years earlier, Tazz beat Al Snow by submission next.
Nothing much to it, just five minutes of domination by the human suplex machine.
Former Radicalz teammates Eddie Guerrero and Perry Saturn collided for Latino Heat's European title next.
Another short one, this wasn't very good. Guerrero was on form but Saturn just seemed very slow. The future mop lover won the match and Championship with a diving elbow after interference from Terri.
Edge and Christian defended their WWE Tag Team Championships next against the APA. This was just a stinker to be honest. Edge and Christian had heat with the APA at the time so it seemed like Bradshaw and Ron Simmons were working a little still with them. APA took a DQ win in just over five minutes after Edge nailed Simmons with the ring bell.
Val Venis defended the Intercontinental Championship with Rikishi in a Steel Cage next. This, I think, was one of the best matches of both men's careers. A pretty thrilling match which featured an incredible spot of Rikishi performing a Superfly Splash from the top on Val. Seems like it's over until Tazz runs out for no reason and costs Rikishi the match.
The first of the triple main event is next as King of The Ring, Kurt Angle, faces The Undertaker. This was practically a squash match, Taker gave Angle nothing here. Total destruction. Thankfully WWE continued to push Angle after.
The main event saw The Rock defend the WWE Championship with Chris Benoit. This was a very exciting match that proved they were two of the best in the world.
It seemed like Benoit had won the match as Rock was disqualified and the stipulation was Benoit would be Champion if that happened, but Mick Foley ordered a restart and Rock pinned Benoit with a Rock Bottom.
The best match of the night came from Triple H and Chris Jericho, who had an excellent Last Man Standing match. Truly one of the best matches of the year here and that is really saying something.