Pete was in charge of the match we watched tonight and he went for the Armageddon 2000 six man hell in a cell main event! Does it hold up today?
Ross: We got like another 200 followers today - people are hype!! 42 mins jeez Pete!
Nicked this from wiki…
The central feud heading into Armageddon was between WWF Champion Kurt Angle, The Undertaker, Triple H, Stone Cold Steve Austin, The Rock, and Rikishi inside a Hell in a Cell for the WWF Championship. At No Mercy Kurt Angle won the championship from The Rock in a No Disqualification Match. Kurt would later retain the title against The Undertaker at Survivor Series and again at Rebellion in a Fatal Four Way Match against The Rock, Rikishi, and Stone Cold Steve Austin. Commissioner Mick Foley would later announce on SmackDown! that Kurt Angle would defend his title inside a six-man Hell in a Cell match. Mr. McMahon would try desperately to get all six men to back out, but ultimately failed to do so.
James: The undercard was alright. Benoit v the 1 Billy Gunn. Kane v Jericho LMS.
Dom: Ready to lower the cell. But I wanna get changed.
Ross: Into ring gear?
Pete: Ready to hit play? Cell coming down is always epic
Ross: That HHH music - so great! 1-2 IS THIS ON??!
James: Does anybody know who's sleeping with who?
Pete: MY TIME!
James: Classic Tune
Simon: Haven’t heard this theme for ages
Pete: It's so much better than the game
Dom: Controversial. My favourite HHH theme
Pete: And that's a good song too
Mat: This theme doesn’t even sound familiar to me
James: He had some right shite in between DX and My Time
Pete: As Ross says I like how Vince sold the danger by trying to get the match cancelled
James: For about 3 weeks an absolute clunker
Ross: FOLEY'S A BITTER MAN
James: This is not the full My Time either
Pete: Yeah no lyrics
Ross: I don’t remember this Foley angle at all…
Dom: Another great tune! BAD MAN
James: I swear they Dub over these
Simon: This was a banger
Ross: Rikishi in his jammies!
Pete: The biggest star in the match. Literally
Mat: Mad boo’s for angle. Or did I miss hear that?
Simon: Miss that belt, was one of the first replicas I had.
Dom: Champion out third?
Ross: Champion out 3rd?! to quote the hurricane... wassupwitdat?!
Pete: Champ entering third? I guess when you got Stone Cold the Rock and Taker still to come
Dom: Teddy Long the ref!
James: Tim White on the doors
Simon: Another great theme
Mat: This got a thrashing on my iPod
Dom: And Tim White inbetween suicide attempts
Ross: Limp Bizkit in da house!
James: This song coming on was the highlight of my 'prom'
Ross: No bike wanker...
James: 1,2,3 x2 to the mix
Ross: Loving angle not going in the cell
Pete: I once saw Limp Bizkit live and they bought the entire crowd a free beer each during their set. Greatest band ever!
Simon: They did that when I saw them too!
Ross: Jeezus the Rock is over, that pop
James: Keith Lee played for Texas A&M. You all know the story. He started on the football field and wanted more
Pete: Oh shit it's on already!
Ross: Austin goes straight for angle!!! Shoves him in the cell... this crowd! Loving life.
James: We asked 100 people what do you want to see the Rock do to Rikishi. You said 'wipe his head on the cell' Our Survey Said. Ding Top answer
Pete: Not sure why the Rock is being such a dick to Rikishi. He ran over Austin for him. I would have said 'thanks Uce'
Dom: It wasn’t just for the Rock… It was also for the people
Pete: Hahaha. He's a good egg, that Rikishi
Ross: If you do a Lou Thesz press and dont follow up with a flurry of punches are you even Attitude era?
Pete: 2018 is Trips's time
James: Triple H every year proving 'you can't teach an old dog new tricks'
Ross: Just seen Angle do a strangle. Olympic standard.
Pete: You can tell Austin and Trips are trying to go retro even in this absolute car crash. It's quite endearing
James: The Undertaker was blurred into the cell, it looked like Kurt threw himself out of the ring
Dom: It was star spangled. Had the Taker in a tangle
Ross: Not exactly steamboat v austin is it?
Mat: I reckon this is the sweet spot of wwe/f
Pete: Ross, this is the definition of catch as catch can
James: Irish Whip. Is that the first move?
Pete: Dunno what you are on about.
James: Everything else has been an x on Smackdown 1.That was a direction and a circle
Simon: “Don’t rip his nose off” hahaha oh, King.
Pete: It probably could happen with HHH's nozzle
Ross: Cagewash!!!
Dom: Loved playing these 6 man HIAC on Smackdown 3
Simon: This was definitely my favourite era
Ross: Absolutely hectic
Dom: Sidebar: Smackdown 2 = 3rd greatest video game ever made
James: Except for the 'Now Loading'
Ross: First blood! Trips is busted!
Simon: No Mercy was great
Pete: Nice shot of Rikishi's ass there. Vince clearly equal opportunity with ass shots
Simon: Now loading was unreal. Sometimes it would be Trish.
Ross: This is back when cage matches = blood. HHH turns on Rikishi!!! Cerebral assassin!
Simon: That was the first heel on heel turn
Dom: Here comes the finisher sequence I reckon
Ross: ANGLE SLAM! STUNNER! CHOKESLAM!
Pete: This is such a house show main event finisher storm
Ross: Where's the sodding stink face?!!
James: Just realised I've done this twice and the Undertaker has been in both matches
Mat: Rikishi done fuck all here. He’s gassed. I think that opening sequence cooked him
Ross: HHH taking one hell of a beating. Decent crimson mask...
Simon: Haha here we go with the stooges!
Ross: hahahhahaa Vince and the stooges arrive on the truck!!
Dom: “He hurt himself getting down” hahaha. Vince is the fucking man sometimes.
Ross: Is that Dennis Stamp in a construction hat? Pull it down, Dennis!
Dom: Dennis stamp demolition. “No tricks. Just bouncing.”
Mat: Foley’s barely aged in 20 years!
James: Ego from Foley. Vinny didn't need his music
Simon: Still wears the same clothes
Pete: I love how Vince has found this truck on the streets of the middle of nowhere, Iowa
Ross: Foley hits the stooges!
Pete: This Mick Foley is a sick man
Ross: Vince gets taken away by security. "I own this damn place."
Dom: Bloke in the front row trying to get a handful of hunter’s blood. Oh yes! I remember this with the cars and the camera.
Pete: You got to pin him in the ring, Steve!
James: Camera to the knee!
Simon: They don’t make matches like this anymore
Ross: A fan just rubbed Austin's bald head and then he got sent through a car window – a bad 5 seconds for him there.
Dom: Why didn't anyone clear up from the Demolition Derby that was in the arena earlier?
Ross: Austin pissing blood now
Mat: Taker and rock the only ones that seem to be getting offence in. Spoke too soon
Simon: Angle looks like the weakest
James: No one has any offence. It's finishers or punches
Pete: Low blow… Trips hates AJ too!
Ross: Pedigree on the car!
Dom: I love The Rock’s integrity. Even in a no DQ match he still hits with an open fist.
Pete: Have we done a match without a low blow yet?
Ross: Time for rock's blade job
Pete: Oh boy that's a lot of blood
James: Scoop Slam to the Bonnet. Advanced move for this bout.
Ross: That catapult onto the car was proper slapstick! Love it
Pete: Clever ring psychology with HHH getting hit by the car there. He's behind the Austin hit if I remember correctly
Dom: Oh shit. Yeah that’s maybe why they chose cars for the set. That’s too clever for wrestling. That’s like some LOST shit. #4815162342
Mat: Chair shot!
Simon: What a shot
Ross: Fucking hell taker took those like a maniac – he’s cut now!
Simon: Time to climb the cell
Ross: So weird seeing Austin up there
Pete: Well this is terrifying
Ross: Stunner on the cell!
Pete: Austin probably at more risk than Trips there
Ross: Taker's crimson mask is ridiculous
Pete: He is basically Kane now
Ross: Angle bleeding! That’s five out of six!
James: Crowd furious that Triple H not falling off
Dom: Rikishi climbing the cell! Some sort of athlete for a big man. That wouldn’t be easy.
Simon: Especially with that arse on your back
James: Kurt is dead!
Ross: Flat back bump on top of the cell! Mad.
Pete: I like the camera angle from underneath
Dom: The old upskirt
Pete: I wonder how this ends for Rikishi...
Ross: GONNA GET MADE FAMOUS!
James: There seems to be a big truck bed of hay near the side of the ring…
Simon: Amazing spot
Pete: Oh jeezus
Ross: Chokepush!
Mat: That takes some balls from rikishi
Ross: Going backwards is a hell of a trust fall
Pete: So apparently Rikishi was too scared to take it initially and some 'best in the world' loser wrestler took that bump twice to prove it was safe.
Dom: Rikishi said that they practised it in the afternoon but the truck didn’t have the sides up on the tray so he had a larger margin for error. Shat himself when he got to the top by all accounts. And got pretty rattled afterwards. Needed a bit of time off.
Simon: Wrestlemania tease there by Austin and Rock
Pete: That exchange was so cool
Ross: Electrifying
Simon: Slapped his head to stop the count
James: Austin broke that cover up like a Whack a Mole
Simon: Looked painful
James: Stunner!!!
Mat: Taker just lying on the top of the cell…
Ross: Rock sells the stunner so ridiculously
Pete: Look at Rock bounce
James: It is the best
Simon: What a finish. Kurt steals the win.
James: Kurt with a hand!
Ross: Yes Kurt!
Simon: Pure piss boiling
Pete: He did it!!!!!
Mat: What a finish
Simon: This was booked so well
Ross: That was a blast
Dom: Sets up Austin and Triple H to come back at No Way Out
Ross: I bet folk were so mad at that
Pete: Imagine waking up from that massacre to hear Kurt's music playing. You would be so angry in kayfabe
Dom: I was! My mates and I hated Angle so much
Ross: STUNNER TO ANGLE
Pete: I think Austin stunned him in his sleep there
Ross: Lawler: Kurt is still champ isn't he? YES!"
James: Best ever stunner is the one on Regal as he's reciting Hamlet...
THE NERD RATING
PETE - The Perfect 10. In terms of sheer entertainment and star power it's at the top of any list. I'm not sure you can rate it in a traditional way otherwise. But I had an absolute blast watching it again.
DOM - Nostalgia is one of the most powerful emotions in my life these days. I didn’t really think that much of the match but gee I loved watching it to be reminded of little things like how Austin would throw his right hands; Or Triple H’s entrance music. I, like Pete am unsure of how to give it a star rating. I’m going to call it 5 out of 6 blade jobs. The only thing more of a cluster than 6 men in a cell is 6 blokes talking about it.
ROSS - You had so many characters here. Austin and Rock were OVER. Angle was a great chicken shit heel. Rikishi was a threat. HHH was the muscle that took a beating and Taker was making folk famous. Add in a hell in a cell and Foley/McMahon and its combustible! Match 7/10. Entertainment 10/10. Absolutely frantic. A real life Smackdown 3 match.
MAT - 8/10, absolute ball to watch, had the right amount of everything - except wrestling moves.
JAMES - The Crowd was so hot for it. Everyone was over, proving Vince can build more than one person at a time if he wants. It's just carnage and finishers. Was good fun. I will rate it the 2018 Cleveland Browns. Fun to watch and root for, some big stars, but not in the upper echelon of teams.
SIMON - The match was entertaining from the get-go. Time seemed to fly by watching this one. It had so many spots to keep us on the edge of our seat. Loved the fact it had a typical piss boiling finish with Angle stealing the win! 9/10
OVERALL RATING – 5/6 BLADE JOBS.
Cheers chaps, that was a riot - great pick Pete! Looking forward to next week...
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