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So lately I've seen a lot of complaints about WWE's booking, not just lately, but for the past few years! We all know that the booking is nowhere near as good as it used to be, that's a given and I think most, if not all will agree!
However, I recently re-watched Wrestlemania 2000, which included maybe 2 matches that you could deem as "good". Those being the triangle ladder match between Edge & Christian, the Dudleys and the Hardys, who I don't think have ever had a bad match together. The other match was the two fall triple threat between Chris Jericho, Chris Benoit and Kurt Angle. Both the European and Intercontinental titles were on the line. A lot of people might point out that this Wrestlemania didn't feature Stone Cold or the Undertaker, but looking at the main event, a fatal 4 way between Triple H, The Rock, Big Show and Mick Foley you would like to imagine those guys could carry the show and put on a great main event for what is the biggest PPV of the year. Wrong. It was a poor match by 4 very talented man who should have made that match 10 times better than it was! The fact Foley and Show were even included. Had it of been just HHH vs The Rock, two of the biggest pullers at that time, then maybe it would have been a classic.
People nowadays also talk about how bad the tag division has been in WWE over the recent years, well at WM2000 there was 4 tag team matches, only one was worth watching as I mentioned earlier. These days there's very little tag teams, and the ones that are there are either not being pushed or being disbanded as the only use was to push them as singles competitors. Back then you had so many tag teams that they had 9 competing in one PPV! And as I said only one mattered. Then there was the hardcore battle royal. I think the title changed hands 50 times, I actually lost count, it was just a scheme to get a load of jobbers and midcarders into a Wrestlemania match they would not have otherwise been involved in.
Basically what I'm saying is, people are always going to complain about bad booking as something may not happen that they wished for, but it's not just the current era that has bad booking. Maybe other people really enjoyed WM2000 and loved the amount of tag team matches and the silliness of the hardcore battle royal, and that's fine, we all have different opinions at the end of the day!
However, I recently re-watched Wrestlemania 2000, which included maybe 2 matches that you could deem as "good". Those being the triangle ladder match between Edge & Christian, the Dudleys and the Hardys, who I don't think have ever had a bad match together. The other match was the two fall triple threat between Chris Jericho, Chris Benoit and Kurt Angle. Both the European and Intercontinental titles were on the line. A lot of people might point out that this Wrestlemania didn't feature Stone Cold or the Undertaker, but looking at the main event, a fatal 4 way between Triple H, The Rock, Big Show and Mick Foley you would like to imagine those guys could carry the show and put on a great main event for what is the biggest PPV of the year. Wrong. It was a poor match by 4 very talented man who should have made that match 10 times better than it was! The fact Foley and Show were even included. Had it of been just HHH vs The Rock, two of the biggest pullers at that time, then maybe it would have been a classic.
People nowadays also talk about how bad the tag division has been in WWE over the recent years, well at WM2000 there was 4 tag team matches, only one was worth watching as I mentioned earlier. These days there's very little tag teams, and the ones that are there are either not being pushed or being disbanded as the only use was to push them as singles competitors. Back then you had so many tag teams that they had 9 competing in one PPV! And as I said only one mattered. Then there was the hardcore battle royal. I think the title changed hands 50 times, I actually lost count, it was just a scheme to get a load of jobbers and midcarders into a Wrestlemania match they would not have otherwise been involved in.
Basically what I'm saying is, people are always going to complain about bad booking as something may not happen that they wished for, but it's not just the current era that has bad booking. Maybe other people really enjoyed WM2000 and loved the amount of tag team matches and the silliness of the hardcore battle royal, and that's fine, we all have different opinions at the end of the day!