Mike Reviews Shows Considered To Be Stinkers – WWF King of the Ring 2000

Happy Stinky Saturday Everyone!

Last week we looked at the go-home Smackdown for King of the Ring 2000, so let’s review that show this week, as I remember it being pretty stinky. However, maybe my memory is being unkind to this show? 2000 was generally a good year for the WWF on pay per view, so perhaps King of the Ring 2000 will hold up better than other potential Stinkers I’ve reviewed in the past?

You can view the card for King of the Ring 2000 by clicking below;

https://www.cagematch.net/?id=1&nr=2147&page=3

King of the Ring 2000 is emanating from Boston, Massachusetts on the 25th of June 2000

Calling the action are Jim Ross and Jerry Lawler

The King of the Ring bracket was as such, so you can get an idea of how we got here

Opening Match
King of the Ring Quarter Final
“The Rabid Wolverine” Chris Benoit Vs WWF Intercontinental Champ Rikishi

Kish won the belt on the go-home Smackdown, and then got battered by Benoit, so he’ll be carrying an injury tonight. This one has good action, but it’s way too short, coming in at under 4 minutes. They trade punches to start, with Rikishi getting the better of things until the fight spills outside, where Benoit takes over and then muscles Rikishi over with a German Suplex back inside the ring. The crowd is into this and tries to get behind Rikishi whilst Benoit hammers away at him, with Rikishi eventually managing to make the ropes on a Crossface attempt. This merely angers Benoit though, as he simply brings a chair into the ring and batters Rikishi with it for the DQ.

WINNER BY DQ: RIKISHI
RATING: *1/2

Thoughts: So you’ve got Chris Benoit, one of the best in-ring performers in the world at the time and someone thoroughly capable of not only wrestling multiple matches but also being able to mix up his style in order to best gel with his opponent…and you eliminate him in the first round in under four minutes?!?! Nothing against The Kish, he was over at the time and it’s not like him advancing is any kind of travesty, but he already had the IC Title at the time and he’s quite a large man, so not only did he not need the win but he’s also not physically cut out for tournament wrestling. Not putting Benoit over here was bordering on being ridiculous. The match itself was energetic and very watchable for the sub 4 minute runtime, but I just can’t rate it any higher due to how short it was in length and the fact it had such a rubbish finish

Rikishi is now even more hurt than he already was following that, with Benoit adding another Crossface post-match, just to be a git.

Earlier today; The Linda McMahon-bot 2000 is in attendance and want’s to talk with Vincent Kennedy McMahon.

Alleged Trafficker Vince McMahon assures The McMahon-Helmsley Faction that he’s going to keep his cool tonight. The rest of The Faction aren’t so confident. As if Vince McMahon would lose his cool with someone…

Benoit doesn’t care about being eliminated from the King of the Ring. Well, that sure makes the tournament seem important…

Match Two
King of the Ring Quarter Final
Val Venis w/ Trish Stratus Vs WWF European Champ “Latino Heat” Eddy Guerrero w/ “The Mamacita” Chyna

Eddy got attacked by Venis on Smackdown in order to heat this issue up, with it eventually leading to a match at SummerSlam. This one is well worked in the early going, with both wrestlers looking good and delivering some nice looking offence. It’s mostly back and forth action, as I think Eddy was technically still a Heel at the time, even though Chyna and he were getting good reactions from crowds due to how entertaining their act was. We get some near falls from both wrestlers, with Venis trying to cheat by putting his foot on the rope during a pin attempt, but Eddy manages to kick out and then delivers a rana off the top onto Venis. That leads to Stratus creating a distraction, so Chyna clocks her and then clocks Venis when he tries to get her, giving Eddy a great near fall off a roll-up until Venis follows up with a Seaman’s Suplex for the clean pin.

WINNER: VENIS
RATING: **1/2

Thoughts: I think this one suffered a bit from the lack of a clear Heel/Face dynamic, as it meant they couldn’t work the seven point formula and that didn’t give the crowd as much to latch onto as a regularly worked match would. The actual wrestling was really good though, as both delivered crisp offence in there and the clean pin was certainly appreciated

Pat Patterson can’t decide which evening gown to wear later on. Hilarity ensues. Oh wait, sorry, “hilarity” ensues. In all fairness, Patterson was trying REALLY hard to make this work and I can appreciate the effort on display. Jen the make-up lady did a good job as the exasperated serious person too.

Rikishi tells The Coach that he’s able to compete later on.

Match Three
King of the Ring Quarter Final
Bull Buchanan Vs “The Houdini of Hardcore” Crash Holly

This is your standard “big bloke Vs not quite as big a bloke” match, which was a genre that Crash was very good at due to being a career underdog. Bull flings Crash around, with Crash’s attempts at offence not working as the bigger wrestler simply shrugs it off. Crash’s selling and bumping is very good, although Bull’s offence is pretty dull for the most part. The crowd doesn’t seem to care that much, possibly because Bull never really connected with the audience. Crash as the underdog trying to go deep into the tournament isn’t the worst idea, but you need to match him up with opponents who are actually over in order for it to work correctly. Bull eventually misses a Scissors Kick and Crash gets a roll-up for three, with the pin getting a pop from the crowd at least. Shame they didn’t really care about the match itself.

WINNER: CRASH
RATING: *

Thoughts: All Crash had to do here was sell, bump and do a roll-up, so he was fine, but Bull had to carry the match and he wasn’t very good at it. I think I would have gone with Viscera as the opponent here for Crash, if only because I think he was a slightly more interesting wrestler than Bull and the crowd would have possibly seen it as an even bigger mountain for Crash to climb and thus would have got into the match more. Bull is a big dude, but he’s bland and his size isn’t enough to make up for it, whilst any lack of spice that Viscera has from a personality standpoint is offset by the fact that he’s freaking HUGE. Who knows though, maybe this crowd wasn’t going to care regardless of who Crash faced?

Vince McMahon and Linda McMahon have a very exciting conversation. Oh wait, hang on, I’ll get the hang of this. Vince McMahon and Linda McMahon have a “very exciting” conversation, of which the gist is that the Main Event will have no interference later on.

Match Four
King of the Ring Quarter Final
“The American Hero” Kurt Angle Vs “Y2J” Chris Jericho

Angle makes sure to insult the local sports teams before the match, just in case the crowd doesn’t know who to boo I guess. Ross says before the match that “boy this would make a good Final” and he’s right, so why didn’t they book the tournament to ensure it would be? Jericho gets a nice shine to start, with the match being fought at a decent pace and Angle taking some nice bumps. I never really felt like these two had especially good chemistry together as opponents, or at the very least they didn’t have the calibre of match you’d expect from two respectively talented wrestlers. However, this is probably one of the better ones, with their timing being decent and the crowd being into the action.

We get another instance of a Heel luring a Face to the floor so that they can cut them off, with Angle taking the fight outside the ring and then flinging Jericho into the front row to start the heat segment. We’ve seen that trope a few times tonight, and it’s getting a bit overdone. Jericho sells well whilst Angle gets the heat, with Angle resorting to a lot of punches and kicks, which you sometimes saw during the earlier part of his WWF career when he hadn’t got fully comfortable with being a wrestling machine yet and was still trying to work as a more traditional WWF performer. Angle eventually takes too long taunting on the second rope though, which allows Jericho to catch Angle with a dropkick and then rana him back into the ring for our double down.

Jericho makes the big comeback following that, getting a nice spin kick for two, which some of the crowd actually bit on. Each wrestler has chances to win it, as referee Teddy Long’s count is starting to resemble the old Japanese referee from All Japan in it’s cadence. What is it with bald referees and counting slower than usual? Anyway, Jericho looks to have it won with the Lion Tamer, which leads to Stephanie McMahon-Helmsley joining us in an attempt to cost Jericho the match. Referee Long ends up taking a bump, which leads to shenanigans where Stephanie accidentally clocks Angle with the Women’s Title, which leads to Jericho putting a smooch on her. However, this allows Angle to get the Olympic Slam and the three count from the revived referee.

WINNER: KURT ANGLE
RATING: ***1/4

Thoughts: This was a good match, and probably one of the better ones these two had together. The Stephanie interference gave Jericho an out for losing whilst also setting up something else down the line, but Angle still got to win with his finisher. Honestly this should have been the Final, as the crowd was into it and the wrestling was solid. I can’t see anything else left on either side of the bracket topping this one, and really the strongest match should close things out in a tournament like this

Shane is annoyed that Vince made the Main Event no interference, but Vince is confident that they’ll still win. Both seem worried about Triple H though.

Mick Foley and Ivory are at WWF New York. Ivory is actually behind the bar serving drinks, whilst Foley talks about the fact he has a business meeting in Connecticut tomorrow, which was teasing his eventual stint as commissioner.

Match Five
Four Corners Elimination Bout for the WWF Tag Team Titles
Champs: Too Cool (Scotty 2 Hotty and Grand Master Sexay) Vs Edge and Christian Vs Test and Albert w/ Trish Stratus Vs The Hardy Boyz (Matt and Jeff) w/ Lita

Too Cool won the belts on an episode of Raw thanks to Little Joe C getting involved, whilst T&A and The Hardyz had an ongoing feud at the time, so they’ve shoved all four teams into a match here to decide who gets the take the belts home. E&C make fun of the local sports teams to start, and it seems to be baseball related, which means I am beyond out of my element. I can at least guess at the NFL and NBA stuff, but baseball is just cricket for people with drinking problems so I’m haven’t got a Scooby. I will say that Too Cool are beyond going into the WWE Hall of Fame at this stage. They certainly pass the Koko B. Ware criteria.

Test and Albert were both victims of the WWF being the Land of the Giants, as in a company where most of the roster was regular sized they would have looked like absolute monsters, but when basically everyone is tall, with a few exceptions, guys like Albert especially just look like normal dudes and not the huge men they actually are. There’s a good bit early on where T&A fling The Hardyz around at least, which makes use of T&A’s size advantage, but that gets broken up by Stratus and Lita going at it, which allows Jeff to come off the top with a Swanton onto Albert so that Matt can get the pin.

First Elimination
Test and Albert eliminated by The Hardy Boyz (1) – Jeff Hardy Swanton Bomb to Albert

Honestly T&A were in that so briefly that I almost wonder what the point was in even including them. E&C and The Hardyz do a bit together, and that’s as good as it usually is, with E&C eventually cutting Jeff off for a brief heat segment. Lita gets involved again, giving Edge a rana for two in a good spot, as the fans are already into the Team Xtreme trio. Things break down soon after that, with Christian getting the Unprettier/Killswitch onto Matt to eliminate The Hardyz.

Second Eliminatoon
The Hardy Boyz eliminated by Edge and Christian (1) – Christian Unprettier to Matt

Too Cool get their own babyface shine on E&C following that, as this has essentially been three matches stapled together when it really hasn’t needed to be. E&C eventually work some heat on Scotty, with Scotty selling all of that well and the crowd getting behind him to fight back at points. Eventually it’s hot tag Grand Master, and he runs wild on the challengers, and it’s competent stuff, although that’s more down to E&C being in the right place as Grand Master has been off his game a bit here. E&C tease delivering their own W-O-R-M at one stage in a funny moment, but Scotty breaks that up and delivers the genuine article to Edge for a good pop from the crowd. Christian introduces a tag belt following that though, and eventually E&C are able to cheat their way to victory when Christian clobbers Sexay with the gold.

Final Elimination
Too Cool eliminated by Edge and Christian (2) – Christian belt shot to Grand Master

WINNERS AND NEW CHAMPIONS: EDGE & CHRISTIAN
MOST ELIMINATIONS: EDGE & CHRISTIAN (2)
RATING: **

Thoughts: This didn’t need T&A or The Hardyz really. A standard tag match between E&C and Too Cool would have been fine, as the other two teams didn’t really add much to proceedings seeing as neither tandem was in there for long. The match itself was okay, but it felt rushed and I’m not sure it really added much to the show overall. They could have just had E&C win the belts back on another occasion in a match that could have been given more time to breathe

Michael Cole and his lame frosted tips interview Crash Holly backstage, where Crash says that Kurt Angle is in big trouble later on.

Match Six
King of the Ring Semi Final
Val Venis w/ Trish Stratus Vs Rikishi

These two had already started a feud prior to this, so this does at least make sense as a continuation of that storyline, but Benoit Vs Eddy would have been a much better match and better for both the show and the tournament overall. Rikishi gets a shine to start, with Venis taking some nice bumps, and that leads to Venis attacking Rikishi’s injured arm/shoulder for some heat. Rikishi’s selling is decent, as usual, so the work is fine, but the crowd doesn’t really care. Rikishi manages to catch Venis with a suplex OUTTA NOWHERE though, and that’s enough for three.

WINNER: RIKISHI
RATING: *1/2

Thoughts: Too short to be rated any higher, but it wasn’t actively bad or anything

Rikishi tries to Bonzai Drop Stratus following the match when she runs in, but Venis puts a stop to that and beats Kish down with stairs and a chair. I guess he couldn’t find a kitchen sink…

Jonathon Coachman is trying to interview Gerald Brisco, but he’s struggling due to laughter. Brisco delivers an okay promo to hype up the match later on, which of course leads to an intern bringing in Brisco’s dress. Oh the “hilarity”!

Match Seven
King of the Ring Semi Final
Kurt Angle Vs Crash Holly

I don’t think anyone in the crowd buys that we’re going to get a Rikishi Fatu Vs Crash Holly King of the Ring Final, so they use this match as an excuse to sit on their hands, even though the wrestling going on in the ring is decent due to both of these wrestlers having in-ring talent. It’s nice that they let Crash go deep into the tournament as a reward for his 24/7 Hardcore exploits, but fans saw him as a comedy hardcore guy and not a serious wrestler, which means that it’s hard to get them to bite when he’s getting near falls on a wrestler the fans DO see as a serious contender in Angle. Holly gets a Missile Dropkick for two, but Angle fights back with a Stun Gun (the move, not the item) and Olympic Slam ending it straight after.

WINNER: KURT ANGLE
RATING: *1/2

Thoughts: The in-ring here was decent, but the crowd reactions were non-existent and the finish was an absolute forgone conclusion before the bell even rang

Personally; I don’t really have a problem with Angle’s side of the bracket, but I think I would have had a Benoit Vs Eddy Semi Final on the other side, leading to an injured Eddy having to face Angle in the Final. Eddy makes a better underdog and the match quality would be better overall too. That one decision might not “save” the show, but it would certainly make it better IMO.

We get clips from an MSG House Show, as Jerry Lawler spends some time chatting with some dude with crappy hair who I think ended up getting into politics.

Michael Cole interviews Kane, and then Coach gets comments from Undertaker. Neither promo lasts that long. They’re both big, mean and want to be WWF Champ. Good to know!

Match Eight
Evening Gown Match for the WWF Hardcore Title
Champ: The Hall of Famer Pat Patterson Vs The Esteemed Gerald Brisco

The Hardcore Title was fought under 24/7 rules at the time, so Patterson aided Brisco in winning the belt, only to then betray him and win the belt for himself. As a result we’ve got this match, although the stipulation pretty much guarantees that the match will be rubbish. I mean, Pat Patterson Vs Gerald Brisco in a standard hardcore match probably wasn’t going to be a classic, but it could have at least been somewhat entertaining. The two have no hope making this one work. You can read up more on the match by taking a look at this article by Alex.

Patterson says that he’ll throw the match, but of course it’s a SWERVE and Patterson attacks. How dumb does Brisco have to be in order to fall for that? Patterson has betrayed him at least twice prior to this already! We get some “comedy” spots, such as Patterson rubbing a sanitary pad on Brisco’s face, as the crowd quickly turns on the match. Both of these guys were highly respected in-ring performers in their heyday, and now they’re rubbing their arses in each others’ faces whilst wearing dresses. That’s Vince McMahon in a nutshell right there. Crash Holly ends up ending the misery by running down and attacking both combatants and pinning Patterson to win the belt.

WINNER AND NEW CHAMPION: CRASH HOLLY
RATING: DUD

Thoughts: Even Vince Russo might have thought twice about booking this one. What am I talking about; he would have somehow found a way to make it WORSE! As Alex mentioned in his article; the only saving grace here was that Crash’s win got a pop at least. I don’t go any lower than DUD when it comes to match ratings, but this would likely be in the negative star range if I did them

The Dudley Boyz are hyped to put people through tables.

Match Nine
Handicap Dumpster Table Bout
D-Generation X (X-Pac, The Road Dogg and Tori Powers) Vs The Dudley Boyz (Bubba Ray and D-Von)

Bubba’s whole thing at the time was that he liked putting women through tables, which somehow made him a babyface, because Attitude Era. Tori had been able to elude Bubba’s table breaking ways for a while, so we have this match, where The Dudleyz need to tableise all of the Heel team to win whilst the Heels need to dump The Dudz in the Dumpster to win. The dumpster is involved because DX stuck The Dudleyz in a dumpster and shoved it off the stage, which was something they’d also done to Mick Foley and Terry Funk back in the day. To be honest, it was probably too soon to do that spot again seeing as the first one happened in early 1998.

For some reason they work this as an actual tag match as opposed to a tornado bout, which doesn’t really make any sense seeing as this match has no rules and all. The actual wrestling is quite good, but this is totally the wrong sort of match to have for this kind of stipulation. This becomes clear when D-Von starts head butting everyone in the groin and the ref waves it off because it’s No DQ, which raises the question as to why Bubba patiently waited on the apron earlier on whilst his partner was brutally worked over by the Heels. D-Von…lingers after the head butt to Tori in another “it was the Attitude Era” moment. Things finally do break down into a brawl following that, and the match picks up a bit as a result.

DX actually manages to put The Dudleyz into the dumpster and close it, but the referee is distracted by checking on an injured Tori, so that gives The Dudleyz a chance to slip out and chair DX down. So DX essentially beat The Dudleyz clean but the referee missed it and they got screwed. Face/Heel roles were just borked back in 2000 weren’t they? Road Dogg takes a gruesome powerbomb from outside of the ring through two tables, which looked unpleasant to take, and that’s him eliminated, although he’s still allowed to take part in the match. D-Von then Superplexes X-Pac through another table, which leaves Tori on her own and set for some tabling. However, she hides in the dumpster and that allows DX to knock The Dudleyz into the dumpster when they go after her, and that leads to DX getting the win.

WINNERS: DX
RATING: **

Thoughts: Once it became the brawl it should have been from the start, it was an okay enough match and the crowd got into it. I question putting DX over seeing as they’d be broken up as a team by SummerSlam whilst The Dudleyz still had years in the tank as top act in the tag division, but then again they weren’t as chummy with the boss’ daughter’s boyfriend so…….

Tori still goes through the table at the end anyway, meaning that the WWF gets to have it’s cake and eat it too by giving the stale DX the win but appease the fans by letting Tori finally get hers at the end, although it doesn’t get an especially big reaction from the crowd. I like how DX did at least try to rescue Tori, as it allowed The Dudleyz to lay them out and it also showed that DX did have some loyalty to Tori and they weren’t just standard cowardly Heels.

Kurt Angle tells Michael Cole that Rikishi is great if you like rubbing butt’s in people’s faces (pardon his French) but tonight the party’s over as Angle will win the KOTR

Rikishi responds to Jonathon Coachman, saying that nothing is going to stop his butt backing up. He did NOT apologise for his French, I should add.

Co-Main
King of the Ring Final
Kurt Angle Vs Rikishi

Rikishi teases the Stink Face to start, which Angle seems to counter with a low blow of some kind. The referee lets it go though and Angle starts working some heat, keeping it generic with punches, stomps and kicks. Rikishi’s selling continues to be decent, but the crowd doesn’t really care, possibly because it’s the third time they’re seeing these two and also possibly because they don’t buy that Rikishi might win. Rikishi eventually makes a one-armed comeback before snapping off an RKO of all things for a near fall. The Stink Face follows (how appropriate for a Stinker Review) but that just fires up Angle to get an Olympic Slam for two in a good near fall. We get aloha-Rikishi following that, which ends with Rikishi crushing Angle for two in another good near fall, as a vocal section of the crowd appears to be actually chanting for Angle. Rikishi tries heading up following that, but Angle cuts him off and fires off an impressive suplex from the second rope, which gets Angle the three count.

WINNER: KURT ANGLE
RATING: **

Thoughts: I think total match time for Rikishi all-night was something like 12 minutes, if that. Putting the largest man in the line-up in there to wrestle thrice was certainly a choice on the WWF’s part. I stand by my previous comment that they should have done an Angle Vs Eddy Final, but there’s no point crying over questionably booked tournament I guess. Angle at least got a clean win over someone who was being reasonably well pushed, and the wrestling itself was okay, if a little too punch-kick for my personal liking at points. They got the crowd to invest in the last couple of near falls, which was more than I thought they were going to get in the opening section

Main Event
Six Man Tag Match with the WWF Title on the Line
WWF Champ: “The Game” Triple H and Los McMahons (Vince McMahon Jr. y el Hijo de Vince McMahon Jr.) w/ Stephanie McMahon-Helmsley Vs “The People’s Champ” The Rock, BikerTaker and “The Big Red Monster” Kane

The story here was that Undertaker inadvertently cost Rock the WWF Title the previous month at Judgment Day by causing a DQ in the deciding fall of Rock’s Iron Man match with Triple H. Triple H and The McMahons tried to drive a wedge between Rock, Taker and the returning Kane so they could divide and conquer, so Linda McMahon showed up to wreck Vince’s plans once again by booking this and putting the Title on the line. The stipulation is that if any of the babyface side gets the winning pin or submission then they get Triple H’s WWF Title, and it doesn’t matter who they pin to do it. Vince of course ended up talking himself into allowing no interference earlier also, so the Heel side are all on their own.

The Heel side are now also teasing dissension, due to Triple H being mad that Linda keeps getting the better of Vince. Kid Rock evidently charges more than Fred Durst does, as Taker’s “American Bad Ass” theme is dubbed over with his “You’re Gonna Pay” theme from 2002/03. Kane and Shane start out, with Kane actually offering Shane a free shot, which he promptly no sells before giving Shane the expected battering. Rock tags himself in to get him some of The McMahon’s too, which continues to push the idea that the faces aren’t on the same page. To be honest, why on Earth would they be when all three of them are going for the Title? It makes sense that all three of them will be liable to turn on one another at any given moment.

Shane continues to get killed by all of the babyfaces, probably because Vince isn’t a good enough worker to bump around for everyone like Shane can and they don’t want Triple H pin balling all over the place for the Faces yet. Taker choke slams Shane and goes for a cover, but Rock comes in to break it up, which leads to some muted boo’s from the crowd, even though Rock was only doing the logical thing. Kane breaks up a Taker pin attempt next, to continue pushing that story, which eventually leads to things breaking down into the expected arena wide Attitude Era styled brawl, as all six combatants fight outside the ring. I’m amazed they bothered with the tag match aspect for as long as they did to be honest.

At one point Triple H Pedigrees Rock in the ring and makes the cover, in a spot where Taker is clearly supposed to break up the pin, but he doesn’t make it in time. Thankfully Rock is smart enough to kick out because he knows it’s not the finish, but man, that could have been a disaster if he hadn’t been thinking on his feet. That leads to the Heels working some heat on Rock as this has become a standard tag match again, with Vince’s stuff in particular looking like a load of arl arse. At one stage he tries to “choke” Rock from the apron whilst Rock is down in the corner and it looks like he’s giving him a particularly vigorous back massage.

Part of me thinks Vince might have been carrying an injury of some sort here actually, as he barely takes any bumps and is moving even worse than he normally does. Things break down again when Rock makes a comeback and gets a Samoan Drop on Triple H. The McMahons and Brothers of Destruction fight outside the ring, but Kane actually decides to take Taker out as well and comes into the ring to attack Rock. Triple H thinks that this means Kane has gone Corporate (We’d have to wait 13 more years for that one) but it’s all a SWERVE and Kane drops him with a Tombstone, only for Taker to break up the pin.

Again, there were some boo’s there, as Kane has his fans in the crowd. Taker clobbers Kane with a sickening chair shot to the head before choke slamming Shane off the rope through the English announce table to take him out. You could do that outside the ring choke slam on the Smackdown games actually, although you couldn’t do it through a table sadly. Vince tries to do The Corporate Elbow to Rock inside the ring, but Rock catches him with a Rock Bottom to pick up the win and the Title.

WINNERS: ROCK, UNDERTAKER AND KANE (ROCK WINS THE WWF TITLE)
RATING: **

Thoughts: So Triple H got another quickie run with the belt and didn’t even have to drop it himself, truly the smartest man in wrestling (Although he would do a job for Rock at SummerSlam at least, albeit following a sledgehammer attack). The match itself wasn’t great, but it had enough interesting moments that it kept my attention. Vince was absolutely terrible, but Shane worked extra hard to make up for it and actually didn’t look too bad either. Triple H was barely involved for large chunks of the match actually.

Rock celebrates with his newly won belt and we’re out.

Is It Really A Stinker?

No I wouldn’t say King of the Ring 2000 is a stinker. Patterson Vs Brisco is as awful as advertised, but the rest of the card is middling at worst and the show at least did a decent job of setting things up for future shows. Angle Vs Jericho is match of the night at ***1/4 by my watch, with most of the rest of the showing being in the ** range. A middling event to be sure then, but I wouldn’t say it was a Stinker.

Final Rating – Odourless

(Scores are done on a scale of Sinker/Stinky/Odourless/Pleasant/Fragrant)