by WM X7 – As brilliant as WrestleMania 19 was, two years earlier the WWF tasted perfection with this masterpiece. We covered the plot twist at the end numerous times in the last week or so. But just in case you live under a “rock”, we’ll hit it up one more time.
The greatest feud in WWF history was Stone Cold Steve Austin vs Mr. McMahon. It gave birth to the Attitude Era and maybe even saved the WWF from going bankrupt in 1997. It began the greatest run in sports entertainment history. For nearly 3 straight years these two went at with a passion that became must see television.
Meanwhile, The Rock was also blazing his path to the top of the WWE and when Austin left for nearly a year with neck injury, the Rock firmly stepped into the role as top dog. When the time came for the two to decide it in the ring, no one, and I mean no one saw it coming. The evil McMahon helping the cult hero Austin was simply unthinkable.
Making this match even more worthy of the greatness bestowed upon it was the fact that even before the McMahon appearance in the match, it was still excellent!
A blood bath with plenty of narrow kickouts and close submissions. It could have ended at anytime and still been worth watching every second.
So we are four paragraphs in, and I’ve spoken about one match! That right there should tell you how good this show was. TLC 2 tore down the house as the best match of 2001, let alone this card. Chris Benoit and Kurt Angle put on a wrestling clinic!
HHH and The Undertaker wrestled all over the arena and into the crowd as their blood feud raged on. This time it was Biker Taker getting the win.
The Gimmick battle royal was fun for the whole family. Chyna looked magnificent in her squash win over Ivory. The crowd of 80,000 plus went berserk for Shane McMahon flying across the ring to kick a garbage can in his dad’s face.
Just an incredible night with match after match hitting on all cylinders.
I didn’t even mention Eddie Guerrero vs Test and Chris Jericho vs William Regal, both stellar matches as well. This show had 11 matches on the main portion of the show, will all 11 of them hitting.
Two of them “TLC 2, and the main event going down as two of the greatest matches in WrestleMania history.
Simply the best!
