Flashback: Survivor Series 2000

This flashback is inspired by a strange and wonderful event this morning.

While rooting through the family videotape collection earlier (yes, there was "home entertainment" before DVDs and YouTube young'uns) I stumbled upon something I had forgotten about long ago, deep, deep inside the back of the cabinet.

Covered in cobwebs and shrouded in dust lay my one and only WWF video―Survivor Series 2000.

So old is this video that the price tag on the front states a price of £16.99, which for those of you who don't know, we haven't used pounds here since Monica Lewinsky was famous.

So, like an Enid Blyton novel, I eagerly put my newfound treasure to use and slapped it into the similarily cobweb-covered VCR perhaps secretly hoping for a nostalgia trip. What follows here is a look at the PPV events on my trip down memory lane. 

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The tape started with an excellent opening video package and promo of The Game Triple H. Really sets the tone for the PPV and main event where The Game will meet his arch nemesis "Stone Cold" Steve Austin. Some of you may remember a cliffhanger in WWF storylines a few years ago where Austin was run over by a car. Apparently, it was the Game that masterminded it all along. Who would've known, eh?

1. 3 v. 3 Intergender Tag Match

T&A v. Blackman, Crash & Molly Holly                 **1/2

Just to get this off my chest: Trish is probably the single sexiest woman in the history of wrestling. I will stand by that to my grave. Watching this I fantasized about rubbing honey all over her amazing body and licking her all over like a big bear―which says a lot about her in-ring work here. 

In fairness, Trish really is a real damn loss to the wrestling world, not just because she was a looker, but a decent actor and wrestler too over the years unlike say, Stacy Keibler and Torrie Wilson.

As for the match it's strange watching the late Test and Crash duke it out here. Overall average stuff however by everyone, nice diving sunset flip by Molly (where is she now?) over a clearly awkward Trish.

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A "Team ECK" promo follows. These guys are real comedy gold together. I remember reading in Powerslam many years ago that because Kurt Angle was so damn good at playing the goofy Olympic prat it would be almost impossible to take him seriously if he went serious...."What you guys drink, Molsons? They have that as a non-alcoholic drink, don't they?"

2. Survivor Series Elimination

Road Dogg, K-Kwik, Chyna, "The One" Billy Gunn v. The Radicalz     **1/2

Average stuff here again. Who would've guessed back in 2000, Road Dogg and Monty Sopp would go on to have one of the worst cage matches in human history? Radicalz look the real deal here (take notes Legacy), really reminds you of a time when the WWE could put a proper heel stables together.

Again, weird watching Benoit and Guerrero tag each other. Also funny seeing Chyna here...If I remember right, she was in an interesting "will she/won't she" storyline with the loved up Eddie Guerrero or "Latino Heat" as he called himself.

For the finish Benoit gets outside assistance from Saturn to pin poor Billy off the suplex...Billy's career never recovered.

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Chris Jericho pulls a outstanding promo here (What's new?) on his feud with Kane: "I thought it was all about coffee, I was ready to have a sanka on a poll match where the winner gets to pour coffee over the loser as much as he wants" then Chris gets all serious: "This is about a man who everytime he looks into the mirror sees an ugly, bitter, unforgiving monster...that man is me." Is Chris the best promo maker ever?

Nice pre-match recap: "If the world can't accept the freak, then I'm going to give them the monster". Really makes you wonder why they ever decided to unmask Kane and turn him into a Kozlov; it made no sense then and it makes less sense now. 

Great storylines like this made Kane's character far more than the two dimensional cheap Michael Myers ripoff we're all too accustomed to in the WWE nowadays. 

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