Rock/Tazz/Angle Triple Threat (SD 03/02/00)

[greeby]

Back in that brief moment where Tazz looked like a big deal. This was also the week of the Radicalz debut.

The full card was
Chris Jericho (w/Chyna) v Gangrel (w/Luna)
X-Pac v Dean Malenko
Jacqueline v Harvey Whippleman for the Women's Title
The Rock v Tazz v Kurt Angle
The New Age Outlaws v Perry Saturn and Eddie Guerrero
Hardcore and Crash Holly v Al Snow and Steve Blackman
Rikishi v The Big Show
Triple H v Chris Benoit

(Starts at 3:31 with the Rock's pre-match promo)
www.dailymotion.com/video/x9wb3z_smackdown-2300-part-4_sport
www.dailymotion.com/video/x9wbk6_smackdown-2300-part-5_sport

[manstis1804]

What a great card, WWE had so much great talent all on the same show back then. There was a HUGE talent influx starting in late 1999 with Jericho, Benoit, Angle, Tazz, and Guerrero.

[mrjl]

wonder if Tazz would have done more before he had to retire if the Radicalz hadn't come in.

[PKO]

This was the year that Debra, the Fabulous Moolah, the Kat, Harvey Wippleman and Stephanie McMahon were all crowned Women's champion.

Despite having talented women like Ivory, Jacqueline, Tori and Luna back then (as well as up and coming Lita), the booking of the Women's division was tens times worse than it is now.

[benten]

Womens wrestling is all about those ass and titties

[greeby]

3 of those were in 99. I think we can cut them slack with Debra as they had to get the belt off Sable and she clearly wouldn't do it in a real wrestling match. She'd have probably dropped it to Ivory sooner but Owen's death put things on hold for a couple of weeks.

Stephanie as champion served a purpose as she had thermonuclear heat at the time, and whoever took the belt off of her was gonna be a huge star because of it.

[PKO]

Aug 2, 2009 11:38:21 GMT -5 greeby said:

3 of those were in 99. I think we can cut them slack with Debra as they had to get the belt off Sable and she clearly wouldn't do it in a real wrestling match. She'd have probably dropped it to Ivory sooner but Owen's death put things on hold for a couple of weeks.

Stephanie as champion served a purpose as she had thermonuclear heat at the time, and whoever took the belt off of her was gonna be a huge star because of it.

Oops, so they were! Shows how much attention I'm paying today, I even went and checked the dates beforehand.

I didn't mind Stephanie's reign (for the reasons you said) but considering the talent that could have held the belt, didn't and were around at that time (Luna and Tori to name two) it's a tad annoying.