Grilling JR - Armageddon 2000 [Show Notes] (Patreon)

Armageddon 2000 sounds like the kind of movie you’d see on the Sci-Fy channel but that’s our event, today. WWF Armageddon 2000 happened on December 10, 2000 at the Birmingham-Jefferson Civic Center in Birmingham, Alabama. Fun Fact: This is the first WWE PPV to be held in the great state of Alabama. But the first wrestling PPV to ever be held in Alabama was...WCW Beach Blast 1992. Which, in WCW fashion, was four days after a free Clash of the Champions. But anyway.

This was also the final Armageddon under the WWF name. The event was temporarily put on hold in 2001 because of the 9/11 terror attacks. By December, 2002, the company was the WWE.

Do you remember the conversations that were made about making changes after 9/11/2001 (The next year). (Examples: WAR was taken out of Raw; Armageddon name; Flag video in the entrance)

NOTE: ARMAGEDDON RETURNED IN 2002 (wwe)

14,920 were in the Birmingham Jefferson Civic Center - very close to a sellout! However, it was the first WWF PPV event not to fully sell out in recent memory, Meltzer reported.

When the advance was disappointing (disappointing being a relative term to today's WWF business, any other company in this industry would kill for it), there were a lot more comp tickets than for any WWF PPV event in a while, including a deal where they would give free tickets to anyone buying season tickets for the Birmingham Bolts XFL team, which only has a few thousand season tickets sold and an 83,000-seat building to play in. When all was said and done, it was almost full, with 14,920 tickets out, 220 under capacity, which would be considered so close that to make a deal of it not being a sellout would be silly except that there were 3,000 comps/trades. The paid was 11,924 paying $572,990, which is the all-time record gate for pro wrestling in the state, and the show did another $83,977 in merchandise.

Why did the event have almost 3,000 comp tickets, do you think? Just because it was a relatively new market for pay per view events or was it a sign things had peaked?

The last PPV event the WWF failed to sellout before this one was the September 26, 1999 Unforgiven show at the Charlotte Coliseum which drew 15,779, which was a few thousand short of capacity, so it was a streak of 13 straight PPV events. The one before that, and there is much irony to this, was on July 6, 1997 for the Calgary Stampede PPV at the Saddledome (12,151 in the building with 10,974 paid). The irony is that it's rated by many as the best PPV event in WWF history. The main event was Bret & Owen Hart & Davey Boy Smith & Jim Neidhart & Brian Pillman vs. Steve Austin & Legion of Doom & Ken Shamrock & Goldust. It's funny because while it didn't sell the building out, it had as hot a crowd as any PPV show of the past ten years.

The show did 465,000 pay per view buys which was almost 100,000 more than the year before and making it the most successful of all Armageddon pay-per-views, from that standpoint.

It’s a great number, but putting it in context to the other shows in the WWE for 2000…

Rumble: 590K

No Way Out: 480K

Mania: 824K

Backlash: 675K

Judgment Day: 420K

King of the Ring: 475K

Fully Loaded: 400K

Summerslam: 570K

Unforgiven: 605K

No Mercy: 550K

Survivor Series: 400K

Armageddon: 460K

Business for the year has been all over the place. There are several non-big-four PPVs this year that have done better numbers than the big-four (Backlash, Unforgiven) and this show outperformed Survivor Series...but the Survivor Series was pretty disappointing.

Were most people within the company happy about how well the show did?

News and Notes

JR Media Call

Some highlights of Jim Ross' media conference on 12/7: He said the company had no interest in Scott Hall or Juventud Guerrera, at least at this time when it comes to the latter.

Both would end up in the company. But, what was it that kept their appeal down at this point in time? Would you have still kayfabed it if you really were bringing them in?

He said they have been having talks with representatives of Rob Van Dam and have more talks scheduled next week. He said they have no interest in Torrie Wilson. He said the reports about the Jerry Lynn situation, where he asked Lynn to send a videotape to him so he could give it to the writers, was misconstrued. He said they have more interest in Lynn than anyone else, had a good meeting and that because many of the writers have limited experience with wrestling, they don't know who Lynn is and need to see him to come up with ways of writing him into the show.

Who did and didn’t have a lot of love for Jerry Lynn? He came in and just seemed to do almost nothing. What about RVD?

No interest in Torrie Wilson???

Also on the call…

He said, when asked, he couldn't logically explain the storyline where HHH was dropped by the forklift in the car and that in hindsight, he probably came back a few weeks too early. He said they try to present plausible and logical storylines, and the only explanation they could plausibly give for that one is that it was a miracle.

Was that a bad booking idea - killing HHH and then having him back so quickly?

Consideration given to Shawn at Mania X-Seven?

Regarding Michaels, there are some potential stumbling blocks regarding his wrestling at Mania. There are no storylines set up for him and none of the top guys are apparently anxious to either work with him and many aren't even wanting him to be brought back into the locker room as a regular because of things he's said. There is the thought, since WM is in Texas, of giving him the career sendoff that he didn't get after his final WWF match at Wrestlemania 1998. Regarding Mania, they are wanting to get the tickets up to 66,000 (combination of both paid and media trades because in no way will they have to comp Mania), which would be a sellout, and then push hard that it would be the largest crowd ever in the building in the commercial hype before the show.

Do you remember talk about Shawn getting back in the ring for Wrestlemania 17? Who might have been a good opponent for him?

Nathan Jones signs developmental deal

Nathan Jones, a 6-10, 350-pounder from Australia who used to be one of the top competitors in the World's Strongest Man competitions, was signed to a developmental deal by WWF. Jones has been training with Ultimate Pro Wrestling. Jones appeared on the very first Pride show on October 11, 1997 at the Tokyo Dome in an undercard worked match, putting over Koji Kitao. He looked at the time as someone who could possibly have great potential for pro wrestling

What did the company see in Nathan Jones that made him attractive?

Slick Robbie D

WWF developmental wrestler Robbie Dicks (Slick Robbie D, who had a cameo in "Wrestling with Shadows" in the dungeon watching as Stu Hart was stretching Carl LeDuc), working in OVW, was arrested in Calgary over Thanksgiving weekend after an argument with a woman, who called the police on him. He was detained for a few days before finally being allowed out to return to the U.S. He's still working with the promotion

Remember anything about this guy?

Rock begins to stand out

It was around this time that the Rock was named in People Magazine's list of the 25 most intriguing people of the past year, a list that no pro wrestler had ever made previously.

Is the company starting to see that Rock has a broader appeal than perhaps anyone in the history of wrestling?

XFL hopes

Early projections by the WWF regarding the XFL are pretty positive. The estimates at this point are that the league with generate $80 million in revenue on costs of $113 million. The $33 million in first year losses, which would be split 50/50 by WWF and NBC, are well under the original projections. Those figures are based on generating a combined 11.0 weekly rating for advertisers, who are paying an average of $110,000 per 30 second spot airing three times. The three spots would air once on TNN, NBC and UPN in the same weekend and the idea is the combined three shows would average an estimated 2.5, 5.5 and 3.0 respectively. The league is projected to be profitable in the third season.

Were you as positive as some others about the XFL being profitable or successful? Or did you always know…

Phil Mushnick in the New York Post wrote a negative XFL column on 12/15 tying in wrestling. Now there is a valid point...pointing out the issue of injuries and insurance problems. Miki Yaras-Davis, the longtime director of benefits for the NFLPA called the XFL benefits in the event of injuries "scary," and it is compared with the NFL. However, Arena Football exists, and doesn't appear in any danger of folding soon although it isn't flourishing, with a dangerous game with a high injury rate and the XFL benefits and salaries are far higher than AFL, and they are basically going to be using the same calibre of players who aren't good enough to make the NFL. There was a tie-in made to the Owen Hart death and continuing the show.

Was this just more of Mushnick’s storied war with the company or did he have a point about the benefits for injured players?

Vince talks buying WCW

Of course at this point in the timeline, the WCW is still on Turner television - although barely, since it’s being preempted for literally a magic show. But the WWF wanted the company and the plans being talked about were like fantasy booking.

Vince McMahon was quoted in a Bloomberg News story about the attempted WCW purchase, saying that he was going to keep WCW as a separate brand and build to expand PPV business by using interpromotional matches. McMahon said, There were a lot of good reasons to buy WCW, but said that Viacom standing in the way of the deal made it financially impractical

How and why was Viacom in the way of this deal happening? Why didn’t this happen with the company when Vince finally did end up buying it?

Viscera

A report around this time indicated that Nelson Frazier Jr. (Viscera) was fired several months back. Apparently, it had been glossed over by reporters.

What caused him to get cut?

Grillin JR

The Jim Ross cookbook has already sold well over 100,000 copies and is in its second printing

Do you remember the book performing better than expected or was this about what you hoped for?

The Event Itself

The undercard was somewhat flat, but to me, no show with a main event that good can be anything but a thumbs up.

A. Scotty 2 Hotty (Scott Garland) pinned D-Lo Brown (Accie Connor) after the worm spot. This was originally scheduled as a six-man with Steve Blackman & Too Cool vs. Lo Down & Tiger Ali Singh, but it turned into a live singles match on Heat due to Blackman being hospitalized legit with a bleeding ulcer.

When Mr McMahon arrives, you can see some shitty cars in the back that were probably backups for the set with the destroyed cars. We also see the truck with sawdust for the big finish with Rikishi.

How do you procure crummy cars for sets or other needs during this era? Call a local salvage yard?

1. Dean Malenko (Dean Simon) & Perry Saturn (Perry Satullo) & Eddy Guerrero won an elimination match over Matt & Jeff Hardy & Lita (Amy Dumas) in 8:06. The moves were all on target, but the match lost a lot because it was terribly rushed. Jeff did a running dive over the top on Guerrero and Malenko. Guerrero, who was bothered by a hamstring injury, which may be a slight tear and he's going to be out of action for a little while, was out first, after Lita gave him a twist of fate and Jeff pinned him after a swanton in 2:57. Surprised they didn't do an injury angle with Guerrero. Saturn pinned Jeff in 3:41 with a death valley driver. Matt pinned Saturn in 5:08 after a twist of fate. Saturn jammed both his thumbs. Lita speared Terri, wearing a short dress for the big-time panty shot and in the distraction, Malenko schoolboyed Matt in 5:34. This left Lita vs. Malenko. Lita did a moonsault block, a spinning headscissors and a DDT for Malenko came back with a superplex off the top, then picked her up rather than pinned her, a Billy Robinson backbreaker, doing the same, and finally finishing her with the cloverleaf. After the match, Lita said she knew she could beat him. I guess that means Malenko has to lay down for her soon. **¼

The footage of Dean Malenko taking Lita out on a date during the build to the event is worth the price of the PPV by itself. It’s so cheesy and bad.

Lita kicks Dean Malenko’s ass in the match for like five straight spots until Dean suplexes her off the top rope. He picks her up from the pin because, in Jerry Lawler’s words...”He doesn’t want to finish this match prematurely!” But do you think this was a little bit too much offense for Lita against Malenko?

2. William Regal (Darren Matthews) pinned Hardcore Holly (Robert Howard) to retain the European title in 4:59. Another rushed match. Holly got a big pop after being announced from Mobile, AL. Technically good, but even with it being pushed with Bob as the Alabaman going for the belt, the match still didn't have a lot of heat. Regal's style is such that his matches aren't going to have heat early but they'll build intensity over time, theoretically at least, but since he's never given time, we'll never know. Holly did the lariat with the steel plate, but as Regal was selling, Raven ran in and gave Holly a DDT and Regal pinned him. If Raven is going to use the DDT as his finisher, not that everyone should be banned from using it, but usage should be limited by other wrestlers only to positions where it has meaning rather than as a transition that everyone does. *¼

Alabama. Four million people and 15 last names. - Jerry Lawler.0

3. Val Venis (Sean Morley) pinned Chyna (Joanie Lauer) in 5:02. Chyna's offense looked bad except for one good clothesline (A misprint by Meltzer, corrected next week, originally called it “good.”) About one minute into this, I'd seen enough intergender stuff to last a long time between this and the opener. Ivory tripped Chyna leading to Venis getting the pin with a fisherman suplex. After the match, Chyna went to power bomb Ivory but Venis stopped her and laid her out with a doctor bomb. 1/2*

On this day, are we over the novelty of a woman beating up a man?

Context: In the weeks leading up to this, a heel Vince McMahon announced he wanted a divorce from Linda.

Next up in the show...

Stephanie, seeming totally unconcerned that her parents' 34-year marriage was breaking up, was talking to her father about more pressing matters, stopping the main event. This was no big deal except it was the beginning of an interminable amount of hype for a match we already paid for.

Undertaker did an interview giving the history of the Hell in a Cell match that took forever. The interview nearly turned him heel. I guess it's to set up that in every Hell in a Cell match, Undertaker has to throw someone off the top of the cage. One positive is that after the main event performance and the hype and the way it was built up after-the-fact on Raw as such a happening (which is where a lot of times wrestling in its thinking about the next show only mentality has traditionally been weak), that an annual Hell in a Cell probably can stand along with the Royal Rumble as the gimmick match where the gimmick itself can draw a buy rate for the future. Even if this one doesn't deliver a big buy rate, the legend of this match being pushed so hard afterwards combined with the legend of the Foley matches, probably can make it a modern version of the Battle Royal in the 70s and the War Games in the 80s as one of those annual must-see events for the fan who may only buy two or three shows per year.

He hit the nail on the head there, right? Was that the idea behind the heavy promotion at this time or did it just organically become one of those matches that could be an entire event?

Do you think this made Taker seem like a heel?

Vince then did an interview with Pat Patterson and Gerald Brisco and told people to stand up to demand the main event be canceled because he cares about the welfare of his wrestlers. You know how that mind works. Meltzer said “If that latest lawsuit settlement is going to cost him $7 million, then he's damn sure going to use it as an angle to get his $7 million worth out of it. A scary number of people stood up.”

Anything you want to say here?

4. Chris Jericho (Chris Irvine) beat Kane (Glen Jacobs) in a last man standing match in 17:16. After all the non-wrestling, the first thing these guys did was brawl backstage, including a spot where they both punched Mideon. Finally they got in the ring. Both worked hard but the ten count knockout thing doesn't register well because it requires a more believable product than they're selling to have fans accept people selling for ten seconds and just recovering. Kane used a powerslam on the floor and controlled the match for several minutes. He used the old hangman hold, dropped Jericho, who got up before ten. Jericho went for a spin kick, Kane caught him and slammed him in a clumsy spot. Kane choke slammed Jericho, and Teddy Long delivered the world's slowest ten count and Jericho got up. Kane delivered a hard chair shot to the back and set up the tombstone, but Jericho hit a low blow and a messed up DDT, followed by a chair to the head, a missile dropkick, a facebuster and a lionsault with a chair put on Kane's chest. They ended up brawling to the back. Jericho went to bulldog Kane through a table, but the table didn't break. So they did it a second time. The table broke, although not in the manner they'd have liked. Jericho then shoved a set up wall of 20 barrels welded together down, theoretically onto Kane, although the nature of the way they fell Kane was obviously totally protected. Kane never got up except a hand peaked through. For all we know, he's still under there. Pretty corny ending that nobody could take seriously. **

These two had been working a program for several months by this point. Did you like it? Did it help elevate either?

5. Edge (Adam Copeland) & Christian (Jay Reso) regained the WWF tag titles in a four-way over The Dudleys (Mark Lomonica & Devon Hughes), Road Dogg (Brian James) & K-Kwik (Ron Killings) and champs Bull Buchanan (Barry Buchanan) & Goodfather (Charles Wright) in 9:42. D-Von took some wicked high kicks early from both Buchanan and Goodfather. Jerry Lawler was pushing hard in commentary the eventual return of the ho's. Fans wanted tables, and surprisingly, didn't get them, at least the breaking version of them. Buh Buh did a great hot tag spot. K-Kwik did a dive off the back of Dogg over the top on Buchanan and Goodfather, who caught him, and Goodfather delivered a shoulderbreaker on him. They did the Wazzup spot on Edge and D-Von pulled out the table, but only to knock down Goodfather & Buchanan outside the ring with it. Dudleys did the Road Warriors old doomsday device on Edge for a near fall, then a totally messed up 3-D on Buchanan before delivering a better looking one on Goodfather. They did the Wazzup spot on Christian. Finish saw Steven Richards deliver a weak looking DDT on D-Von on the floor, while Christian did the tomokaze move on Buh Buh leading to Edge scoring the pin. **½

Was the office high on Edge and Christian? Was either man concerned about becoming a permanent tag team wrestler?

Do you remember any enthusiasm for Road Dogg and K-Kwik, who we now know as R-Truth? Or did their pairing hurt both of them?

6. Chris Benoit won the IC title from Billy Gunn (Monty Sopp) in 10:03. Gunn and Chyna were not aligned together in either of their matches nor was any reference made to them as a pair. Gunn's stock really fell with this performance, because if you can't have a good match with Benoit or Guerrero, well? Gunn didn't take any chops, probably because of his shoulder injury. The first half was pretty solid, although not a lot of heat. Benoit did a figure four. Gunn reversed it but Benoit made the ropes. Benoit did a rolling german suplex but missed a diving head-butt. About this time Gunn blew up. Benoit still carried it pretty well including a great spot where Benoit had to fight and fight on the ground before locking in the crossface, but Gunn made the ropes. After what was supposed to be a tilt-a-whirl spot into an inside cradle I believe, Gunn was blown and just dropped Benoit, who tried to flip himself around and it was probably the worst looking spot you'll ever see in a Benoit match. Benoit went right to the crossface for the submission. **

Do you agree that this match hurt Billy Gunn’s stock as a singles competitor? What was the point where, after the years and years of trying, the head honcho realized it wouldn’t work for him as a singles?

7. Ivory (Lisa Moretti) retained the womens title in a three-way over Trish Stratus (Patricia Stratigias) and Molly Holly (Nora Greenwald) in 2:12. Molly Holly has been a great success because she's the element that can make matches with these women at least passable, and she's good enough looking that she can be in the WWF and not have people rank on her looks next to all the glamour girls she's in there with. Holly, who was not billed from Mobile, AL which hurt her getting an easy pop that would have carried through as the favorite in a short match, delivered a Liger bomb on Stratus, and then Ivory jumped on Stratus for the pin. After the match, T&A came out and cornered Molly. Crash ran in and challenged both but they laughed at him. Finally, the Acolytes returned and cleaned house to a very healthy pop with Bradshaw laying out Albert with the stiff clothesline. 1/2*

Why not announce Molly Holly as from Mobile here? What did you think of the match?

The next match is basically the entire show, if you read into what Meltzer says.

8. Kurt Angle retained the WWF title in the Hell in a Cell match over HHH (Paul Levesque), Rock (Dwayne Johnson), Steve Austin (Steve Williams), Undertaker (Mark Calaway) and Rikishi (Solofa Fatu) in 32:14. It started out as a Battle Royal in a cage, with everyone paired up, Rock vs. Rikishi, Undertaker vs. Angle and HHH vs. Austin for the first few minutes. Four would brawl outside and leave high spots in the ring for the other two trading off. Very well laid out in that nobody stepped on the others' spots and the ring never got too cluttered like in a Battle Royal where everyone stands around because nobody wants to get hurt. Lawler and Ross, who did a phenomenal job getting this match over, did a joke about wrestlers scamming Lloyd's of London on insurance, basically saying that the wrestlers in this match should have taken out disability insurance and then saying that no company would insure someone going into this match and Ross responding that Lloyd's of London might because they aren't too bright. Rock and Angle delivered the hottest action of the first few minutes while they were in the ring. Austin took a suplex on the floor. HHH bled first after his head was rubbed into the fence for a long time. He did at least two blade jobs and took the spotlight. Guys started switching partners at this point. HHH turned on Rikishi and gave him a pedigree for a near fall. Austin did the stunner on Angle but Undertaker saved. There was talk during the week of doing an injury angle with HHH, which is why they kept teasing the idea of someone getting hurt and Foley resigning, but HHH showed up and said he was feeling better and not to do the angle. Undertaker choke slammed Austin but HHH saved. HHH was then thrown into the cage time after time. Vince McMahon came out with Patterson and Brisco to tear down the cage with a truck, that for some reason had a bunch of padding in the back which would break the big fall later in the match. It made no sense as there was no way the truck could pull down the cage without taking the ring itself, so they hooked it to the door and it pulled the door down. This gave everyone a chance to do the brawl in the entrance way. Foley decked Patterson and Brisco and security took McMahon out. They had a junkyard like set up with beaten up cards that everyone took bumps on. This was really good. Funny thing is, this was almost exactly, minus the even more dangerous spots, what WCW did with a Junkyard Battle Royal where half the crew got hurt and it was lit so poorly it came off as a disaster on PPV. HHH put Austin's head through a windshield so he bladed. HHH gave Rock a pedigree on the roof of a car so he bladed. Undertaker slammed Angle on the hood of a car. Austin catapulted HHH into the hood and then hit Undertaker with a chair, so Undertaker bladed. Austin and HHH went to the top of the cage and brawled. Angle was up there. Austin gave HHH another stunner. Undertaker went up. Angle bladed, maybe for the first time in his wrestling career. Wonder if when he was getting that gold medal he was thinking that four years later he'd be a millionaire from it and be slicing open his forehead with a blade? Rikishi went to the top.

Lots more brawling on top and finally everyone but Rikishi and Undertaker climbed down. Rikishi took the bump backwards off the top of the cage into the heavily padded back of the truck, filled with padding, a tarp and a ton of wood shavings. It was basically an amusement park or gymnastics pit bump, but if they are going to do it, and they pretty much promised in the hype they were, it's a lot better to do it that way than to risk someone getting a serious injury. Until fans tire of these bumps, they are going to be done, and it's just a question of how to attempt to provide a plausible reason for something being there with padding to break the falls. Ross and Lawler were incredible here as well in turning this thing into a near-classic.

Rock and Austin finally squared off in the middle of the ring to a big pop for a quick Wrestlemania tease. Rock blocked the stunner and hit a spinebuster. He went for the people's elbow, but HHH stopped him. Rock delivered a rock bottom on Angle, but then Austin delivered a stunner on Rock and HHH delivered a neckbreaker on Austin and Angle crawled on top of Rock for the pin. Pretty clear this finish is going to be brought up several times between now and April of how Rock had Angle beat for the title but Austin stunned him and cost him the match. After the match, Austin delivered a stunner to Angle and left. ****½

What did you think of the match?

Do you think winning this helped solidify Kurt Angle as a main event competitor? He basically beat everyone in the company in one match to RETAIN?

Who’s idea was the Rikishi bump? How did he feel about taking it? What about Undertaker - did he feel okay doing that spot?

Here’s what Meltzer said about the show

The WWF's final PPV event of its biggest year was sold as a one match card, and even after buying the show, most of the first two hours of the show came across more like an ad to buy a show already purchased. After a flat undercard, where nothing was terribly bad but nothing was particularly good, that dragged at times because of too much hype that would have best been served being on Sunday Night Heat, the main event finally took place.

As good as anyone's expectations of the Hell in the Cell match with six-men, this turned out much better, to the point it may have been the WWF's best match of a year that had a lot of strong PPV main events. While the match patterning is getting similar (Wrestler A does finisher on B and C saves, then D does finisher on C and A saves, etc.) in these multiple man matches, the wrestlers are getting enough experience that the usual clusters that resulted from them are no longer the case.

What did you think of the entire event? If this event was a porterhouse steak, how would it be cooked?

Questions

WrestleManiac asked...At this point, what was JR’s opinion of doing spots off the top of the cell? A necessary standard set in 98 that needed to be topped? #ASKJR

Great Friend of the Show Joel Wood asked...How did the Rikishi spot compare to the Mick Foley spot at KOTR 98? Were you as pissed off about the Rikishi spot or was it deemed safer because he was falling on to a truck?

AJ asked...For someone who was in the position on the card that Rikishi was during this time, does JR think that cage spot was a justifiable risk or an unnecessary spot?

Dan asked..Who was instrumental in the Rikishi bump? How did it play out backstage and how does the entire dynamic work on the night and for the match. All cell's have a big bump. Was he nominated or did he front up to the task?

Patrick asked...Is this the most underrated main event of the Attitude Era? 5 of the biggest names of the era (no disrespect to Rikishi), a major stipulation, tons of bloody goodness and a surprise winner. So good

Sam Penman asked...Why did they never give Jericho the big baby face champion run despite him being the 3rd biggest merchandise seller in this era behind Rock and Austin? Surely star making was on the agenda when Austin was falling apart.

Rory asked...Who came up with the nickname "The One" for Billy Gunn since he could no longer be call "Bad Ass" or "Mr. Ass" anymore and what did you think of his entrance theme?

Instagram: A Wrestling Historian asked..Was anybody else discussed to win the 6 Man Hell In A Cell match or was it always going to be Kurt Angle?

Neal asked...Were the injuries suffered by HHH and Rikishi legit or storyline.  Seemed like both guys were back fast from considering both had prominent roles the following month at the Rumble?

Steve asked...How was Triple H able to recover so quickly and compete in a hell in a cell match after being dropped in a car from 100ft the month before?

John asked...Since Armageddon 2000, why hasn't wwe Implemented the 6-man Hell in a cell match as a yearly tradition, It seems to have been a big hit and certainly was fun to watch the first time.

Nick said...Absolutely loved this PPV / as a kid, ran home to watch my VHS recording from Channel 4 (aired in UK). What kind of relationship did the company have with channel 4, and inevitably why didn’t it work out? #AskJR

Fernando asked...How would the right to censor faction look like if Flair was in it? 

Gill Boldberg asked...If you could rebook the main event, who among the 6 would you include? #ASKJR

Taylor asked...Any fun Birmingham memories? #AskJR

Matt asked...Who came up with the hell in a cell main event concept, at Armageddon 2000 .. and why not of just had HHH vs Austin in the cell?