Royal Rumble

No, I didn't.

He did the Royal Rumble 2000, wee, off the, uh, entrance thing of the crowd-

Did he?

... again, still.

Magic, man.

You had a magical moment at the Royal Rumble 2000.

Yeah.

Where it's Rikishi, it's Brian Christopher in the ring, and then your music hits.

He's a big, big guy.

Yep.

Built similar to Rikishi, you know? And, uh, I was like, "Man." So like, I, I was like, I was really, I was on the fence, like, 'cause sometimes it's hard to recreate the, those, that kind of moment, you know? But I was like, "Let's try to recreate that Royal Rumble 2000 moment with my son and with Ace, and, uh, I'm gonna put the hair up and I'm gonna..." Uh, had the, the old, the old, it was literally the same jacket that I wore in 2000.

I had the, the, uh, seamstress from AW, uh, fix the lo- it was all rotted off.

And so to think 30 some odd years later, I get to see the Headbangers live.

Well, and remember r- Royal Rumble 2000 when, when Michael Cole asked The Rock who he was afraid of in Royal Rumble, he named two guys.

Yeah.

He was most afraid of Crash Holly and Headbanger Mosh.

But yeah, it was just, it was just a fantastic match.

It was a lot of fun, and you could tell they were having a great time.

And again, it's that small crowd environment, you know? You're not gonna get that kind of interaction with The Headbangers where they're yelling back at you if you're at WrestleMania or Royal Rumble 2000, you know?

Right.

my God.

I know the one from Royal Rumble 2000.

Oh, I thought it was

this one.

He went in with Randy Orton, the teenager, and he came out Randy Orton, the full-fledged man.

In front of our eyes in one match.

Isn't it funny how Foley could do that? Foley steps in the ring with Triple H in Royal Rumble 2000, and his job is to make Triple H not the finesse guy.

And he does that, right? Triple H is like, whoa, he's a badass.

And today, we're talking about WWF SmackDown for January 13th, 2000.

We are on the road to the Royal Rumble 2000.

And before we get there, Triple H has, uh, a little trouble he has to take care of because one Cactus Jack is back.

But before we get into that, of course, we have the Deadlock updates.

But years later, you know, you get these two guys feuding in the Attitude Era.

You get them at Royal Rumble 2000.

No way out.

Like, you've got, you know... um you know triple h more you know just running the heel angle during all that stuff too and so um and then you know cactus jack like you know while we didn't see him you know he wasn't permanent at this point he continued having you know mankind is the primary but then we're still getting these multiple personalities over years and so Cactus at this point was kind of the special attraction at this point but within a few months here you had D-Generation X forming you had him and Shawn Michaels together obviously like the popularity going up and by the end of the following year like they're some of the biggest stars in WWE and so very significant and these guys it was 2000 like I said when Cactus Jack returned But, you know, Cactus kicks the crap out of him at that point.

So WF at the time it was called, was brought to Channel 4.

So the first ever pay-per-view I ever saw was Royal Rumble 2000, which is, if you watch it from beginning to end, is actually on reflection a really great pay-per-view.

And I stayed up to 4am on a Sunday watching that.

And I had school the next day.