This year's WrestleMania promises to be a unique entry in the show's history. WWE has already taped the show with no crowds on closed sets. It will air over the course of two nights.

It promises to be a surreal show. It can't help but feel surreal compared to the packed arena spectacle WrestleMania has become.

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That said, WrestleMania 36 has a pretty good excuse, operating in the middle of a global pandemic. WrestleMania 2000, on the other hand, happened under radically different circumstances and has remained the weirdest WrestleMania for 20 years. Here are some reasons why it took a global pandemic to challenge challenge it for that dubious title.

WrestleMania 2000 & The McMahon Family Drama

The original main event of the show, set up at the Royal Rumble, was straightforward. Triple H retained the WWE Championship after a brutal street fight with Mick Foley's most violent face, Catcus Jack. At the end of the night, the Rock won the Rumble match. The stage was set for the long time rivals and WWE's biggest stars ( Steve Austin and the Undertaker were on the shelf) to main event the biggest show of the year. However, a convoluted series of storylines saw the match go from a traditional one-on-one bout to a four-way match.

Big Show briefly took the Rock's spot in the main event by defeating him at No Way Out, after an assist from a returning Shane McMahon. Vince McMahon returned from his own sabbatical from WWE TV to help the Rock regain his spot in the main event on an episode of Raw, making the 'Mania main event a triple threat. A week later, after WWE gave away that match on Raw, with Triple H retaining the title, the recently retired Mick Foley was added to the 'Mania match by Linda McMahon.

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There was a certain sense in changing up the WrestleMania main event from a one-on-one Triple H/Rock clash. They'd been wrestling each other consistently for three years by the time 'Mania 2000 came around. Adding Show and Foley to the match -- the one and only Fatal Four-Way Elimination match to main event in the show's history -- could have added a little spice to things. It was a match between four former world champions. Instead of focusing on that aspect, though, the four men came across as surrogates for the McMahon Family's drama, which seemed an unnecessary level to many fans. Although, perhaps more egregious was the fact that the event denied The Rock his WrestleMania moment.

After Show and Foley were eliminated, the match came down to the Rock and Triple H. Three of the McMahon family members involved themselves liberally in the match, with Vince ultimately costing the Rock the match with a chair shot. Vince's betrayal created a first in WWE. Triple H was the first heel to win a main event at WrestleMania, breaking WWE's decades long tradition of "sending the fans home happy." Triple H's win is one of only a handful of main event heel victories in the history of the show. The Rock's big babyface triumph was delayed until the following month's Backlash.

WrestleMania 2000: Defined by Singles Discrimination

The main event wasn't the only non-traditional match on the card. In fact, there was only singles match in the entire event, a fight between The Kat and Terri. The rest of the card included everything from Trish Stratus's first WrestleMania appearance -- as the manager of tag team T&A -- to a 13-man Hardcore Championship match. A lot of the card felt like filler, but even the higher profile undercard matches had strange quirks.

Kurt Angle, for example, came into WrestleMania a double champion. He attempted to defend his Intercontinental and European Championships against Chris Benoit and Chris Jericho in a triple threat match. On paper, it sounds like a great contest between three of the best workers in the world. It had a rarely seen stipulation, however, where each belt was defended in a different fall. That kept it from being the kind of classic these three should have been able to put on and turned it into yet another strange and bloated stipulation match. Angle lost both titles without being involved in either decision, as Benoit and Jericho traded falls to take the Intercontinental and European titles respectively.

The TLC matches between Edge and Christian, the Hardy Boyz and the Dudley Boyz are legendary in WWE. The first match between the three teams didn't have the branding, or as many iconic moments, as their SummerSlam and WrestleMania X-7 matches. It did pave the way for their later train wreck masterpieces, but is largely forgotten. Even the highlights of this show are overshadowed by better matches that happened later on.

WrestleMania 2000: Before the Women's Evolution

Chyna crossing her arms in the ring

Some of the cognitive dissonance from the show comes from looking at it through modern eyes. The biggest example of this is the use of women on the show. The Kat and Terri's match, where they were seconded by Mae Young and the Fabulous Moolah, is the kind of thing that hasn't been seen on WWE TV in a long time. The PG-era eliminated catfights while the Women's Revolution made the concept completely alien to newer fans, who have never known a women's division that wasn't taken seriously. Say what you will about modern WWE booking for Women's titles, but it's certainly come a long way in 20 years.

The only other woman wrestling on the card was Chyna. Like most of her in-ring career, she was wrestling an intergender match, teaming with Too Cool against the Radicalz. Intergender wrestling has been rare in WWE for many years, and outside of Tessa Blanchard in Impact Wrestling, it's not really a factor in mainstream American companies at all.

On top of that, the Women's Championship was not even defended on the show as Stephanie McMahon was the title holder. While she did get physical in the ring, it involved taking a People's Elbow from the Rock to close the show.

Kane Vs. Pete Rose: Battle of the Big Red Machines

TO close out everything is the SHow -- and WWE's -- strangest feud, arguably ever. Kane's brother/rival, the Undertaker, was absent from the show, but his other great nemesis made an appearance -- we're talking, of course, about disgraced baseball hit king Pete Rose.

This was the third and final year the two tangled at 'Mania (for comparison, Kane only faced the Undertaker at WrestleMania twice). After being Tombstoned by Kane at the previous two WrestleManias, Rose looked for revenge by ambushing Kane with a baseball bat. He received a chokeslam from Kane and a stinkface from Rikishi instead. Rose was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2004, the first member of the "celebrity wing."

If that last one alone doesn't prove why WrestleMania 2000 was the strangest of its kind, nothing will.

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