Kurt Angle Has a Sledgehammer & a Kiss for Stephanie – WWE SmackDown 9/21/00 Review

Kurt Angle ends the main event with an Angle Slam, a sledgehammer, a surprise kiss on Stephanie McMahon, and the line “ask your wife if I kiss like a pansy.” Stone Cold cuts a pre-tape from his house in Texas that sells both hosts on Unforgiven more than anything else on the show. Tommy Blacha and Rob Pasbani recap the September 21, 2000 edition of WWF SmackDown, live from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the final SmackDown before Unforgiven 2000.

The opening segment puts the entire 40-man roster around the ring while Foley plays amateur detective. Rock denies running over Austin with a Swedish Chef impression. Triple H defends himself. Angle says maybe it was SA Rios. Xpac accuses Jericho. Undertaker arrives to a big pop. Brawl. The hosts agree this works. The gay panic jokes Triple H keeps making backstage do not.

Eddie Guerrero comes out with roses, delivers a speech about how Chyna is a superstar and he is nothing, reveals her Playboy cover for the first time, and gets on one knee. The crowd chants “just say no.” She says yes. The hosts discuss whether this storytelling decision serves Chyna or undermines her.

Other major discussion points include:

– Shane McMahon makes a surprise return two months after Blackman knocked him off a scaffold at SummerSlam and says he’ll reveal who ran over Austin at Unforgiven; Triple H hears it, turns to Stephanie, and points out Shane said he was “all alone” in the hospital

– Jeff Hardy wore Sting facepaint as a kid and called himself the Wolverine; Edge and Christian found old footage and screened it in a dark room with a projector, then attacked the Hardys with chairs

– Al Snow represents Spain as European Champion with a Ricardo Montalban portrait, a pinata, and a red cloth; the Hardcore title match collapses under 247 rules and Blackman wins by kicking a garbage can into Taka’s face

– Jericho and Lawler vs Xpac and Tazz ends in a DQ when Tazz chokes Lawler with a strap; the stipulation that those two couldn’t touch before the pay-per-view is never acknowledged as lifted

– Too Cool forces a reluctant four-man dance on both the Acolytes and the Dudleys; Bradshaw holds out longest

– SmackDown Your Vote: 90,000 registered, and they give you the real number, not 100,000

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00:00 Cold Open

00:28 Welcome / Milwaukee / SmackDown 9/21/2000

01:55 Show Overview

03:06 Opening Segment / Who Ran Over Austin?

06:39 Triple H Defends Himself / Gay Panic Analysis

09:08 Angle / Xpac Accuses Jericho / Stephanie Blamed

11:32 Undertaker Arrives / Brawl

14:18 Val Venis vs Scotty 2 Hotty

17:20 Backstage: Triple H / Greg Luganis Jokes

22:48 Hardys Promo / E&C Dark Room

24:19 Al Snow (Spain) vs Steve Blackman

27:54 Austin Up Next / SmackDown Your Vote

32:34 Austin Pre-Tape

33:23 Shane McMahon Returns

35:09 Triple H Catches Stephanie in a Lie

37:32 Jericho and Lawler vs Xpac and Tazz

39:42 Chyna Confronts Eddie Backstage

40:41 Eddie’s Apology / Chyna’s Playboy Cover

44:16 Eddie Proposes / Chyna Says Yes

48:10 Acolytes / RTC / Too Cool Dancing

49:41 Main Event

52:07 Gay Panic Spot / Undertaker’s Motorcycle

53:31 Angle Slam and Sledgehammer

54:11 Angle Kisses Stephanie / “Who’s Crying Now?”

57:10 Final Thoughts / Patreon

59:11 Sign-Off