The First-Ever TLC Match & Shane McMahon’s Insane Scaffold Fall – WWF SummerSlam 2000 Review

Kurt Angle grabs the mic before the main event and announces he has an apology to make for kissing Stephanie McMahon. He’s sorry he didn’t do it sooner. Tommy Blacha and Rob Pasbani recap SummerSlam 2000, live from Raleigh, North Carolina on August 27, 2000.

The love triangle runs through the whole show. Stephanie tells her makeup artist backstage that Kurt is a good kisser. Angle’s pre-match promo drops the line “I gave your wife the kind of passion you could never give her.” Then the Spanish announce table breaks early, Angle is immediately concussed, and the main event somehow has to keep going.

The match of the night is the first-ever Tables, Ladders and Chairs match between Edge and Christian, the Hardy Boyz, and the Dudley Boyz, which Tommy and Rob call a blueprint for an even better version at WrestleMania the following year. Earlier, Shane McMahon climbs 75 feet up the entrance scaffolding trying to escape Steve Blackman, takes a kendo stick to the back, and falls in one of the biggest bumps either host has ever seen.

Other major discussion points include:

– Chyna pins Trish Stratus to become two-time Intercontinental Champion in a mixed tag with a stipulation that creates more problems than it solves

– JR pays Tazz back by smashing the same candy jar Tazz used on Lawler weeks earlier over his head to help the King get the win, though Tommy and Rob agree Tazz deserved better from the whole feud

– Road Dogg and X-Pac finally collide but their slow-burn DX breakup never generated enough heat for the match to land

– Jericho and Benoit put on a solid two-out-of-three falls match in 13 minutes, though Tommy argues the stipulation demands more time and the feud deserved a cleaner finish

– The show opens with a Fellini-inspired David Sahadi short film that Tommy and Rob call one of the most interesting pay-per-view cold opens of the Attitude Era

– Kane and Undertaker brawl on the outside with the bell never ringing, in a match the hosts agree did nothing to elevate either man

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00:00 Intro and Welcome to SummerSlam 2000 / Raleigh, NC / Gate Figures

05:27 Card Structure Discussion and the David Sahadi Opening Film

11:44 Meltzer and Keller Review SummerSlam

14:53 Right to Censor vs Too Cool & Rikishi

19:44 Heat Recap: The Kiss Aftermath / Kurt Angle Arrives

21:01 Road Dogg vs X-Pac / The DX Breakup Falls Flat

24:26 Chyna & Eddie Guerrero Backstage / Trish and Val’s Tension

30:09 Intercontinental Championship: Chyna & Eddie vs Val Venis & Trish Stratus

37:33 Stephanie in the Makeup Chair: Kurt Is a Good Kisser

38:23 Jerry Lawler vs Tazz / JR’s Candy Jar Revenge

47:18 Steve Blackman vs Shane McMahon (Hardcore Championship) / The Scaffold Fall

52:22 Chris Jericho vs Chris Benoit (Two-Out-of-Three Falls)

57:08 The First-Ever TLC Match: Edge & Christian vs Hardy Boyz vs Dudley Boyz

1:03:19 Triple H Confronts Stephanie About the Kiss

1:04:03 Thong Stinkface Match: Cat vs Terry

1:08:39 Kane vs Undertaker (The Bell Never Rings)

1:11:50 WWF Championship Triple Threat: The Rock vs Triple H vs Kurt Angle

1:19:01 Overall Show Breakdown and Final Thoughts