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WWE’s Greatest Moments Season 3 Episode 1
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00:03We welcome you to WrestleMania.
00:07WrestleMania is WWE Super Bowl.
00:10Year after year, superstars looked up the ante at the show of shows.
00:13My gosh.
00:15Bringing nonstop excitement again and again.
00:18Damn, and Mayweather wins the match.
00:23And audiences were certainly not prepared for
00:26the breathtaking moments WWE would deliver as they entered the new millennium.
00:31My God.
00:32Today we look back at some of the greatest WrestleMania matches of the 2000s.
00:36I cannot believe what we've just seen.
00:39This is WWE's Greatest Moments.
00:45He's your son, man.
00:47My God, what the hell are you doing?
00:51Absolutely unbelievable.
01:02Welcome everyone to WWE's Greatest Moments.
01:05I'm Michael Cole.
01:06And on this edition, we're looking back at WrestleMania matches from one of the most
01:10consequential decades in WWE history, the 2000s.
01:14As WWE was heading into the new millennium, two of its grandest stars would lead the charge.
01:20Stone Cold Steve Austin and The Rock.
01:25I got one reason and one reason only to go inside that ring and
01:28that is to beat Stone Cold Steve Austin.
01:30It's just that simple.
01:31I need to beat you, Rock.
01:33I need it more than anything that you can ever imagine.
01:37Over 67,000 passionate fans would fill the Houston Astrodome at WrestleMania 17 to witness
01:44this iconic matchup.
01:46There can be only one.
01:50This JR is the main event.
01:54The atmosphere in the arena at WrestleMania 17 was through the roof.
01:59It was important to me that I was the one leading the pack.
02:06And Steve Austin sure as hell didn't want to be second.
02:10There was no stir down.
02:12There was no trash talking.
02:14These two just got it on in the most personal of title matches that I have ever witnessed.
02:21It was the two biggest and best colliding again.
02:27The people hanging on every single move, waiting to see who was going to win this match
02:33because it was damn near 50-50 throughout the whole thing.
02:38What the hell is this about?
02:40He handed the chair to Stone Cold Steve Austin.
02:45What the hell is this?
02:48It's a new champion.
02:50God don't marry.
02:53Not only do you become world champion, now you align yourself with the company's top heel.
02:59Stone Cold Steve Austin has sold his soul.
03:03I know you perform to the highest level and you deliver.
03:06It's a great feeling.
03:08What a contest.
03:12In March of 2004, WWE celebrated the 20-year anniversary of WrestleMania.
03:18No, a better way to cap it off than with a WWE Championship match for the ages.
03:24Newly crowned WWE Champion, Latino Heat, Eddie Guerrero, and the Olympic gold medalist,
03:30Kurt Angle, two of the greatest in-ring competitors at that time.
03:35I am the WWE Champion!
03:40And I'll be proud to take it from you.
03:45So ladies and gentlemen, for the 20th time, the WWE title is being defended at WrestleMania.
03:53WrestleMania 20, and I got to wrestle Kurt Angle.
03:57What an honor.
04:00Shoulder knocked down by the champion.
04:03Oh, and another one.
04:03Eddie Guerrero, in his prime, was the greatest wrestler of all time, period.
04:08Eddie Guerrero!
04:10Flash connects!
04:12He's got it!
04:13He's got it!
04:14He's got it!
04:15Oh!
04:15When I did wrestle Eddie, the matches were five-star.
04:19He was so polished.
04:22Eddie and I, we connected.
04:24We understood each other.
04:25Eddie was the most passionate guy I've ever been in a ring with.
04:29Tap out, Eddie!
04:30Just tap it!
04:31Wait a minute!
04:32The blue went flying!
04:33The blue can't walk!
04:34Look at this!
04:35He's got pockets!
04:36One, two, three!
04:37Oh, he wins!
04:38Eddie wins!
04:39Eddie wins!
04:40But that's the win!
04:42The chinchini!
04:44Special moment that I'm gonna hold in my life because you never know what's gonna happen again.
04:50Eddie Guerrero outsmarted Kurt Angle!
04:53Tremendous matchup!
04:56In the early 2000s, Trish Stratus was on top of the wrestling world.
05:00But awaiting her was a rivalry unlike anything the WWE Universe had ever seen before.
05:06Hi!
05:07Oh, my God!
05:08I'm Mickie James.
05:09I'm Rawl's newest diva.
05:10Newly debuting superstar Mickie James was a self-proclaimed Trish Stratus superfan.
05:16But her obsession became too much for the queen of stratus-faction to handle.
05:21You and I, we just need some time apart, all right?
05:24Mickie's a little overzealous sometimes with her passion.
05:27When her idol rejected her, James was absolutely furious.
05:31You let me down!
05:32Inner rage fueled the confrontation between them that culminated with a show of shows.
05:38WrestleMania 22.
05:41The following contest is for the WWE Women's Championship.
05:47Superfan that becomes the worst enemy.
05:50And at WrestleMania, it came to fruition.
05:54Well, Trish has been in the ring with the greatest competitors in the WWE.
05:58But no one as unpredictable as Mickie James.
06:01It was real emotion.
06:03People really felt one way or the other.
06:05To the point where some people were cheering me, which was, what is happening here?
06:09A lot of these fans are actually identifying with Mickie James.
06:13That's the only reason I bought that mania that year.
06:15As a young boy wanting to see the culmination of this wrestling story between these two women,
06:22I feel like that's a great thing in the evolution of women's wrestling.
06:34To have a WrestleMania moment, to have a WrestleMania match,
06:38we're pretty much at the highest point we've been for the women in our company.
06:42It's one of those matches that you look at and you go, wow, like, let's go.
06:46Mickie James has won the women's title.
06:51The Dudleys, the Hardys, and Edge and Christian never disappointed the WWE universe when pitted
06:57against each other.
06:58And when the stakes were raised, so was the energy.
07:01What the heck?
07:02As these six superstars were set to compete in a triangle ladder match.
07:07With the tag team championships hanging high above the ring,
07:11the three hottest tag teams of the era would step foot on the grandest stage of them all.
07:15And what followed would alter the landscape of WWE forever.
07:23This should be an amazing offensive display.
07:27You can expect some high-risk maneuvers like you've never seen before.
07:31It's competitive.
07:32Everybody's pushing each other to have the best match of the night.
07:35Okay, we better tear it up.
07:37This is some unbelievable innovation with these three ladders now in the ring.
07:43The Hardys and Edge and Christian had already done the ladder match,
07:47so we wanted to introduce the other aspects using the tables.
07:52Do the tables!
07:53Double carnage!
07:55We went out and beat the hell out of each other.
07:58All that stuff's so memorable because we were the first ones to do it.
08:01If you've made it to WrestleMania, you've got to try to ride that wave wherever it takes you.
08:05Oh, for God's sakes, don't do it, Jim.
08:07It's a very insane risk-versus-reward scenario, but for the most part, there was no hesitation.
08:15Shot, top foul, top of the ladder, to the floor.
08:19We just continued to elevate standards for what that match could be.
08:23I think our legacy will have a lot to do with the ladder match.
08:37Man, Hardys just killed it. Like, we crushed that.
08:40And that, to me, was the first instance of understanding, like, okay,
08:45we are all a part of something that is important to the product now.
08:49And if Christian are the new tag team champions!
08:55For over a decade and a half, The Undertaker was a dominant force.
09:00He'd achieved nearly everything a WWE superstar could ever dream of.
09:04In 2007, the Deadman would win his first Royal Rumble match.
09:09Undertaker is going to WrestleMania!
09:12It didn't take long for the Phenom to defiantly choose a shot
09:16at Batista's WWE World Heavyweight Championship.
09:20Batista, at WrestleMania, your reign as champion will rest in peace.
09:37This match is for the World Heavyweight Championship!
09:43WrestleMania always means a lot.
09:45To go in such a huge match, it ended up being really special because it's a world title match.
09:50We are about to see something that might get ugly,
09:53but we're about to watch one of the middle of a fight.
09:56There's a lot of pressure that comes with WrestleMania.
09:59It's big time. I mean, it is.
10:02Undertaker measuring the champion flying through the air in the 300-pounder!
10:07That is what WrestleMania is all about.
10:10I felt like I was doing things instinctively and without thought.
10:14I felt like I held my own with Undertaker when we gave the crowd the match of the night.
10:20Two great warriors going for all the gold.
10:23That's what it's all about.
10:26Undertaker!
10:27Look at this!
10:29Tombstone Pile Friver!
10:32Wow!
10:32There's two!
10:33We have a new world champion!
10:37You have two guys that respect each other.
10:40They're at the top of their games.
10:42Can't ask for more than that.
10:48It was clear from day one that Randy Orton was a special talent.
10:53Transforming from an eager rookie into a brash superstar.
10:57Orton quickly made a name for himself by targeting WWE legends,
11:01including the dead man, The Undertaker.
11:04At WrestleMania 21, the legend of The Undertaker will become a myth.
11:10Randy Orton will rest in peace.
11:21It is the legend versus the legend killer.
11:25Randy Orton, the legend killer, being in the ring with The Undertaker, that's huge.
11:31He's young, he's brash, he's arrogant, and he is good.
11:35Here I have this young guy who obviously is a huge star already.
11:41Oh my!
11:42Let's go for nine!
11:43And there he is!
11:45He stepped up and delivered on the grandest stage of all.
11:49Here's the cover!
11:50And Undertaker kicked out!
11:54He's going for the tombstone!
11:55Oh no, what the hell?
11:56And Undertaker reversed it!
11:593, 2, 3, 2, 1.
12:013, 2, 3, 2, 1.
12:023, 2, 1.
12:023, 2, 3, 2, 1.
12:03For The Undertaker!
12:05An amazing match right there.
12:07That was awesome!
12:112006 saw Rey Mysterio overcome every odd and win the Royal Rumble from the number two spot.
12:18Oh!
12:18Rey Mysterio is going to WrestleMania!
12:23Mysterio knew he only had one thing left to do.
12:26Win the whole darn thing.
12:28I hope I make you even more proud when I go on to WrestleMania and win the World Heavyweight Championship!
12:37Yeah!
12:38Rey was determined to win the world title in memory of his best friend Eddie Guerrero, who passed away a
12:44few months prior.
12:45And to do so, the legendary Luchador was faced with a near impossible task.
12:50Taking out both Kurt Angle and Randy Orton in a triple threat match for the World Heavyweight Championship.
12:56It is one of the most emotional matches I've ever had the honor of calling.
13:04The following contest is a triple threat match scheduled for one fall.
13:09And it is for the World Heavyweight Championship!
13:14WrestleMania 22 was the peak of my career.
13:19And a tribute to Eddie, he saw me from the heavens.
13:23There's a kick!
13:25Hocking on the smaller man!
13:27Double German!
13:28Oh!
13:31Randy Orton, watch!
13:32Any fan that watches knows that he could beat you at any moment.
13:36He has that, I can overcome factor.
13:41Mysterio!
13:42Watch out!
13:43We've seen it sometimes!
13:44Look at this guy!
13:45He's coming in!
13:46He's jumping alone!
13:47Get into it again!
13:48I had no idea who was going to win.
13:50Everyone was on the edge of their seats the whole entire time.
13:53Spring ball!
13:54One!
13:55Wow!
13:56Go!
13:56One!
13:57One!
13:58He got it!
13:59He got it!
14:00He got it!
14:00He got it!
14:01He got it!
14:01Oh my!
14:02Mysterio wins the title!
14:04We're not here forever.
14:06You have to make the best out of each and every moment because you don't know if it's going to
14:10come back again.
14:13Eddie would have loved to have seen me as a champion.
14:17Dreams will indeed come true! Rey Mysterio is the World Heavyweight Champion!
14:28Arguably the greatest of all time.
14:30Ric Flair had an in-ring career that spanned over 30 years.
14:342008, the Nature Boy was reaching the end of the line as a WWE superstar.
14:39The first match you lose, your career is over.
14:44Flair was more resilient than ever issuing a challenge to Shawn Michaels.
14:48It would be my honor to wrestle you at WrestleMania.
14:52One night after being immortalized in the WWE Hall of Fame.
14:58Flair was face to face with Mr. WrestleMania.
15:04The time has come for the Nature Boy, Ric Flair, to put his career on the line against Shawn Michaels.
15:11The biggest moment in my wrestling career was Shawn and me in my retirement.
15:17Flair wanted to be in the ring with the best.
15:21Good grief!
15:23Flair's got to capitalize here early.
15:26Michaels explodes with a forearm!
15:28Given all the amazing things he had done in his career, it needed to be extra special.
15:35God's sakes!
15:37There's got the figure four!
15:39Michaels pitfalls to the ropes!
15:42The showstopper hits for the elbow!
15:44Shawn was the perfect guy to do it.
15:46It's the emotion that he puts into things.
15:51Oh my God, what a shot!
15:53That was just me sort of telling Rick, I think the world would win.
15:57Michaels, will it be?
15:59Yes!
16:02Yes, and I love you.
16:04It's a great moment of wrestling.
16:06I don't care what it says.
16:07The greatest to ever lace a pair of boots.
16:14As the decades passed, WWE sees new faces that capture the attention of the WWE Universe,
16:20and usher the company into new eras.
16:23In the early 2000s, The Rock was just that face.
16:26But the Brahma Bull wasn't the first to have the WWE Universe in the palm of his hand.
16:33That honor went to the immortal Hulk Hogan.
16:36The Hulkster had recently made his return to WWE as part of the villainous New World Order.
16:41How do you feel about headlining one more WrestleMania with The Rock?
16:48Yes!
16:56And look at the flashbulbs.
16:59This is a WrestleMania moment.
17:02That stare down with The Rock was magic.
17:05Once that happened, I knew, I knew the match was going to work.
17:1060,000 plus fans at the Sky Dome going crazy.
17:17Oh!
17:18Oh, the power of Hogan.
17:19I don't know, JR, if this is nostalgia or what, but it's amazing that the crowd is so solidly behind
17:25Hulk.
17:26I thought for sure they'd be booing me and throwing stuff at me and trying to get at me and
17:30kill me.
17:31These people love you more than you ever imagined they love you.
17:35The Rock caught!
17:38My God, Hulk is kicked out!
17:39Look at this!
17:40The Rock caught him!
17:41Is he gonna Hulk up, JR?
17:43He is!
17:44Man, he's got it!
17:45The leg is hooked!
17:47Oh, my God!
17:48My God, The Rock kicked out!
17:50People were really just engrossed in the match like I've never seen before.
17:56The Rock with the people's elbow on Hogan!
17:59And The Rock wins it!
18:02What that meant to me, I'm grateful to Hulk.
18:08This match lived up to the hype.
18:10It didn't live up to it, it far surpassed it.
18:15It's now time for our number one moment.
18:17And it's the one that is widely considered the greatest Wrestlemania match of all time.
18:22The Undertaker's undefeated streak at Wrestlemania was one of the most impressive feats a superstar
18:27has ever achieved.
18:28The man has never lost at Wrestlemania!
18:319 and 0!
18:32You can't stop!
18:3312 and 0!
18:3415 and 0!
18:37The greatest streak alive!
18:40At Wrestlemania at 25, the Deadman's challenger was none other than Mr. Wrestlemania himself,
18:46Shawn Michaels.
18:48You may be 16 and 0 at Wrestlemania, but I am Mr. Wrestlemania!
18:53Yeah!
18:54HBK would attempt slaying the streak in a match that literally saw heaven and hell colliding.
19:04Can Michaels hang the first loss ever on The Undertaker?
19:08That's been the question on everyone's mind.
19:13And it was kicked out!
19:15It was magic.
19:17I mean, the stars aligned.
19:18You just know when you're out there, like, we are killing this.
19:22Oh, and the kick out again!
19:24Impossible!
19:25Storytelling is what we do.
19:27Oh my God!
19:28Oh my God!
19:29Oh my God!
19:29It was just amazing that it happened on the grandest stage of all.
19:33And Undertaker's in the ring!
19:35The streak's alive!
19:36The end-all be-all of doing this job is just creating a glimmer of doubt.
19:43There it is!
19:43Music again!
19:45Pissed the streak alive!
19:47And again!
19:49That's probably the greatest match I've ever seen.
19:54Michaels caught him in there!
19:56Hiddleston!
19:57He did it!
19:58And with Peter Ho!
20:01What an absolutely unbelievable match.
20:06WrestleMania has always been, and always will be, the biggest night in sports entertainment.
20:12In the 2000s proved just that.
20:15Providing some of the most memorable matches the WWE Universe has ever seen.
20:20That'll do it for this edition of WWE's Greatest Moments.
20:23I hope you've enjoyed this look back at some of the most iconic WrestleMania matches in a pivotal era in
20:29professional wrestling history.
20:30The 2000s.
20:33Cheatmans!
20:36Troopers.
20:36For that, damn.
20:36Because I loved taking advantage.
20:36Peacomp tw00ld wearing a new serien museum.
20:36It is most mesa.
20:37Cop at the back of theference.
20:37All the guys.
20:37I know they loved one of the firstous guys in the movie.
20:37I would love to disturb God's thunder and energize you in time.
20:37I know twice what that was magical!
20:37He did 470.
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