5 Best Wrestling Matches of 2000

#3. Triple H vs. Cactus Jack – Hell in a Cell - No Way Out 2000

As if being a street fight wasn’t hardcore enough, Triple H & Cactus Jack chose to fight each other again. This time, it was in Hell in a Cell.

Needless to say, this match was as violent as it was exciting, with some of the most hardcore moments of the entire year taking place in this brutal match.

From a drop toehold into a chair (it’s a lot cooler than it sounds), to Triple H getting catapulted into the cell wall, to a piledriver through the announce table, to Triple H getting hit in the face with a 2x4 wrapped in barbed wire, there were enough savage moments in the first fifteen minutes to end any match seen today.

But these are two of the toughest and most badass wrestlers in WWE history, so of course they would go even farther.

Foley climbed the cell for the second time in two years, and just like in 1998, he flew off the cell and through a table. After getting up from that terrifying fall, Cactus got up and hit Triple H with the 2z4 again, after he set it on fire. Then, Triple H decided to straight up kill Cactus by dropping him through the cage and through the ring itself. And just like at King of the Ring 1998, Foley got up and continued the match. Because he is the most indestructible wrestler of all time.

This match was also said to be Foley’s retirement match (even though we all know it didn’t end that way). So when he lost, thousands of fans gave Foley a standing ovation in one of the most emotional moments of the year. His ‘retirement’ felt real and heart-wrenching, making it as much of a must-see moment as the match itself.