Really the biggest story from February 2000 is that Mick Foley had been back dropped from

the top of the hell in the cell, gone crashing through the ring canvas, lost a triple H at

no way out which meant he now had to retire.

Obviously today we know that wasn't true, but 21 years ago it was 100% the plan.

Foley was more than ready to hang his boots up before WWF gave him a call and said, hey,

would you like to make an event WrestleMania power and earn a truckload of money?

And put your hands up if you would say no to that, hand goes down.

That whole paper view was actually pretty decent too, because you had cut angle versus

Chris Jericho, the Harley boys, taking on edge in Christian and viscera versus Mark Henry

just forget that last one.

We were of course as well building to WrestleMania 2000, because we had to put the year 2000

at the end of every title just because it was the year 2000.

And even without foul cold Steve Austin who was injured, the world wrestling federation

was on fire, it was making a ton of money, which is why Vincent Mann went, I'm going

to kill the movie known as Beyond the Mesh.

Now that is a terrific documentary, and if you haven't seen it, you absolutely should

grab your way to put your eyeballs on it, but McMahon had only let those cameras behind

the scenes because at the time WWF was having their ass kicked by WCW, so he was willing

to try whatever the hell he could to try and get back on top.

Absolutely though, profits had gone through the roof, so Vince told the USA Network, which

of course hosted Raw, I don't want you to accept any kind of advertising deal, and I don't

want to be associated with it at all.

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