# Armageddon (2000)
**Armageddon (2000)** was a professional wrestling pay-per-view event produced by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF), held on December 10, 2000 at the Birmingham-Jefferson Civic Center in [Birmingham, Alabama](https://www.edgepedia.org/birmingham-alabama).[1](https://corporate.wwe.com/about/news/2000/12-07-2000) It was the second event in the [Armageddon](https://www.edgepedia.org/armageddon) series and is remembered chiefly for its main event, the first-ever Six-Man Hell in a Cell Match for the WWF Championship, in which champion [Kurt Angle](https://www.edgepedia.org/kurt-angle) retained the title against The Rock, "Stone Cold" Steve Austin, Triple H, Undertaker, and Rikishi.[2](https://www.wwe.com/shows/armageddon/2000/mainevent)
| Key fact | Detail |
|---|---|
| Date and venue | Sunday, December 10, 2000, Birmingham-Jefferson Civic Center, Birmingham, Alabama[1](https://corporate.wwe.com/about/news/2000/12-07-2000) |
| Main event | First-ever Six-Man Hell in a Cell Match for the WWF Championship, devised by Commissioner Mick Foley[2](https://www.wwe.com/shows/armageddon/2000/mainevent) |
| Result | Kurt Angle retained the championship, pinning The Rock at 32:14 after an Austin Stunner[3](https://wrestlingrecaps.com/2010/09/19/wwf-armageddon-2000-12102000/) |
| Attendance / buy rate | 14,920 announced; buy rate 1.15[3](https://wrestlingrecaps.com/2010/09/19/wwf-armageddon-2000-12102000/) |
| Broadcast | Live at 8:00 p.m. ET with a replay at 11:00 p.m., priced at $29.95 in all 50 states[1](https://corporate.wwe.com/about/news/2000/12-07-2000) |
| Announcers | Jim Ross and Jerry Lawler[3](https://wrestlingrecaps.com/2010/09/19/wwf-armageddon-2000-12102000/) |
| Critical note | The Wrestling Observer Newsletter called the Cell match possibly the WWF's best match of 2000; published ratings place it at 4.5 stars[4](https://wrestlefile.com/events/armageddon-2000/) |
## Background
The event closed the WWF's biggest business year to that point, and the company promoted the multi-man [Hell in a Cell](https://www.edgepedia.org/hell-in-a-cell) as the biggest thing to happen in the WWF "since ever".[5](https://retroprowrestling.com/ppv-review-wwf-armageddon-2000/) Commissioner Mick Foley, faced with a glut of top contenders and unable to decide who deserved the next shot at Kurt Angle's title, put all five challengers inside the Cell with the champion.[3](https://wrestlingrecaps.com/2010/09/19/wwf-armageddon-2000-12102000/) The WWF's own account credits Foley's "sadistic mind" with producing the first Six-Man Hell in a Cell Match, a set of conditions under which the championship had never before been contested.[2](https://www.wwe.com/shows/armageddon/2000/mainevent)
The storylines fed directly into the match. On the November 27 Raw, Foley had scheduled a number one contender's match between The Rock and Rikishi, which Angle interfered in; days later he made the six-man Cell match official.[3](https://wrestlingrecaps.com/2010/09/19/wwf-armageddon-2000-12102000/) On the Raw before the pay-per-view, Angle, Triple H, and Rikishi formed an alliance by attacking Undertaker, Rock, and Austin backstage, an alliance the match format was designed to dissolve.[1](https://corporate.wwe.com/about/news/2000/12-07-2000) WWF Chairman Vince McMahon opposed the match, blaming Foley for it, on the storyline logic that all of his top stars could be injured in one violent bout.[1](https://corporate.wwe.com/about/news/2000/12-07-2000) • [5](https://retroprowrestling.com/ppv-review-wwf-armageddon-2000/)
## The Six-Man Hell in a Cell main event
The match ran 32 minutes and 14 seconds, with all six men brawling inside the cage, outside it, and around the arena set.[3](https://wrestlingrecaps.com/2010/09/19/wwf-armageddon-2000-12102000/) Early on, the existing feuds paired off in [Survivor Series](https://www.edgepedia.org/survivor-series) rematches: Austin against [Triple H](https://www.edgepedia.org/triple-h), Rikishi against Rock, and Undertaker against Angle, before the fighting rotated and spread across the venue.[3](https://wrestlingrecaps.com/2010/09/19/wwf-armageddon-2000-12102000/) Austin and Triple H warred for most of the match, including a segment in which Austin repeatedly scraped a bloodied Triple H across the cage.[3](https://wrestlingrecaps.com/2010/09/19/wwf-armageddon-2000-12102000/)
**The McMahon interruption.** Midway through the match, Mr. McMahon arrived at ringside with his entourage and a large pickup truck, intending to fasten a chain to the cage and tow it away from the arena. Foley appeared, stopped him, and ordered security to remove him from the building.[2](https://www.wwe.com/shows/armageddon/2000/mainevent) The truck the Chairman had brought to end the violence stayed at the scene and became part of the match itself.[2](https://www.wwe.com/shows/armageddon/2000/mainevent)
**The Rikishi chokeslam.** All six men ended up on top of the cage at one point. Undertaker, drawing on his past Hell in a Cell experience, battered Rikishi to the edge of the structure and chokeslammed him off the top onto the bed of the truck sitting some 20 feet below.[2](https://www.wwe.com/shows/armageddon/2000/mainevent) The fall is the match's most remembered spot.[4](https://wrestlefile.com/events/armageddon-2000/)
**The finish.** Inside the ring, The Rock hit Angle with the Rock Bottom, but Austin broke up the pin. Austin then hit Rock with the Stunner, and Triple H broke up that near fall. With Triple H occupied with Austin, Angle rolled over and placed his arm on the unconscious Rock for the three count, retaining the championship.[2](https://www.wwe.com/shows/armageddon/2000/mainevent) The win carried Angle's first WWF Championship reign into the [Royal Rumble](https://www.edgepedia.org/royal-rumble) period, where Triple H became his next major challenger.[4](https://wrestlefile.com/events/armageddon-2000/)
For Rikishi, this was his only pay-per-view World Title shot, and for The Rock and Kurt Angle it was the only Hell in a Cell match of their careers.[3](https://wrestlingrecaps.com/2010/09/19/wwf-armageddon-2000-12102000/)
## Undercard
The rest of the card, in order:[6](https://www.wwe.com/shows/armageddon/2000/results)
1. [Eddie Guerrero](https://www.edgepedia.org/eddie-guerrero), Dean Malenko, and [Perry Saturn](https://www.edgepedia.org/perry-saturn) (The Radicalz) defeated The Hardy Boyz and Lita in an elimination tag match, with Malenko making Lita submit to the Texas Cloverleaf at 8:06.[6](https://www.wwe.com/shows/armageddon/2000/results) • [3](https://wrestlingrecaps.com/2010/09/19/wwf-armageddon-2000-12102000/)
2. [William Regal](https://www.edgepedia.org/william-regal) defeated Hardcore Holly to retain the European Championship, after interference from Raven.[6](https://www.wwe.com/shows/armageddon/2000/results) • [3](https://wrestlingrecaps.com/2010/09/19/wwf-armageddon-2000-12102000/)
3. Val Venis defeated Chyna after interference from Women's Champion Ivory.[6](https://www.wwe.com/shows/armageddon/2000/results) • [3](https://wrestlingrecaps.com/2010/09/19/wwf-armageddon-2000-12102000/)
4. Chris Jericho defeated Kane in a Last Man Standing match, burying Kane under a stack of barrels from the stage set; the feud had begun two months earlier over a "cup of coffee".[6](https://www.wwe.com/shows/armageddon/2000/results) • [1](https://corporate.wwe.com/about/news/2000/12-07-2000)
5. Edge and Christian defeated The Dudleys, Bull Buchanan and The Goodfather, and Road Dogg and K-Kwik in a Fatal Four Way match to retain the World Tag Team Championship, Christian pinning Bubba Ray Dudley with the Unprettier at 9:42.[6](https://www.wwe.com/shows/armageddon/2000/results) • [3](https://wrestlingrecaps.com/2010/09/19/wwf-armageddon-2000-12102000/)
6. Chris Benoit defeated Billy Gunn to win the Intercontinental Championship with the Crossface at 10:03.[6](https://www.wwe.com/shows/armageddon/2000/results) • [3](https://wrestlingrecaps.com/2010/09/19/wwf-armageddon-2000-12102000/)
7. Ivory defeated Molly Holly and Trish Stratus in a Triangle match to retain the Women's Championship, pinning Trish after a Molly powerbomb at 2:12.[6](https://www.wwe.com/shows/armageddon/2000/results) • [3](https://wrestlingrecaps.com/2010/09/19/wwf-armageddon-2000-12102000/)
## Reception and legacy
Critical reaction divided sharply between the main event and the rest of the card. [Dave Meltzer](https://www.edgepedia.org/dave-meltzer), founder and lead writer of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter, wrote that the six-man Cell match turned out much better than anyone's expectations and "may have been the WWF's best match of a year that had a lot of strong PPV main events", while judging the undercard flat, with nothing terribly bad but nothing particularly good.[7](https://www.f4wonline.com/newsletters/wrestling-observer-newsletter/december-18-2000-wrestling-observer-newsletter-wwf-armageddon-reviewed-plus-tons-news-249086/) The published historical rating record places the Cell match at 4.5 stars, far ahead of the rest of the card, and a 411Mania retrospective gave the event 3.5 out of 10, describing it as a one-match show.[4](https://wrestlefile.com/events/armageddon-2000/) Retrospective reviewers have also criticized the McMahon truck stunt as unnecessary overbooking in a match that already had six wrestlers and a championship at stake.[4](https://wrestlefile.com/events/armageddon-2000/) • [3](https://wrestlingrecaps.com/2010/09/19/wwf-armageddon-2000-12102000/)
The event was the WWF's final pay-per-view of 2000 and the last Armageddon held under the WWF name. The brand was replaced by Vengeance in 2001 after the [September 11 attacks](https://www.edgepedia.org/september-11-attacks), then restored in 2002 under the WWE name.[4](https://wrestlefile.com/events/armageddon-2000/)
## References
1. [Six Man Hell in the Cell Championship Match This Sunday At WWE's Armageddon, WWE Corporate (December 7, 2000)](https://corporate.wwe.com/about/news/2000/12-07-2000)
2. [Main Event: Six-Man Hell in a Cell Match for the WWE Championship, WWE.com](https://www.wwe.com/shows/armageddon/2000/mainevent)
3. [WWF Armageddon 2000 12/10/2000, Wrestling Recaps (Bob Colling Jr.)](https://wrestlingrecaps.com/2010/09/19/wwf-armageddon-2000-12102000/)
4. [Armageddon 2000 Review & Final Grade, WrestleFile](https://wrestlefile.com/events/armageddon-2000/)
5. [WWF Armageddon 2000 Review, Retro Pro Wrestling (CJ Scholes, July 16, 2020)](https://retroprowrestling.com/ppv-review-wwf-armageddon-2000/)
6. [Armageddon 2000 Results, WWE.com](https://www.wwe.com/shows/armageddon/2000/results)
7. [December 18, 2000 Wrestling Observer Newsletter: WWF Armageddon reviewed, F4W/WON (Dave Meltzer)](https://www.f4wonline.com/newsletters/wrestling-observer-newsletter/december-18-2000-wrestling-observer-newsletter-wwf-armageddon-reviewed-plus-tons-news-249086/)
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