10 Best WWE Matches of The Year 2000

#3 Triple H vs. Cactus Jack - Royal Rumble

Brutal violence

The Hell in A Cell at No Way Out was a brutal and fantastic match, but for me, just gets beaten by this one from a month earlier. The Game and the Hardcore Legend were having some of the best back and forth verbal thrashings on television and the tag team matches between them also delivered but the Royal Rumble would bring a huge test as the match was announced as a Mick Foley specialty -- a 'Street Fight'.

Triple H was still pretty new to the main event scene by this point and Mick Foley was going to have a lot to live up too after having an incredible WWE Championship 'I Quit' match with The Rock at the previous Rumble event. And he may just have done it in brutal fashion.

Foley decided to go one step further with this match by bringing Cactus Jack, his craziest persona yet. WWE had become pretty hardcore in recent years embracing violence now more than ever and in this match, it certainly showed.

Triple H and the hardcore legend threw everything at each other but the kitchen sinks as the match featured everything from thumbtacks to a barbed wired bat to a handcuffed Cactus Jack, the violence came in drones here and is remembered as one of the best matches of both men's careers.

As Foley was close to his retirement, the right call was made for Triple H to go over in this one. And one final appearance for Triple H, this was by far his best match of an amazing year for him.