Hell in a Cellphone – Détails, épisodes et analyse

The WWF was on cruise control as it came to Raleigh, NC for the biggest party of the summer. The matches are mostly solid, but the highs are not quite as high, until one match gets injected with a little TLC.

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While it would still be over a decade until #givedivasachance, this main event from RAW from 2000 marked a change in the expectations and excitement surrounding women wrestlers.

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The bags of money thrown at Vince McMahon and the end of the WWE Network as we know it, means a change in how we do deep dives. Luckily, we peacock comedy here at Hell in a Cellphone, so instead we’re going to relive sketch comedy of the early aughts and dunk on the somehow worse interface that we have with Peacock.

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For FIFTY pay per views, the Hell in a Cellphone guys have led you through the Attitude Era of the WWF, and it’s all led to…one of the worst WrestleManias ever. Come for the matches that would have gotten a boring chant on Sunday Night Heat. Stay for the questionable booking throughout. Ask yourself, “Did EVERY McMahon need to be involved in this?” It’s the Showcase of the Immortals, 2000 style!

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The Attitude Era is here, and it has no room for award shows. We review the changing landscape of the WWF and hand out the awards they didn’t for the year since WrestleMania XV. Come back next week for our WrestleMania 2000 episode!

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The WWF continued their pay per view hot-streak in 2000 with this show from Hartford, CT with a Hell in a Cell match that truly understands how you book the stipulation between Cactus Jack and Mankind and a stacked undercard. Surly, they can keep up this momentum for WrestleMania 2000.

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We exhaustively look into the sexual addiction of Sexual Chocolate and the love of an old woman that pulls him out of it. It’s a modern Harold and Maude and we should all get a hand for enduring it. Did we make sense of this story from the Attitude Era of WWE? Not likely

Want to get caught up? This episode deals with content from the following episodes of RAW and SmackDown from 1999 and 2000: September 30, October 7, October 11, October 14, October 18, October 21, October 25, October 28, November 18, November 22, December 13, December 20, December 23, December 27, December 30, January 3, January 17, January 24, January 27, January 31, February 3, February 7, February 14, February 17, February 21, February 28, and July 23, 2012.

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30 men entered the 2000 Royal Rumble from Madison Square Garden, and most of them were either allied with the McMahon/Helmsley Era or directly opposed. Add to the fun a particularly brutal street fight between Triple H and Cactus Jack and you have one of the most complete pay per views of the Attitude Era.

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We continue our deep dive as Triple H takes the WWF Championship and the story shifts to a redemptive one for the recently fired Mankind with the Royal Rumble and the road to WrestleMania looming overhead.

Want to get caught up? This episode deals with content from the following episodes of RAW and SmackDown from 2000: January 3, January 6, January 10, January 13, January 17 and January 20.

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In the wake of the surprise finish of Armageddon, Stephanie McMahon and Triple H spend their honeymoon taking control of the day to day operations at the WWF, and nearly every storyline on RAW and SmackDown goes through them.

Want to get caught up? This episode deals with content from the following episodes of RAW and Smackdown from 1999 and 2000: December 13, December 16, December 20, December 23, December 27, December 30, and January 3.

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