Opening match features a tag-team championship match between X-Pac & Kane (the current champions) vs D'Lo Brown and Mark Henry (who has been absent for a while, oddly enough). The match was better than I had expected but as someone has pointed out, it had to be difficult for these performers to go through this card after watching Owen Hart fall to his death only moments earlier. Give them credit for at least giving the fans a show (although whether it should have been expected of them is highly debatable). The opening match is followed up with yet ANOTHER "hardcore" match between "Hardcore Holly" (Robert Howard) vs "Al Snow & Head" (Allen Sarven). In all honesty, though, I _think_ these are the only two guys who are interested in/qualified for the "Hardcore Championship" so we'll probably see this match repeatedly. Next up is a "mixed-tag" match featuring Jeff Jarrett & "Debra" (that is a homely woman!) squaring off against "Val Venis" & Nicole Bass. (And mercy that's an even UGLIER woman...if she's a woman at all?) Probably the highlight of the match was when "Venis", in his opening comments, made mention that _"We all know that Kansas is the 'Show-Me' state..."_ Uh, no, Val...the 'Show-Me' state would be Missouri, as I can attest having lived there myself for a few years. That was probably the most interesting thing to happen in this entire match. Next up, a joy and a delight to me personally is a match featuring the now-dissolved "New Age Outlaws", as "Road Dogg" and "Billy Gunn" have apparently parted company (who couldn't see _that_ coming?!!!) and are now facing off against each other. It's not the match itself that interests me: it's the simple fact that there are no more "New Age Outlaws" and no more slobbering over them by "good ol' JR" Jim Ross, constantly referring to them as _"quite possibly the greatest tag team in the history of sports entertainment"_ (Psst...hey, JR... did you forget about a couple of guys known as "The Road Warriors" or "The Legion of Doom"? Maybe you forgot about all those other tag-teams who were trendsetters and heroes before these Johnny-come-lately wannabe's showed up pretending to be somebody.) The match itself wasn't that great, although that's to be expected since neither of these guys are a main-event performer. The only thing Brian James knows how to do is that stupid little shrug-dance of his that (for whatever reason) works the pimple-faced teenagers in the audience into a froth. Fortunately, the match didn't last too awful long...though it was plenty awful. Still love seeing the demise of that tag-team although I've little doubt they'll be slobbering over each other again soon enough. Following this was an eight-man tag-team match featuring "The Corporate Ministry" - Big Boss Man, the Acolytes, and Viscera - squaring off against "The Union" - Mankind, Test, Ken Shamrock, and The Big Show. This was one of the better matches on the card, IMO, with a lot of interesting turns and a pretty impressive show of strength by "The Big Show". Next up, "Triple H" (Paul Levesque), accompanied by ...oof....that horse-faced Chyna. You already know how this one's going to end; like every other match involving Paul Levesque. The main event, featuring The Undertaker vs "Stone Cold" Steve Austin, was everything you would expect from these two top performers: they gave a superb show with, of course, a unique twist involving Shane McMahon and several others. With the exception of the main event, featuring Austin and Mark Calaway (as The Undertaker), it seems like the quality of the WWF pay-per-views has slipped a few notches. Most of these matches are either boring as dirt or so rigged/scripted as to make the match practically a waste of time. Here's hoping that the quality of these events starts to improve pretty quickly.

… the show that never should have gone ahead. Owen Hart fell to his death at the start of this PPV in an entrance stunt gone wrong when his safety gear failed. You can clearly see on the faces of many of the wrestlers and other on screen talent the shock and grief they’re experiencing. The matches here are irrelevant really - with most simply going through the motions