Another WWE pay-per-view that opens with lots of cleavage by "Debra"...and she's not an ounce more attractive in spite of that electric green bikini she's wearing. This time, Jeff Jarrett is squaring off against the up-and-coming "Edge" for the Intercontinental Championship (recently won by Edge). And as per usual, the match feature more of Debra's artificially-inflated cleavage than it does the actual match itself...which ends pretty much the way you'd expect. Next, a special 3-on-2 match featuring the Hardy brothers (Matt and Jeff Hardy) with Michael Hayes (why are they suddenly calling him Michael Hayes again, instead of "Doc Hendrix"?) meeting "The Acolytes", Farooq and Bradshaw. This was a wild match, and Hayes somehow managed to pull off his part of it, in spite of being well past his prime. (Oh, the glory days of The Fabulous Freebirds vs The Von Erichs down in Texas!) Give the guy credit for still being able to take a pretty good bump in spite of his age. Next up, another match for another belt that means squat. Of course, it involves a non-performer that means squat: the little man who calls himself "D-Lo Brown" (probably goes by 'D-Lo' because that's the longest name he can spell.) I would call him _"a has-been who's a never-was"_ but in all honesty, Accie Julius Conner never was any big deal: entry-level at best. He can't perform and he has the mic skills of an oyster...and probably the IQ. Apparently I'm not alone in my estimation of the match however, as the chants of _"Boooooring!!!"_ start and the non-performers get it wrapped up. Of course, the little man has to strut and preen for a few seconds, pretending the "European Championship" actually means something. Go away, boy, you bother me... Now we have a match between Al Snow vs The Big Boss Man. Not sure why Ray Traylor is still trying to carry that "Boss Man" gimmick but hey, it seems to be working. In spite of being a "hardcore match", this was one of those that just seems to be a way to kill anywhere from 20-45 minutes (if not more). They "fought" from the ring all the way back to the hallway, through the back of the arena, out into the street (they _did_ make it interesting by having a driver in a car almost run Al Snow down) until it was finally over...but again, it just seemed like a huge waste of time and a way to make this PPV about 40 minutes longer than it should have been. Now we have "The Big Show" (Paul Wight) squaring off against "Kane" (Glenn Jacobs) with "special referee" Hardcore Holly. This was (mercifully) pretty short-lived (no surprise there, as big as these guys are), but it _did_ have an interesting conclusion. Following this was an "Iron Circle" match, reminiscent of Jean Claude van Damme's underground street fight scene in _Lionheart_ . An underground "street fight" between Ken Shamrock vs Steve Blackman in a circle surrounded by parked cars and cheering onlookers (most of them WWF performers). They made it look good for the few short minutes it lasted but the most memorable thing about this match was, unfortunately, the constantly honking horns of the cars surrounding the fight. Now we have yet another tag team match that I have zero interest in: Billy Gunn and Chyna vs Road Dogg and X-Punk...er, X-Pac. Shockingly, two things made this match not only "tolerable" but actually entertaining: (1) In all my time of watching Joan Laurer ("Chyna") I would never in a million years guessed she was capable of what she did at the 1:43:29 mark... NEVER would I have expected that. (2) Road Dogg's little action at the 1:44:56 moment. Wow....How he got away with that... I actually laughed out loud. I never expected this match to be THAT entertaining. The main event between The Undertaker vs Stone Cold Steve Austin was brilliant. I wasn't sure how they were going to pull this one off but they made this match absolutely perfect, including the conclusion and the follow-up. This was absolutely brilliant. Still far from the best PPV card the WWF has ever put together, but this definitely made up for some of the really poor events in recent history. I have to admit, I laughed myself silly at the ending to this card... Yes, it was actually that brilliant.

Certainly an improvement on the brutal King of the Ring pay-per-view in June. There isn’t anything spectacular on this show, but it gets the job done in terms of developing key storylines. The main event was a product of the era, and it worked thanks to the Austin vs. McMahon rivalry.