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This one started off with a bang, with a 15-team (30-man) battle royal. It was mayhem, and admittedly difficult to keep up with, but you have to love the way it started and ended. Next on the card was... I'm sorry, I really do like the smaller, quicker guys but the "light-heavyweight" matches the WWF has at this point, well, frankly they just bore me. I can't pronounce most of their names and it seems like it's always just a couple of Japanese performers doing gymnastics around each other, with a lot of the so-called "wrestling" left to the mainstream WWF athletes. So it was easy for me to semi-ignore this one, although it did have its share of acrobatics. Still, I was glad when it was over and we could move on. And of course, when we "move on" we get the first PPV "interview" with Dwayne Johnson as "The Rock" and it was classic: small wonder (if you smell what I'm cookin') that Dwayne Johnson went on to such a WWF legacy due (mostly) to his mic skills and not necessarily for his "wrestling" ability. Make no mistake: Johnson could pull of a great in-ring performance but it's no secret that what put him in the WWF's limelight was his performance on the mic. He was no exception here (although it _did_ get a little ridiculous with him speaking in the third-person narrative, like Hulk Hogan tried to do in that turd of a film _No Holds Barred_ . ) Now the matches start getting a bit more interesting, with Paul Levesque now being introduced (first time PPV) as "Triple H" and not "Hunter Hearst Helmsley". Of course, Joan Laurer (Chyna) is with him but stipulations say she has to be handcuffed to WWF Commissioner "Sgt Slaughter". We, of course, know how this will turn out, but still Owen Hart and "Triple H" put on a great match. (You have to love Jerry Lawler's comment at 00:38:32! LOL) The following match - although I have little interest in either Golddust or Marc Mero - was great simply because of the performance "Sable" put on: you have to give her credit; she put on a heckuva show in her match against Luna Vachon. (For all you pervs lurking out there, no, there wasn't a lot of cleavage or any "wardrobe malfunctions" here; this was just good fun involving two female wrestlers.) Next item on the menu was the Intercontinental Championship match between "The Rock" (Dwayne Johnson) vs Ken Shamrock. It was not the best match of the evening, and if you know anything about Ken Shamrock's career in the WWF, you can imagine how this one ended. Not sure why the brief introduction of Jeff Jarrett and Jennifer Flowers before this match began but... After the Shamrock match, we move on to the "Dumpster Match", featuring the New Age Outlaw vs Cactus Jack & Chainsaw Charlie (Terry Funk). This was as chaotic and unscientific as you might imagine but very entertaining, with a great finish as well. Next up was the much-anticipated match between The Undertaker vs Kane. Again, you don't go into this one expecting a real scientific match or a lot of acrobatics but it was an okay match nonetheless. (Notice I said _"an okay match"_ ; I really don't care for those matches where they just blow a lot of time with sleeperholds, reverse chinlocks, or otherwise just sitting there doing nothing while the clock continues to burn time.) The finish was, again, what you would expect, with a follow-up that was ALSO what you would expect. Now for the main event...and on a related documentary about the WWE, I had _heard_ that this _"wasn't a very good match at all"_ (that statement from both of the athletes in the main event) but to me, it was the kind of match you would expect. I wasn't disappointed with the match at all, and the ending was even better. So overall, this has to rate as one of the better (only by a small measure, mind you) Wrestlemanias they've put out in several years. Definitely worth watching, if nothing else, for that final main event.