5. In Your House: Buried Alive
1996 may not have been kind to WWF from a fiscal standpoint but it did produce one of the greatest rivalries of the decade in the form of The Undertaker vs Mankind.
The pay-per-view perhaps should have been culmination of the first chapter of their feud as they met in first ever Buried Alive match. The match itself was a tremendous selling point for the show and made for a captivating main event. A brutal, violent affair that saw the Deadman come out on top, only to be attached and buried by some of the most recognizable midcard heels of the time. Despite it appearing as though he had been finished off once and for all, Undertakers hand emerged from the dirt, providing one of the most memorable images in the company’s history and proving the immortality of the Phenom.
4. Fully Loaded 2000
The Fully Loaded pay-per-view in 2000 was promoted as having three main event matches. In the first marquee match of the night. Olympic gold medalist Kurt Angle attempted to halt the momentum of the returning Undertaker as the American Badass. Angle had made the mistake of crossing the Phenom and found himself worse for wear by the time his bout with the Deadman had reached its conclusion. In the second main event of the night, Chris Jericho endured a tremendous beating at the hands of Triple H in a Last Man Standing match.
Despite the relentlus beating he took at the hands of The Game, Y2J fought through it and came withing a whisker of defeating the Cerebral Assassin but ultimately fell just short. In the final main event of the evening Chris Benoit, appeared to have knocked off The Rock for the WWE Championship, only to see the decision reversed by commissioner Mick Foley, who ordered the main event of the show to be restarted.
From there, the Most Electrifying Man in Sports Entertainment righted the wrong, beating Benoit and retaining his title.
