On the heels of a triangle ladder match at WrestleMania 2000 that introduced tables and chairs to the fray, commissoner Mick Foley booked cowardly champions Edge and Christian to defend their titles against The Dudley Boyz and Hardy Boyz in the first-ever Tables, Ladders and Chairs match.
As one might expect, chaos ensued.
There were bone-rattling chair shots, big table bumps and high-risk dives from ladders. One spot saw D'Von Dudley, terrified of heights in real life, dangling from the contraption holding the tag team titles along with Jeff Hardy, while his partner, Bubba Ray, took a swan dive off a massive ladder and through an array of tables positioned at ringside.
Edge and Christian retained their titles, but not necessarily because they won the match. It was as if they survived, just narrowly escaping with the gold despite their bodies feeling as if they had been in a car accident.
The match set a bar seemingly impossible to eclipse but, luckily for the competitors and the fans eager for the sequel, impossible was not a word any of the six men involved comprehended.
