WWE Armageddon 2000 Bump Almost Led To Rikishi Getting Divorced
Rikishi almost got divorced due to his WWE Armageddon 2000 bump
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Feb 28, 2024
Armageddon 2000 saw one of the most notorious main events in WWE take place, with a main event six man Hell in a Cell match for the WWE Championship.
Champion Kurt Angle retained over The Undertaker, Steve Austin, The Rock, Triple H, and Rikishi, with the match best remembered for the former Too Cool member taking a bump from the top of the cell into the back of a flatbed truck.
Rikishi reflected on the spot during a conversation with The Metro, revealing that it almost cost him his marriage:
“I almost got divorced from my family. It was like, you know, they were p***ed off that I did that move, the sacrifice. But, at the time, they didn’t understand that’s just what we do, as performers, as wrestlers, you know?
“You already prepped your mind, you know, ‘I can only get this opportunity one time. I can either take it or back out’, and I chose to take it. And, you know, years later, I’m still getting residuals over 25 years from that bump,” revealed Rikishi.
Despite his status as a super heavyweight, Rikishi wasn’t afraid of taking massive bumps in WWE, once hitting a huge Superfly Splash onto Val Venis from the top of a steel cage at Fully Loaded 2000.
