Kurt Angle wrestled.
The King of the Mountain match is a professional wrestling match exclusive to Impact Wrestling . King of the Ring ( 2000 ) was the eighth annual King of the Ring professional wrestling pay-per-view ( PPV ) event produced by World Wrestling Federation ( WWF ) . Kurt Angle . Four months later , he won the King of the Ring tournament , and not long after he began pursuing the WWF Championship , which he won in October ; this capped off a rookie year which is considered by many to be the greatest in professional wrestling history . , operating as and sometimes referred to as NJPW or simply New Japan , is a major Japanese puroresu or professional wrestling promotion founded in January 1972 by Antonio Inoki .