# Lita Wins the Women's Championship w/ The Rock as Referee - WWE RAW 8/21/00 Review

Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/tales-from-the-attitude-era-6910544/lita-wins-the-women-s-championship-w-the-rock-as-referee-wwe-raw-8-21-00-review
Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/tales-from-the-attitude-era-6910544/lita-wins-the-women-s-championship-w-the-rock-as-referee-wwe-raw-8-21-00-review.md
Podcast: [Tales from the Attitude Era](https://stenobird.com/podcast/tales-from-the-attitude-era-6910544)
Published: 2026-06-29T11:00:00+00:00
Episode link: https://shows.acast.com/tales-from-the-attitude-era/episodes/lita-wins-the-womens-championship-w-the-rock-as-referee-wwe
Audio file: https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/6643cc1845c59a00122f52c0/e/6a4134866b6690f46a858516/media.mp3
Processing state: not_requested
JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/tales-from-the-attitude-era-6910544/episodes/lita-wins-the-women-s-championship-w-the-rock-as-referee-wwe-raw-8-21-00-review
Duration seconds: 4037

## Resource

Lita wins the Women's Championship from Stephanie McMahon with The Rock as special guest referee in a main event! Tommy Blacha calls one of the greatest convoluted booked gaga matches of the Attitude Era. Tommy Blacha and Rob Pasbani break down the August 21, 2000 edition of WWF Monday Night Raw, live from the Cajundome in Lafayette, Louisiana, six days before SummerSlam 2000. The show opens with The Rock cutting a Louisiana-specific promo before Mick Foley gives him the night off and announces two title matches for the evening: Shane McMahon vs. Steve Blackman for the Hardcore Championship and Stephanie's Women's Championship defense against Lita, with The Rock serving as special guest referee. In the chaotic main event, Triple H and Kurt Angle accompany Stephanie to ringside with the Hardy Boys in Lita's corner. At the decisive moment, Angle accidentally nails Triple H with a belt while trying to interfere, The Rock delivers a Rock Bottom to Angle, and Lita hits a moonsault on Stephanie to win the Women's Championship. Earlier in the night, Shane McMahon sneaks a kendo stick into the Hardcore title match and cracks Steve Blackman across the skull to steal the championship, only for Foley to immediately book him into a rematch at SummerSlam. In their tag match, Triple H pins Farooq for the win but conspicuously hangs back while Bradshaw drops Kurt Angle with a Clothesline from Hell, planting seeds of tension between the two allies heading into Sunday. Other major discussion points include: - Mick Foley adds a wrinkle to the IC title picture: if Eddie Guerrero or Chyna pins Val Venis or Trish Stratus in their tag match, they become the new Intercontinental Champion - Kane destroys Rikishi with three vicious chair shots before Right to Censor prevents Too Cool from maki…

## Actions

- request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/tales-from-the-attitude-era-6910544/episodes/lita-wins-the-women-s-championship-w-the-rock-as-referee-wwe-raw-8-21-00-review/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode.
- read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/tales-from-the-attitude-era-6910544/lita-wins-the-women-s-championship-w-the-rock-as-referee-wwe-raw-8-21-00-review.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource.

A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed.

## Transcript

Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.