New Orleans 2000

New Orleans 2000 was the sixth event of the 2000 Monster Jam season at the Superdome in New Orleans.This event would mark the first tv appearance of the red S-10 Destroyer and the final appearance of Dennis Anderson in Grave Digger until the World Finals. This would also be the first appearance of the nWo "spokesman" who was future driver Chad Fortune.

Field of Trucks
Destroyer- Dan Evans

Airborne Ranger- Joe Cypher

Bustin Loose- Ron Nelson

Avenger- Jim Koehler

nWo- N/A

WCW Nitro Machine- Joe Payne

Grave Digger- Dennis Anderson

Goldberg- Tom Meents

Round 1 Racing
WCW Nitro Machine vs. Avenger

Despite a good start, Nitro had to avoid hitting the dumpsters and gave the win to Avenger

Winner- Avenger

Goldberg vs. Destroyer

Meents was once again smooth in racing and took an easy win over Destroyer

Winner- Goldberg

Airborne Ranger vs. nWo

Like a hero vs. villain match up, this one went to the villain as nWo got the win over Airborne Ranger

Winner- nWo

Grave Digger vs. Bustin Loose

Dennis would get his first win of the season as Bustin Loose rolled over in the second turn

Winner- Grave Digger

Semi Finals Racing
Avenger vs. Goldberg

Meents looked to have this win sealed until a bad bounce at the very end before the second turn meant Avenger would get a massive win

Winner- Avenger

nWo vs. Destroyer

Evans returning after a broke Digger, held his own against nWo until the end where the black truck would pass on for the win

Winner- nWo

Finals Racing
Avenger vs. nWo

Koehler at the start would end up going into an end over end flip rolling the truck on all fours in an exciting crash that actually knocked Koehler's glasses off. The win would go to a tamer racing nWo

Winner- nWo

Freestyle
Airborne Ranger

Cypher came out with some solid sky wheelies but nothing too extraordinary for what will take the wim

Score- 7+5+9= 21

Bustin Loose

A battle damaged truck Ron Nelson gave a solid run despite rear steering issues and even took out the boat on the track

Score- 6+8+10= 24

WCW Nitro Machine

Joe Payne had an amazing run with two vertical sky wheelies and a moon launch over the van to get the crowd on its feet

Score- 10+9+10= 29

Destroyer

Evans had a solid run with some good sky wheelies and a big hit over the van, but couldn't match Nitro's run

Score- 9+8+6= 23

nWo

Never aired nor shown, but allegedly the truck was scored a 3 due to the "antics" of the team

Goldberg

Meents went again for another big freestyle to make up for racing by attacking every obstacle with huge air, and even crossed over some of the racing lanes until a broken tie rod would end his run

Score- 10+10+10= 30