[4.0] "I'm surprised that this show wasn't as good as I expected it to be. Triple h and Austin was a good match I get it if some people don't like it. Jerry lawler's match was unsurprisingly fun one, the ic title match was fine and it did what it needed to do, other than that the show was weird/boring and bad sometimes, the main event was shockingly bad, royal rumble 01 was definitely better than this show."

[9.0] "The excellent road to Wrestlemania X7 continues with No Way Out, and it is another killer show that could arguably be the best of its namesake. No Way Out 2001 is particularly buoyed by two strong main event matches. The first and best of them was a cinematic and intense Three Stages of Hell match between Austin and HHH. The match is everything you would want from a Three Stages of Hell match; it's bloody, epic, and intense. The finish is odd with HHH getting the win over Rumble winner Austin, but it is HHH, so what do you expect? The main event was another great match as Rock and Angle had a fun and super enjoyable main event clash which featured the Rock get the win and set up Austin/Rock II at Mania X7. The rest of the show was pretty solid as well featuring a fun four way for the IC strap, an enjoyable if sloppy soap opera match between Trish and Stephanie, and an entertaining three way tag tables match. For negatives, there's the rushed hardcore match opener between Big Show and Raven and the all-around terrible "thing" that was Jerry Lawler vs Stevie Richards. The road to Mania X7 is clear, and you can thank the stellar No Way Out show for that."

[10.0] "Outstanding PPV that continued the upward momentum with the WWF at the perfect time with WrestleMania right around the corner. The main event set up the huge Austin v Rock main event at that show with a fantastic Rock v Angle main event with Rock avenging his defeat at No Mercy. Honestly if it wasn't for a few outside factors beyond their control, they could have had a true masterpiece that night. Austin v Triple H in the 3 Stages of Hell match was the centerpiece of this show and it was one of the years best matches and also one of the most barbaric matches I have ever seen in the WWF. It was a perfect way to end the long standing rivalry. The fatal 4-way Intercontinental title match was a sleeper hit with four of the most talented guys on the roster at their best. I thought Trish vs Steph overdeliverd as they had a good old fashioned scrappy fight with a hilarious ending with Regal not knowing what he should be doing. The table match was fine as well although it didn't get out of 2nd gear. The only bad match was Lawler v Richards although at least its short and an easy one to skip. This was a truly epic event with the WWF truly looking like it's at it's very peak."

[8.0] "A really nice PPV sandwiched between two all time greats. The opening hardcore title match is a burst of chaos to kick things off, essentially being Big Show vs the Lower-card for 5 minutes, but its nice and fun. The IC title match was fastpaced with a bunch of great nearfalls and exchanges as you would expect from the four guys in the ring. Trish vs Stephanie is rough around the edges but it's got good character work and its given much more time than anything in the women's division at the time so it's actually fun. The Three Stages of Hell match is MOTN with a really great straight wrestling first fall with good limb work and two later falls with a lot more brawling and violence as you would expect from the stipulation and feud. Lawler/Richards is the lowpoint while the wrestlers do fine enough the story has aged awfully and the finish is clumsy. The Tables match feels a bit like a cooldown match with The Brothers of Destruction not really meshing with E&C and the Dudleys, but it's not bad. The Main event is a pretty good match with a hot crowd due to Angle's ring work and Rock's charisma, would've been way better without Big Show's run in Match Ratings: Big Show vs. Raven (6/10) IC title four way (8/10) Trish vs. Stephanie (6/10) Triple H vs. Austin (9/10) Stevie Richards vs. Lawler (3/10) Tag Tables Match (5/10) Angle vs. Rock (7/10)"

[6.0] "This is a decent show but super overrated in my eyes. Hardcore opener is silly and not good at all but not all that important. The IC four-way was a lot of fun and came out as a pretty good match with some of the best workers in the company. Steph and Trish have an okay match, which is an overachievement I suppose considering it could have been a total disaster. The infamous 3 stages match is great, but I find it to peak early and not encapsulate the violence I wish it did considering the storyline (I feel it's watered down from Austin's work with Bret and Hunter's work with Foley on that front). The Richards/Lawler/Kat stuff is insane and drags the show down. The tables match is fine but doesn't move me at all, Brothers of Destruction feel very out of place here. The main event is nice and the Rock/Angle chemistry was always good, but the Big Show involvement is perplexing and completely kills the rhythm. I like some of them but the overbooked formula of these Attitude Era main events is very hit or miss for me."

[8.0] "I thought this was a pretty good show, with the only real weak point being the Lawler and Richards match. Not everything was perfect and a few things were def underwhelming, but the Triple H/Austin match is an all-timer, the fatal four way was great and Rock/Angle delivered for the most part."

[4.0] "This was a very fine show but I feel like it is extremely overated. The hardcore Title match was fine but nothing insane, just abunch of run it's till Show eventually wins. The 4 way was good but also very forgettable going just alil over 12 mins. Steph and Trish wasn't bad considering how green Trish was at the time. According to this site it's Stephs 14th match aswell. I'd pass on it but it was still exceptable. HHH vs Austin is extremely overated and almost put me to sleep after the first fall. Wayyy to boring, long, dull brawl is the best way to describe this. Richard's vs Lawler was as bad as it sounds leading up to no real storyline conclusion in the long run due to Kat and Jerry leaving soon after. The triple threat table match was really fun but felt like it was missing somthing. The Main was fine but again overated. I thought the mainevent was just okay. This show was pretty rough to get threw for me, not sure why with a pretty solid lineup but alot of the cards time went to that extremely dull 3 stages of hell match or just nonsensical booking decisions"

[6.0] "Decent show with a couple of stinkers. First of all making the opener the Hardcore Title bullshit was a terrible idea and already set me in a bad mood. Then thankfully it picked up with a fun, fast-paced Triple Threat with Jericho, thank God, being the only babyface there. Stephanie vs Trish wasn't the best wrestling match per se, but the crowd was really hot for it. Then the highlight of the show was definitely the Three Stages of Hell Match with Austin showing that he can still wrestle in the first fall and then both guys making it look like an absolute war for the second and third. Richards vs Lawler was horrible not only in terms of the execution, but the booking of a perv Lawler as a babyface. Tag Team Titles match got me once again mad, because Dudleys with E&C showed at Royal Rumble that they can have a fantastic normal Tag Match without all the tables bollocks, but instead we're back to garbage. And then the main event was great, although I would do without Big Show's interference or Hebner's botch. Still, a great bout to and an overall alright show, especially since they had to follow SCSA vs HHH."

[7.0] "Very solid card that had a lot of good spots highlighted by the 3 Stages Of Hell and Intercontinental Title match. Big Show becoming Hardcore Champion in a fun cluster at the beginning of the show and The Rock winning the WWF Title at the end were solid. The Stephanie vs. Trish brawl was decent for what it was and the crowd was into it but the same cannot be said for Jerry Lawler vs. Steven Richards. The Tag Team Title match was average and seemed like it didn't get enough time. 4 star show at best."

[9.0] "The best none ppv of the attitude era, one of my favourite matches ever the 2 out of 3 falls macth with triple h and stone cold, great main event the best Kurt angle and the rock macth out their and the intercontinental four way was a classic the whole show is a much watch for any fan one of my favourite ppvs of all time from top to bottom plus a great end to a very underrated rivalry between stone cold and triple h"

[10.0] "This is definitely one of my favorite PPV's. What a show. Even the one bad match to me was absolutely harmless. That match was Lawler Vs Richard's. I honestly enjoyed every match. To me match of the night of course was the 3 Stages Of Hell match. My 2nd favorite was Rock Vs Angle. I beyond highly recommend watching this show. You won't be disappointed."

[10.0] "This is a fantastic ppv you have a fun fatal four way match you have an instant classic in stone cold vs triple h and the main even is really good the rest of the card is pretty good as well. I love this ppv and is so fun to rewatch."

[7.0] "Off to a good start since the Hardcore title fare is whatever and the 4-way and Trish/Steph are good, and while the 3 Stages of Hell doesn't seem to hold up as the classic I first thought it was, it certainly has its good elements. Lawler/Richards and the whole Kat thing is bad and the tables match for the tags is decent. Rock/Angle peaks high but isn't an absolutely top-tier main event. A good show on the whole but lacking a really great hook so it drags a little."

[5.0] "Wasn't that high on Austin/HHH which brings the whole show down a lot for me. Hardcore title match was a bit nothing, the matches following that were decent to good (Steph/Trish being a fun surprise), Lawler's match was horrible and the tag title match was dull. While I wasn't that hooked by the main, Kurt and Rock had great chemistry and it had a hot finish aside from the botched pin."

[8.0] "Booking was bad, matches were incredible. So an 8 is okay for me. Had fun, but always was like "mh, this ain't that right""

[8.0] "Much like the main event of the show, this was close to being an all time great show, but there's just a few flaws that hold it back. It does have a stone cold classic in the two out of 3 falls match, a couple of very good ones, and the only actually bad match is fortunately short."

[8.0] "Another hit by the WWF! The opening hard core match was whatever, and the Lawler/Richards match was crap but everything else ranged from good to awesome!"

[9.0] "That Lawler/Richards match was absolutely terrible and had no business being on PPV, but other than that everything else was mainly fine with HHH/Austin being a MOTY candidate, while the 4 way for the IC title and Rock/Angle were both really good in their own ways. I really appreciated Kurt showing more aggression than he ever had up to that point in the main event. Matches from best to worst: Austin/HHH ****3/4, Rock/Angle ****1/4, 4 way ****, Stephanie/Trish ***, tag titles match ***, hardcore match **, Richards/Lawler 1/2*"

[10.0] "Probably the best Secondary PPV in WWE History. Rock/Angle and HHH/Austin are all-timers, and every other match did a great job of supporting the main event. If you've never seen it, watch it. If you have, watch it again."

[9.0] "The best No Way Out event ever. I will die by my word that the Road to WrestleMania X-7 was the best ever, as it created a fantastic trilogy of PPVs (Royal Rumble, No Way Out, WrestleMania X-7), or Diamond, Gold and Platinum as I like to call these three PPVs. Anyways the Hardcore title opener was fun, even if it was mad chaos. The WWF Intercontinental Fatal Four Way helped develop the characters of the four men involved going into WrestleMania. Trish vs. Stephanie is dumb but fun. Richards vs. Lawler is one of the main things that drags this PPV down from a 10 to a 9 for me, but that is the only major sore spot on this card. The WWF World Tag Team Title Triple Threat Tables Match is a blast, but ended too soon. Triple H and Steve Austin steal the show in their Three Stages of Hell Match which is just a masterpiece. And FINALLY The Rock is the WWF Champion in a great main event, which sees both Angle and Rock giving it their all and a Rock win to send the Las Vegas crowd home extremely happy. I bet everybody after this event slept easy, seeing as they knew that they would see the two biggest stars in Wrestling History (Austin and Rock) collide at WrestleMania X-7."

[4.0] "A very overrated show. It is rated much higher than Fully Loaded, but there weren't so many developing stories during the show, there weren't so many funny segments and the build-up didn't develop during the show. The only thing that is worth attention as a whole element of the show is the story around Trish and Stephanie, which obliges to turn on Raw in a day, the rest... Fatal Four Way wasn't bad, but it is a very forgettable match, similar to today's spotfests. Stratus and Stephanie are fine. Triple H and Austin feel like an extremely overrated match. Lawler vs. Richards is a disgrace. The match for the tag team championships is stupid, the fact that there is so little personality in a match with so many strong personalities makes it absurd. The main event saved this show from failure for me, even despite the intervention of Big Show, it was a worthwhile program. The Rock, who sells his leg during the People's Elbow, feels like a true Ace, able to make any match memorable. To be honest, even if I liked the match of Triple H and Austin as much as the others, I would still not understand such a high rating."

[9.0] "The Road to Wrestlemania X7 was one of the best ever! No Way Out was an awesome show. The Fatal 4 Way was fun, I personally thought that Stephanie and Trish was a whole lot better than it should have been, 3 stages of hell was amazing and brutal and the main event gave Kurt Angle that switch to the olympic machine plus set up Austin vs Rock!"

[2.0] "This was terrible. The 'big' matches were all super disappointing, and the majority of undercard and midcard matches ranged from bad to straight-up atrocious. Raven vs Big was a 4-minute brawl- and interference-fest. Just trash. *. Jericho vs Benoit vs Edge vs X-Pac was the easy MOTN. It was fun watching Benoit & Eddie work together together before turning on each other. Fun creative spots and strong selling all around. ***1/4. Stephanie vs Trish was awful, yet somehow still not the worst match on the show. This was an embarrassing, embarrassing brawl with a lot of 'bait' for the male fanbase. 3/4*. Austin vs HHH was not my cup of tea at all. A obnoxious 35+ minute long brawl with incredibly dull brawling and weapon spots, plus no real story to speak of. I appreciated the struggle shown from both guys, but the in-ring work was still so incredibly boring for the majority of the time. **1/2. Lawler vs Richards was the worst match on the show, and that was a difficult title to earn. Absolutely dreadful exchanges and far too much interference. Why ever put a joke of a match like this on a show? Genuinely one of the worst matches I've ever seen. 5 minutes 30 seconds too long. 1/4*. Dudleyz vs Christian & Edge vs Taker & Kane was a total letdown. This wasn't the weapon spotfest we'd come to expect from the tag division, mostly because Kane and Taker forced the others to work their terribly dull style. Dudleyz at least got great reactions to their spots, but those were very infrequent. Edge & Christian didn't offer anything interesting either. *3/4. Angle vs Rock had nice energy at the start, then Big Show stupidly interfered and the match threw out its otherwise good pacing and immediately moved towards illegal moves, ref bumps, and then finisher and nearfall spam. The final few minutes were fun, just for the finisher spam, but it was still pretty moronic. **1/2"

[10.0] "Opener) Not rateable 2) ***3/4 It would be historic if X-Pac weren't in this, but It's still very good 3) Like every Steph match, it is not about quality but It's about entertainment. How could you not be entertained if you see a wet and almost naked 25 y. o Trish Stratus? 4) ****3/4 The best 3 stages of hell ever and one of the best WWE matches ever 5) Another "just for entertainment" match, but it sucked 6) *** Disappointing given the amount of talent here 7) **** Without Big Show, it could have been even better. Amazing PPV. Just 4 matches were really important and 3 of them were fantastic. The only boring thing was the Lawler match, but it was just 5 minutes and after *THAT* 2/3 falls everybody needed a break."

[6.0] "The intercontinental title and three stages of hell match carried this card. The Hardcore title match was just like most others of its kind. The Stephanie Trish and Steven Richards Jerry Lawler match were both duds as well. On top of this the tag team title match could have been so much more Rikishi could have been sent through a table, and the Edge/Bubba Ray botch near the end just made it seem messy. By the end the Undertaker and Kane were up the ramp before the match had even ended. The main event was also a let down, The Big Shows interference was deflating and made the rest of the match just feel weak. That being sad overall this was not a terrible PPV it just could have been so much more."

[9.0] "Great event, with three must-see matches. The fatal 4 way for the intercontinental title is amazing and all-action. Triple H vs Steve Austin is one of their best matches of all time, a 30 minutes Three Stages of Hell. Kurt Angle vs The Rock isn't that great but still good and exciting. Also, good stuff from the tag team titles (the long feud between Dudleyz and Edge & Christian) and an enjoyable women's match. Impressive three hours show."

[7.0] "Solid. The Rock and Kurt Angle proving again that they're the two most talented guys the WWF had at this time. Austin vs. Triple H was good, but not as spectacular as some would have you believe."

[7.0] "This was another solid PPV where the matches are improving. The Ruthless Aggression era are fast approaching it seems."

[10.0] "A great show, some filler matches but they were short and three fantastic matches, great crowd too. The opening hardcore match wasn't great but it was decent for what it was and short so not too bad. The Fatal 4 Way was much better and very enjoyable, my rating for that would be ****. Trish vs Stephanie was actually pretty good for what it was, more of an angle really to progress the story, not good from a wrestling prospective but was enjoyable enough and was a good length. HHH vs Austin was MOTN which I also rated ****3/4. Jerry vs Steven was a very basic match but was too short to be bad in my opinion. The tag title match was fun, it was kinda slow at times but was generally well paced, not too much happened but still enjoyable, wasn't really a fan of the interference saying as it didn't lead to anything important as far as I remember, a short tag match on Raw at most, my rating ***. The Main Event was also great and definitely worth a watch, my rating ****1/2."

[7.0] "To be honest the only thing that saved this show from being a run of the mill PPV was the Three Stages of Hell. The Hardcore title match, the McMahon/Trish match & Lawler/Richards stunk up the PPV and the others were fair to reasonably great. HHH and Austin however stole the show and made it a memorable PPV because of their match."

[9.0] "Realistically, if it was not for the absolutely amazing three stages of hell match and a great main event title match this show could have easily swayed the other way. The fatal four way was very good and the tables match was average but still entertaining, but everything else on this card absolutely sucked tbh. I read somewhere that Meltzer rated the Jerrry Lawler/ Steven Richards match *! /2. I don't know if that is true but if that is the case he was way too generous and I find that slightly insulting because that match was so fucking terrible. It had to be the worst Lawler match of all time and I rated it a DUD which I feel may also be generous. Two Thumbs Up"