WrestleMania XV
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WrestleMania XV was the fifteenth annual WrestleMania professional wrestling pay-per-view event from the World Wrestling Federation. The event was held in the First Union Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on March 28, 1999. The tagline for WrestleMania XV was The Ragin' Climax. Michael Cole and Jerry "The King" Lawler provided commentary during the event. Jim Ross replaced Cole for the Main Event.
Match results
- Sunday Night HEAT match: Jacqueline (with Terri Runnells) vs. Ivory
- In a quick but solid wrestling match, Jacqueline was able to pin Ivory following a hard Back Suplex Drop. Afterwards, Terri burned Ivory on the side of the face with a cigar in a post match beat down.
- Hardcore match for the WWF Hardcore Championship: Billy Gunn (c) vs. Hardcore Holly vs. Al Snow
- Near the end of the match, Gunn hit Snow with a Fameasser onto a steel chair but when he went for the pin Holly stop the pin cover by hitting Gunn's back with a steel chair. Holly then knocked Gunn out with a chair and pinned Snow to win the WWF Hardcore Championship.
- For the WWF World Tag Team Championship: Owen Hart and Jeff Jarrett (w/Debra) (c) vs. Test and D'Lo Brown (w/Ivory)
- Brawl for All: Butterbean vs. Bart Gunn (w/Vinny Paz as special guest referee)
- Mankind vs. The Big Show
- Four Corners Elimination Match for the WWF Intercontinental Championship: Road Dogg (c) vs. Ken Shamrock vs. Goldust (w/The Blue Meanie and Ryan Shamrock) vs. Val Venis
- Meanwhile, The Big Show is taken in a police car and sent to the police station. Before the next match, The San Diego Chicken came out again and tried to attack Kane. Kane pulled the mask off the chicken to reveal him to be Pete Rose, wanting revenge for the Tombstone Piledriver he got last year. Kane then gave Rose another Tombstone Piledriver.
- Vince McMahon made an announcement, declaring that with Mankind and Big Show both unable to referee the main event, he will be the special guest referee instead.
- For the WWF Women's Championship: Sable (c) vs. Tori
- For the European Championship: Shane McMahon (w/Test) (c) vs. X-Pac
- During the match, X-Pac fought off interference from Test, the Mean Street Posse but eventually lost when Triple H and Chyna came and turned on X-Pac. Triple H hit the Pedigree on X-Pac, letting Shane McMahon defeat X-Pac by pinfall to retain the WWF European Championship. Afterwards, HHH and Chyna continued to beat down X-Pac before the New Age Outlaws interfered. HHH and Test took care of The Outlaws before Kane, still angered by earlier events, stormed down to the ring and scared HHH and Chyna off.
- Hell in a Cell match: The Undertaker (w/Paul Bearer) vs. Big Boss Man
- Before Vince McMahon could make himself referee, WWF Commissioner Shawn Michaels came out and preventing this move happening, stating that only the Commissioner could decided on who referees what match.
- For the WWF World Heavyweight Championship: The Rock (c) vs. Stone Cold Steve Austin (w/Mankind as special guest referee)
Celebrities
- Pete Rose - entertained crowd/tried to attack Kane dressed as the San Diego Chicken
- Vinny Paz - special referee for Brawl for All between Butterbean and Bart Gunn
- Boyz II Men - sang America the Beautiful
- Butterbean - faced Bart Gunn in a Brawl for All
- Chuck Wepner - special judge for Brawl for All
- Kevin Rooney - special judge for Brawl for All
- Isaac Hayes
- Big Pun
Trivia
- Steve Austin won the WWF Championship from The Rock, making him the first man to win the title at two consecutive WrestleMania events.
- This was the second consecutive WrestleMania to have the main event end by both competitors reversing each others finisher into there own, which would ultimately be ended with a Stone Cold Stunner.
- The Hardcore Championship match at WrestleMania XV was the first match with the Hardcore Title on the line in WrestleMania history.
- Earl Hebner had no idea that Steve Austin would call him back into the ring to help him celebrate. Just before Austin goes to leave, he quickly dashes back into the ring and tugs on Earl's shirt, inviting him back in.
- This was the only WrestleMania booked by Vince Russo and Ed Ferrera.
- WrestleMania XV marked the final WrestleMania appearances for Gorilla Monsoon and Owen Hart; both of whom would ultimately pass away in 1999.
- This is The Big Show's first Wrestlemania appearance.
- The judges for the Brawl for All included Gorilla Monsoon, Chuck Wepner, and Kevin Rooney. The match was refereed by "The Pazmanian Devil" Vinnie Pazienza.
- The Brawl for All was the first (and only) shoot match in the history of WrestleMania.
- This was the first WrestleMania where The Undertaker did not compete in a normal match.
- This was The Undertaker's last WrestleMania as "The Phenom" until this gimmick returned at WrestleMania XX. He was injured during the fall of 1999 and he appeared under his biker gimmick from WrestleMania X-Seven up to WrestleMania XIX.
- This was the first WrestleMania to have a Hell in a Cell match.
- The match between Triple H and Kane, as of 2006, is the last WrestleMania match to end in a disqualification.
- Michael Cole was advertising WWF products during this pay-per-view on one of its commercials between matches. He mentioned merchandise of both The Rock and the "New Champion" (Steve Austin) before the match even took place. It is unclear if this was edited out from later VHS and DVD releases, since this was heard during the live feed when at the time of the event took place.
- This was Jeff Jarrett's last WrestleMania as he left for WCW later in the year.
- This WrestleMania's logo was the last to feature the classic font used since the event's inception in 1985. However, the font would later be used again for the logo of WrestleMania 22.
- This was the last WrestleMania to feature red ring ropes. Every WrestleMania since then has used black ring ropes.
- This was the first WrestleMania to have a solid barricade surrounding the ring area instead of the metal bars used in previous events.
- This was the first WrestleMania to have a Battle Royal in a pre-show.
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