Backlash 2001 Backlash 2001 was a professional wrestling pay - per - view ( PPV ) event produced by the World Wrestling Federation ( WWF ) promotion , which took place on April 29 , 2001 at the Allstate Arena in Rosemont , Illinois . It was presented by Castrol GTX , and was the third event under the Backlash chronology . Seven professional wrestling matches were scheduled on the event ' s card . The main event was a Tag Team match for the WWF Championship , the WWF Intercontinental Championship , and the WWF Tag Team Championship between The Two Man Power Trip ( Steve Austin and Triple H ) and The Brothers of Destruction ( Kane and The Undertaker ) , in which the person to get the fall would win the Tag Team Championship as well as the championship of the wrestler who was pinned . The Two Man Power Trip won the encounter to win the Tag Team Championship , for Austin to retain the WWF Championship , and for Triple H to retain the Intercontinental Championship . Featured matches on the undercard included a Last Man Standing match between Shane McMahon and The Big Show , which McMahon won , and an Ultimate Submission match featuring Chris Benoit and Kurt Angle , which Benoit won . Background . The event featured seven professional wrestling matches that involved different wrestlers from pre - existing scripted feuds and storylines . Wrestlers were portrayed as either villains or fan favorites as they followed a series of events which built tension , culminating in a wrestling match or series of matches . At WrestleMania X - Seven , Stone Cold Steve Austin took on The Rock for the WWF Championship in a face vs . face match . During the match , Vince McMahon interfered , which eventually led to Austin attacking The Rock with a steel chair to win the WWF Championship and in the process aligning himself with his long - time enemy . The next night on Raw Is War , there would be a rematch between the Rock and Stone Cold , this time in a Steel Cage match . Triple H would get involved in the picture when he demanded to know why Vince aligned himself with Austin , claiming that he took out Austin ( referring to his previous feud with Austin that had ended only a month prior ) for him . Vince arrogantly replied with " Austin was a winner at WrestleMania . . . you weren ' t , " which led Triple H to leave the arena in frustration . Later that night , during the Austin - Rock match , Triple H entered the cage with his sledgehammer with the crowd believing that he would help The Rock . This was not the case , however ; Triple H , along with Austin , attacked The Rock . he two , who did not christen themselves under any name , were called " The McMahon Alliance " for a brief time before being officially known as " The Two - Man Power Trip " ( or " The Power Trip " for short ) . On the episode of Smackdown following Wrestlemania , Austin assaulted his long - time friend Jim Ross after Jim Ross told Austin his opinion of his alliance with Triple H and Vince McMahon . Later that night , Triple H defeated Chris Jericho to win the Intercontinental Championship . ( During this time Triple H actually won the Intercontinental Championship twice ; a week after defeating Jericho he was defeated by Jeff Hardy for the belt , but Triple H quickly regained the title on the following Raw . While holding both major singles titles , The Two - Man Power Trip ( which Triple H and Austin had become known as ) began feuding with the reigning tag team champions , the Brothers of Destruction . It was then decided the two teams would face off in a tag - team match " with all the titles on the line " .