Wrestlemania XV

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Wrestlemania 15 was the fifteenth Wrestlemania event produced by World Wrestling Federation which took place on 25th April 1999

## Background

The main match heading into the show is Stone Cold Steve Austin defending the WWF Championship against The Rock and Mankind in a triple threat match. Rock and Austin have had a long feud since mid 1998 as Vince has handpicked The Rock as the corporate man to defeat Stone Cold who has been terrorizing Vince Mcmahon, The Rock finally managed to defeat Austin at Survivor Series to become WWF champion, he lost it to Dan Severn who lost it back to The Rock who then lost it to Faaroq and eventually Austin got another title shot and at Over The Edge he defeated Faaroq to become WWF champion again. In the Royal Rumble match Mankind managed to outlast all the way from number 1 until the end as he last eliminated his big rival The Undertaker to get the win, his goal since the start has been to destroy Ministry of Darkness and prevent a war from happening but he says that a good way to stop them is for him to become WWF champion and then make sure Taker doesn't win the belt. At Breakdown The Rock had another shot at the title against Stone Cold with Mankind as special guest ref where Austin managed to retain, it was set to be Austin vs Mankind until Vince Mcmahon showed up 3 weeks before mania to announce The Rock had been added to the match, it will be the 3 biggest stars of the company fighting each other tonight for the biggest prize of them all

In 1994, Undertaker and Bam Bam Bigelow hatched a plan to end Doink The Clown's takeover which made Doink's slave Barry Horowitz come back to the right side and Horowitz became a hero to everyone in WWF as he managed to kill Doink during the match but due to this massive war he also died during it, The Undertaker started going on a character change as he started a Ministry of Darkness cult, he spent most of 1996 and 1997 trying to find sacrifices so he could bring back his "hero" from the dead, the hero being Barry Horowitz. Right before Wrestlemania 14, he finally managed to sacrifice The Godwins to bring back Horowitz but this was a 1991 version of Horowitz(before everything happened with Doink) so he kept losing matches and being weak which disappointed The Undertaker, Horowitz didn't remember anything that happened from 1991 through 1998 and everyone refused to tell him due to their fear for The Undertaker. Horowitz wasn't aware of exactly the threat that was Undertaker so he tried to jokingly eliminate him from the Royal Rumble, Taker was completely pissed, eliminated him and chokeslammed him off the stage as he announced he was officially out of MOD, he said this wasn't the hero he remembered so he took him out, Mankind showed Horowitz the lost footage from 91 to 98 where Horowitz was enslaved and then destroyed Doink The Clown, Horowitz returned and said Undertaker had become a bigger monster than Doink after spending so much of his time trying to destroy him, Taker was completely pissed and promised to bury Horowitz alive tonight

TAKA Michinoku joined Kaientai saying that he joined them because the crowd turned on him after his injury and forgot all about him so now he's set on destroying everything the audience loves, they were in a tag team contendership against Legion of Devils which LOD won, LOD became tag champions and celebrated until Kaientai suddenly attacked them, they continued to feud and during a TAKA vs Road Warrior Droz match, an accident happened where a botched powerbomb led Droz to be paralyzed, they used this in the feud as TAKA said this injury was a punishment due to the crowd turning on him, everyone was pissed at this as LOD challenged them to a tag match, they had a no holds barred match where Kaientai managed to roll them up to win, they wanted another match but Kaientai refused, they wanted Jim Cornette to settle a dispute they were having but Cornette said it wasn't up to him, TAKA called Cornette a bitch which got him pissed so he put 2 members of Kaientai in a tables match against LOD tonight

During an 8 men package match for NO1 contendership of the Lightweight Championship, Taka pinned Goldust and Dick Togo pinned Ivory at the same exact time so they started arguing on who should face X-Pac at Wrestlemania, they had a beat the clock challenge but both men lost at the exact same time, it's still unknown who will face Pac tonight but the one that doesn't will be in a tag match with Funaki against LOD

New Age Outlaws won the Survivor Series Tag Team Tournament and were set to face the tag champions, The Union became tag champs during this time so NAO taunted Jim Cornette saying that they would end the reign of his croonies, Cornette decided that since NAO were too cocky, Wrestlemania would be their LAST match ever as they would be forced to disband afterwards, NAO continued their positive outlook saying their last match together they would become tag champions for the last ever time, they decided to do a farewell tour as they challenged multiple tag teams from around the world leading up to this

Owen Hart could've won the B Block if it wasn't for his partner Kurt Angle doing a cheap rollup win, Owen was pissed calling him out on it saying Angle has 0 chance of winning the G1 and this cheap win does nothing for him, Angle kept saying he was the greatest professional wrestler in the world so Owen started brawling with him, Jim Cornette stopped them and decided they needed to work as a team, they became tag team champions but quickly lost it to LOD, Kurt Angle eventually became european champion while Owen Hart became intercontinental champion. Owen and Angle continued throwing verbal shots at each other as Angle kept saying he was the greatest professional wrestler in the world having just debuted in june 1998. Angle eliminated Owen in the Royal Rumble match, Angle started blaming Owen for making him look not like a great pro wrestler, Angle angle slammed Owen, open challenges began for both titles as both men kept saying each of their title reigns was getting easy challengers. Kurt Angle picked The Rock to face Owen Hart which Owen won in a hard match, Owen picked KANE to face Kurt Angle where suddenly The Union showed up and took out Kane for Angle to win by count-out. Owen was pissed saying that Cornette had The Union help Angle but not Owen, Cornette says Owen should apologize because he gave Angle an impossible challenge, Cornette said that The Union was about making each man the greatest wrestlers in the world, Owen simply responded with a superkick to Cornette as he left The Union. Cornette announced that tonight would be a match for BOTH the european and intercontinental championships, it'll be a 2 out of 3 falls match

At Royal Rumble 1998, Shawn Michaels defeated Bret Hart to become WWF champion after Owen Hart screwed over his brother which led to all of DX join Vince Mcmahon, after Wrestlemania 14 where Austin defeated Shawn to become champion, Vince formed The Corporation which added Nation of Domination to it, Shawn kept disappointing Vince as he kept losing to Austin in rematches and a new rookie started stepping up with The Rock as he eventually defeated Austin clean but not for the title. The Rock eventually forfeited the IC title as it was clear Vince had picked him as his golden boy to beat Austin for the title, Rock managed to win the A Block with help from The Corporation while Shawn had to claw his way to win B Block with no help from anyone. At G1 Finals, Vince was the special guest ref and screwed over Shawn to make sure The Rock won the G1, Shawn SCM'd Vince leaving The Corporation and being hell bent on getting his hands on Vince, he eventually reformed DX(who broke up due to their alliance with The Corporation) and DX won all their matches in 1 night for Shawn to get a match against Vince but Vince added the rules that if Shawn put his hands on him, he'd be fired so it just ended with Austin returning and beating down Vince. In the Royal Rumble match, Vince entered it and was eventually eliminated by Shawn, Shawn continued trying everything to get his hands on Vince so Vince held a 5 men gauntlet where if Shawn won he'd face Vince at Wrestlemania, Shawn defeated The Big Show, Faaroq, Test, Owen Hart and The Rock, Vince showed up who had made a deal with THE UNDERTAKER but an exhausted Shawn managed to defeat Taker by countout to get a match against Vince. Vince added the stakes that if he lost, The Corporation would have to disband but if Shawn lost, HE'D BE FORCED TO RETIRE, he also made a match that would take place right before theirs which would be Ken Shamrock vs Shawn Michaels

In the Royal Rumble match, Kane was set to enter at number 3 but he was attacked backstage by the debuting Big Show, they feuded throught the 4 months in a complete blood feud as they used chairs, threw each other through the ring and more stuff, Kane is undefeated since Summerslam and Big Show hopes to end it tonight, on the RAW before Wrestlemania it was suddenly revealed that The Big Show was now a member of Ministry of Darkness and since Kane was also a member of MOD, it's unknown if they will continue their blood feud or if it's now a friendly match

Chyna won the first ever women's royal rumble match and will face Sable tonight for the women's championship

Edge and Christian and Hardy Boyz were the 2 big tag teams that debuted in 1998 which got the crowd's attention, they started becoming friends but Hardy Boyz clearly had the most popularity, at Breakdown Matt Hardy faced British Bulldog and Edge suddenly speared Matt to become hardcore champion, Edge explained that they were both the 2 big tag teams but people kept hyping up Hardy Boyz due to their death defying stunts while E&C could also do them, Edge revealed he poisoned Hardy Boyz before their tag title match so they challenged them to a ladder match NO1 contendership to the tag titles

Blue World Order debuted in WWF as The Blue Meanie, Gillberg and Mr.Imperfect Al Snow. At Survivor Series, more members of the BWO debuted with HHL(Jerry Lynn's parody of HHH), Pager T and Big Stevie Cool, they feuded for a while with the BWO Civil Wars as a clear parody of the NWO Civil Wars making fun of it, eventually Bollywood Nova also debuted as they reunited all of ECW's BWO, they all ganged up and became hardcore champions as a collective group, they lost the belt due to Gillberg being distracted and being rolled up, they were all pissed and wanted to kick him out but The Blue Guy liked him, HHL and Big Stevie Cool had a triple threat match against Kurt Angle for the european title, Bollywood Nova attacked Big Stevie Cool to make sure HHL won but HHL decided to attack Nova because he supported Big Stevie Cool more, Nova announced more members of BWO: NAT(Rikishi's version of The Giant) and Macho Man Nunzio as the BWO were split within BWO Bollywood, BWO Wolves and BWO Rejects, they continued to feud as each man tried to get the hardcore belt but they found a mutual foe: Kane who beat all of them up and became hardcore champion as he ruined BWO Civil Wars night where each man would face another man of another group to determine the best BWO, in the weeks following all of BWO decided to reunite to take down Kane and become hardcore champions as for the first time ever they worked together, Nunzio and Gillberg ended up in the hospital due to this but BWO were now reunited and working together, Vince decided to vacate the hardcore belt due to Gillberg's injury but BWO wanted to end this in a big note, a battle royal between every BWO member to determine the hardcore champion, Vince accepted but decided to add 3 more people that were also synonymous with this hunt for the title since it debuted: Rios, who kept trying to take down BWO(a parody of Sting) and Holly Cousins

## Results

Other participants: Brian Christopher, Scott Taylor, Val Venis, Brooklyn Brawler, Viscera, Bradshaw, Steve Blackman, Mark Henry, Aztec, Faaroq, Mosh, Thrasher, The Godfather

## Details

* In the opening match, whoever gets an elimination is the current hardcore champ, Crash Holly immediatly eliminates NAT so BWO go ruthless on him and eliminate him. It ends with Mr.Imperfect Al Snow vs Bollywood Nova and Al Snow picked up the win as all of BWO celebrated with him
* TAKA and Togo come out with a coin and they flip it, it's heads so TAKA will be the one facing Pac
* Chyna clothslines Sable, does her finisher and beats her in 30 seconds
* Kane and Big Show bow down before the match for 30 seconds for MOD, this is more of a slow paced match as they don't have the grudge against each other anymore, Big Show chokeslams Kane off the top rope to end his streak, Kane immediatly does a taker situp as he goes to the stage and makes fire go out in the turnbuckles to scare Show
* Shawn immediatly hits a SCM and another one on Shamrock to beat him in 47 seconds. During his match against Vince, Shawn jumps for an elbow drop from a ladder through a table on Vince but Shane Mcmahon returns, grabs Vince's hand and gets him out of there, Vince stunners Shawn and wins as Shawn is forced to retire
* Severn argues with Death because he was the one getting pinned, Death suplexes Severn, Cornette is pissed and Death also attacks him as The Union are completely ruined
* Kaientai celebrate their win when BUBBA RAY DUDLEY AND D-VON DUDLEY JUMP THE BARRICADE and beat them up and throw them through tables
* This is one of the best Undertaker entrances of all time as every man in MOD bows down to him on the stage as he makes his entrance with an amazing attire but this is definitely one of the worst streak matches, it just didn't live up to the hype and it dragged a bit, it was nothing like Doink vs Horowitz as it was Taker mostly showing Horowitz that he is unstoppable
* Jim Cornette is completley pissed backstage that The Union has fallen apart, Ministry of Darkness kidnap him
* The Corporation help Rock win as people boo him and throw trash at him

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