Backlash (1999)

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Backlash 1999 was the first Backlash event produced by World Wrestling Federation which took place on 23rd May 1999.

## Background

The main match heading into the show is Mankind defending the WWF Championship against The Rock. Mankind won the Royal Rumble and was set to face Stone Cold Steve Austin for the WWF title at Wrestlemania 15 until Vince Mcmahon showed up 3 weeks beforehand and decided to add The Rock to the match to make it a triple threat and Rock managed to win with help from The Corporation, Mankind was livid as he knew Undertaker and Ministry of Darkness would be going for the title soon and he thought he was the only one who could defeat Undertaker and prevent darkness from engulfing WWF, he attacked his friend Shane Mcmahon as he demanded a title shot on the RAW after Wrestlemania, he got it and in the highest viewership in RAW history with 13.9 million viewers, Stone Cold came out, chairshotted The Corporation guys and made sure Mankind won his first WWF Championship. Undertaker became co-owner of WWF after doing something to former co-owner Jim Cornette and announced that The Rock would be having his rematch at Backlash in an I quit match

William Regal won the Andre The Giant Memorial Battle Royal and will get an Intercontinental Championship match tonight against Kurt Angle who at Wrestlemania 15 defeated Owen Hart to retain the european title and win the IC title so he's currently holding both belts as he continues calling himself the greatest professional wrestler in the world

Owen Hart was about to make an announcment about his career when a countdown showed up and it struck zero, out came WCW HEAVIWEIGHT CHAMPION CHRIS JERICHO WHO WON IT ON HIS LAST NIGHT ON WCW, Jericho called out everything about WWF from The Corporation, Ministry of Darkness, The Rock, Stone Cold, he took a dig on everyone and said he interrupted Owen Hart because on his last WCW night he defeated Bret Hart, now on his first WWF PPV match he wants to defeat another Hart family member.

After Ministry of Darkness officially declared war and with The Undertaker becoming co-owner, Vince Mcmahon finally gave Shane Mcmahon what he always wanted: a chance to take down MOD as he would be forming an alliance with multiple wrestlers to take it down, he went to the commentator's table as he checked out every single RAW match to see who should join their group, he approached Bulldog and Mark Henry to join it but Mosh from Headbangers also wanted to join them as he wanted to prove that he was more than a tag team, he was put in a match against Shane Mcmahon to see if he would impress him and he did so he was signed to the alliance, the higher power gave an ultimatum to Vince and Shane as at Backlash Undertaker, Kane and The Big Show wanted to destroy 3 members of Shane's Alliance and if they were unable to give them 3 men, they would destroy the entire roster in just 1 night so Shane had to get members quicker than he thought

At Wrestlemania 15, after Kaientai defeated Legion of Devils in a tables match, Dudley Boyz made their debut and sent them all through tables, they were involved in a tag team tournament but were eliminated in the semi finals after Kaientai distracted them, they will have a match tonight also in a tables match

Undertaker punished Mankind for disrespecting the higher power as he put him in a scramble match, 2 minutes a new wrestler enters, 10 minute time limit, whoever is the last man to get a pinfall within the time limit wins the match BUT everyone who manages to pin Mankind before that will get a WWF title shot in the near future, Mankind was attacked by MOD before the match which led to every man in in being able to pin him: British Bulldog, Billy Gunn, Steve Blackman, Test and Road Dogg, Vince announced that actually only 1 man could be the contender so they would all fight each other tonight for it

Hardy Boyz defeated Edge and Christian at Wrestlemania 15 in a ladder match to become NO1 contenders to the World Tag Team Championships but the titles were vacated on the day after Wrestlemania so a tournament began to determine who would face Hardy Boyz for the vacant titles, in the end APA managed to defeat Edge and Christian to win the tournament, APA are completely poor after gambling away all their money and if they win the tag titles here tonight they'll win a 500 000 dollar bonus

## Details

* Shane leaves Test's side during his match for some reason
* The 6 men tag is devastating as Bulldog, Mosh and Henry only manage to hit 3 moves in total and it ends in 5 minutes as MOD show their dominance, Undertaker goes to kidnap Bulldog but Shane quickly chairshots him, the lights go out and all of MOD is gone
* Regal manages to win with hidden brass knuckles
* The main event is an absolute brutal match for Mankind as The Rock throws everything at him from chairshots to throwing him through a table, The Rock ties Mankind's hands together and just goes to town with chairshots on the head, they go up to the barricade where the stairs are as Rock keeps chairshotting Mankind BUT MANKIND STARTS POWERING UP AND NOT FEELING ANYTHING ANYMORE, HE GOES RUNNING TOWARDS ROCK AND JUST THROWS HIS BODY FORWARD AS HE CAN'T USE HIS HANDS, ROCK DODGES AND MANKIND GOES FALLING OFF THE STAIRS, the ref asks if Mankind quits but he's unable to move so the ref calls it off, The Rock is WWF champion yet again