Slamboree (1999)

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Slamboree 1999 was the sixth Slamboree event produced by World Championship Wrestling which took place on 15th May 1999

## Background

The main matches heading into the show is 1 night 8-men tournament for the vacant WCW Heaviweight Championship. Chris Jericho defeated Bret Hart in an open challenge for the title, the problem was Jericho was already signed to WWF and everyone knew about it so this was just a dumb swerve to try and get attention, the week afterwards Arn Anderson vacated the belt and announced that a 1 night 8 men tournament would be taking place to determine the new champion and in a twist the tournament would be all never before WCW Heaviweight champions

Rey Mysterio Jr decided to vacate his and Booker T's tag titles after Booker started getting too agressive during tag team matches, this led to WCW having 0 tag teams in their division so Arn reintroduced a concept from 1994, a tag team tournament with people chosen randomly and if they worked well together they could become a tag team, it will culminate tonight in the finals of Dean Malenko and Scott Steiner(a team that originally was dysfunctional but Scott has grown to respect Malenko) vs Kevin Nash and Alex Wright(Nash was recently added to the CW division and doesn't respect any cruiserweights, not even Wright, he just wants the title to add to his championship list)

The Hacker revealed a secret of Rob Van Dam that he was originally signed to ECW by Paul Heyman BECAUSE Heyman knew he was a WWF mole so RVD had always been working as a double agent to destroy ECW AND WWF from within as Heyman's big goal was always to join WCW and make sure they won the war, RVD was pissed at this revelation and challenged him to a match

Raven tried getting The Vigilantes' Chris Benoit to join The Flock but Benoit kept refusing as he was loyal to The Vigilantes so it led to multiple beatdowns by The Flock towards them, they will face each other in a 6 men tag match tonight

The Masked Superstar debuted early on the year as a mysterious wrestler who revealed he was a former WCW employee behind the mask, he defeated Sting to become United States champion but quickly lost the title to Wrath a week later, he took off the mask to reveal himself as Disco Inferno to no reaction from the crowd in one of the worst reveals ever, Disco challenged Wrath for his rematch tonight

## Details

* Shane Douglas makes his return to WCW as he attacks and beats Raven up, The Mob come out and beat up Saturn and Bam Bam as Douglas is the newest The Mob member
* Ric Flair lowblows Jarret when the ref isn't seeing to the biggest pop of the night as David manages to win
* Tank tries to quickly knock out Kanyon but it doesn't work as he dodges a lot, Goldberg spears Abbott and costs him the match
* Before the finals of the tag tournament, Arn Anderson comes out and announces that there will be a third team to the mix as they specifically asked them for it, out comes the REUNITED HARLEM HEAT and they win the titles making this 2 month tournament completely useless. Kevin Nash was injured during the match and for the first time since 1996 neither Hall, Nash or Hogan are in active competition
* Ric Flair drops Hugh on the ground since he's more experienced and helps David cheat as David shockingly becomes WCW Heaviweight champion