Kane eliminates Honky Tonk Man. The Rock is Kane gets a massive babyface pop as the crowd is going crazy. Big clothesline on Kane. Kane knocks him down with a clothesline. They do some exchanges, but nobody gets thrown out. He was a gimmick whore. Rock eliminates Goodfather who was part of Nation of Domination with Rock three years later after 14 seconds. Kane hits Rock with a suplex.
Rock fights back with punches, but Kane knocks him down with a side slam. Rock hits a Samoan Drop as both guys lay down awaiting the next person. Rock gets a big clothesline on Kane and Bradshaw hits a big one on Rock just for fun. Rock hits the spinebuster on Bradshaw and then he gets knocked down by a Kane clothesline.
Do ya think? Bradshaw and Holly try to get rid of Rock and the crowd believes that it might happen, but Rock hangs on. Rock comes back with a clothesline on Bradshaw and nearly eliminates Kane. The big man is able to stay in, though. He is now known as R-Truth, of course. Kane hits a huge powerslam on Holly while Bradshaw destroys Kwik at the same time.
There are six guys in the ring now. Choke the guy with a tie! I always used to yell that about IRS when I was a kid. Kane hits him with a spinebuster. Bradshaw hits Kwik with a football tackle or I guess you could call it a spear. Rock hits a powerslam on Kwik, who is getting his ass kicked in this match. The European Champion William Regal comes in at I should add all the weapons are out of the ring by now as Regal hits a suplex on Kwik.
Rock gets a spinebuster on Venis. Bradshaw hits a couple of clotheslines on Val. I wonder if he likes clotheslines? Val charges into Bradshaw and guess what move he does? A clothesline. Test is 22 and he quickly throws out Regal as we have eight guys in the ring now. Not a whole lot happens during this time. They sent him down to OVW and this was his return to a very nice pop. Show clotheslines Test out and press slams K-Kwik rather easily. Show goes on a Chokeslam run with Chokeslams for Albert and Bradshaw.
Chokeslam for Venis. Chokeslam for Holly. Show with a chokeslam on Kane that was very impressive. Rock kicks Show in the balls, hits his punches and clotheslines Show out. The crowd goes nuts. Big Show was only in the ring for about a minute and a half, but that was very impressive.
After his elimination, Big Show pulls Rock out of the ring and cleans off the announce table. Show puts Rock through the table with a chokeslam. This was a great way of re-introducing Big Show. Crash Holly was 24, but they barely mentioned that due to the Show-Rock story. They are so thoughtful. The Undertaker is 25 as the American Badass on the motorcycle.
Taker saves his brother Kane since they were on good terms. The brothers have a long staredown as the announcers wonder what might happen. These days it looks like an ink blot. You never know. The 26 man is Scotty Too Hotty, who is very reluctant to get in the ring due to Undertaker and Kane staring at him. Undertaker and Kane take turns beating on him. Boot to the face, bodyslam and a double chokeslam. They throw Scotty out of the ring together because they like to share brotherly moments like that.
The Rock was shown still struggling at the announce table. Before Austin can get there, Triple H comes out to attack him because they had an ongoing feud. If you want to know why the WWF was so good at this time look at the five guys going at it right here.
They are very talented. Triple H continues to attack Austin on the floor with Austin bleeding after Hunter whipped him into the barricade and Austin tucked down to do the blade jobe. Rock is getting beat up in the ring by Kane and Undertaker. Finally, the referees pull Hunter off Austin. He had a run in the WWF as Haku and this was his return.
Haku only lasted in the WWF until the summer when he got released. They show Austin on the floor and JR notes how tough Austin would be to win the match after being attacked the way he was. The crowd chants for Austin as he tries to make it back in. Rikishi sees Austin in the aisle and they start brawling. JR is spazzing out! JR is going nuts, man. Love the passion of JR.
Austin eliminates Haku with a clothesline leaving us with six guys. Undertaker hits a chokeslam on Rikishi. Undertaker goes to throw Rock out, but Rock holds on.
Kane gets a big boot on Austin while Rikishi superkicks Undertaker and Undertaker is eliminated. I remember thinking at the time that they would do Undertaker vs. Rikishi at WrestleMania They did Undertaker vs.
Triple H instead. There were four main event level guys in there plus Billy Gunn. Lawler picks Rikishi to win as he sets up Rock for the Banzai Drop. Rock gets up, low blows Rikishi and punches him to eliminate him. The final four are Rock, Kane, Gunn and Austin. Sorry Billy. Gunn actually hits the Fameasser on Austin, but then Austin quickly throws him out leaving us with three. The crowd freaks out as Austin and Rock lock eyes on eachother.
Spit punch by Rock that Austin oversells. Austin elbows his way out of the Rock Bottom and hits a Stunner that Rock oversells like always. I like how Rock sold it, though. Austin hits the Thesz Press on Kane to a huge pop. Austin goes for a clothesline on Rock, but Rock comes back with the Rock Bottom. JR is losing his voice in excitement.
Rock holds up Austin in a bodyslam position, so Kane sneaks in and dumps Rock out of the ring to eliminate him. Austin charges in, Kane catches him and hits a huge chokeslam. Kane rolls out to the floor to grab a steel chair. Austin kicks it out of his hands and after a struggle where Austin avoided a Tombstone, Austin hits a great Stone Cold Stunner. Austin hits Kane with three consecutive chair shots to the head, Kane stumbles back into the ropes and Austin clotheslines him out of the ring to win the match.
The crowd popped huge for the win. The toughest son of a bitch in the WWF has done it! He was the most dominant person in the history of the Rumble as he eliminated 11 guys in 53 minutes of action. It helped the match because Austin eliminating him made Austin look badass. It also made Kane look great because it took three chairshots to the head to get him out of the ring.
I also liked the Drew Carey thing. It was silly, but funny. You have an hour-long match, so you need to have light-hearted moments too. If you do it early in the match it works because the last half is usually the more serious part where you want to up the intensity. Let them tell a story because they were the ones that carried the match. The crowd reaction for Austin-Rock was fantastic too.
It got me really excited for WMX7, which definitely delivered the goods. It felt real. Best Performers 3 : Kane — This is my favorite Kane match ever.
Better than any of his singles matches. I thought he did great in this match. Steve Austin — He spent much of the match selling because of the blood and it made his comeback work. Best Elimination: Austin eliminating Kane at the end was the best because of how strong Kane was booked for over 50 minutes. I also liked the unique nature of some weapons being used in the match as well. It was a really fun hour of professional wrestling action. Jericho then announced that their match would be a ladder match.
Before the event began and aired live on pay-per-view, an episode of Sunday Night Heat , one of the secondary television programs for WWF, was taped live. The match ended after Chaz pinned Funaki. Originally, the winning team was to send one of their members into the Royal Rumble match, but Drew Carey wound up being entered instead. Throughout the match, both teams performed many offensive maneuvers, though The Dudley Boyz were able to gain the upper hand when they executed a 3D on Edge.
The following bout was WWF Intercontinental Champion Chris Benoit defending his title against Chris Jericho in a ladder match, which was to serve as the "blowoff" to their longstanding on and off rivalry. The match featured both men performing a number of attacks and maneuvers on one another in an attempt to disable their opponent long enough to climb the ladder and retrieve the title belt suspended above the ring.
At one point in the match, Benoit dove through the ropes headfirst at Jericho, but Jericho struck him in the face with a steel chair. Jericho also applied the Walls of Jericho at the top of the ladder onto Benoit. The end of the match came when Jericho pushed over the ladder while Benoit was ascending it, causing Benoit to fall out to the outside of the ring.
Jericho then climbed the ladder and retrieved the Intercontinental Championship belt, winning the championship by doing so. Both women attempted to gain an advantage over the other, with Chyna controlling much of the match.
The end of the match came when Chyna attempted a handspring back elbow on Ivory, who was in the corner of the ring. Chyna, however, fell to the canvas and in storyline injured her neck.
Ivory then covered her for a successful pinfall, retaining her championship. Following this, commentator Jerry Lawler went into the ring to check on Chyna, and she was removed from the ringside area on a stretcher.
Triple H had been named 1 contender by his then storyline father-in-law Vince McMahon to set the match up. The match began as a mat based, hold for hold contest, but Trish Stratus then tried to interfere on Angle's behalf, only to then get into a catfight with Stephanie McMahon , who was in Triple H's corner.
Stratus Vince McMahon's storyline mistress and Stephanie McMahon's daughter and then storyline wife of Triple H had been involved in their own feud due to vying for power as the WWF's "dominant female". After the fracas involving the two ladies on the outside which had to be broken up by Vince himself , both Triple H and Angle accidentally hit the referee Earl Hebner , causing him to roll out of the ring.
Triple H grabbed the title belt and tried to hit Angle with it, only to receive a belly-to-belly suplex. As Austin left the arena, Angle crawled over on top of Triple H to cover him for the pin, while Hebner recovered and made the count. The main event was the Royal Rumble. They were joined by Matt Hardy who entered at No. Jeff and Matt then battled each other, and it was during this time that Drew Carey arrived at No. Earlier in the night, Carey was backstage looking to speak with Vince McMahon about how to put together a successful pay per view.
After thinking Carey was trying to hit on his storyline mistress Trish Stratus , McMahon offered Carey a spot in the Rumble in hopes of Carey getting pummeled as a way to promote his upcoming Improv All Stars pay per view.
Once Carey entered the ring, he stood aside, and watched as the Hardys eliminated each other. Kane then entered at No. Carey tried to shake his hand as well as bribe him with cash, but Kane grabbed Carey by the throat and was about to chokeslam him when Raven entered the ring at No. This gave Carey the opportunity to eliminate himself safely by climbing over the top rope and gave high-fives to the fans on his way to the back.
Kane dominated the match for a while, eliminating all of the wrestlers who came between No. The Rock entered at No 13 and started brawling with Kane. The ring began to fill up in the next few minutes, and the tide turned when The Big Show made his return from months of inactivity, entering at No. He eliminated Test and K-Kwik, then proceeded to chokeslam everyone else.
When he got to The Rock, the Show received a low blow and was clotheslined over the top rope by The Rock. As Crash Holly made his way to the ring at No.
Just when the other wrestlers worked together in trying to eliminate Kane, The Undertaker made his arrival at No. The match began as a mat based, hold for hold contest, but Trish Stratus then tried to interfere on Angle's behalf, only to then get into a catfight with Stephanie McMahon , who was in Triple H's corner.
Stratus Vince McMahon's storyline mistress and Stephanie McMahon's daughter and then storyline wife of Triple H had been involved in their own feud due to vying for power as the WWF's "dominant female".
After the fracas involving the two ladies on the outside which had to be broken up by Vince himself , both Triple H and Angle accidentally hit the referee Earl Hebner , causing him to roll out of the ring. Triple H grabbed the title belt and tried to hit Angle with it, only to receive a belly-to-belly suplex. As Austin left the arena, Angle crawled over on top of Triple H to cover him for the pin, while Hebner recovered and made the count.
They were joined by Matt Hardy who entered at No. Jeff and Matt then battled each other, and it was during this time that Drew Carey arrived at No. Earlier in the night, Carey was backstage looking to speak with Vince McMahon about how to put together a successful pay per view. After thinking Carey was trying to hit on his storyline mistress Trish Stratus , McMahon offered Carey a spot in the Rumble in hopes of Carey getting pummeled as a way to promote his upcoming Improv All-Stars pay per view.
Once Carey entered the ring, he stood aside, and watched as the Hardys eliminated each other. Kane then entered at No. Carey tried to shake his hand as well as bribe him with cash, but Kane grabbed Carey by the throat and was about to chokeslam him when Hardcore Champion Raven entered the ring as entry No.
This gave Carey the opportunity to eliminate himself safely by climbing over the top rope. Kane would then dominate the match, eliminating all of the wrestlers who came between No. The Rock entered at No 13 and started brawling with Kane. The ring began to fill up in the next few minutes, and the tide turned when The Big Show made his return from months of inactivity, entering at No.
He eliminated Test and K-Kwik , then proceeded to chokeslam everyone else. When he got to The Rock, the Show received a low blow and was clotheslined over the top rope by The Rock. As Crash Holly made his way to the ring at No. Just when the other wrestlers worked together in trying to eliminate Kane, The Undertaker made his arrival at No. Scotty 2 Hotty entered the ring at No. Steve Austin entered at No. The Rock rolled back into the ring and battled with both The Undertaker and Kane.
Billy Gunn , Haku and Rikishi made up the last 3 entrants. Austin entry No. Once everybody had entered the ring, Austin eliminated Haku, and Rikishi superkicked the Undertaker, eliminating him.
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