WrestleMania XV

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WrestleMania XV
Promotion	WWF
Date	March 28, 1999
Venue	First Union Center
City	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Attendance	19,514
Last Event	St. Valentine's Day Massacre
Next Event	Backlash

WrestleMania XV was the fifteenth annual WrestleMania professional wrestling pay-per-view event produced by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF). The event took place on March 28, 1999 at the First Union Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The tagline for the event was "The Ragin' Climax."

Results

Numbers in parentheses indicate the length of the match.

• Sunday Night HEAT match: Jacqueline (w/Terri Runnels) defeated Ivory (w/D'Lo Brown) (1:24)
  • Jacqueline pinned Ivory following a Back Suplex. Afterwards, during a post match assault, Terri burned Ivory on the side of the face with a cigar.
• Sunday Night HEAT match: Battle royal featuring: D'Lo Brown, Test, Steve Blackman, Bradshaw, Brian Christopher, 8-Ball, Skull, Droz, Faarooq, Gillberg, The Godfather, Jeff Hardy, Matt Hardy, Hawk, Animal, Mideon, Rocco Rock, Johnny Grunge, Tiger Ali Singh, Scott Taylor and Viscera (4:16)
  • Test and D'Lo Brown won the match, with the last two men earning a shot at the WWF Tag Team Championship later that night.
• Hardcore Holly defeated Billy Gunn (c) and Al Snow in a Hardcore match to win the WWF Hardcore Championship (7:06)
  • Holly pinned Snow after Gunn had hit Snow with a Fameasser onto a steel chair then knocked Gunn out with a chair and pinned Snow.
• Owen Hart and Jeff Jarrett (w/Debra) defeated Test and D'Lo Brown (w/Ivory) to retain the WWF Tag Team Championship (3:58)
  • Jarrett pinned Brown after Owen dropkicked Brown into Jarrett's roll-up.
  • Ivory was again assaulted by Jacqueline and Terri.
• Butterbean defeated Bart Gunn (w/Vinny Paz as special guest referee) in a Brawl for All match (0:35)
  • Butterbean knocked out Gunn 35 seconds into the first round with a haymaker.
  • The judges for the Brawl for All included Gorilla Monsoon, Chuck Wepner, and Kevin Rooney.
• Mankind defeated The Big Show by disqualification (6:50)
  • Big Show was disqualified after he chokeslammed Mankind through two steel chairs.
  • The winner of the match got to be the special guest referee for the main event.
• Road Dogg defeated Ken Shamrock, Goldust (w/The Blue Meanie and Ryan Shamrock) and Val Venis in a Four Corners Elimination Match to retain the WWF Intercontinental Championship (9:47)
  • Shamrock and Venis were eliminated by count-out after brawling outside the ring.
  • Road Dogg pinned Goldust after Ryan Shamrock accidentally tripped up Goldust.
• Before the next match, The San Diego Chicken came out again and tried to attack Kane. Kane pulled the mask off the chicken to reveal him to be Pete Rose, wanting revenge for the Tombstone Piledriver he got last year. Kane then gave Rose another Tombstone Piledriver.
• Kane defeated Triple H by disqualification (11:33)
  • Triple H was disqualified after Chyna turned on Kane and attacked Kane with a steel chair. Triple H and Chyna then reunited.
• Vince McMahon made an announcement, declaring that with Mankind and Big Show both unable to referee the main event, he will be the special guest referee instead.
• Sable defeated Tori to retain the WWF Women's Championship (5:09)
  • Sable pinned Tori with a Sable Bomb after Tori was attacked by a debuting Nicole Bass.
• Shane McMahon (w/Test) defeated X-Pac to retain the WWF European Championship (8:41)
  • McMahon pinned X-Pac after an interfering Triple H turned on X-Pac and hit him with the Pedigree. A brawl between members of Vince McMahon's Corporation and D-Generation X took place until Kane came out and chased the Corporation backstage.
• The Undertaker (w/Paul Bearer) defeated The Big Boss Man in a Hell in a Cell match (9:46)
  • Undertaker pinned Big Boss Man following a Tombstone Piledriver.
  • After the match, The Brood came down from the ceiling and lowered a noose into the cell. There, Undertaker (kayfabe) hanged Big Boss Man off the top of the cell.
• Before Vince McMahon could make himself referee, WWF Commissioner Shawn Michaels came out and preventing this move happening, stating that only the Commissioner could decide who referees what match. He also banned McMahon's stable (The Corporation) from ringside, except for Vince McMahon himself (since he wasn't supposed to lay a hand on Austin).
• Steve Austin defeated The Rock (w/Mankind as special guest referee) in a No Disqualification match to win the WWF Championship (16:52)
  • Austin pinned The Rock after a Stone Cold Stunner. Afterwards, Austin had a beer bash with Earl Hebner and delivered a final Stunner to Vince.

Other on-screen talent

Commentators Michael Cole Jerry "The King" Lawler Jim Ross - Main event Spanish commentators Carlos Cabrera Hugo Savinovich Interviewer Kevin Kelly

Ring announcer Howard Finkel Referees Mike Chioda Earl Hebner Jim Korderas Theodore Long Tim White

Notes

• Boyz II Men sang a rendition of "America the Beautiful" before the show.
• Other celebrity guests in attendance for WrestleMania XV included Pete Rose, Butterbean, Vinny Pazienza, Chuck Wepner, Kevin Rooney, Isaac Hayes and Big Pun.

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