Penguin's WWF 99: HeAT 4/18/99 [J.R. Interviews Mr. McMahon]

Very happy to went through with it Penguin. Can't wait for this!

Thanks man. The Womans title was around? I thought it was brought back in late 98.

You're correct - sorry about that.

For some reason I could have sworn Sable had the title at Wrestlemania XIV

Tom Brandi push or i'll lock this.

Roster errors -

- Ahmed Johnson, Fatu and Scott Putski were all gone by this point.
- Paul Ellering didn't debut until the summer.
- Sable, Brakkus, Tennessee Lee, Scott Taylor and Mark Henry are missing from the roster.
- A few spelling mistakes - Faarooq, Brian Christopher, Carl Ouellet (known as 'Pierre', and Jacques Rougeau as simply 'Jacques'), Bart and Billy Gunn.
- A few gimmick corrections - Flash Funk was dropped prior to WrestleMania and he went by 'Scorpio' following the event, Jim Cornette rather than James E., and Bart Gunn and Bob Holly were known as Bombastic Bob and Bodacious Bart (New Midnight Express).
- Also missing are the NWA titles, which were incorporated in the WWF at this point as part of the NWA 'invasion'.
- Staff members/non-wrestlers missing? (e.g. J.R., King, Cole, Kevin Kelly, Dok Hendrix..)

on TV though, Funk didn't change from Flash Funk to Scorpio until he teamed with Terry Funk a few weeks after Mania.

Albany, NY - Pepsi Arena - March 30, 1998

The pyro kicks off for Raw and we are greeted by Jim Ross and Jerry Lawler. They mention tonight that Cactus Jack and Chainsaw Charile defend the WWF Tag Titles in a hardcore match against the New Age Outlaws.

The WWF Champion leaves Vince McMahon "Stunned".
The theme of Vince McMahon hits and he makes his way out to the ring with a new WWF Championship. Which looks like This. He then calls out the WWF Champion, Stone Cold Steve Austin. Steve makes his way out to the ring to a loud pop. He gets in and does his Middle Finger taunt on all the turnbuckles. Once he is done Vince starts to speak. Vince says he is not that happy about Austin being champion, and with him leading the company, who knows what will happen. He then says that he does have hope for Austin though, and to prove it, he gives Austin the new championship. Austin smirks and raises the new title high and mighty. Vince then says he wants Austin to do one thing, and that is to clean up his act. Austin then puts his head down and tells the crowd if they want to see Stone Cold clean up his act give him a hell yeah. The crowd responds with only boos. Austin then says he will never change and that's the bottom line because Stone Cold said so. Vince then says that he is making a huge mistake, and will give Austin 10 seconds to change his mind. Austin then drops the microphone, and gives Vince a stunner! Austin grabs the microphone and says that is his answer. Austin then leaves as Raw goes to a break.

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We return from the break to see a replay of Stone Cold stunning Vince. We then go backstage to see staff attending to Vince. Vince says that Austin will some how pay for his actions next week.

The New Midnight Express(w/Jim Cornette) def. The Headbangers to WIN the NWA Tag Team Championships.[/u][/color]
The bell rings and Mosh and Bombastic Bob start off the match. They go back and forth for a minute until Bodacious Bart gets a blind tag and then hits a cheap shot a Mosh. Bart dominates Mosh until Mosh ducks a clothesline and gets a tag into Thrasher. Thrasher then unloads on Bart and then gets a show on Bob. The teams then go back and forth for two minutes, until Bart gets a cheap shot on Mosh and Bob hits the Alabama Slam on Thrasher for the win.

We see an ad for the Stone Cold SCU T-shirt before other commercials

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We come back to Raw to see Kurrgan making his entrance with Jackyl. Tom Brandi is already in the ring.

Kurrgan(w/Jackyl) def. Tom Brandi[/b][/u]
A basic squash here. Kurrgan won with the Paralyzer. After the match Kurrgan dragged Tom to the back.

We then head backstage to where the Nation of Domination is. Jim Ross then asks the Rock how he felt about last night. Rock then says he is glad that the WWF didn't give the animal named Ken Shamrock the title. Rock says Ken almost broke his damn ankle. Rock then turns his attention to Faarooq. He tells Faarooq because of what he did last night, Rock knows what to do now, and he thanks Faarooq for that. We then head for a break.

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We return to find Kevin Kelly outside of Vince McMahon's room. He says that he just spoke to Vince about what he meant when he said Stone Cold would pay. Vince only said that we would have to find out next week. We return back to the ring where The Nation (Rock, Faarooq, and D-Lo in gear) is ready for a six man tag match.

L.O.D. 2000 and Ken Shamrock(w/Sunny) def. The Nation (w/Mark Henry and Kama Mustafa) [/b][/u]
The bell rings and Ken Shamrock calls The Rock in the ring. Rock gets in the ring, but D-Lo hits Ken from behind and starts off the match. D-Lo stomps on Ken until Ken rolls out of the way and hits a belly to belly. He then tags in Hawk. The match then goes back and forth for another few minutes until when Faarooq was in with Ken Shamrock. Faarooq had Ken down when Rock tagged him self in. Faarooq and Rock augured so D-Lo tagged him self in and went charging at Ken, but Ken caught him in an ankle lock! D-Lo tapped while Rock and Faarooq still augured. After the match Ken went after Rock, but Rock and Faarooq got out. They still augured as we see a video.

A video plays and it hypes Val Venis.

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We come back to see Kane and Paul Bearer in the ring. Paul Bearer says that last night it took The Undertaker three Tombstones to beat Kane, and yet Kane is still not Resting In Peace. Paul goes on to say that The Undertaker was destroyed by Kane last night and that no one has dominated Undertaker like that. Not a single man in history has dominated Undertaker like how Kane did last night. Paul then says that he hopes Undertaker doesn't think that Kane is done with him. Because Kane knows that Undertaker got lucky last night. And that if they ever meet again, Kane would win. So Kane has officially challenged The Undertaker to a steel cage match at In Your House: Unforgiven! Paul and Kane leave and then Marc Mero and Sable make their entrance.

The Artist Formally Known as Goldust and Luna Vachon def. Marc Mero and Sable[/u][/color]
A Wrestlemania rematch here, which saw the men start if off. Goldust quickly got the upper hand with a few chops and a snap suplex. Goldust picked Mero, but Mero countered and hit a DDT. The men went back and forth before Goldust tagged in Luna. Luna and Sable then went at if for about 40 seconds before it became a cat fight. When Sable had Luna up for a powerbomb Goldust tagged Luna's foot to get the men back in. They went at it until Goldust rolled up Mero for the three.

Backstage Triple H and Chyna let us know that tonight DX has a major announcement, and it might just change the face of the WWF. And it's next.

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We return to see DX making their entrance. Triple H grabs a microphone and proceeds to speak. He says that DX now has a major crack in it. That DX is missing a piece to the puzzle. Triple H then said so it was his job to fill that crack with cement, and to find that missing piece to the puzzle. Triple H then says so that his exactly what he did. He then said that he didn't have to go far and that DX will be stronger than ever. He says he didn't have to look past The Kilq. And on that note, came out Sean Waltman in a DX shirt! The crowd popped and Sean made his way into the ring. He grabbed a microphone and says that it's great to be back and to be along side with one of his best friends. He says that without a doubt DX will be stronger than ever and will change the face of the WWF. Triple H then says if your not down with that, we got two words for ya! Sean says suck it and then DX's theme hits.

A video is shown highlighting Wresltemania and then announcing the encore tomorrow at 8 pm Est.

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We return to see Jeff Jarrett make his entrance. His "promoter" Tennessee Lee joins King and JR at the announce table. Steve Blackman then makes his entrance.

Steve Blackman def. Jeff Jarrett via DQ.[/u][/color]
The bell rings and Steve goes right for Jarrett and he hits a few kicks to get Jeff off his feet. Steve hits a few chops once Jeff gets up, but Jeff ducks one and kicks Steve in the gut. He then hits a fisherman's suplex, but only for a one count. The match goes back and forth for another few minutes while Lee puts Jeff over on commentary. At the end of the match Steve takes full control of the match and goes to hit the pump kick. Jeff ducks, and hits a low blow right in front of the ref! The ref calls for the bell and after the match Jeff stomps on Blackman. He locks in the figure-four and keeps it in until the ref pulls him off.

Stone Cold is backstage and says that he doesn't care what Mr. McMahon is going to do next week because Stone Cold is prepared to open up a nice can of whoop ass next week, and that's the bottom line because Stone Cold said so.

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We come back and we see a video hyping Unforgiven. A Wrestlemania rewind plays showing Cactus Jack and Chainsaw Charlie winning the Tag Titles. The New Age outlaws then come out for our main event.

The New Age Outlaws def. Cactus Jack and Chainsaw Charlie to WIN the WWF Tag Team championships in a hardcore match.[/u][/color]
The bell rings and all men go outside the ring. Gunn throws in a garbage can, Dogg throws in a kendo stick, Charlie throws in a table, and Cactus Jack throws in two steel chairs. This match wasn't much of a wrestling match, rather a hardcore brawl. All of the weapons thrown in at the start were used in this. Some spots included both Billy Gunn and Road Dogg getting hit by a chair at the same time. The two teams brawling outside the ring which lead to Road Dogg hitting a pump handle slam on Cactus Jack on the floor. And another was when Charlie powerbomed Gunn through a table. In the end Billy Gunn hit a leg drop on Charlie, who was on a garbage can, leaving Jack to fight off both Gunn and Road Dogg. Jack was able to hit a DDT onto the chair on Dogg, and a DDT on Gunn. But all of a sudden, DX came out! Sean hit Jack with a chair and then Triple H hit a pedigree on him. Gunn then covered Jack for the three!

The New Age Outlaws celebrated with DX as Raw went off the air.





OCC: I know the ending wasn't original, but I just felt like that was what I should have done. All advice would be awesome, I'm having fun doing this, but I want to make sure I'm doing it right. Thanks.[/font]

-Good promo. I knew that Austin wouldn't change his ways. Austin giving McMahon a Stunner was classic.
-The New Midnight Express winning the titles is great. Unsure for a first episode but to be honest, I would've done it too.
-LOD 2000 and Shamrock going over was expected there.
-Goldust and Vachon over Mero and Sable is a good call. Like it better.
-Sean Waltman in the DX group was great. They should have a good reign.
-Blackman over Jarrett via DQ is fine. Jeff may just be your most villainous guy on the roster. Keep using him right.
-Oh. I forgot. Kane/Undertaker in a Steel Cage sounds epic! Kane needs that win considering he never wins against Taker at Mania.
-TNAO over Jack and Charlie is good. Interesting that both tag titles were won tonight. I like it.
-Great first show; if this continues, this is bound to get a spotlight.