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| + | |[[Michael Cole (wrestling)|Michael Cole]] | ||
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| + | |[[Jerry Lawler]] | ||
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| + | |[[Carlos Cabrera]] | ||
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| + | |[[Hugo Savinovich]] | ||
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| + | |[[Kevin Kelly (Announcer)|Kevin Kelly]] | ||
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| + | |[[Howard Finkel]] | ||
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| + | |[[Mike Chioda]] | ||
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| + | |[[Earl Hebner]] | ||
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| + | |[[Jim Korderas]] | ||
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| + | |[[Jack Doan]] | ||
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| + | |[[Tim White (Referee)|Tim White]] | ||
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==Aftermath== | ==Aftermath== | ||
Revision as of 07:09, 26 September 2019
| Rock Bottom: In Your House | ||
| Promotional poster featuring The Rock giving The Road Dogg the "Rock Bottom" | ||
| Promotion | International Wrestling Federation | |
| Date | December 13, 1998 | |
| City | Vancouver, British Columbia | |
| Venue | General Motors Place | |
| Attendance | 20,042 | |
| Pay-per-view chronology | ||
| ← Previous Capital Carnage | Next → Royal Rumble | |
| In Your House chronology | ||
| ← Previous Judgment Day | Next → St. Valentine's Day Massacre | |
Rock Bottom: In Your House was the twenty-sixth In Your House pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by the International Wrestling Federation (IWF). It took place on December 13, 1998, at General Motors Place in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The event was named after The Rock's finishing move Rock Bottom. The main event featured Stone Cold Steve Austin facing The Undertaker in a Buried Alive match for a spot in the 1999 Royal Rumble. The main match on the undercard was for the IWF Championship between The Rock and Mankind.
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Storylines
When The Nation split up, D'Lo Brown and Mark Henry were left as a tag team, with Henry's gimmick being that of the ladies man Sexual Chocolate. When Terri Runnels revealed she was pregnant, Val Venis admitted to having a vasectomy and disowned her, aligning himself with The Godfather by virtue of his pimp gimmick. Jacqueline had also been ditched by her partner Marc Mero and so she formed Pretty Mean Sisters with Runnels, putting their needs first and ostensibly being seduced by Mark Henry.
The Headbangers turned heel in November. The Oddities had come to the ring with Insane Clown Posse, who sung their entrance theme at the time and when The Headbangers came to the ring, they joined in dancing with the stable. However, after spraying silly string into the crowd, they then sprayed into the eyes of The Oddities and since then had been utilising weapons and other underhand tactics to win matches. Most notably, they challenged Insane Clown Posse to a match but the two asked The Oddities to substitute for them before the Posse attacked Oddities and helped The Headbangers win.
On September 28, Owen Heart (kayfabe) broke Dan Severn's neck with a piledriver. He announced the following week that he would retire from professional wrestling, however at exactly the same time a lucha libre type character started making appearances called The Blue Blazer. The Blazer was a gimmick of Heart's in the late '80s and this did not escape the fans, or the attention of Steve Blackman. The Blazer began to regularly interfere in matches, using moves that were associated with Heart and eventually Blackman caught up with The Blue Blazer backstage, trying to rip off his mask and prove that it was Heart. When he did this, however, Heart came at Blackman from behind and locked in his dragon sleeperhold. A variety of repeated attacks continued to occur, with The Blazer attacking Blackman, or Blackman attacking The Blazer only for Hart to use this as a distraction to further beat Blackman until on December 7 he officially came out of retirement to meet Blackman at the event.
On December 6's Sunday Night Heat, the sexually charged Goldust challenged Jeff Jarrett to a match in which, if he won, Jarrett's business-like valet Debra would have to strip naked. Jarrett accepted the match on the condition that without a valet, should Goldust lose he would have to do the same. The following evening on Raw, Goldust came to the ring in just a trenchcoat, flashing Jarrett and causing him to lose his match while later in the evening Debra would do the same to Goldust, but as his opponent Owen Hart was also distracted, it actually helped him win the match.
The feud for the IWF Championship began one month earlier when The Rock had won the IWF title in controversy at Survivor Series when he put Mankind in the Sharpshooter submission and Vince Matteson forced the referee to ring the bell, despite former promises Matteson had made to Mankind. Commissioner Shawn Michaels gave Mankind a match for the title when he revealed that his ties to The Corporation were not as secure as initially thought. Before the event, on Sunday Night Heat Mankind attacked the champion during an interview, damaging his ribs. Mankind, meanwhile, had a contract saying if the Championship was not defended then he would win it by default and throughout the evening Matteson tried to convince him to relinquish the contract.
Although initially a feud of respect, animosity between The Undertaker and Steve Austin arose when Austin lost his IWF Championship in an effective handicap match also including The Undertaker's (kayfabe) brother Kane. Despite both men being screwed at the Survivor Series tournament, Austin received a title match the next evening but amongst a myriad interferences from other wrestlers, The Undertaker came to the ring and hit Austin with a shovel. Despite continuing, Austin eventually passed out at a house show the following Saturday and was admitted into hospital. A live feed from the hospital was used in order for Austin to be interviewed on Raw is War, but during one of the interview segments The Undertaker arrived at the hospital with Paul Bearer, kidnapping him and attempting to bury him alive before changing his mind and embalming him instead. However, just as Undertaker was chanting ceremoniously, Kane burst in and attacked the two of them allowing Austin to make his escape. Wanting to further distance Austin from the IWF Championship, Mr. Matteson capitalized on the rivalry between them, booking them in a Buried Alive match with the winner receiving a spot in the Royal Rumble. The mind games between the two intensified as the weeks went on, with Austin finding an unlikely ally in Kane, who was being chased by asylum orderlies, by directing them towards Undertaker and having him incarcerated, leaving Paul Bearer stranded and eventually thrown down a sewer and Undertaker retaliating the following week on December 7 by ending a tag team match, also featuring Mankind and Rock, by crucifying Austin in front of the TitanTron.
Event
| Other on-screen talent | |
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| Role: | Name: |
| English commentators | Michael Cole |
| Jerry Lawler | |
| Spanish commentators | Carlos Cabrera |
| Hugo Savinovich | |
| Interviewer | Kevin Kelly |
| Ring announcer | Howard Finkel |
| Referees | Mike Chioda |
| Earl Hebner | |
| Jim Korderas | |
| Jack Doan | |
| Tim White | |
Aftermath
The Rock and Mankind continued to feud with each other over the IWF Championship throughout the beginning of 1999. Mankind would win his first IWF Championship on the January 4 episode of Raw is War by defeating The Rock in the main event thanks to interference by Stone Cold Steve Austin. The match would later cause IWF to beat rival promotion World Championship Wrestling (WCW) in the ratings war after a controversial incident during that evenings episode of Monday Nitro prompted 600,000 viewers to switch from Nitro to Raw to see Mankind's victory. Mankind lost the IWF title back to The Rock in a "I Quit" Match at Royal Rumble at which point the two would constantly trade titles until WrestleMania XV when The Rock finally lost the IWF Championship to Stone Cold Steve Austin while Mankind served as special guest referee.
Results
| No. | Matches | Stipulations | |
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| (c) – refers to the champion(s) heading into the match H – indicates the match was broadcast prior to the pay-per-view on Sunday Night Heat | |||
References
| ← 1997 • 1998 IWF pay-per-view events 1999 → | |||
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| Royal Rumble • No Way Out of Texas: In Your House • WrestleMania XIV • Unforgiven: In Your House • Over the Edge: In Your House • King of the Ring • Fully Loaded: In Your House • SummerSlam • Breakdown: In Your House • Judgment Day: In Your House • Survivor Series • Capital Carnage • Rock Bottom: In Your House |
