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#REDIRECT [[IWF Backlash (1999)]]
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| align="center" colspan=3 bgcolor="#ffffff" style="border-bottom:1px solid gray; font-size:150%;" | <span style="color: #000000;">'''Backlash'''</span><br>
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| bgcolor=#ffffff align="center" colspan="3" style="font-size: 115%;" |Promotional poster featuring [[Jon Foley|Mankind]] and [[Jayme Johnson|The<br>Rock]]
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| bgcolor=#BDBDBD align="center" colspan="3" style="font-size: 115%;" |'''Information'''
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| style="text-align: left;" style="font-size: 115%;" |'''[[Professional Wrestling Promotion|Promotion]]'''
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| bgcolor="#ffffff" colspan= "2" style="font-size: 115%;" |[[IWE|International Wrestling Federation]]
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| style="text-align: left;" style="font-size: 115%;" |'''Date'''
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| bgcolor="#ffffff" colspan= "2" style="font-size: 115%;" |April 27, 2003
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| style="text-align: left;" style="font-size: 115%;" |'''Venue'''
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| bgcolor="#ffffff" colspan= "2" style="font-size: 115%;" |[[Dunkin' Donuts Center|Providence Civic Center]]
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| bgcolor="#ffffff" colspan= "2" style="font-size: 115%;" |[[Providence, Rhode Island]]
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| bgcolor=#BDBDBD align="center" colspan="3" style="font-size: 115%;" |'''Pay-per-view chronology'''
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| bgcolor=#ffffff align="center" colspan="1" style="font-size: 115%;" |'''← Previous'''<br>[[IWF WrestleMania 15|WrestleMania XV]]
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| bgcolor=#ffffff align="center" colspan="1" style="font-size: 115%;" |'''Next →'''<br>[[IWF No Mercy (UK)|No Mercy]]
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| bgcolor=#BDBDBD align="center" colspan="3" style="font-size: 115%;" |'''[[IWE Backlash|Blacklash]] chronology'''
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| bgcolor=#ffffff align="center" colspan="1" style="font-size: 115%;" |'''← Previous'''<br>''First''
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| bgcolor=#ffffff align="center" colspan="1" style="font-size: 115%;" |'''Next →'''<br>[[IWF Backlash (2000)|Backlash]]
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'''Backlash: In Your House''' was a professional wrestling pay-per-view  [[List of IWE pay-per-view events|event]] produced by the [[IWE|International Wrestling Federation]] (IWF) [[Professional Wrestling Promotion|promotion]] and [[Sponsor (Commercial)|presented]] by [[Castrol|Castrol GTX]], which took place on April 25, 1999 at the [[Providence Civic Center]] in [[Providence, Rhode Island]]. [[IWE Backlash|Backlash]] became the name for the post-[[IWE WrestleMania|WrestleMania]] pay-per-view beginning in 1999 and retained that name until 2009, before being resurrected in 2016 (albeit after SummerSlam) before getting back to the post-WrestleMania slot the following year.
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The concept of the pay-per-view was based around the backlash from IWF's premiere pay-per-view event WrestleMania. As such, the [[Card (Sports)#Main event|main event]] was a rematch from WrestleMania, featuring [[Stone Cold Steve Johnson|Steve Johnson]] wrestling [[Jayme Johnson|The Rock]] for the [[IWE Championship|IWF Championship]] – this time with a [[Referee (professional wrestling)#Special referees|special guest referee]], [[Shane Matteson]]. Lower down on the [[Card (Sports)|card]], [[Marc Beltran|Paul Wight]] and [[Jon Foley|Mankind]] had a [[Professional wrestling match types#Boiler Room Brawl|Boiler Room Brawl]] to settle matters after their previous encounter, which decided who would referee the WrestleMania event. [[Triple K]] also wrestled [[Sean McCurry|X-Pac]] due to Triple K causing X-Pac to lose a match for the [[IWE European Championship|European Championship]] the previous month.
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==Storylines==
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The event consisted of eight [[Professional Wrestling|professional wrestling matches]] with predetermined outcomes. The matches involved wrestlers portraying their characters (known as [[Glossary of professional wrestling terms#Gimmick|gimmicks]]) in planned storylines that took place before, during and after the event.
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The main [[Feud (professional wrestling)|feud]] going into the event involved the [[IWE Championship|IWF Championship]], which [[Stone Cold Steve Johnson|Stone Cold Steve Austin]] had won from [[Jayme Johnson|The Rock]] at [[IWF WrestleMania 15|WrestleMania XV]]. The following night on ''[[IWE Raw|Raw is War]]'', however, Austin demanded the return of his [[IWE Championship#Custom belt designs|Smoking Skull belt]], a personalized championship belt that he had worn the previous year during his tenure as IWF Champion, which [[Heel (professional wrestling)|villainous]] IWF owner [[Vince Matteson|Mr. Matteson]] had stolen from him at [[IWF Breakdown: In Your House|Breakdown: In Your House]], after causing Austin to lose. Rather than oppose him as he usually would, Matteson acquiesced to the request as [[Martin McAlmond|The Undertaker]] had threatened his family. Mr. Matteson's son, [[Shane Matteson|Shane]], disagreed and went against his father's wishes, stealing the Smoking Skull belt and giving it to The Rock, who was part of the villainous alliance [[The Corporation (professional wrestling)|The Corporation]]. Shane then unceremoniously ejected his father from The Corporation while Austin and Rock continued to feud over ownership of Austin's personalized belt. This culminated with a fight between the two which ended with Rock throwing Austin, and then the belt, into a river from a bridge in [[Detroit]] which alluded to the events of December 1997 when Austin threw Rock's Intercontinental Championship into the Oyster river. The Rock held a mock funeral the following week for Austin, revealing he still had possession of the Smoking Skull belt; Austin crashed the funeral with a [[Monster Truck|monster truck]] and crushed Rock's [[Limousine|limousine]] and [[Hearse|hearse]]. During the ''[[IWE Heat|Sunday Night Heat]]'' that aired before the event, Shane declared that the match was to have a no disqualification stipulation and announced himself as the special guest referee.
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[[Image:Undertaker with Fire.jpg|thumb|[[Martin McAlmond|The Undertaker]]'s [[Ministry of Darkness]] group was involved in a number of rivalries at Backlash]]
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The Undertaker, meanwhile, was involved in a storyline where he became the leader of a Satanic group of wrestlers called The [[Ministry of Darkness]]. During the beginning of the year he began to articulate a desire for [[Kalia Matteson]] leading to a [[Hell in a Cell Match|Hell in a Cell]] match at WrestleMania where Corporation member [[Brandon Traylor (<!--McDonald's-->wrestler)|The Big Boss Man]] was hanged from the ceiling. Undertaker then became more aggressive in his actions, demanding Kaila and offering 'sacrifices' when she was not given over to him. One woman he sacrificed, via crucifixion, was [[Jessica <!--Nicole--> Webb<!--ster-->|Ryan Shamrock]] who played the on-screen sister of [[Ken Sherman|Ken Shamrock]]. Fighting for family honor, Shamrock vowed to break Undertaker's leg.
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Undertaker's obsession with Kaila led to another match being made at the event. During April Undertaker successfully managed to abduct Kaila, however Shamrock, looking for revenge, set about trying to find her and attacked various members of the Ministry for her whereabouts. Eventually [[Ryan <!--Barnhart--> Reso (wrestler)|Christian]] revealed where she was, forcing The Undertaker to reprimand him by whipping him and leading to a crucifixion. While he was in the Ministry along with [[Kevin Copeland (wrestler)|Edge]] and [[Wayne A. Waltz <!--Heath--> (wrestler)|Gangrel]], the three also made up a smaller group named [[The Brood (professional wrestling)|The Brood]] who chose Christian over the Ministry and saved him, leaving the Ministry. This led to Undertaker's minions being forced to wrestle the Brood.
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Elsewhere on the card, [[Triple K]] fought [[Sean McCurry|X-Pac]] due to events that transpired at WrestleMania. During the event [[Maria Senden|Chyna]], who had been Triple K's [[Manager (professional wrestling)|valet]] and girlfriend but had since turned on him to ally with [[Glenn McAlmond (wrestler)|Kane]], reunited with Triple K. The two, who were in a wrestling group called [[D-Generation X]], came to ringside later in the match to ostensibly help fellow D-Generation X member X-Pac in his match against Shane Matteson. The two attacked X-Pac in order to ally with Matteson and The Corporation, however, and as a result, X-Pac lost the European Championship match.
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Two [[Hardcore Wrestling|hardcore wrestling]] matches were scheduled for the card. The first was a specialty match, a Boiler Room Brawl based around wrestler [[Jon Foley|Mankind]] who was billed as being "from the boiler room". As a former member of The Corporation and challenger for The Rock's IWF Championship in December and January, Mankind found himself coming to blows with the Corporate [[Enforcer (professional wrestling)|enforcer]] [[Marc Beltran|Paul Wight]] especially when Wight caused Mankind to lose his belt in a [[Ladder Match|ladder match]], removing him from the main event of WrestleMania. Desperate to be part of WrestleMania's main event, Mankind staked a claim to be the special guest referee but Corporation leader Vince Matteson preferred Wight officiating to ensure The Rock remained champion. The two had a match at WrestleMania to determine who would referee the main event, which Mankind won by [[Professional Wrestling#Disqualification|disqualification]]. In the storyline, however, Mankind was hospitalized after the match, while Wight was arrested after he punched Matteson for slapping him. With this, Wight left The Corporation but maintained a desire to settle the score between the two in a hardcore match. Gradually the two came to respect each other, rescuing the other from Corporate assaults, but wanted to wrestle for pride. The other hardcore match on the card was for the [[IWE Hardcore Championship|IWF Hardcore Championship]]; [[Michael Haub|Bob Holly]] had wrestled [[Allen <!--Steve--> Spaulding|Al Snow]] on the banks of the [[Mississippi River]] two months prior and despite the latter being notorious for his hardcore prowess, Holly picked up the victory. The two fought at WrestleMania but the match also included [[Billy Morgan|Billy Gunn]] and a deciding bout was needed. For Backlash, [["Dr. Death" Kenneth Williams<!--(1969 pg. 146)--> (wrestler)|"Dr. Death" Steve Williams]] was scheduled to fight Snow and Holly, making the hardcore match a three-way for the IWF Hardcore Championship. However, Williams was taken off of television in mid-April for needing further time to rehab his injury and for refusing to work for [[Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling|FMW]]. He was released shortly afterwards. Williams had been being built as a midcarder at the time, feuding with Snow and Holly since March.
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The final rivalry going into the evening saw [[Dustin Semmler|Goldust]] try to regain his [[IWE Intercontinental Championship|IWF Intercontinental Championship]]. On ''Raw is War'' Goldust was scheduled to defend against Big Boss Man but [[Charles Warren (wrestler)|The Godfather]], a wrestler whose gimmick involved being a [[Pimp|pimp]], offered Boss Man some prostitutes to take his place and won the title.
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|[[Jerry Lawler]]
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|[[Kevin Kelly (announcer)|Kevin Kelly]]
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===Sunday Night Heat===
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===Preliminary matches===
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==Aftermath==
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:''See also [[IWF Over the Edge (1999)|Over the Edge (1999)]]''
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===Reception===
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[[Canadian Online Explorer]]'s professional wrestling section rated the entire event 8 out of 10, declaring "the World Wrestling Federation had something to prove and prove it they did" in reference to a lackluster WrestleMania. Both the main event and the Boiler Room Brawl received a full 10 with reviewer John Powell declaring the main event had "enough imagination in it" to top their previous encounter. While most matches had strong ratings, the Intercontinental Championship match was given a lowly 4 out of 10. The most criticized match was the penultimate contest between The Undertaker and Ken Shamrock which was given only 3 out of 10 and described as an "unbearably boring, 18 minute-plus submission hold extravaganza".
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!style="border-style: none none solid solid; background: #e3e3e3"|Results
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!1{{small|<sup>H</sup>}}
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|[[<!--Sean--> Eugene E. <!--Allen--> Morse|Val Venis]] and [[Mary Barr|Nicole Bass]] defeated [[Roy <!--Julius--> Hoover|D'Lo Brown]] and [[Luci<!--lle--> McCarter (wrestler)|Ivory]]
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|[[Darren <!--Ronnie--> Drude<!--zov--> (wrestler)|Droz]] and [[Dustin Bloom|Prince Albert]] defeated [[Too Cool|Too Much]] ([[John LaBorde|Brian Christopher]] and [[Greg Gardner|Scott Taylor]])
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|[[Glenn McAlmond (wrestler)|Kane]] defeated [[Brandon Traylor (<!--McDonald's-->wrestler)|The Big Boss Man]]
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|[[The Ministry of Darkness]] ([[John Goff|Bradshaw]], [[Jon Rispen|Faarooq]] & [[<!--Dennis--> Kermit Kraemer<!--Knight-->|Mideon]]) defeated [[The Brood]] ([[Kevin Copeland (wrestler)|Edge]], [[Ryan <!--Barnhart--> Reso (wrestler)|Christian]] and [[Wayne A. Waltz <!--Heath--> (wrestler)|Gangrel]])
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|[[Allen <!--Steve--> Spaulding|Al Snow]] (with [[Mannequin|Head]]) defeated [[Michael Haub|Hardcore Holly]] (c)
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|[[Charles Warren (wrestler)|The Godfather]] (c) defeated [[Dustin Semmler|Goldust]] (with [[Brian <!--Scott--> Hemphill|The Blue Meanie]])
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|[[The New Age Outlaws]] ([[James Burdick|Road Dogg]] and [[Billy Morgan|Billy Gunn]]) defeated [[Owen Heart]] and [[Benjamin Moss|Jeff Jarrett]] (with [[Debra <!--Debbie--> Nigg|Debra]])
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|[[Jon Foley|Mankind]] defeated [[Marc Beltran|Big Show]]
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|[[Martin McAlmond|The Undertaker]] (with [[Paul Bearer]]) defeated [[Ken Sherman|Ken Shamrock]]
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|[[Stone Cold Steve Johnson|Stone Cold Steve Austin]] (c) defeated [[Jamye Johnson|The Rock]]
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|[[Professional wrestling match types#No Holds Barred match|No Holds Barred match]] for the [[IWE Championship|IWF Championship]] with [[Shane Matteson]] as [[Professional wrestling match types#Special referee|special guest referee]]
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