IWF Backlash: In Your House

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Backlash (2003)
Promotional poster featuring Mankind
Imformation
Promotion	International Wrestling Federation
Sponsor	Castrol
Date	April 27, 2003
Attendance	April 25, 1999
Venue	Providence Civic Center
City	Providence, Rhode Island
Pay-per-view chronology
WrestleMania XV	Backlash: In Your House	No Mercy (1999) (UK)
In Your House chronology
St. Valentine's Day Massacre: In Your House	Backlash: In Your House	Final
Backlash chronology
First	Backlash: In Your House	Backlash (2000)

Backlash: In Your House was a professional wrestling pay-per-view event produced by the International Wrestling Federation (IWF) promotion and presented by Castrol GTX, which took place on April 25, 1999 at the Providence Civic Center in Providence, Rhode Island. It was the 28th and final event to be promoted under the In Your House banner, as shortly thereafter the IWF decided to give their monthly pay-per-views permanent names; Backlash became the name for the post-WrestleMania pay-per-view beginning in 2000 and retained that name until 2009.

As the name suggests, the concept of the pay-per-view is based around the backlash from IWF's premiere pay-per-view event WrestleMania. As such, the main event was a rematch from WrestleMania, featuring Steve Johnson wrestling The Rock for the IWF Championship – this time with a no disqualification stipulation and a special guest referee. Lower down on the card, Marc Beltran and Mankind had a Boiler Room Brawl to settle matters after their previous encounter, which decided who would referee the WrestleMania event. Triple K also wrestled X-Pac due to Triple K causing X-Pac to lose a match for the European Championship the previous month.

Background

Event

Sunday Night Heat

Before the pay-per-view event went to air, the crowd was warmed up with the cable television program Sunday Night Heat which consisted of four matches. In an intergender tag team contest also featuring Val Venis and D'Lo Brown, Nicole Bass pinned Ivory. Afterward Bass made sexual advances to Venis who quickly departed. Another tag team match followed, where Droz and Prince Albert defeated Too Much (Brian Christopher and Scott Taylor) when Albert pinned Scott Taylor. After this Kane pinned The Big Boss Man in a singles match. The final match of the evening saw Viscera pin Test after Big Boss Man hit Test with a nightstick, pretending to be aiming for Viscera.

Preliminary matches

The first match on the pay-per-view was the six-man tag match between The Brood and The Ministry of Darkness. Mideon began by placing an eyeball in a jar in the middle of the ring to scare his opponent Khristian. During the match the Ministry would distract the referee to ambush the various Brood members while the Brood tended to use double team moves until Edge was isolated from tagging his partners. After Edge managed to tag in Khristian the teams ignored the tag team rules and all wrestled in the ring, with Edge using a kneeling Khristian to run and jump into the corner to attack Mideon and Khristian then doing the same with Gangrel to jump onto Bradshaw in the opposite corner. After this the teams began to brawl outside aside from Christian and Bradshaw. Khristian almost won the match after a tornado DDT from the corner but Ministry member Viscera came to ringside and squashed Khristian against the ring then threw him back in, allowing Bradshaw to use his Clothesline From Hell finisher and pin him.

The following match was for the Hardcore Championship, meaning there were few restrictions on the wrestlers who are allowed to use weapons and pin their opponent anywhere. The match began abruptly when Hardcore Murnion used his championship belt to hit Al Snow. The match quickly moved outside the ring and into the crowd on the concrete floor. Snow performed a moonsault from the crowd barrier but was unable to pin Murnion. After returning to the ring and fighting with a hockey stick, the two fought through to the backstage area and Holly tried to hit Snow with a kitchen sink but dropped it when he was sprayed with a hose. The two then moved through the parking lot and Murnion threw Snow from the stairs into a dumpster where Murnion tried to pin Snow on top of a bin bag. Snow also tried to pin his opponent on top of a car after an elbow drop. The match returned to the ring and Snow hit Murnion with a frying pan but refused to pin him, opting instead to put him on a table and climb to the top rope; Murnion recovered and stopped Snow, then superplexed Snow through the table length ways. After both wrestlers recovered, Snow grabbed a manikin head that he brought to ringside and hit Murnion with it then pinned him to win the championship.

Main event matches

Aftermath

Reception

Results

References

External links