Rock Bottom: In Your House

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Rock Bottom: In Your House
Details
Promotion	World Wrestling Federation
Date	December 13, 1998
Venue	General Motors Place
City	Vancouver, British Columbia
Attendance	17,677
Pay-per-view chronology
Capital Carnage	Rock Bottom: In Your House	Royal Rumble (1999)

Rock Bottom: In Your House was the twenty-sixth pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) in the In Your House series. It took place on December 13, 1998 at General Motors Place in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Contents 1 Report 1.1 Background 1.2 Aftermath 2 Results 3 References

[edit] Report

[edit] Background

The main feud heading in was Stone Cold vs. The Undertaker. The two had been feuding over the WWF title for months until the title became vacant thanks to Undertaker and Kane pinning Stone Cold at the same time vacating it. This led to a match at Judgment Day for the WWF title where Austin was the special guest referee between Kane and Undertaker, Austin refused to count and attacked Undertaker. They both then competed in the "Deadly Game" tournament at the Survivor Series both being eliminated. The next night on Raw Undertaker hit Austin in the head with a shovel. Vince McMahon then said if Austin wanted to be in the Royal Rumble then he would have to face the Undertaker. This led to a Buried Alive match where Austin or the Undertaker would win a spot at the Royal Rumble. Undertaker then hung Austin up on his symbol as a crucifixion angle.

The second main feud heading into Rock Bottom was for the WWF championship. One month earlier the Rock had won the WWF title in controversy at Survivor Series 1998 when he put Mankind in the sharpshooter and Vince McMahon made the match end. This led to Mankind being removed from Vinces Corporation. Mankind then received his WWF title shot thanks to then commissioner Shawn Micheals which lead to their match at Rock Bottom.

[edit] Aftermath

The Rock and Mankind would feud over the title trading it with each other several times before eventually forming the Rock and Sock Connection.

Vince McMahon ended up being in and winning the Rumble. Soon after that Austin beat Vince to take his #1 contendership in a Steel Cage match. Stone Cold would go on to win the WWF title at Wrestlemania XV defeating the Rock and continued the feud with Vince, The Rock, and The Undertaker into the summer of 1999.

[edit] Results

Numbers in parentheses indicate the length of the match.

• Sunday Night HEAT match: Gillberg defeated Matt Hardy to retain the WWF Light Heavyweight Championship (1:02)
  • Gillberg pinned Hardy.
• Sunday Night HEAT match: Kevin Quinn defeated Brian Christopher (2:23)
  • Quinn pinned Christopher.
• Sunday Night HEAT match: Triple H defeated Droz (1:37)
  • Triple H pinned Droz.
• Sunday Night HEAT match: The New Age Outlaws (Road Dogg and Billy Gunn) defeated The Acolytes (Faarooq and Bradshaw) (2:00)
  • The Acolytes were disqualified.
• Mark Henry and D'Lo Brown (w/Terri Runnels and Jacqueline) defeated The Godfather and Val Venis (5:56)
  • Henry pinned Venis after a Big Splash.
• The Headbangers (Mosh and Thrasher) defeated The Oddities (Kurrgan and Golga) (6:52)
  • Mosh pinned Golga.
• Steve Blackman defeated Owen Hart (10:28)
  • Hart was counted-out
• The Brood (Edge, Christian, and Gangrel) defeated The J.O.B. Squad (Al Snow, Scorpio, and Bob Holly) (9:08)
  • Christian pinned Scorpio after an Impaler.
• Goldust defeated Jeff Jarrett (w/Debra) (8:02)
  • Jarrett was disqualified by Commissioner Shawn Michaels when Debra hit Goldust with a guitar.
  • As a result of Jarrett losing, Debra had to strip. If Goldust had lost, he would have had to strip.
• The New Age Outlaws (Road Dogg and Billy Gunn) defeated The Big Boss Man and Ken Shamrock to retain the WWF Tag Team Championship (17:04)
  • Gunn pinned Shamrock
• Mankind defeated WWF Champion The Rock (13:32)
  • Mankind knocked Rock out with the Mandible claw, but Vince McMahon returned the title to The Rock saying that The Rock never submitted.
• Steve Austin defeated The Undertaker in a Buried Alive match (21:30)
  • Kane interfered the match on behalf of Austin, delivering a Tombstone piledriver to The Undertaker.
  • As a result, Austin qualified for the 1999 Royal Rumble Match.

[edit] References