WrestleMania XV | ||||
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Promotional poster, showcasing The Rock, Paul Wight, The Undertaker, Triple H, Mankind, and Stone Cold Steve Austin
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Tagline(s) | The Ragin' Climax | |||
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Promotion | World Wrestling Federation | |||
Sponsor(s) | M&M's | |||
Date | March 28, 1999 | |||
Attendance | 20,276 | |||
Venue | First Union Center | |||
City | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | |||
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WrestleMania XV was the fifteenth annual WrestleMania professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF), which took place on March 28, 1999, at the First Union Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Ten professional wrestling matches were scheduled on the event's card. The main event saw the challenger Stone Cold Steve Austin face The Rock in a No Disqualification match for the WWF Championship. The penultimate match saw The Undertaker wrestle Big Boss Man in a Hell in a Cell match. Lower on the card, six of the seven active championships were defended, including the first WrestleMania defense of the Hardcore Championship. Also on the undercard was a Brawl for All match, an unscripted type of shootfight between wrestler Bart Gunn and boxer/mixed martial artist Butterbean. This event also marks the final WWF appearance for Gorilla Monsoon, who would pass away in October of that year.
The ticket sales of 20,276 drew a gross of $1,437,050.
When Road Dogg Jesse James and "Bad Ass" Billy Gunn lost the WWF Tag Team Championship to The Corporation, they tried their hand at singles wrestling for some time with Gunn failing in his attempts to win the WWF Intercontinental Championship, but Road Dogg becoming Hardcore Champion until an injury prevented him from honouring a championship match with Al Snow who ended up fighting himself, and then Bob Holly for the vacant belt at St. Valentine's Day Massacre: In Your House with the latter winning the title at the banks of the Mississippi River. When Road Dogg won the Intercontinental Championship on Raw is War Gunn fought Bob Holly (now Hardcore Holly) and won when Holly crashed into an ad-hoc announce table Jim Ross had constructed for his pirate broadcast of the show. Holly felt enraged that circumstances had conspired against him, while Snow still wanted another chance at the belt.