Stone Cold Steve Austin faces The Rock with the WWE Championship on the line. Mankind faces Big Show. Kane clashes with Triple H. The Road Dogg, Ken Shamrock, Goldust, and Val Venis compete in a Fatal 4-Way Elimination Match for the WWE Intercontinental Championship and more!
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The best thing you can say about most of the matches of "Wrestlemania XV" is that they are relatively short (in the case of a boxing match, 30 seconds short - at least that's unusual) and they don't overstay their welcome. But too many unclean finishes, too much (bad) soap opera and too little actual wrestling make this a middling Wrestlemania. Obviously the main event, Rock vs. Austin for the WWF title, is the big draw, and after a draggy all-over-the-arena slugfest it does gain some electricity when it moves back inside the ring.
1. Hardcore Triple Threat match: Al Snow Vs. Hardcore Holly Vs. Champ-Billy Gunn - Lol at ending, Bob Holly won after Billy finished Snow. 7.5/10 2. Test/D'Lo Brown Vs. Owen Hart/Jeff Jarrett 7.5/10 3. Brawl for All-Boxing match: Butterbean Vs. Bart Gunn - 1 round match :D Big lol 6/10 4. Big Show Vs. Mankind - Mankind won by DQ and Giant Choke-Slammed McMahon 7/10 5. WWF Intercontinental Title 4 way Match: Champ-Road Dogg Vs. Val Venis Vs. Goldust Vs. Shamrock - Weakly scripted match with double Count-out and Road Dogg Old-schooled pin. 6.5/10 6. Kane Vs. Triple H - Chyna helped HHH and we have another DQ ending, but it's great, because they sleep together again, we're happy. 6/10 7. WWF Women Title Match: Champ-Sable Vs. Tori - OMG, that was really weak, probably the worst thing on the card. 4/10 8. WWF European Title Match: Champ-Shane McMahon Vs. X-Pac - HHH turned on X-Pac and let Shane got pin. 6.5/10 9. Hell in a Cell Match: The Undertaker Vs. Big Stiff Man - One of the worst HiC matches, because of that poor untalented Traylor. At least he didn't win. And hanging him with rope? That was sick even on me. 6.5/1010. WWF World Heavyweight Title Match: Stone Cold Steve Austin Vs. Champ-The Rock - Austin scored again. 7.5/10
Another disappointing event which somehow drew a then wrestling record of 800,000 buys and it also grossed a truck load of money.This Wrestlemania was OK in certain parts but there was some totally baffling decisions on the show like pushing 'Road Dogg' Jesse James to Intercontinental Championship level and having Owen Hart participate in a lousy tag match which also featured Jeff Jarrett, the underused D'Lo Brown and the boring and depressing Andrew 'Test' Martin. Owen was not treated fairly in my opinion and deserved to be in a much better match. More upsetting though was this was Owen's last Wrestlemania before he tragically died.The Hell in a Cell match between The Undertaker and Big Bossman was a colossal bore and is the worst Hell in a Cell ever. Worse even when The Undertaker won this dreadful match he tied a rope around Bossman's neck and Gangrel, Edge and Christian helped Taker to lift Bossman off the ground in other words Bossman was hanging. Oh dear deeply unpleasant in a wrestling setting.However the card does have some good points especially the exciting Boiler Room Brawl between The Big Show and Mankind. And even though The Rock and 'Stone Cold' had a satisfactory main event Rock seemed a little nervous out there and this also featured the funny sight of Kane tombstoning Pete Rose and Butterbean knocking out Bart Gunn in a boxing match.Results from the show which was held in Philadelphia: Hardcore Holly defeated Billy Gunn and Al Snow in a passable Hardcore match to win the Hardcore title (Gunn was super over although I couldn't understand why).... Owen Hart and Jeff Jarrett downed D'Lo Brown and Test to retain the WWF Tag Team titles in a passable match.... Butterbean beat Bart Gunn in the Brawl 4 All finals.... 'Road Dogg' Jesse James defeated Val Venis, Ken Shamrock and Goldust to retain the Intercontinental Championship (Shamrock was wasted in this match).... Kane downed Triple H via DQ in a short match.... Women's Champion, Sable downed Tori to retain the title in a lame Women's match ( The abysmal Nicole Bass came out and destroyed Tori, which enabled Sable to get the win, which left fans confused).... Mankind defeated Big Show via DQ in a good match.... Shane McMahon downed X-Pac to retain the European Championship.... 'Stone Cold' Steve Austin defeated The Rock to become the Heavyweight Champion in a satisfactory main event.Grade - B/C
Wrestlemania XV didn't live up to my expectations, which is not very surprising given that some of the show was haphazardly booked. I mean, pushing Road Dogg to the IC title and Gunn toward the Hardcore title made no sense given the opposite build up that had been going on for weeks (not to mention the fact that Road Dogg is NOT IC title material.) HHH still hadn't found himself, though his match with Kane was pretty good. X-Pac's bout with Shane was surprisingly enjoyable and one of the best matches of the night. The women's title match and the brawl for all were horrible, but hey, what were you expecting? The tag-title match made no sense, and the Hell in a Cell match was just plain abysmal. Still Austin and Rock put on a good, solid main event, though they would outdo themselves a month later. After first buying this PPV, I felt like I had wasted my money, but in retrospect, it wasn't horrible. Still, definitely not a great PPV by Wrestlemania standards. Do yourself a favor and watch X and VIII, for some truly memorable Wrestlemania action.