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Wwe royal rumble 199911/12/2022 ![]() Dogg with a running forearm followed by the shaky knee drop for a two count. Dogg with jabs, then a right handed punch and a jumping splash on Boss Man’s back. Boss Man went to the ropes for obviously nothing and Dogg slammed him off the top. Dogg came back with a sleeper, Boss Man did an eye rake and a backbreaker. He threw a lot of punches and then hit a running splash on Dogg’s back. Boss Man tried to take a turnbuckle pad off, he failed and hit a spinebuster for two. Boss Man with a bearhug, Dogg bit him and Boss Man punched him to put him against the turnbuckle. Boss Man whipped Dogg into the turnbuckle for a two count. Boss Man worked over Dogg with punches, then a whip into the ropes and a boot to the face. Boss Man followed up the attack on the floor with a punch to the throat. Boss Man hit a back elbow on Dogg to knock him out of the ring. Boss Man grabbed his nightstick, the referee took it away, so Dogg capitalized by pulling Boss Man groin first into the ring post. Dogg did the ten corner punches with the crowd chanting along, Boss Man with an atomic drop and Dogg hit a dropkick. Boss Man hit a running splash against the turnbuckle, followed by some choking and then Boss Man missed a corner splash when Dogg moved. The crowd was into it chanting Boss Man sucks as Boss Man used his power early by punching Dogg into the turnbuckle. Boss Man was also one half of the Tag Team Champions along with Ken Shamrock. ![]() Dogg was the face while Boss Man was the heel. Pre-match notes: This was not a Hardcore Title match even though Road Dogg was the Hardcore Champion. Big Boss Man was up next as the opponent and he barely got a reaction. Road Dogg did his usual intro full of catchphrases. The Road Dogg made his entrance with the Hardcore Title. The announcers were Michael Cole and Jerry “The King” Lawler with Cole replacing Jim Ross, who was out for a few months with Bell’s Pallsy. There was a nice pyro display by the entrance. The theme song for the show was “No Chance in Hell” which ended up becoming Vince McMahon’s theme song. They replayed Vince saying “no chance in hell” of Austin winning the match. There was also a $100,000 bounty on Austin if somebody is able to eliminate him. There was an opening video package focusing on the Royal Rumble match with Steve Austin in the #1 spot and Vince McMahon was going to be #2 in the match. Check out the WWE PPV review archive on TJRWrestling right here. My additional 2021 thoughts are in blue font as well because there’s always more to say. This show was used to set up WrestleMania 15 (read my review here). Do I still have those same opinions? Let’s find out. I didn’t like this Rumble a lot when I saw it live in 1999. It was part of “stacking the odds” against Stone Cold. The announcers really drove that point home in the build to the show. ![]() Going into the Royal Rumble match, one of the big things was the $100,000 bounty that Vince placed on Austin. ![]()
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