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D-Generation X (Triple H, X-Pac, "Road Dogg" Jesse James, "Bad Ass" Billy Gunn) and WWF co-owner Stephanie McMahon-Helmsley show up to start tonight's show. Triple H says it is the final Raw before a new millennium, and he finds it fitting that the McMahon-Helmsley Era is running the show. He says it does not matter what happened in the last 1,000 years; what matters is right here, right now, where they are the be-all and end-all of the WWF, as the crowd is witnessing the near-perfect completion of a perfect plan. It is only near-perfect as there is one more thing to accomplish: taking back the WWF Championship. Tonight, Big Show will be the completion of their plan when he steps into the ring with the single-greatest wrestler of all time - himself - and help him complete that plan when he beats him for the WWF Championship. Stephanie declares that the McMahon-Helmsley Era is going strong into the new millennium, but last Thursday on SmackDown, he kept his word, and tonight, Kane will have to face X-Pac. She says a McMahon always keeps their word unless they are forced to break it, and Mankind forced her to break her word on SmackDown, and says there will be no mutiny or rebel rousing. Triple H says the guys in the back need to realize it will be a lot easier to be with them than against them, and Mankind is a prime example of exactly that, saying that instead of rallying forces against them in the back, he will have learned that they are the power and everyone else will learn eventually. Mankind shows up, and says there will be unionizing, rebel rousing or mutiny, as he is all by himself. However, he has a lot on his mind and ponts to make pertaining to DX, and he will make those points tonight. He, like a lot of people, used to think that DX was "pretty cool," and that it was almost a year ago that DX hoisted him above their shoulders when he won the WWF Championship for the very first time. Almost a year later, instead of seeing cool guys, he sees a bunch of pointless cowards scurrying like cowards to their overbearing parents. He tells Road Doog to look at himself and ask what it felt like to take an elbow from Test, when he is one of the most creative people in the company, but he has been reduced to being Triple H's bootlicker. He also asks Billy Gunn how it felt to have Kane's hand around his throat, and instead of "Mr. Ass," he wants to call him "Mr. Ass Kisser." He then says it is good X-Pac was on hiatus, and he would have been thrown to the wolves last Thursday, too. He knows Triple H is out for the WWF Championship and cares for nothing else, and as he gets in the ring, he says that when he takes the WWF Championship, he will leave DX high and dry as he does not care about anybody else in the group. He then tells Stephanie that The Godfather wants her in the back with the other hos. Not surprisingly, he gets attacked by DX, but The Rock almost immediately runs into the ring and quickly cleans house single-handedly. DX runs to the stage, and Triple H says he is sick of this, and says this place is not big enough for all three of them and that somebody has to leave. After Stephanie whispers in his ear, Triple H announces that we have seen the last of "The Rock 'n Sock Connection" and that they will never be seen together again, for tonight, both Mankind and The Rock will fight each other in a Pink Slip On A Pole Match, and whoever loses is gone for good. Triple H declares that DX has the last laugh, and they have two words for one of them: you're fired.
Kane is seen backstage waiting for Tori.
Chyna and The Kat make their way to the ring. Chyna says that if Crash Holly wants to challenge her to a match and talk trash behind her back, then he can come to the ring right now. Hardcore and Holly Crash show up, then Hardcore Holly guests on commentary after Crash hits Chyna with a cheap shot. It is then announced that Tori has arrived to the arena.
Chyna beats Crash Holly.
Tori is seen hugging Kane backstage, then tells him her weekend was absolutely incredible and that X-Pac was a gentleman. She could have left any time he wanted, but she stayed to honor his commitment. Nevertheless, Kane was the only thing she tought of the whole time, then offers to grab him some coffee.
Tori is seen talking to The Brooklyn Brawler about her weekend. When Test wraps his arm around her shoulder and talks to her, however, Tori gets nervous and scared and moves away. Test has no idea what is going on.
The Dudley Boyz (Buh Buh Ray and D-Von Dudley) beat The Acolytes (Faarooq and Bradshaw), the team of The Godfather and D'Lo Brown and the team of Edge and Christian in a Four Corners Tag Team Match. During the match, Rodney and Pete Gas attack Bradshaw, and The Dudley Boyz double-team Faarooq from behind. They win the match after a fast count from Joey Abs. After the match, Bradshaw grabs a steel chair and hits all three members of THe Mean Street Posse (Rodney, Pete Gas, Joey Abs) before he and Faarooq hit them with double-team maneuvers.
In the locker room, Kane asks Tori to calm down. Tori is crying as she says that Test touched her and said inappropriate things to her. Kane is crying as he hugs her.
Backstage, WWF co-owner Stephanie McMahon-Helmsley tells Triple H that it is about time that he bought her a diamond as the camera is centered on her diamond ring. Triple H says it took a while, but admits it is a heck of a rock. Speaking of a rock, either The Rock and Mankind are getting fired tonight. Stephanie says that Big SHow is also going down, as a new millennium needs a new WWF Champion in Triple H. He also says Kurt Angle's undefeated streak needs to come to an end, and that Angle will be in a handicap match against The Headbangers (Thrasher and Mosh) now that Stephanie has told "The Lethal Weapon" Steve Blackman top stop interfering in Angle's matches. Stephanie asks Triple H why he would want to do that. Suddenly, Kane and Tori show up, and Kane wants Test. Tori asks Triple H to make the match against Test and not X-Pac, and Triple H makes the match.
Before the next match, Kurt Angle says everyone is aware of who he is and what his accomplishments are, as well as his "3 I's" - intensity, integrity and intelligence. He also says that just like other cities in America, Greensboro, North Carolina does not have the most intelligent people in the world, nor will they ever. However, two out of three ain't bad, and if they stick to the intensity and integrity, they will do just fine.
Kurt Angle beats The Headbangers (Thrasher and Mosh) in a 2-on-1 handicap match. During the match, "The Lethal Weapon" Steve Blackman shows up and hits Mosh with a Kendo Stick as Thrasher distracts the referee, and this allows Angle to win the match. After the match, The Headbangers continues to attack Kurt Angle with a double-team powerbomb-leg drop combination, but Blackman gets back in the ring and scares them off with the Kendo stick.
Backstage, Triple H is aggravated that Kurt Angle has just won tonight, Stephanie says "The Lethal Weapon" Steve Blackman is not a rocket scientist and that must have forogtten, then says that Angle is a pretty good wrestler, just like Triple H. Triple H says he would kill Angle in the ring.
Michael Cole interviews Mankind backstage. Mankind says it is the stupidest thing he has ever heard of, and hates himself for carrying through with it. He admits that The Rock is the most electrifying man in sports entertainment, but admits his own career is winding down and The Rock's best days are far ahead of him. It would be a shame for either him or The Rock to leave, and he asks the fans to forgive him if he does a few things are uncharacteristic of him, but at the same time, he has to do what he has to do.
Before the next match, Al Snow says he is not out here tonight for the fan's entertainment, as he has been in the business for 17 years. In those 17 years, he has made a lot of sacrifices, giving up watching his children grow up, spending long stretches away from his wife, and losing his best friend. He says he has done this for "a bunch of ungrateful, disrespectful people" who will not even acknowledge that they watched him wrestle the next day. He wants everyone in the arena and at home to know that some TV write did not tell him to come out and says this, and that he is saying this from his heart: he hates the fans. He says this is where he will draw the line, and he will not make another single sacrifice. Suddenly, Chris Jericho interrupts him. He says he was listening to Al SNow's prblems and grievances, and he has a solution: shutting the hell up. He also says that people will acknowledge him tomorrow when he is brutally beaten by the Ayatollah of Rock 'n Rollah.
Al Snow beats Chris Jericho by disqualification after Chyna shows up and hits Al Snow with Head. Chris Jericho retains the WWF Intercontinental Championship.
"Sexual Chocolate' Mark Henry asks Harvey Wippleman to go on a double date with him, Mae Young and The Fabulous Moolah. Harvey says the only way he will do it is if Moolah puts him in an inescapable wrestling hold. Moolah then grabs him by the ear and threatens to do just that. Wippleman says he will go only because Mark is his friend.
WAR ZONE
The Rock beats Mankind in a Pink Slip On A Pole Match. As a result, Mankind is fied from the World Wrestling Federation. During the match, D-Generation X (Triple H, X-Pac, "Road Dogg" Jesse James, "Bad Ass" Billy Gunn) is seen watching the match in the locker room. Shortly after this, Al Snow shows up and hits The Rock with Head, then tries to revive Mankind so he can climb to the top and grab the pink slip. Mankind almost grabs it, but he comes back down, hits Al Snow with a few right hands and throws him out of the ring. He then runs into a Rock Bottom, and Al Snow is heard saying that is the last time he will ever help Mankind. After the match, DX and WWF co-owner Stephanie McMahon-Helmsley are seen celebrating in the locker room. Mankind then gets a standing ovation from the crowd, and says there is never any shame to losing to The Rock, though there is shame in the way it came about. He planned to call it quits sometime in the year 2000, but by his calculations, it's still 1999 and what just happened "kinda sucks." He says he has given the world a lot to remember him by, and ask the crowd that, when they are bored, to take out a Mick Foley tape, whether it be Mankind or Cactus Jack. Mankind then tells the crowd that he enjoyed every moment of those last 15 years. He then asks them not to play this match, because what happened at the hands of DX is a farce. He asks the fans to have a nice day, then the fans give him a standing ovation one more time. All the while, DX continues to mock Mankind now that he is fired.
The Godfather, Edge, Christian and Matt Hardy wish Mankind luck as he tells them to give the crowd "a little Mick Foley" every once in a while.
The team of Prince Albert and Ivory beat team of Val Venis and The Kat, the team of Viscera and Jacqueline and the team of Gangrel and Luna Vachon in the first-ever Intergender Four Corners Tag Team Match after taking advantage of the fact that Gangrel is not the legal man after Venis hits him with the Money Shot.
"Sexual Chocolate" Mark Henry and Harvey Wippleman are at a restaurant as part of their double date with Mae Young and The Fabulous Moolah. Mark Henry reads Mae Young another poem. Harvey does the same for The Fabulous Moolah just to mess around with her.
Mankind goes into a production truck as part of his thanking everybody on the way out.
X-Pac beats Jeff Hardy. During the match, X-Pac tries to corner Terri Runnels in the ring, but Jeff Hardy hits him from behind before he can have his way with her.
Back at the restaurant, a fan asks "Sexual Chocolate" Mark Henry for an autograph. Mark signs it, then the fan asks why he is such a loser. Mark laughs, and says it's not that crucial, but when the fans keeps it up, Mae Young and The Fabulous Moolah beat him up. Mark Henry and Harvey Wippleman have to keep them away from her.
Before the next match, Test tells Kane that he did not inappropriately touch Tori, and that he neither needs or wants Tori as he has enough woman problems of his own. Test then tells Kane to give Tori some Prozac or Midol to chill her out. If Kane wants to fight him over nothing, however, he will not back down.
Test beats Kane by disqualification after Kane tosses referee Jimmy Korderas down before hitting Test with the Tombstone Piledriver. It is noticed that Tori is not herself after Kane hits Test with the Tombstone Piledriver.
Mankind says goodbye to the referees and officials of the WWF as well as to Gerald Brisco and Pat Patterson on his way out. D-Generation X (Triple H, X-Pac, "Road Dogg" Jesse James, "Bad Ass" Billy Gunn) and WWF co-owner Stephanie McMahon notice that Mankind is taking his time with the goodbyes, and decides to get security involved.
Michael Cole interviews Big Show, who says that this may be the last time he holds the WWF Championship, but he knows what is going on, and he sees what Triple H does ever since he has taken over, and says Triple H has made everything into a game and has mastered putting him through hell. Big Show says he has squashed everybody he has come up against, and now Triple H wants to step in the ring with him. He will not let Triple H bet the showstopper, and tonight, it will be game over for him.
The New Age Outlaws ("Road Dogg" Jesse James and "Bad Ass" Billy Gunn) retain the WWF Tag Team Championships against Too Cool (Grandmaster Sexay and Scotty 2 Hotty). During the match, Rikishi hits a standing side kick on Billy Gunn at ringside, and referee Teddy Long has to keep Rikishi away from him. Grandmaster Sexay hits a leg drop from the top rope on Road Dogg, but X-Pac gets in the ring and hits Grandmaster Sexay with the X-Factor to allow the Outlaws to retain. After the match, Rikishi plants Road Dogg with a piledriver, then Too Cool brawls with X-Pac and the Outlaws, and Too Cool comes out on top as The Outlaws and X-Pac are forced to retreat.
Triple H and WWF co-owner Stephanie McMahon-Helmsley eject Mankind from the building with help from local law enforcement.
"Sexual Chocolate" Mark Henry is in a hotel room bed with Mae Young. Suddenly, The Fabulous Moolah says "That's enough with that lovey-dovey crap! Whatever happened to good, old-fashioned American sex?" Harvey Wippleman is then seen next other in another bed.
Before the next match, Triple H tells Big Show that their match for the WWF Championship is a no-disqualification match. He then asks WWF co-owner Stephanie McMahon-Helmsley and the rest of D-Generation X (X-Pac, "Road Dogg" Jesse James, "Bad Ass" Billy Gunn) to stay up at the stage, as he would not want to have any interference.
Big Show retains the WWF Championship in a no-disqualification match. During the match, Triple H tosses referee Tim White to the side, then gets inadvertently whipped into him by Big Show. After this, the rest of D-Generation X (X-Pac, "Road Dogg" Jesse James, "Bad Ass" Billy Gunn) attack Big Show with a low blow and a shot to the head with the WWF Championship. WWF co-owner Stephanie McMahon-Helmsley heads to the ring as DX continue to attack Big Show, and hands Triple H a steel chair as Big Show fights back. Triple H hits Big Show with the steel chair in the head, then Mankind runs in and hits Mankind int he back with the chair as he has Big Show ready for the Pedigree. Big Show recovers and choke slams Triple H to retain the WWF Championship.
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