World Championship Wrestling Slamboree 1999 Goes Down in Missouri – May 9th, 1999 – Today in Wrestling History
World Championship Wrestling (WCW) in 1999 was beginning to unravel. The New World Order (NWO), both factions, were a shamble on television due to injuries. Unfortunately, storyline wise, so much depended on the NWO dominance that WCW was in a pickle. With that said, they did continue forward with regular Pay Per View (PPV) events such as Slamboree 1999.
WCW Slamboree 1999 Location
This PPV took place at the TWA Dome in St. Louis Missouri. In attendance were approximately 20,500 fans. The card featured nine matches with a mix of stipulations and titles on the line.
Slamboree 1999 match card (no spoilers, of course):
The first match is a Triangle Tag match for the WCW World Tag Team Championships. Participants were Raven & Saturn versus Billy Kidman & Rey Mysterio Jr versus Chris Benoit & Dean Malenko
Konnan took on Stevie Ray in the following match
The third match was a hardcore match. Bam Bam Bigelow took on Brian Knobbs in this one
Rick Steiner versus Booker T for the WCW World Television Championship was next
The fifth match was an intergender match featuring Gorgeous George versus Charles Robinson
Scott Steiner was in the sixth match taking on Buff Bagwell for the WCW United States Championship
Roddy Piper took on Ric Flair next
The lead into the main event was Sting challenging Goldberg
In the main event we saw Kevin Nash fight Diamond Dallas Page for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship.
Some key take aways here
As mentioned earlier in this article, the NWO were not exactly in their prime at this point. Lex Luger was allegedly out due to torn muscles (Miss Elizabeth was out with him). Kevin Nash would be injured, again, soon after this PPV as well. That is two of the top guys in the NWO Wolfpack.
Did you notice there was an intergender match on this card? Whether you agree with it or not, it has been around for a while in wrestling. Not just the indies either.
What is your favorite match from this card? Tell us in the comments.
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This article was originally published on the Gravis Ludus Wrestling website.