WrestleMania XIV

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WrestleMania XIV
Details
Promotion	World Wrestling Federation
Date	March 29, 1998
Venue	FleetCenter
City	Boston, Massachusetts
Attendance	19,028
Pay-per-view chronology
No Way Out of Texas	WrestleMania XIV	Mayhem in Manchester
WrestleMania chronology
WrestleMania 13	WrestleMania XIV	WrestleMania XV

WrestleMania XIV was the fourteenth WrestleMania professional wrestling pay-per-view event produced by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF), which took place on March 29, 1998 at the FleetCenter in Boston, Massachusetts. The tagline for WrestleMania XIV was dX raided.

The pay-per-view event was mostly remembered for the start of the first World Wrestling Federation Championship reign for Steve Austin. His victory in the main event, against Shawn Michaels (who performed despite his own severe injury), is often cited as the "official" beginning of the Attitude Era.^[1]

Contents 1 Results 2 Other on-screen talent 3 Notes 4 References 5 External links

[edit] Results

Numbers in parentheses indicate the length of the match.

• L.O.D. 2000 (Hawk and Animal) (w/Sunny) won a 15 team Battle Royal. Also in the match were two teams representing Los Boricuas (Savio Vega and Miguel Pérez, Jr., and Jose Estrada, Jr. and Jesus Castillo), The Truth Commission (Recon and Sniper), Bradshaw and Chainz, two teams from the Nation of Domination (Mark Henry and D'Lo Brown, and Faarooq and Kama Mustafa), The Quebecers (Jacques Rougeau and Pierre Ouellet), The Rock 'n' Roll Express (Ricky Morton and Robert Gibson), The Headbangers (Mosh and Thrasher), Too Much (Scott Taylor and Brian Christopher), Disciples of Apocalypse (8-Ball and Skull), Steve Blackman and Flash Funk, The Godwinns (Phineas and Henry) and The New Midnight Express (Bombastic Bob and Bodacious Bart) (8:19)
  • LOD 2000 won, last eliminating The New Midnight Express to earn a shot at the WWF Tag Team Championship at In Your House: Unforgiven.
• TAKA Michinoku defeated Aguila to retain the WWF Light Heavyweight Championship (5:57)
  • Michinoku pinned Aguila after hitting the Michinoku Driver.
• Triple H (w/Chyna) defeated Owen Hart to retain the WWF European Championship (11:29)
  • Triple H pinned Hart after Chyna hit a low blow and Triple H hit a Pedigree.
  • During the match, Chyna was handcuffed to WWF Commissioner Sgt. Slaughter.
• Marc Mero and Sable defeated The Artist Formerly Known as Goldust and Luna (9:11)
  • Sable pinned Luna after a TKO.
• The Rock defeated Ken Shamrock by disqualification to retain the WWF Intercontinental Championship (4:49)
  • Shamrock originally won the match by making Rock submit to an ankle lock. However, Shamrock "snapped" and refused to release the hold. After being forced to let go, Shamrock attacked the referee and a number of officials, leading to the match decision being reversed by disqualification.

• Cactus Jack and Chainsaw Charlie defeated the New Age Outlaws (Billy Gunn and Road Dogg) in a Dumpster Match to win the WWF Tag Team Championship (10:01)
  • Chainsaw Charlie dumped the New Age Outlaws in a (backstage) dumpster using a forklift. The titles were held up the next night, however, because they used the wrong dumpster.
• Pete Rose entered to "guest ring announce" the next match. Before doing so he insulted the crowd, mentioning the Boston Red Sox inability to win a World Series (see Curse of the Bambino) until Kane came out and Tombstoned him.
• The Undertaker defeated Kane (w/Paul Bearer) (16:58)
  • Undertaker pinned Kane after a Tombstone Piledriver.
  • After the match, Paul Bearer and Kane beat down Undertaker which led to a revenge Tombstone from Kane on a steel chair.
• Steve Austin defeated Shawn Michaels (w/Mike Tyson as Special Outside Enforcer) to win the WWF Championship (20:02)
  • Austin pinned Michaels after countering Sweet Chin Music into a Stone Cold Stunner. With the referee down, Mike Tyson, who was thought to be siding with Michaels, turned on him and counted Austin's pin himself, giving Austin the win.
  • After the match Tyson knocked out Michaels, whom he'd been friendly with leading up to the event, with a right hook and accepted an Austin 3:16 t-shirt to drape over his downed body.
  • Chris Warren performed D-Generation X's entrance music live.
  • This would be Shawn Micheals last mach until Summerslam

[edit] Other on-screen talent

Commentators Jerry "The King" Lawler Jim Ross Spanish commentators Carlos Cabrera Tito Santana Hugo Savinovich

Ring announcer Howard Finkel Referees Mike Chioda Jack Doan Jim Korderas Tim White

[edit] Notes

• Chris Warren sang a rendition of "America the Beautiful" before the show.
• Other celebrity guests in attendance included Pete Rose, Mike Tyson, Gennifer Flowers, Vinny Paz, and Marvin Hagler.
• WrestleMania XIV marked the first time the European Championship was defended at a WrestleMania. It was also the first and only time that the Light Heavyweight Championship was defended at a WrestleMania event.
• This WrestleMania was both the last WrestleMania to use the WWF "New Generation" logo and the first WrestleMania to use the "Attitude" scratch logo.
• This event featured the last WWF wrestling match that Shawn Michaels had for four and a half years. Michaels was forced out of action due to a back injury and did not return to the ring until four and a half years later at Summerslam 2002.
• This was the first WrestleMania to use all red ring ropes.

[edit] References

• WrestleMania XIV Facts/Stats

[edit] External links

• The Official Website of WrestleMania XIV