The 1999 Mayhem was the inaugural

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(PPV)

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produced by

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(WCW), presented by

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(in which the event was named after the EA-published video game of the same name). The event took place on November 21, 1999 from the

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, Canada. Twelve matches were contested at the event, with the most notable feature being a thirty-two man tournament for the vacated

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. The title had been vacated after previous champion

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attacked a

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and Goldberg defeated Sting for the title in an unsanctioned match. The first three rounds of the tournament took place on WCW television and the semi-final and final matches of the tournament were contested at Mayhem, where

Chris Benoit Christopher Michael Benoit ( ; May 21, 1967 – June 24, 2007) was a Canadian Professional wrestling, professional wrestler. He worked for various pro-wrestling promotions during his 22-year career, but is notorious for Chris Benoit double-murd ...

defeated

Jeff Jarrett Jeffrey Leonard Jarrett (born July 14, 1967) is an American professional wrestler and professional wrestling promoter. He is signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW), where he both wrestles and serves as Director of Business Development. He is also ...

and

Bret Hart Bret Sergeant Hart (born July 2, 1957) is a Canadian retired professional wrestler. A member of the Hart wrestling family and a second-generation wrestler, he has an amateur wrestling background at Ernest Manning High School and Mount Royal U ...

defeated Sting in the semi-final rounds. Hart defeated Benoit in the

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to win the final round and win the vacant title. Other featured matches on the

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were Goldberg versus

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in an "I Quit" match,

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versus

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for the WCW United States and

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and

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versus The Revolution in an

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Storylines

The

featured

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that resulted from scripted storylines and had results predetermined by WCW played out on WCW's television programs ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'' and '' WorldWide''. At

defeated

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to retain the World Heavyweight Championship after Hogan purposely laid down for Sting. Later in the night, Sting issued an open challenge to an opponent for a true wrestling fight and the challenge was answered by Goldberg, (who had earlier defeated

for the United States Heavyweight Championship) who defeated Sting in the unsanctioned match to win the title. After the match, Sting attacked the

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with a '' Scorpion Death Drop''. The following night, on ''Monday Nitro'', Sting complained to

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that he never put the title on the line in the match but Goldberg had been awarded the title and then Dillon stripped Goldberg off the title and vacated it due to Sting's attack on Robinson and set up a thirty-two man tournament for the vacant title with the semi-finals and finals taking place at Mayhem.

defeated Goldberg in the first round to win Goldberg's United States Heavyweight Championship due to outside interference by Sid Vicious and

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, behind the referee Mickie Jay's back. On the November 8 ''Nitro'',

defeated Hart, Goldberg and Sid Vicious in a

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to win the United States Heavyweight Championship. On the November 11 episode of ''Thunder'',

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provided guest commentary during

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' match against

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and began flirting with Karagias'

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Madusa Debrah Ann Miceli (born February 9, 1963), better known as Madusa, is an Americans, American monster truck driver and retired professional wrestler. She is currently signed to National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) as a producer. In professional wre ...

at ringside which caused distraction for Karagias to lose the match. After the match, Inferno challenged Karagias to a match and offered to put his

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on the line and Karagias accepted the challenge on Madusa's urging. On the October 25 episode of ''Nitro'', "The Powers That Be" gave an ultimatum to

Curt Hennig Curtis Michael Hennig (March 28, 1958 – February 10, 2003), better known by the ring name Mr. Perfect, was an American professional wrestler. Considered one of the greatest professional wrestlers of all time by peers, critics, and fans, he per ...

which required that if he lost any other match by pinfall then he would be forced to

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. Hennig would avoid by winning his matches or losing via count-out. On the November 15 episode of ''Nitro'', Hennig took on Goldberg in a match which stipulated that if Hennig would be pinned then he would retire and if he won then he would receive a new contract. Hennig lost via

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, meaning he would not have to retire. On the November 18 episode of ''Thunder'', Hennig cost

Buff Bagwell Marcus Alexander Bagwell (born January 10, 1970) is an American professional wrestler better known by his ring name, Buff Bagwell. He is best known for his appearances with World Championship Wrestling (WCW) from 1991 to 2001, where he was a f ...

, a match against

, setting up a match between Bagwell and Hennig at Mayhem. On the November 1 episode of ''Nitro'',

Vampiro Ian Richard Hodgkinson (born May 31, 1967), better known by his ring name Vampiro, is a Canadian retired professional wrestling, professional wrestler. He currently works for Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide (AAA). He also worked for Lucha Underground ...

defeated Berlyn in the opening round of the tournament for the vacant WCW World Heavyweight Championship after interference by

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. The following week on ''Nitro'', Berlyn cost Vampiro, the second round match in the tournament against Buff Bagwell by hitting Vampiro with a chain. Vampiro attacked Berlyn during a match against

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on the November 11 ''Thunder''. On the November 15 ''Nitro'', Berlyn and

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defeated Vampiro and Misfits in a

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to set up a match between Berlyn and Vampiro at Mayhem. At Halloween Havoc,

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defeated

Ric Flair Richard Morgan Fliehr (born February 25, 1949), known professionally as Ric Flair, is an American retired professional wrestler. Widely regarded as one of the greatest professional wrestlers of all time, Flair's career spanned 50 years. He is ...

in a

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and continued to attack Flair after the match until Flair's son

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came to his father's rescue but

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attacked David low with her knee and then Page delivered a ''

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'' to David.

attacked Ric and David and then kidnapped Ric away. The following night on ''Nitro'', David and DDP competed in the first round tournament match for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship, which ended in a no contest after David whipped DDP with a

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. On November 1 ''Nitro'', Flair attacked Filthy Animals with his crowbar and then Kimberly ran Flair down with a car. As a result, Flair began a feud with Kimberly and it was announced on the November 8 episode of ''Nitro'' that Flair would face Kimberly at Mayhem. On the November 15 ''Nitro'', Flair interrupted a match between Kimberly and Asya and scared Kimberly off with his crowbar. On the October 25 episode of ''Nitro'',

Norman Smiley Norman Anthony Smiley (born 28 February 1965) is an English-American retired professional wrestler who is signed to WWE in a Legends deal and as a trainer for NXT. He is best known for his appearances with the Mexican promotion Consejo Mund ...

defeated

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in a

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in the first round of the WCW World Heavyweight Championship tournament and developed a new

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, considering himself the face of

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in WCW after defeating

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and The Barbarian in a

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on the November 1 ''Nitro''. On November 8 episode of ''Nitro'',

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of The First Family cost Smiley, a hardcore match against

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in the second round of the World Heavyweight Championship tournament by hitting Smiley with a hockey stick. On November 11 episode of ''Thunder'', Knobbs and

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took exception to Smiley's character and expressed their anger over him. Later that night, Smiley cost Knobbs, his match against The Maestro. On the November 15 ''Nitro'', Smiley defeated Jimmy Hart in a hardcore match. Smiley then interfered in a match between First Family's

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and Bam Bam Bigelow on the November 18 ''Thunder'', during which Flynn was distracted by Smiley fighting Barbarian and Knobbs and Bigelow capitalized by defeating Flynn. This led to a match between Smiley and Knobbs to determine the inaugural Hardcore Champion at Mayhem. On the October 18 ''Nitro'',

returned to WCW and smashed Buff Bagwell with his guitar. Later that night,

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was found unconscious backstage with a guitar beside her, causing The Total Package to suspect Jarrett of having done so. On the November 1 episode of ''Nitro'', Jarrett called out Luger and Elizabeth and demanded Luger and Elizabeth to apologize to him for suspecting him of doing so and then they suspected Meng of having done so which caused Meng to come out and then Luger and Elizabeth attacked Meng. Meng cost Luger, his WCW World Heavyweight Championship tournament quarter-final match against Sting on November 15. On the November 18 episode of ''Thunder'', Elizabeth apologized to Meng after his match with Vampiro to distract him enough for Luger to attack Meng with a chair, thus setting up a match between the two at Mayhem.

Event

Preliminary matches

faced

in the semi-final round of a tournament for the vacant World Heavyweight Championship. After a back and forth action between the two,

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interfered in the match on Jarrett's behalf after Benoit performed a diving headbutt on Jarrett. One of the Creative Control members distracted the

, allowing the other member to attack Benoit and then Jarrett delivered a ''

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'' to Benoit and attempted a pinfall which was broken by

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. Rhodes brawled with Creative Control and Benoit struck Jarrett with a guitar to advance to the final round.

defended the

against

. Inferno's

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Tony Marinara began flirting with

at ringside and Karagias choked Marinara in anger. Inferno took advantage and attempted to nail Karagias with a chair but Karagias moved out of the way and Disco accidentally clocked Marinara with it. Karagias capitalized by performing a springboard crossbody to win the title.

and

competed in a

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for the inaugural Hardcore Championship. Smiley and Knobbs brawled with each other throughout the arena and then the action spilled into an elevator. Knobbs' manager

tried to hit Smiley with a trashcan but the door of the elevator closed and both men continued to fight. Hart accidentally blasted Knobbs with the trashcan as the elevator re-opened and Smiley defeated Knobbs to win the title.

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members

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and

Torrie Wilson Torrie Anne Wilson (born July 24, 1975) is an American model (person), model, former fitness competitor and retired professional wrestler. She is best known for her time in WWE and WCW. As a fitness competitor, Wilson won the Miss Galaxy compet ...

took on The Revolution's

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and Asya in an

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. A fan interfered in the match by jumping off the guardrail and attacked Malenko with the Canadian flag but was interjected. Torrie was hurt while brawling with Asya and then Guerrero pushed Kidman to check on Asya and Malenko rolled up Kidman to eliminate him. Guerrero was triple teamed by Revolution but he performed a

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to eliminate Malenko. Saturn accidentally performed a

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on Asya and Guerrero performed a

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on her to eliminate her. Saturn applied a ''

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'' to make Guerrero submit and thus eliminating him. Torrie was left alone with Saturn in the match and

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distracted the referee, allowing Saturn to low blow Torrie for the win.

took on

in a match which stipulated that Hennig would be forced to retire if he lost. Jeff Jarrett and Creative Control attacked Hennig before the match. Bagwell made the save and cleared Jarrett and Creative Control with a 2x4 and began the match. Bagwell performed a '' Buff Blockbuster'' to win the match and force Hennig to retire.

took on

in the second semi-final match in the World Heavyweight Championship tournament. Sting knocked out the referee by bumping into him and then

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ran into the match and hit Sting in the knee with a baseball bat. Hart grabbed the bat from Luger and hit him with it and then applied a

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and the referee disqualified Sting. Hart insisted on continuing the match because he did not want to win on a disqualification. Sting applied a '' Scorpion Deathlock'' on Hart but his injured knee gave up and Hart punched out of the move and applied his Sharpshooter to win the match. After the match, Sting and Hart shook hands with each other. Berlyn took on

in a

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. Before the match began,

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debuted in WCW along with Steve Williams and the two remained at ringside during the match. During the match, Wall dumped Berlyn after Wall tried to pin Vampiro and Berlyn got into his face and insulted him. Vampiro delivered a superplex on Berlyn and then performed a ''

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'' and wrapped Berlyn's neck with a chain and applied a

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for the victory. Lex Luger took on

. Luger's neck was injured and he had worn a neck brace to fake an injury and get out of the match.

attempted to spray Meng with a substance but Luger was accidentally sprayed with it and blinded in the eyes. Meng removed the neck brace and applied a Tongan Death Grip to win the match. The United States Heavyweight Champion

was scheduled to take on World Television Champion

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in a title vs. title match but Steiner no-showed the event and Hall was awarded Steiner's World Television Championship via forfeit. Hall issued an open challenge putting both titles on the line and

answered the challenge. Jeff Jarrett and Creative Control interfered in the match but Booker fought off Creative Control and argued with Jarrett on the middle turnbuckle, allowing Hall to take advantage by performing an '' Outsider's Edge'' to retain the titles. After the match, Jarrett and Creative Control attacked Booker until

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made the save.

took on

. Flair knocked out the referee with his crowbar and then Flair attempted to hit Page with a crowbar until

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returned to WCW and made the save.

showed up and delivered a ''

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'' to Flair and attempted to hit him with the crowbar but

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stopped him and Flair hit Anderson in the back with the crowbar in anger. Goldberg took on

in an "I Quit" match. Goldberg applied a bridging cobra clutch on Vicious to make him pass out to the hold and the referee stopped the match.

Main event match

In the

, Chris Benoit took on Bret Hart in the final round of the thirty-two man tournament for the vacant WCW World Heavyweight Championship. Dean Malenko interfered to attack Benoit but Hart kicked him away. Scott Hall and

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interfered in the latter portion of the match and Goldberg blocked Nash's interference with a

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. Goldberg brawled with Hall and Nash and their fight spilled to the backstage. Benoit attempted a '' Crippler Crossface'' on Hart but Hart blocked it and applied a Sharpshooter to win the title.

Reception

Mayhem drew a crowd of 13,839 people and a revenue of $313,847. The event received negative reviews from critics. In 2002, Scott Keith of 411Mania gave the event a rating of "Thumbs in the middle, leaning down," stating, "I really don’t know where all the glowing reviews of this show are coming from. I mean, it had a really hot opener and a pretty decent main event, but there was just nothing of substance to fill the other 2 Ѕ hours in between. You could probably stretch and say the six-person was okay, but the lows were just too depressing and the highs weren’t high enough to save it. Early buyrates for this show already are disappointing to WCW, which shouldn’t be a surprise considering how piss-poor the promotion for it was." In 2007, Arnold Furious of 411Mania gave the event a score of 4.5

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stating, "A show was a lot of potential but both the good matches were riddled with needless interference.

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’s style of booking just couldn’t produce great matches. He didn’t have the attention span to book it and assumed the crowd didn’t have an interest in watching it. Despite all of the truly great matches in wrestling being given, more often than not, at least 20 minutes and little/zero interference. Especially when you’ve got two great wrestlers who are super over like Bret & Benoit and you still book a shitload of interference. You can’t have the crowd being hot and having something new happening every few seconds. You’ll burn out the audience and no one will remember half the shit that happens. It’s a lesson Vince Russo still hasn’t learnt to this very day. Wrestling fans DO have attention spans. Especially on PPV." In 2016, Kevin Pantoja of 411Mania gave the event a rating of 3.0 ad stating, "A lot of late WCW is terrible, but this might have been the most frustrating show. There was potential in a few matches (all three tournament matches and the Revolution tag) but all of them disappointed. Part of it was on the performers and part of it was on the Russo booking. Too many run-ins, too much overbooking and too many meaningless backstage segments. Seriously, the Meng/Luger, Sid/Goldberg, Hennig/Buff and Vampiro/Berlyn matches were all horrible, while the Kimberly/David Flair stuff still managed to be the lowlight."

Aftermath

On the November 22 episode of ''Monday Nitro'', Bret Hart considered to defend the WCW World Heavyweight Championship against Goldberg at

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. In the warmup to the event, Hart and Goldberg defeated

to win the

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on the December 7 episode of ''Thunder'', only to lose it to

, six days later on ''Nitro''. At Starrcade, Hart controversially defeated Goldberg to retain the title in a

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when

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ended the match while Hart had applied a

on Goldberg without Goldberg ever submitting. Mayhem would be the last non-WWF, now WWE Pay-per-view held in Toronto until June 25, 2023 when

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took place and was produced jointly by

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and

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. The venue was then renamed to the Scotiabank Arena in 2018.

Results

Filthy Animals vs. Revolution eliminations

Tournament bracket

Goldberg's United States Heavyweight Championship match was on the line. As a result of the stipulation, Hart won the title from Goldberg. La Parka was replaced by Madusa after she was allowed to re-enter the tournament following her loss to Meng.

References

External links

Mayhem 1999 results
{{WCWPPV, Mayhem WCW Mayhem Professional wrestling shows in Toronto 1999 in Toronto November 1999 in Canada 1999 World Championship Wrestling pay-per-view events