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Next was a No Holds Barred match between Rikishi and Stone Cold Steve Austin. Austin initially did not appear for the match and was nowhere to be seen in the arena. Rikishi demanded that the Commissioner Mick Foley declare him the winner by forfeit but Austin entered the arena in his truck and drove it to the ring and entered the ring to start ...
Stone Cold Steve Austin vs. Triple H in a no disqualification match: December 2 Rebellion: Sheffield Arena: Sheffield, England: 11,077 Kurt Angle (c) vs. Stone Cold Steve Austin vs. The Rock vs. Rikishi in a fatal four-way match for the WWF Championship: Aired exclusively in the United Kingdom December 10 Armageddon: Birmingham–Jefferson ...
Meanwhile, Stone Cold Steve Austin was written out of WWF storylines so he could have neck surgery. [29] On-screen, his absence was attributed to being hit by a car. [29] When he returned to television a year later, it was revealed that Rikishi had hit him with a car to allow The Rock to become champion. [29]
When Foley confronted Rikishi about it, he admitted to running down Stone Cold. Rikishi then said he attacked Austin in order to allow his cousin The Rock an opportunity for stardom, insisting that Buddy Rogers, Bruno Sammartino, Bob Backlund, Hulk Hogan and Austin – "The Great White Hope" – had always been pushed, at the expense of Samoan ...
On the October 9, 2000 episode of Raw Is War, Rikishi finally admitted to being the driver because "he did it for The Rock." [5] At the following pay-per-view, No Mercy, Austin made his in-ring return to face Rikishi in a No Holds Barred Match. During the match, Austin attempted to drive his truck into Rikishi, who by that time was a bloody mess.
The Royal Rumble is an annual gimmick pay-per-view (PPV) produced every January by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE) since 1988. It is one of the promotion's original four pay-per-views, along with WrestleMania, SummerSlam, and Survivor Series, which were dubbed the "Big Four", [2] and was considered one of the "Big Five" PPVs, along with King of the Ring. [3]
The challengers were The Undertaker, The Rock, Triple H, Rikishi, and Stone Cold Steve Austin. Kurt Angle was the third man to come out, but didn't get in the cell yet. Austin was the last man to come out and attacked Angle who was still outside the cell and threw him in.
The WrestleMania X-Seven stage. The event included eleven matches that each resulted from scripted storylines. Results were predetermined by writers of the World Wrestling Federation, [9] [10] while storylines were produced on WWF's weekly television shows, Raw is War and SmackDown! along with its supplementary programs, Sunday Night Heat and Jakked/Metal.