Over the Edge (1999)
1999 World Wrestling Federation pay-per-view event
The 1999 Over the Edge was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE). It was the second annual and final Over the Edge and took place on May 23, 1999, at Kemper Arena in Kansas City, Missouri. The first Over the Edge event was held under the In Your House series in May 1998, but following the discontinuation of the In Your House shows after February 1999, a second Over the Edge event was scheduled as its own PPV, thus being the first former In Your House event to do so.
In the main event, The Undertaker defeated "Stone Cold" Steve Austin to win the WWF Championship with Vince McMahon and Shane McMahon as the special guest referees. Of the six scheduled bouts on the undercard, two received more promotion than the other matches. The first saw The Rock defeat Triple H by disqualification. The other was an eight-man elimination tag team match in which The Union (Mankind, Ken Shamrock, Test, and Big Show) defeated the Corporate Ministry (Viscera, Big Boss Man, Bradshaw, and Faarooq)
The event is infamous for the fatal stunt accident involving wrestler Owen Hart, who was scheduled to face The Godfather for the WWF Intercontinental Championship. Wrestling under his Blue Blazer gimmick, Hart was to make a superhero-like ring entrance, which would have seen him descend from the arena rafters into the ring. He was, however, released prematurely when the harness line malfunctioned, fell more than 90 feet (27 m) into the ring, and died.
Criticism later arose over Vince McMahon's decision to continue the show after Hart's accident.
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