They faced each other at the July Fully Loaded PPV two years in a row. The 1998 Fully Loaded match was really boring. A year later they went at it again at Fully Loaded 1999 in a Strap Match. It wasn't a Strap Match where you had to touch all four corners, though. It was just a match where they were strapped together and the first fall wins. The Rock was the face and Hunter was a heel on the rise. They had a very physical match where they used the strap and made it into a good match. It's not always easy to do that when there's a strap in there that they have to move around with, but they made it look effortless. Hunter got the pinfall win after Billy Gunn interfered because he was set to feud with The Rock next. It made sense for them to feud because if Hunter was going to be a top guy he had to beat his biggest rival in a huge match. The win for Hunter elevated him to the main event level because he went on to main event SummerSlam a month after this. The Rock could afford to lose because he had already been a WWE Champion before. By the way, what inspired the Fully Loaded name? Was somebody drunk at a bar when they came up with it? It was a good name.
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