10 Highest Attended Non-WrestleMania Events In WWE History

In February 1999, the WWF ventured outside of their US home and hosted a Raw event at the Skydome in Toronto, Canada. A longtime stronghold of the company, Canada seemed to be the only market where WCW could not break through. The nation always stayed loyal to the McMahons. This show was no different as over 40,000 fans packed the arena as part of the biggest crowd in Raw history.

The event served as the go-home show before the St. Valentine's Day Massacre pay-per-view that would feature Steve Austin vs. Vince McMahon in a steel cage.

To show how powerful of a draw that Austin-McMahon angle was, the rest of the Raw card was pretty much a dumpster fire. Gillberg defeated Goldust in less than two minutes, Kane was disqualified against X-Pac in three minutes, and The Rock made short work of Steve Blackman in four minutes.

Despite the lackluster undercard, the main event match featured Steve Austin in a handicap match against six members of the McMahon-led Corporation stable. The match merely served as a backdrop to the storyline, as Austin was restrained by the Corporation and McMahon talked trash in his face as the show went off the air, giving us the iconic photo that we've seen countless times.

St. Valentine's Day Massacre managed to garner nearly 500,000 buys the following Sunday, an outrageous number at the time. The event was so successful, it even got more buys than the previous year's Royal Rumble.