10 Things You Didn't Know About WWE In 1999
8. An Insane SummerSlam Statistic
Though WWE had been one of the modern innovators of pay-per-view since the mid-1980s, and stacked them up at a rapid rate after going monthly in 1995, SummerSlam 1999 proved to be the first time a very significant trifecta of results occurred.
It took until the August event for all three of the original WWE Triple Crown titles to change hands on the same night. WWE Tag Team Champions Kane and X-Pac lost their doubles straps to The Undertaker. In the evening's opener, Jeff Jarrett dethroned D'Lo Brown to score his sixth and final Intercontinental Championship. At the other end of the card, Stone Cold Steve Austin was dropping his WWE Championship. Not to Triple H as originally planned ('The Game' had to wait until the following night to get his promised maiden reign), but to a Mankind specifically inserted to transition the belt between each of his opponents.
In hindsight, it's little surprise this was the year this particular statistic was achieved - short of a chaotic Invasion era in 2001, no year boasted as many Tag Team Championship changes, and between the World, Women's, Intercontinental, European, Light Heavyweight and Hardcore divisions, there was typically at least one prize switching owners on a weekly basis.