Judgment Day: In Your House was a professional wrestling

Professional wrestling

Professional wrestling is a mode of spectacle, combining athletics and theatrical performance.Roland Barthes, "The World of Wrestling", Mythologies, 1957 It takes the form of events, held by touring companies, which mimic a title match combat sport...

 pay-per-view

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 (PPV) event produced by World Wrestling Federation

World Wrestling Entertainment

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 (WWF), which took place on October 18, 1998 at the Rosemont Horizon

Allstate Arena

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 in Rosemont, Illinois

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. It was the first pay-per-view titled Judgment Day

WWE Judgment Day

Judgment Day was a professional wrestling pay-per-view event, produced every May by WWE, a professional wrestling promotion based in Connecticut. The event was created in 1998, with its inaugural event produced as an In Your House event in October of that year. The event was then replaced in 1999...

 as WWF were uniquely naming all pay-per-views under the In Your House

In Your House

In Your House was a pay-per-view series created by the World Wrestling Federation . The original concept was that, in months when the WWF was not holding one of its major PPV events , they would offer a two-hour PPV, priced at $14.95...

 banner. When this pattern stopped in 2000, Judgment Day was one of the In Your House titles picked to be used on an annual basis.

Nine professional wrestling matches

Mock combat

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 were scheduled on the event's card

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. The main event saw (fictional

Kayfabe

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) brothers The Undertaker and Kane

Kane (wrestler)

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 fighting each other, despite their alliance at the time, for the WWF Championship

WWE Championship

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 which was vacant at the time after company owner Vince McMahon

Vince McMahon

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 stripped former champion Steve Austin

Stone Cold Steve Austin

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 to further the storyline. Austin was made special guest referee for the match, a role he was not keen to accept. As well as this match, the card featured four other championship matches, and had the WWF Woman's Championship

WWE Women's Championship

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not been reinstated only the month before the event would have comprehensively featured all the active WWF championships.