WrestleMania XIX was the 19th annual WrestleMania professional wrestling pay-per-view event produced by World Wrestling Entertainment.
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13 Facts About WrestleMania XIX
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The marquee match from the Raw brand was the third WrestleMania XIX meeting between The Rock and Stone Cold Steve Austin, in which The Rock won via pinfall after performing three Rock Bottoms on Austin; this marked Austin's final official match before his retirement from in-ring performance due to injuries sustained in previous years.
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WrestleMania XIX is considered World Wrestling Entertainment's flagship pay-per-view event, having first been held in 1985.
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WrestleMania XIX was scheduled to be held on March 30,2003, at Safeco Field in Seattle, Washington.
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Documentary entitled The Mania of WrestleMania XIX was filmed live during the event and released the following year.
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WrestleMania XIX marked the first time that production equipment was suspended from the underside of Safeco Field's roof with WWE suspending their lighting truss system from it.
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WrestleMania XIX managed to enter the arena and attack Rock before Rock fled the ring.
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WrestleMania XIX then told Hogan that he hated him for leaving WWE for Ted Turner's World Championship Wrestling and for testifying against him in the steroid trial in the 1990s.
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WrestleMania XIX implied that Booker, as a convicted criminal, would never win a world championship in WWE.
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WrestleMania XIX later attempted another Angle Slam Lesnar countered into an F-5 for a near-fall.
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WrestleMania XIX later announced that a tournament would take place to determine the number one contender to Lesnar's WWE Championship.
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