It took place on April 29, 2001, at the Allstate Arena in the Chicago suburb of Rosemont, Illinois and was presented by Castrol GTX.

If Undertaker and Kane won, the WWF and Intercontinental Championships would be awarded to them based on who scored the winning fall.

The Power Trip won the match after Triple H hit Kane with a sledgehammer, thus gaining the tag team championship and retaining their own titles.

Backlash is a pay-per-view (PPV) event that was established by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE) in 1999.

[3] The event featured seven professional wrestling matches that involved different wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds and storylines.

At WrestleMania X-Seven, Stone Cold Steve Austin fought The Rock for the WWF Championship.

During the match, Vince McMahon interfered, which eventually led to Austin attacking The Rock with a steel chair to win the WWF Championship and in the process align himself with his long-time enemy.

Triple H then defeated Chris Jericho to win the Intercontinental Championship for a third time in the main event, bringing both of the major singles titles in the company to the new alliance.

Undertaker and Kane were not simply satisfied with that, and they demanded and were given a title shot at the reigning WWF Tag Team Champions, Edge and Christian, on the April 19, 2001 edition of SmackDown!.

On the next Raw is War, McMahon told Austin and Triple H that the match at Backlash, which was now to be contested for the Tag Team Championship, had an additional stipulation added to it.

Since Linda was still the (on-screen) CEO of the company, this gave her power to veto her husband's decisions and force compromises.

Austin and Triple H would indeed get their championship opportunity at Backlash, but in order to do so they would be required to place their singles titles at stake as well.

Whoever scored the fall would receive the title of the wrestler they defeated, with the other receiving the other title; this meant if Austin took the fall, he would lose his WWF Championship to whoever pinned him or made him submit and Triple H would have to forfeit his Intercontinental Championship to whoever did not score the victory for the Brothers of Destruction.

Before the event began, a dark match took place on Heat in which Crash Holly defended the WWF Light Heavyweight Championship against Jerry Lynn.

Shane performed a Leap of Faith off the Titantron onto Big Show, who was lay in the staging area.

After that, Matt Hardy defended the WWF European Championship against Christian and Eddie Guerrero.

Christian performed an Unprettier on Guerrero but Jeff broke up the pin with a Swanton Bomb.