King of the Ring was a pay-per-view (PPV) event held annually in June by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE) since 1993.

Considered as one of the WWF's "Big Five" PPVs, along with the Royal Rumble, WrestleMania, SummerSlam, and Survivor Series, the company's five biggest shows of the year,[5] the 1999 event was the seventh King of the Ring PPV and 13th tournament overall.

Some of the matches featured wrestlers who were involved in pre-existing scripted feuds or storylines and others are teamed up with no backstory.

Three weeks later, it was revealed that the Corporate Ministry served a "greater power" whom they were taking orders from behind the scenes.

The following week, the greater power was revealed as Vince McMahon who explained that his face turn was a plot to screw Austin out of the WWF Championship.

Linda then announced that she had stepped down as the CEO of the WWF and has hand-picked her successor, which was revealed to be Stone Cold.

The following week, Austin defeated Big Boss Man in a singles match to ensure there would be no interference from the Corporate Ministry.

The feud started on the June 7th episode of Raw is War, when Rock faced Triple H in a cast match.

Add in the questionable booking and the fact that nothing on this show ended up mattering, and you’ve got a recipe for one of the worst Pay-Per-Views in history.

Austin would go on to defeat Undertaker after hitting him with a Stone Cold Stunner and regained the championship he had lost at Over the Edge.

Triple H stated to Gunn that since he is focused on a WWF Championship title shot, he was offering to lend Chyna to Gunn so they would challenge the two remaining members of D-Generation X (Road Dogg and X-Pac) to a match so they would take it over and have all the royalties to the group.

This led to a Strap Match at Fully Loaded between Rock and Triple H with the winner facing the WWF Champion at SummerSlam in August.