The WPA event was played in Alicante, Spain, and won by Nick Varner of the United States.

Matchroom Sport, meanwhile, instead organised tournament called the "World Professional Pool Championship", a competing and non-WPA-sanctioned event in Cardiff, Wales, which was won by Efren Reyes of the Philippines.

The WPA also agreed to recognise the results of the 1999 Matchroom event, meaning that official listings show both Varner and Reyes as 1999 world champions.

Matchroom changed its promotional name for the event to the "World Pool Championship", dropping the word "professional" from the title.

[2] The 2005 tournament saw two rules changes: last 64 and last 32 matches were extended to race-to-10 format, and the pockets on the tables were narrowed, to make the game more difficult.

[6] After a two-year hiatus, the tournament returned as the 2010 WPA World Nine-ball Championship in Doha, Qatar.