This event marked the WWE pay-per-view debut of the New World Order, a faction that originated in WCW and was made up of Hollywood Hulk Hogan, Kevin Nash and Scott Hall. Because Vince McMahon had purchased WCW a year earlier, he owned the copyright to the nWo name and signed the three wrestlers to re-form the group. The storyline was that the nWo had played a major part in WCW's "destruction", and that Vince was using them to destroy the WWF because he couldn't buy the other 50% of the company back from "co-owner" Ric Flair.
Final WWF PPV appearance for Mr. Perfect, who was at WWF New York.
In the Sunday Night Heat match, Diamond Dallas Page defeated The Big Bossman by disqualification to retain the WWF European Championship.