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Unforgiven 2001 was the fourth Unforgiven professional wrestling pay-per-view event produced by World Wrestling Federation (WWF). It was presented by Clearasil and took place on September 23, 2001, at the Mellon Arena in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The main event was a standard wrestling match for the WWF Championship. Alliance representative Stone Cold Steve Austin defended the title against WWF representative Kurt Angle. Angle defeated Austin to win the title by forcing him to submit to the Ankle Lock. Other prominent matches were The Rock versus Booker T and Shane McMahon in a Handicap match for the WCW Championship, and Rob Van Dam versus Chris Jericho for the WWF Hardcore Championship. The undercard featured Tajiri versus Rhino for the WCW United States Championship, The Brothers of Destruction (The Undertaker and Kane) versus KroniK (Brian Adams and Bryan Clark) for the WCW Tag Team Championship, Edge versus Christian for the WWF Intercontinental Championship, Perry Saturn versus Raven, and Dudley Boyz (Bubba Ray and D-Von Dudley) versus Big Show and Spike Dudley, Lance Storm and The Hurricane, and Hardy Boyz (Matt and Jeff Hardy) in a four-way elimination match for the WWF Tag Team Championship.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=Gerweck.net )〕〔 ==Background== Unforgiven featured professional wrestling matches that involved different wrestlers from pre-existing feuds, plots, and storylines that were played out on ''Raw is War'' and ''SmackDown''—World Wrestling Federation's (WWF) television programs. Wrestlers portrayed a villain or a hero as they followed a series of events that built tension, and culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Live & Televised Entertainment of World Wrestling Entertainment )〕 The predominant rivalry heading into Unforgiven was between Stone Cold Steve Austin and Kurt Angle over the WWF Championship. At SummerSlam, Angle challenged Austin for the WWF Championship but at the end, Austin intentionally got disqualified in his title defense against Angle by attacking several referees. As a result, Austin retained the title. The following night, on ''Raw is War'', Austin held an "appreciation night" on retaining the title against Angle and was appreciated by several members of The Alliance. However, Angle interrupted the appreciation night and ruined it by entering in a milk truck and spraying milk on all the Alliance members. On the August 27 edition of ''Raw is War'', Austin stole Angle's Olympic gold medals after a tag team match pitting Angle and Chris Jericho against the WWF Hardcore Champion Rob Van Dam and Tazz.〔 〕 Austin went on to throw Angle's medals into the Detroit River. On the September 3 edition of ''Raw is War'', Angle threatened to throw Austin into a river in Toronto, Ontario, Canada if he did not give him a WWF Championship rematch at Unforgiven. Austin agreed to defend the title against Angle in a rematch at Unforgiven. Angle then told Austin that he's still going in the water and proved his point by shoving Austin into the pool of water that was sitting on the street.〔 〕 Another predominant rivalry heading into Unforgiven was between The Rock and the team of Booker T and Shane McMahon over the WCW Championship. The Rock returned to the WWF on the July 30, 2001 edition of ''Raw Is War'', where he chose to align himself with the WWF instead of The Alliance for The Invasion.〔(【引用サイトリンク】accessdate=2008-03-22 )〕〔 〕 This action was shown by The Rock delivering a Rock Bottom and the People's Elbow onto Shane McMahon, The Alliance leader.〔〔 At SummerSlam, Rock defeated Booker to win the WCW title.〔 On the August 27 edition of ''Raw is War'', McMahon announced that Rock would defend the title against Rhyno later in the night but Rock challenged McMahon to a match, which McMahon initially accepted before escaping. Rock would retain the title against Rhyno.〔 On the August 30 edition of ''SmackDown'', Booker and McMahon cost Rock and Chris Jericho, a tag team match against the WWF Hardcore Champion Rob Van Dam and Rhyno.〔 〕 On the September 6 episode of ''SmackDown'', McMahon announced that Rock would defend the title against Booker and himself in a Handicap match at Unforgiven.〔 〕 The following week on ''Raw Is War'', The Rock won the Handicap match by defeating Shane's sister Stephanie McMahon-Helmsley and Test then on the September 17 edition of ''Raw'', The Rock lost to Stephanie and Test in the same match due to interference by Shane McMahon and Booker T. On three occasions, Chris Jericho and the WWF Hardcore Champion Rob Van Dam wrestled each other in several tag team matches with different partners.〔〔〔〔 This eventually led to a title defense for RVD against Jericho at Unforgiven. On the September 3 edition of ''Raw is War'', Steven Richards attacked one half of the WCW and WWF Tag Team Champions The Brothers of Destruction, The Undertaker during his match with Test.〔 This led to a match between Undertaker and Richards on the next night on ''SmackDown''. Before their match, Richards explained that he had attacked Undertaker because he considered Undertaker responsible for the disbanding of his faction Right to Censor. As Undertaker and Richards' match started, former WCW Tag Team Champions KroniK (Brian Adams and Bryan Clark) debuted in WWF and attacked Undertaker.〔 The following week on ''Raw Is War'', Richards interfered in The Undertaker's match against Booker T. Afterwords, as Undertaker was about to perform a Last Ride on Richards, Adams and Clark took down Undertaker with the clothesline and finished him off with a double chokeslam through the announce table. On the September 17 edition of ''Raw'', KroniK cost Brothers of Destruction (The Undertaker and Kane), the WWF Tag Team Championship against Dudley Boyz (Bubba Ray and D-Von). After the match, the on-screen WCW Owner Shane McMahon announced that Brothers of Destruction would defend the WCW Tag Team Championship against KroniK at Unforgiven.〔 After Edge won the 2001 King of the Ring tournament, his tag team partner Christian started growing jealous of him and insisted on carrying his King of the Ring trophy.〔 Apart from winning the King of the Ring tournament, Edge found more success by defeating Lance Storm for the WWF Intercontinental Championship at SummerSlam. On the other hand, Christian failed in his respective title opportunities against Matt Hardy for the WWF European Championship and The Rock for the WCW Championship.〔〔 On the September 3 edition of ''Raw is War'', Christian turned on Edge by hitting him a One-man Con-chair-to after Edge successfully defended the Intercontinental Championship against Lance Storm.〔 The following night on ''SmackDown'', Christian announced that he attacked Edge because he wanted an Intercontinental Championship title shot and announced that he would wrestle Edge for the title at Unforgiven.〔 On the September 10 edition of ''Raw Is War'', the night before the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Christian defeated Billy Gunn by using his feet on the ropes for leverage. He followed it by nailing Gunn with a chair to the head and finishing him off with the One-man Con-chair-to. The following week, Christian was going to finish off the WCW United States Champion Tajiri with the same move until Edge returned and attacked him from behind, only to be restrained by the referees and enabling Christian to leave the ring and walk to the back. On the September 17 episode of ''Raw Is War'', Tajiri retained the WCW United States Championship against Christian by getting disqualified but was attacked by Christian and his ribs were injured. As Tajiri was being accompanied to the backstage by his valet Torrie Wilson, Rhyno attacked him by hitting him a Gore. As a result, the WCW Owner Shane McMahon announced that Tajiri would defend the United States Championship against Rhyno at Unforgiven.〔 On the September 17 episode of ''Raw Is War'', Dudley Boyz (Bubba Ray and D-Von) defeated Brothers of Destruction for the WWF Tag Team Championship.〔 During this time, two new tag teams were formed, consisting of Big Show and Spike Dudley and the team of Lance Storm and the WWF European Champion The Hurricane. Hardy Boyz were also in contention for the titles. On the September 20 episode of ''SmackDown'', The Hurricane and Lance Storm defeated Spike Dudley and The Big Show. After the match, the Dudley Boyz attacked Spike & The Big Show and followed it by double suplexing The Big Show through a table. Later that night, The Hardy Boyz defeated the WWF Tag Team Champions, The Dudley Boyz, in a non-title match when Spike Dudley interfered. Afterwords, the Dudleyz retaliated by performing a 3D on Matt Hardy through a table. As a result, a Four Corners Elimination match was made between the four teams for the Tag Team Championship at Unforgiven. On the June 21 episode of ''SmackDown'', Perry Saturn discovered a mop during a match against Test for the WWF Hardcore Championship. He carried the mop around with him for several months. He dismissed his valet, Terri Runnels, and kept the mop, which he named Moppy, in his corner during matches. Runnels and Raven eventually stole Moppy and destroyed it in a wood chipper, which led to a match at Unforgiven.〔 〕 On the last edition of ''SmackDown!'', after Raven lost to Rob Van Dam in a Hardcore match, Perry Saturn charged to the ring and attacked Raven until Terri caused a distraction, enabling Raven to perform a Raven Effect on Saturn. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Unforgiven (2001)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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