 Before the pay-per-view event began, an episode of "Sunday Night Heat", one of the secondary television programs for WWF, was shown.Lo Down (D'Lo Brown and Chaz) defeated Kaientai (Taka Michinoku and Shoichi Funaki) in a tag team match, when Chaz pinned Funaki.Originally, the winning team was to send one of their members into the Royal Rumble match, but Drew Carey wound up being entered instead.