WWF Fully Loaded was an annual July

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(PPV) event produced by the

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(WWF, now WWE), a

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-based

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. First held in 1998, the

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of Fully Loaded was an

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pay-per-view. The 1999 edition was simply named Fully Loaded as WWF dropped the In Your House branding after February 1999. Fully Loaded was held for one more year in

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. In 2001, the event's pay-per-view slot was replaced by the one-off

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, which was replaced by

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in 2002.

History

Fully Loaded was first held as an

(PPV) event. In Your House was a series of monthly PPVs first produced by the

(WWF, now WWE) in May 1995. They aired when the promotion was not holding one of its major PPVs and were sold at a lower cost. Fully Loaded: In Your House was the 23rd In Your House event and took place on July 26, 1998, at the

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. After the In Your House branding was retired following February 1999's St. Valentine's Day Massacre: In Your House, Fully Loaded branched off as its own PPV that July. A final event was held in July 2000. In 2001, it was replaced by

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, which was held as part of The Invasion storyline between the WWF and The Alliance (consisting of former

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and

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talent). However, Invasion was used only once and the July slot was then given to

in 2002, thus Fully Loaded was definitively discontinued.

Events

References

External links

Fully Loaded: In Your House Results at Online World of Wrestling
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