WWE Rebellion was an annual

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(PPV)

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that was produced by the

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(WWE), an American

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. Established in 1999, the events were held and broadcast exclusively in the

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. The first three events were held when the promotion was still called the World Wrestling Federation (WWF). Rebellion was also shown on the

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service in

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, but was never televised in the

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. Rebellion had its own theme song titled "Rebellion". To coincide with the brand extension, the 2002 event was a SmackDown!-exclusive show, which was the promotion's very first SmackDown!-exclusive PPV. Additionally, the 2002 event, which was the only held under the WWE name, was the final Rebellion PPV as UK-exclusive pay-per-views were discontinued in 2003 as WWE began to broadcast ''

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'' and '' SmackDown!'' from the UK in 2004.

History

In May 1999, the American

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(WWF, now WWE) held a

called No Mercy, which was held in and broadcast exclusively for the United Kingdom. The promotion scheduled another UK-exclusive event to be held in October that year. It was titled

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and was scheduled to be held on October 2, 1999, at the

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. The 2000 event thus established Rebellion as one of the WWF's annual UK-exclusive PPVs, the other being Insurrextion as No Mercy instead became an annual U.S.-based event. The 2001 event took place during The Invasion period for the WWF, which ended at the next pay-per-view,

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. All matches had one member of the WWF taking on one member of The Alliance (composed of wrestlers originally from

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and

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). Over the course of the evening, the WWF won six matches, while the Alliance won three. In early 2002, the promotion introduced the brand extension, which divided its roster into two separate brands,

and SmackDown!, where wrestlers were exclusively assigned to perform. Shortly after this, the promotion itself was renamed to World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). The 2002 event was in turn a SmackDown!-exclusive show and was WWE's first-ever SmackDown!-exclusive PPV held. It was also the last Rebellion event held as UK-exclusive PPVs were discontinued in 2003 as the company began to broadcast ''

'' and ''

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'' from the UK in 2004.

Events

References

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Rebellion results and times
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History

Events

See also

References

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