XPac WWF
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XPac WWF  XPac WWF World Wrestling Federation Waltman returned to WWF programming on March 30, 1998, the night after Wrestlemania XIV. With Shawn Michaels out of action following his title loss and back injury, Triple H was now the leader of D-Generation X. In a promo, he stated that he was forming a DX army and "when you start an army, you look to your blood...you look to your buddies...you look to your friends...you look to the Clique." Waltman appeared on the stage as announcer Jim Ross sarcastically replied "Well look who's back." Waltman immediately cut a promo on Bischoff and Hulk Hogan, as well as claiming that if contractually free to do so, Hall and Nash would have been joining him in returning to the WWF. Up to this point in the Monday Night Wars, wrestlers only jumped from the WWF to the big money, guaranteed deals available in WCW. Waltman's return proved that it was a two-way street. This heated promo actually prompted Bischoff to respond on Nitro the following week, telling Waltman to "Bite me." Following that RAW, Waltman was initially being billed as "The Kid" on the World Wrestling Federation homepage, but became known as "X-Pac" by the next broadcast (a reference to his departure from "The Wolfpac" aka Scott Hall, Kevin Nash and himself ie "Ex-(Wolf)pac") and a variation of his future "Syxx-Pac" nickname. As a member of DX, XPac feuded with many wrestlers such as Jeff Jarrett, and he would eventually win the European Championship from D'Lo Brown in 1998. Brown and XPac traded the title a couple of times with Waltman ultimately winning the championship at Judgment Day in October 1998. XPac would hold the European Championship until February of 1999 when he lost the title to Shane McMahon. At WrestleMania XV in 1999, XPac had a rematch with McMahon for the European Championship, but Triple H turned heel and cost XPac the title. A few weeks after WrestleMania XPac formed a tag team with Kane; a mute, brooding, menacing loner. XPac and Kane would go on to hold the WWF Tag Team Championship two times. After DX was reunited in late 1999 XPac led Kane to believe that he would be inducted into DX, but instead betrayed him and eventually stole his girfriend, Tori. (in kayfabe) The dissolution of DX in late 2000 left XPac without a storyline. His most notable actions in the next two years were forming the short-lived stable X-Factor along with Justin Credible and Albert and winning the WWF Light Heavyweight Championship, which was then retired. When Hall, Nash and Hogan returned to the WWF in 2002 and Hogan's nostalgic popularity required that he be turfed from the latest incarnation of the nWo, XPac, who had been out with an injury, returned and immediately attacked Hogan, claiming he had been waiting three years to do so. This storyline was immediately dropped. About the time Eric Bischoff was brought in as General Manager of RAW, XPac ended up leaving the WWF in a mutual decision. This negated any chance of his following up on the other half of the promo from three years before. |
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