There were two dark (non-televised) matches before the show. TAKA Michinoku (
Takao Yoshida) defeated
Johnny Parks in the first match. The Minnesota Stretching Crew (
Brock Lesnar and
Shelton Benjamin) (w/Minnesota Governor
Jesse Ventura) defeated Magnus Maximus (
Bam Neely) and
Scotty Zappa in the second match. The show was in Minnesota that week. At the time, Lesnar and Benjamin were the OVW Southern Tag Team Champions.