Category: Wrestling PPV Musings

WWF In Your House II
July 1995, Nashville TN

So this is the second 2-hour In Your House event for July, which followed the rather horrific 1995 King Of The Ring, which ranks as one of the worst WWF/WWE PPV events, if not one of the worst pro wrestling PPV cards ever conceived. And after having witnessed that PPV in its entirety, it’s safe to say that I’m rather apprehensive of this card. After all, historically speaking, WWF in 1995 was not particularly good, as Diesel was tanking as WWF Champion, there was a notable lack of compelling content on display, and to call the roster cartoonish and hokey is akin to calling Big Show a big guy.

On the flip side, WCW was giving us the Hulk Hogan show… that was equally painful… considering I hadn’t been following wrestling, I certainly dodged that bullet… and yet here we are.

Meh…

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WWF In Your House I
May 1995, Syracuse, NY

In a vain effort to attempt to separate a potential PPV audience from their money, the WWF decided to launch In Your House, a series of monthly 2-hour PPVS that would beef up the PPV count to one a month. This would eventually evolve into the current format of monthly PPV events with the occasional WWE Network special and lots of raised prices.

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Spoiler Alert: NXT Takeover Brooklyn blows this show out of the water.

Show cold-opens with host Jon Stewart cutting a bland promo… I guess. Mick Foley shows up for some reason to tell us about how scared he is of Brock Lesnar… come on, Mick. You fell off cages, took five billion chair shots to the head, participated in King Of the Deathmatch tournaments, got lost in Cleveland, lost an ear, wrestled the Mean Street Posse, and survived a couple years in TNA.

Now if a guy like that is scared of Brock Lesnar, you know what that tells me? It tells me that AL SNOW is more of a hardcore legend than Mick Foley.

*drops mic*

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There is indeed a king reigning in this ring. His name? Vince Russo.

In all honesty, this is where we get to the point in which a lot of the Attitude Era stuff becomes hard to sit through nowadays. It’s that feeling I get where I would watch something I hadn’t seen in ages for the first time in a long while, recalling how much I enjoyed that thing the first time, and then after watching it, I often wondered how I got into that stuff. This is one of those instances. Anyway, here we go…

Oh, lookie. We’ve got quarterfinal matches… hurray. Anyway, given that these things are usually short, I’ll keep my thoughts short and sweet.

X-Pac beat Hardcore Holly. This match was too short to be worth anything.

Kane beat Big Show with a number of chair shots following a choke hold that took more air out of the audience than it did Big Show. For fuck’s sake, why did that choke hold need to last fifty years? The sad part is that if that spot happened today, #ChokeHoldCityBitch would be trending on Twitter because that’s how sad things have gotten.

Billy Gunn beat Ken Shamrock via blood stoppage when Shamrock started “bleeding” from the mouth due to some unspecified injury that is never elaborated on. The blood looks so phoney and fake it’s sad. I could come up with “more real blood” (sic) on Microsoft Paint.

Roadd Dogg beat Chyna thanks to a metal cup. See, Chyna generally likes to go for ball shots and this has taken many of males down, but Road Dogg shows off some intelligence by actually wearing a cup. If only others had shown as much foresight…

So it’s Kane vs. Billy Gunn and X-Pac vs. Road Dogg for the semi-finals. Smart money would suggest that this would lead to a tournament finals between two former partners dueling it out… but then again, this is Vince Russo we’re talking about here.

The Hardy Boyz beat Edge & Christian to earn themselves a tag-team title shot against then-champions the Acolytes (or A.P.A. as they would be known later on). Quick match, but you can already tell these guys had something. And that would be expanded upon in their later feuds over the years.

Alright, time for the semi-finals. Looking forward to this… not.

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King Of The Ring 1998 is known for exactly one thing; Hell In A Cell.

The other notable thing on King Of The Ring 1998 that occasionally gets mentioned; the First Blood match between Stone Cold Steve Austin and Kane for the WWF Championship.

The focus of the opening video package; the two aforementioned matches.

The King Of The Ring tournament that just so happens to be the reason for this PPV’s existence; treated as an afterthought… and for good reason.

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So this was a show that happened one night in June… and in all honesty, not a whole lot to say about this one. I probably rented the tape once or twice, but that’s about it. Therefore, this is going to be fairly brief, with one or two matches of note at most.

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WWF King Of The Ring 1996 was the event where Austin 3:16 was born. The End.

Okay, maybe not.

I suppose, if nothing else, that’s the main talking point of this PPV and perhaps the only memorable thing about this show. And as much as WWE and Steve Austin will have you believe, this one promo didn’t set the world on fire from the get-go… especially when WCW was in the midsts of starting their own wildfire thanks to two former WWF’ers messing things up, as it were. But the promo planted the seeds to a future superstar in the making. But there are other noteworthy moments on hand here… so let’s check them out together.

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For most old-school fans of professional wrestling or “sports-entertainment” as some would prefer to call it, the 1995 edition of the WWF King Of The Ring event ranks up there as one of the worst wrestling cards ever conceived. Held in the wrestling hotbed of Philidelphia, Pensylvania, which was home to an underground cult promotion that was making the waves, King Of The Ring 1995 was pretty much a showcase of everything that was wrong with the WWF at the time… and pretty much an example of a company ignoring all the warning signs thrown at them and staying the course when it would’ve been wiser (and smarter) to jettison the load and try something else…

Perhaps that was a poor choice of words…

Since I got the WWE Network back in February, I’ve been mostly fond of catching some of the older PPVs and shows. I’ve seen a bunch of Clashes, a bunch of good PPVs… and then this comes along. Well, it was only a matter of time, wasn’t it? And since I’m sorta blowing through these KOTR events for the sake of this challenge, I might as well get it out of the way. And let me tell you something (brutha)… considering a lot of the other 1995 WWF stuff I’ve witnessed thus far, I am not looking forward to this one bit.

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Apparently, the inaugural King Of The Ring PPV event in 1993 was such a resounding success that they decided to have another one and make it something of an annual thing. This would last until 2002 for those keeping count, when Brock Lesnar won and killed the event. Longtime voyeurs of Wrestlecrap will know this show for being the one with football great Art Donovan doing commentary and such a bang up job he does, as well… although poor guy should do a little more prep work. After all, shouldn’t he already know how much these guys weigh?

Sigh… how sad is it that all three members of the announce team are now deceased?

Oh, well. On with the show, I guess.

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