Category: WWE PPV Musings

So last month, you had Survivor Series ’97. The big screwjob in Montreal that saw Shawn Michaels win the WWF Championship in controversial fashion and resulted in Bret Hart getting a less than regal exit from the promotion. We’ve covered that show here.

The following month, you’ve got the 1998 Royal Rumble, with the Rumble match itself being won by Stone Cold Steve Austin as the first step in his ascent to the top of the WWF mountain, while Shawn Michaels would retain the WWF title over the Undertaker thanks to Kane’s interference. This match is also where Shawn would hurt his back, forcing him to retire for four years and miss out on the WWF’s most profitable period at that time. We’ve also covered that show here.

In between both those shows, we have this In Your House: D-Generation X PPV to close out 1997. Because if the nWo had their own PPV, then surely DX deserved one too. They were the new hotness afterall.

Sadly, much like the nWo PPV, the DX IYH kinda sucks. Not only that, but it’s not exactly a memorable show, either. nWo Souled Out felt different and unique; this was the usual bad WWF show that I would’ve expected from the bad ol’ Diesel days… hey, maybe there’s a correlation.

Continue reading “WWF In Your House #19 – D-Generation X (December 1997)”

We’re skipping three PPVs because I’ve already covered them and there’s not much else I could add to the musings, so check those out yourself.

So this is a pretty historic PPV in the history of In Your House for two significant reasons. The first reason being that it was the final WWF PPV to use that In Your House set, as subsequent PPVs would feature their own set-ups down the road and the In Your House name would be a less emphasize moniker that would eventually be phased out in a couple years. The second reason that Ground Zero is significant is because it’s the first time an In Your House branded show would be roughly three hours.

Continue reading “WWF In Your House #17 – Ground Zero (September 1997)”

It’s been a long time coming, but finally Stone Cold gets his first shot at the WWF World Heavyweight Championship and he faces off against… THE UNDERTAKER, playa!

Other stuff happened, I guess. More after the break…

Continue reading “WWF In Your House #15 – A Cold Day In Hell (May 1997)”

(Yeah, so I wrote this back in 2015 and posted it a year later, but rewatching the show recently and in context with everything else, I felt this needed a bit of an update, so here we are.)

This is a PPV from 1997 that I’ve only seen bits and pieces of on YouTube and was able to track down a copy of the full show just recently. For those requiring a bit of context, this was about a month removed from Wrestlemania 13, where Undertaker won the WWF Championship, Bret Hart and Steve Austin had their bloody submission match that would change the course of their careers forever, and we had this Rocky Melvin fellow defend his IC title amist a sea of “Rocky Sucks” chants. Should be fun, I guess.

Continue reading “WWF In Your House #14 – Revenge Of The Taker (April 1997)”

So Stone Cold Steve Austin won the Royal Rumble under somewhat dubious circumstances and that necessitated what the WWF dubbed a “Final Four” match; a four-way elimination match that where one can be eliminated via pinfall, submission, and throw over the top rope onto the ground. Then Shawn Michaels vacated the WWF title because he lost his smile or something… and now the winner of the match would be crowed the new WWF Champion.

Quite the set-up, folks. Let’s see how this goes.

Continue reading “WWF In Your House #13 – Final Four (February 1997)”

I’ll be honest; I had no intention of watching this show. But hey, if the main event failed to live up to the hype and I didn’t watch it, I wouldn’t have been able to use the banner above… so I saw the show for some reason and did an audio thing afterwards, so much of what’s here has already been mentioned there… but for the sake of the archives, I suppose…

Besides, there is a shitty match in this PPV.

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The final IYH show from 1996 and then we’ll talk Double Or Nothing next week… unless you want me to comment on the Shittiest Wrestling Match Evar or something.

Fun Fact: The title of this In Your House event, It’s Time, originates from Vader’s catchphrase “It’s Time! It’s VADER TIME!” This was supposed to be his headline event, but… you know… PLAN CHANGED and so we got Sid instead.

Thanks, Shawn.

Continue reading “WWF In Your House #12 – It’s Time (December 1996 PPV)”

The first Buried Alive match took place on this show… hence the name of the show. Not much else happened on here and it’s a pretty nothing show otherwise, so let’s get this over and done with.

Continue reading “WWF In Your House #11 – Buried Alive (October 1996 PPV)”

If you want the King Of The Ring, International Incident, and Summerslam PPVs that preceded today’s subject matter, you can find those on the all-new Wrestling Musings Page.

Continue reading “WWF In Your House #10 – Mind Games (Sept. 1996 PPV)”

Yeah, so… I watched this show… and then I did a recording on this show… and now here’s a write-up on this show… which hasn’t changed much from the recording on Monday. For context, the main event was a filmed segment where both men and women fought through Titan Towers – WWE’s old headquarters – to reach the roof where the two briefcases reside.

I wasn’t a big fan of this show, but to be fair, it was a fairly short show, ending after two and a half hours of action. So that’s less bad stuff to deal with, but is it really all that bad?

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