Well, In Your House couldn't quite continue its winning streak here, this was not up to standard with the first two. Not to say this was a bad PPV, it was certainly the weakest of the early In Your House events.
The night kicked off with Savio Vega, who was having mixed success in his first run in the WWE defeating Waylon Mercy in a pretty ordinary opener. Nothing much more to add to that. They went back and forth, Vega hit the spinning heel kick and that was that.
Next comes Henry O Godwinn, who'd made a rather lackluster PPV debut at In Your House 2 where he blew out his knee before losing to Bam Bam Bigelow in a couple of minutes, lost again to the ferocious Psycho Sid. He made it a bit longer this time, a good 7 or 8 minutes, before getting power bombed into oblivion. Bad match.
Next up came a decent match between two good power guys, Bam Bam Bigelow and the British Bulldog. This was Bulldog's first PPV in quite some time and Bigelow wasn't going so well as a good guy, so his win, with an impressive running power slam, was a no-brainer.
Up next we have the incredibly annoying Dean Douglas taking on "The Bad Guy" who was actually a good guy Razor Ramon. Douglas had been annoying everyone at Summerslam, running a class room backstage, before Ramon beat the heck out of him. Dean Douglas wanted revenge here and got it, winning a decent match, controlled mainly by Ramon, with a roll up pin. Probably the best thing on the card so far.
Jean-Pierre Lafitt, who would face Bret Hart in our next match had once been a member of the Quebecers Tag Team with Jacques Rougeau, but had made a splash in singles competition by stealing Bret Hart's glasses that he would try to give to kids in the crowd before his matches. In the build up to this match he stole Hart's trademark black leather jacket. They have a good match, probably the best of the night (which didn't mean as much tonight as on some others), and Hart eventually won with the sharpshooter. It didn't work out for Lafitt as a singles wrestler and he found himself reunited with Rougeau in WCW a few months later.
You may have noticed there haven't been many title matches tonight, and that's because they are all on the line in our tag team main event! WWE Champion and Intercontinental Champion Shawn Michaels are taking on the WWE Tag Team Champions Yokozuna and Owen Hart. At least that was the plan, but Owen's pregnant wife had other ideas, so with Owen absent in stepped the British Bulldog. Now the rules were simple, if Diesel were pinned he would lose the WWE Title to whoever pinned him, ditto for Shawn Micheals and the IC Title, and if the Diesel or Michaels got the pin we had new tag team champs. This was a good match, which got a little bit confusing at the end as Owen returned and entered the match. He ended up getting pinned following a Diesel power bomb, but because he hadn't started the match, it was ruled he was not legal when he was pinned and so he and Yokozuna got to keep the tag titles.
Well, it ended OK, with three decent to good matches, but didn't start that great. The main event didn't deliver what it promised, which was one of the company's three major titles changing hands. This pretty much exposed the downside of monthly PPVs. With 12 a year instead of five, some of them just aren't going to mean much in the great scheme of things. This was one of those.
The night kicked off with Savio Vega, who was having mixed success in his first run in the WWE defeating Waylon Mercy in a pretty ordinary opener. Nothing much more to add to that. They went back and forth, Vega hit the spinning heel kick and that was that.
Next comes Henry O Godwinn, who'd made a rather lackluster PPV debut at In Your House 2 where he blew out his knee before losing to Bam Bam Bigelow in a couple of minutes, lost again to the ferocious Psycho Sid. He made it a bit longer this time, a good 7 or 8 minutes, before getting power bombed into oblivion. Bad match.
Next up came a decent match between two good power guys, Bam Bam Bigelow and the British Bulldog. This was Bulldog's first PPV in quite some time and Bigelow wasn't going so well as a good guy, so his win, with an impressive running power slam, was a no-brainer.
Up next we have the incredibly annoying Dean Douglas taking on "The Bad Guy" who was actually a good guy Razor Ramon. Douglas had been annoying everyone at Summerslam, running a class room backstage, before Ramon beat the heck out of him. Dean Douglas wanted revenge here and got it, winning a decent match, controlled mainly by Ramon, with a roll up pin. Probably the best thing on the card so far.
Jean-Pierre Lafitt, who would face Bret Hart in our next match had once been a member of the Quebecers Tag Team with Jacques Rougeau, but had made a splash in singles competition by stealing Bret Hart's glasses that he would try to give to kids in the crowd before his matches. In the build up to this match he stole Hart's trademark black leather jacket. They have a good match, probably the best of the night (which didn't mean as much tonight as on some others), and Hart eventually won with the sharpshooter. It didn't work out for Lafitt as a singles wrestler and he found himself reunited with Rougeau in WCW a few months later.
You may have noticed there haven't been many title matches tonight, and that's because they are all on the line in our tag team main event! WWE Champion and Intercontinental Champion Shawn Michaels are taking on the WWE Tag Team Champions Yokozuna and Owen Hart. At least that was the plan, but Owen's pregnant wife had other ideas, so with Owen absent in stepped the British Bulldog. Now the rules were simple, if Diesel were pinned he would lose the WWE Title to whoever pinned him, ditto for Shawn Micheals and the IC Title, and if the Diesel or Michaels got the pin we had new tag team champs. This was a good match, which got a little bit confusing at the end as Owen returned and entered the match. He ended up getting pinned following a Diesel power bomb, but because he hadn't started the match, it was ruled he was not legal when he was pinned and so he and Yokozuna got to keep the tag titles.
Well, it ended OK, with three decent to good matches, but didn't start that great. The main event didn't deliver what it promised, which was one of the company's three major titles changing hands. This pretty much exposed the downside of monthly PPVs. With 12 a year instead of five, some of them just aren't going to mean much in the great scheme of things. This was one of those.
