Most fans would have been relieved that In Your House was a cut-price show, given it offered little from an entertainment standpoint.
However, the WWF were smart in that the In Your House events were initially less than 2 hours long and were far cheaper than the traditional ‘big five’ pay-per-view offerings. The inaugural In Your House event caused panic amongst those in the wrestling business, concerned that monthly pay-per-views would oversaturate the market. Poor action and politics make this an event better best forgotten. The match ended in a lame disqualification when The Bulldog slapped Bret Hart who was doing guest commentary at ringside and the ‘Hitman’ retaliated causing the referee to throw the match out. The pair did not mesh at all and Vince McMahon was allegedly furious with the quality of the bout afterwards. The headliner saw an awkward style clash between Diesel and The British Bulldog. Razor, to rub salt in the wound won the IC Title from Douglas after a horrendous 11-minute encounter. Douglas, as you may have heard once or twice, was furious about it and very soon left the company never to return. Razor intentionally sandbagged Douglas on virtually every move and made him look as terrible as possible. Number one contender, Dean Douglas was awarded the belt and forced to compete against Razor Ramon. Then in a sickening display of backstage politics, Shawn Michaels surrendered the Intercontinental Title, after her had been battered (for real) by a group of marines in a nightclub car park and was not able to compete. Lots of stalling, virtually no wrestling whatsoever and it ended in a screwy double count-out. Yokozuna versus King Mabel was exactly what you would expect. Given it was designed to put the newcomer over.
Goldust’s debut victory over Marty Jannetty lasted an epic 11 minutes. Only the opener featuring Hunter Hearst Helmsley and Fatu and the Tag Team Title match pitting Razor Ramon and the 1-2-3 Kid versus The Smoking Gunns offered anything resembling in-ring action and the former bout played before silence. However, In Your House 4 was not one of them. There were some truly great In Your House events. With absolutely zero redeeming features, terrible booking and nine dreadful matches, if you include the pre-show, King of the Ring 1995 was awful. The headliner saw Diesel and Bam Bam Bigelow beat Sycho Sid and Tatanka in a boring and interminable 18- minute tag team encounter. This wasn’t heel heat fan enmity either.Įlsewhere, Bret Hart beat Jerry Lawler in a tedious ‘Kiss my Foot’ match, which was a gigantic waste of the ‘Hitman.’ The Philadelphia crowd loudly booed the result and the coronation. Former Men on a Mission team member, Mabel, who was even less popular with the crowd, claimed the King of the Ring title after defeating Vega in an eight minute bore. Newcomer, Savio Vega, who was not over with the crowd and was an opening card act for his entire WWF run wrestled four times as he made it all the way to the King of the Ring final. Naturally, they were both eliminated in the first round. Shawn Michaels and The Undertaker were the only two combatants entered into the King of the Ring tournament who were over. It is the one of if not the worst wrestling show ever held. King of the Ring is the event with which all truly woeful wrestling shows are compared. This features ranks all 10 events from 1995 from worst to best! #10 King of the Ring The experiment did increase the WWF’s revenue but was not an immediate success from a creative standpoint.
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