WWF In Your House 10 “Mind Games”

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WWF In Your House 10 “Mind Games”
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
September 22nd, 1996​

Free-For-all: Savio Vega vs. Marty Jannetty (w/Leif Cassidy)
We can all see why Shawn was main eventing and Marty was on the free-for-all, like 30 seonds into the match we get a split box and Justin “Hawk” Bradshaw cuts a promo that he has been here for 9 months and has yet to be on a PPV, but that no good Portico that he has beaten and branded is again on PPV. He then promises that someone will pay :lmao Marty locks in a chin lock, and begins to work the head and neck and it’s alright as Vince mentions ECW and says if you hear some unusual chants it’s because of that. Marty throws Vega to the floor allowing Leif to get a few cheap shots in before bringing him back in to apply another chinlock rest hold. He begins to heel it up by taunting the crowd allowing Vaga to begin a comeback, Marty hits a springboard crossbody but Vaga rolls through for the 3 count and the win. Post-Match: Justin “Hawk” Bradshaw attacks Vaga from behind and begins to whip Vaga with that bullrope. *1/2

Caribbean Strap Match: Savio Vega vs. Justin “Hawk” Bradshaw (w/Uncle Zebekiah)
Kevin Kelly interviews Vaga and Vaga shouts a bunch of shit in Spanish before yelling he’s gonna “whip his butt” Vaga comes running down to the ring but Bradshaw jumps him and beats the shit out of him :lmao Bradshaw wraps the strap around Vega’s throat and launches him across the ring. Before whipping him 5 times, he begins to hit each turnbuckle but after two gets cut off. Oh I forgot to mention the rules of a strap match are; pins or submissions don’t count, it’s NoDq and the only way to win is hit all four turnbuckles one after the other. OH SHIT! They begin to brawl on the floor and the Sandman along with Tommy Dreamer show up in the front row, Sandman hits himself in the head with a can to distract Vaga long enough to allows Bradshaw to jump him. Security come and escort the ECW guys out as the crowd now gives no fucks about the match and begins to chant ECW and all look at those two :lmao Vaga now begins to smack the shit out of Bradshaw with the whip like a good 12 times as he hits three of four but Bradshaw yanks him down to prevent save a loss. Savio hits the spinning wheel kick and hits three buckles again but Bradshaw cuts it off again. Bradshaw kills Vaga with a big boot and a running lariat. Bradshaw begins to touch the turnbuckles; but he doesn’t know that Vaga is right behind him, they both hit three turnbuckles and Bradshaw pulls Savio into the fourth one giving him the win. Pretty boring, and only here for the ECW “Invasion” I did like they whipped each other tho. *3/4

Backstage: A cameraman catches “Razor Ramon” and “Diesel”, from a far distance, attacking Savio Vega in the back, but when he gets close enough, they’re gone.

Jose Lothario vs. Jim Cornette
Before the match Jim calls him a 150 year old cripple and will hurt him. Jose comes out to Shawns’ music and it’s hilarious ‘cause it’s just so wrong. Jose beats up Cornette for a minute and Cornette’s selling is fantastic. Jose pins him after a left-handed uppercut.

Backstage: Dok Hendrix talks to Savio Vega and he says doesn’t know who attacked him but hopes it was not Razor Ramon cause if it is he will pay.

Brian Pillman comes out to the ring and says he has proof he's an honest man. He says all these beautiful Philadelphia landmarks represent about .5% of this sewer. He says the founding fathers must be rolling over in their gravies right now because the birthplace of freedom is a cesspool of drug abuse, battered women, and welfare recipients, and if you need any proof just look at all the scum that sit before him in the crowd. Pillman, then brings out some class the KING OF HART’S Owen Hart. Owen says he thought he and Bret had patched things up with Bret when he realized Owen was the better Hart but for Bret to call them liars is uncalled for when he guaranteed them he would be here. Owen says Bret must be senile, and says the only reason Bret wouldn't show is that he thinks he's scared of his fellow King, Steve Austin! Pillman calls Austin out to talk about this. Austin says everyone knew Bret would no-show, because when Austin's in the house, Bret's in his house, afraid of Austin. As soon as he got to the WWF, Bret went back to Canada, and to call Bret Hart a chicken is an insult to chickens. "IF YOU PUT THE LETTER S IN FRONT OF HITMAN, YOU HAVE MY EXACT OPINION OF BRET HART!" :lmao AWESOME! Austin says the problem with Bret his he cares what the people think of him, he hopes Bret does come back and somebody's is gonna get whipped, and Austin 3:!6 says it's gonna be his. Pillman then ends it by saying Philadelphia sucks and that’s because he said so.

WWF Tag Team Championship: Owen Hart & British Bulldog vs. The Smoking Gunns (w/Sunny)
In the back Dok Hendrix reports from the trainer’s room; Jim Cornette is in pain as Clarence Mason is there and tricks the dazed Cornette into signing over the managerial rights of Owen and the Bulldog to him. Owen and Billy start, and it’s Owen being great as he uses his smartness and quickness to be one step ahead of both Gunns before tagging in Bulldog. The great team now begin to take over once Owen chop blocks the shit out of Bart’s knee it looked sick, they begin to quick tag in and out while stretching the shit out of the leg. At one point Owen has Bart in a Boston crab, but reaches the ropes. He tags Bulldog in and hits a sweet delayed vertical suplex followed by legdrop for two. Owen applies a spinning leglock, but Bart sneaks in a cradle for two, so Owen gets pissed and kills Bart with the enziguri. Davey Boy tags; Billy manages to distract him and the Gunns take over on offense tossing the Bulldog into the steel steps. The isolation of Bulldog sucked compared to the Bulldog/Owen one, at one point Mason gets on the apron to distract the ref long enough for Owen to fly off the top rope and hit Billy with a forearm but only for a two count. At this point Bart has totally forgot about the 4/5 minutes Owen/Bulldog spent on the knee, what a shame. The match would end when Bart Gunn comes in and tries to finish the Bulldog with his own move but he counters tossing Bart into Billy on the apron who was busy flirting with Sunny. Billy, gives Bart a little shove… right into the Bulldog’s powerslam. Billy stumbles into an Owen spinning wheel kick and the Bulldog gets the win. Post-Match: Sunny grabs a microphone and berates the Smoking Gunns, throws a tantrum and fires them. **1/2

Backstage: Kevin Kelly is in a dark room with Paul and Mankind, Paul says Mankind will do it and the creatures of the night is the reason why he turned on the Undertaker and they will be the reason Mankind wins tonight. Mankind says he’s gonna make Shawn’s like a miserable and it’s his destiny to make him suffer and to hold the WWF title.

Jerry Lawler vs. Mark Henry
Pre-Match: Lawler shits on the Olympics and all of Philly, this match is only taking place because earlier on Lawler “accidentally” threw coffee on him then on the free-for-all slapped him. Lawler says he’s gonna make him his bitch. This is Mark Henry’s debut match. This is pretty much 4 minutes of Lawler trollin’ and bumping making Mark look great, the match ended when Lawler goes into his tights for the notorious “the foreign object”. The King and Henry go into a test of strength and nails him with the object. Lawler gets in a few shots in until Henry gets mad and knees Jerry in the he hoists him up into a backbreaker for the submission. Post-Match: Marty Jannetty and Leif Cassidy run in to spoil the celebration but Henry destroys them and tosses them to the floor. Hunter Hearst Helmsley runs in and slugs away; Henry makes quick work of him and press-slams him over the top onto the Marty and Leif.

Dok Hendrix interviews Owen Hart, the British Bulldog and Clarence Mason; Owen gloats and says they are the best team in the WWF. They do not know why Mason was in their corner; Mason admits that he “accidentally” mixed up the paperwork to Jim Cornette and he is their new manager.

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Final Curtain Match: The Undertaker vs. Goldust (w/Marlena)
A “Final Curtain” match means there MUST be a winner, by pinfall, no DQ or count outs. Taker come out and he’s all business before the match even starts he jumps him beating him from one side of the ring to the other. He doesn’t let up at all, Goldust hangs the Undertaker off the top rope; Marlena adds a slap. Goldust adds a swinging neckbreaker but Taker sits-up and uppercuts Goldust. I love how Taker is being super aggressive and less zombie like during his offense. Taker beats on him for a good few minutes until Marlena distracts Taker long enough for Goldust to throw “Gold Dust” into his face and he begins to rake away at the eyes of Taker. I have to admit I wasn’t a big fan of Goldust’s heat, it was mainly punches, kicks and go to the eyes and it happen in that order we would get the occasional move but that was it and it lasted way too long. But the only thing saving it was Taker’s mini-comebacks ‘cause just as it looked like Taker was rising from the dead, Goldust would cut him off at every turn. The crazy thing was Taker never even got a full comeback in; he just out of luck caught Goldust with a chokeslam off the top and followed up with the Tombstone for the win. *1/2

Backstage: Kevin Kelly interviews Shawn Michael’s, he admits he is nervous going into this match; he feels he can out wrestle anyone but Mankind is not your average wrestler. He says he will find a way to get the job done. Shawn says it is hard to play mind games, but he is out of his own mind and will think on the job to get it done. Shawn played the role of “nervous” perfectly.

Before the main event, druids wheel out a casket. Paul Bearer comes out and opens it, and Mankind is inside, and he gets in the ring.

WWF Championship: Mankind (w/Paul Bearer) vs. Shawn Michaels (w/Jose Lothario)
IT’S FUCKIN’ TIME PEOPLE! Lock up to start by Mankind hits back elbow right away and begins to punch and kick away at Shawn, he hits a back drop followed by the Cactus clothesline to the floor. Mankind kicks Shawn back first into the rails and Mankind begins to remove the ringside padding, Shawn jumps him and places the padding over Mankind and stomps on him. Shawn hits a second-rope twisting crossbody to the floor; he jumps off the ring steps knocking Mankind backwards onto the concrete. Back into the ring, Shawn comes off the top rope with a double axe handle, he then catches Mankind’s boot and spins him around Mankind misses the follow-up clothesline and Shawn jabs him with rights, he follows up with a Bodyslam and connects with the top-rope elbow drop; Michael's tunes up the band but Mankind dives to the floor and rocks back-and-forth and calls for the urn for some comfort. They exchange punches in the corner and Mankind reverses a whip and Shawn jumps to the second rope for a crossbody but Mankind does not follow behind so Shawn throws gets pissed and follows him.

They roll around on the mat punching away at one another until Mankind counters a snapmare into the Mandible Claw, but Shawn elbows himself free and Mankind floors Michael's with a rights before throwing him to the floor. Mankind moves the Spanish announce table around but Shawn leaps over it table and tackles him. Shawn suplexes Mankind on the floor, smashing his leg onto the steel steps on the way down, JESUS! As Mankind is getting back into the ring Shawn chop blocks the leg and tosses Mankind onto the casket and rams the bad leg onto the casket. Back in the ring, Shawn stomps away in the corner and shoves the referee aside, Shawn Dragon screws Mankind’s leg before applying the figure-four, before releasing and hits a sweet basement dropkick to the knee into a half-Boston crab. Mankind makes the ropes and releases on four; Mankind fights back again but Shawn sneaks in a self-assisted sunset flip for two. Mankind stunguns Shawn onto the top rope, allowing him to grab a pen and stabs his knee to get some feeling back into his leg, AWESOME! Mankind chokes Shawn in the ropes and throws him out over the casket; Mankind stumbles around the ring, on the bad leg, waiting for Shawn to get back in. Mankind hammers away in the corner and hits the Cactus knee in the corner.

Mankind bites on Shawn’s face, before slamming it into the mat but Shawn comes back with a back suplex. He fights back but Mankind boots him in the gut; but Shawn slides under Mankind and fires back but gets sent upside-down into the corner and hung in the Tree of Woe. Mankind drives an elbow and an axe handle before he drops a leg to the back of his head. Mankind kicks Shawn over the top to the floor and follows him out. He goes for the Cactus knee into the steps but Michael's moves and Mankind crashes into the steps. Shawn drop-toeholds Mankind’s face into the steps as they begin to fight over a suplex from the apron to the floor, Mankind wins but only gets Shawn onto the apron, Mankind charges at him along the apron, but Shawn, quickly, renters the ring as Mankind crashes into the ringpost. Shawn hits s running elbow and a powerslam for two. Shawn tosses Mankind over the top but he gets his head caught in the ropes, Shawn moves in to attack but Mankind utilizes the Mandible Claw as defense while he’s still hung in the ropes, to protect himself. Mankind does manage to free himself and tumbles to the floor. Where Michael's comes out after him but eats another Mandible Claw. While he’s still in the hold Shawn tosses Mankind into the ring barricade practically taking out Hugo. Shawn grabs a chair and blocks a punch with it.

Shawn smartly hits Mankind’s Mandible Claw hand with the chair. Before bringing him back in the ring, Shawn aggressively begins to bites the Mankind’s hand and stomps on it, to stop Mankind’s from using that. Shawn removes Mankind’s black finger tape and continues the assault on the Mankind’s hand. He charges but Mankind desperately backdrops him over the top rope and follows him out by connecting with the Cactus elbow off the apron. Mankind hits a swinging neckbreaker onto Shawn on the floor. Back in the ring, Mankind scissors Shawn in the ropes with a legdrop and drops the double-arm DDT for two. Mankind follows up with the pulling piledriver and gets a trio of nearfalls; Mankind grows more frustrated and yanks his own hair out, then retreats to the floor and begins to toss chairs into the ring. Mankind asks for the casket to be opened, despite this not being a casket match, and rolls Shawn into it. That triggers a Shawn Michael's comeback with a flying forearm and a nip-up; he bodyslams him and races up the ropes but Mankind has gotten to his feet so Michael's hits a crossbody block for two. Shawn goes up again but Mankind crotches him.

Mankind goes to the apron and backdrop suplexes Shawn to the floor and they both crash through the Spanish announce table AMAZING! AWESOME! THIS STILL HOLDS UP! Paul Bearer distracts the referee on the floor as Mankind climbs to the top with a chair. Shawn uses an already set-up chair in the ring to hop up and superkick the chair back into Mankind’s face, knocking him to the apron. Shawn then drags Mankind back into the ring but Vader runs down to brawl with Michael's causing Mankind to get DQ’ed. Post-match, Shawn forearms Vader to the floor but Paul Bearer sneaks up from behind and clonks Michael's on the head with the urn. Sycho Sid runs down to take out Vader, Mankind recovers and applies the Mandible Claw to Shawn and signals to Paul Bearer to open the casket but the Undertaker is inside, scaring Paul away, he gets out and chases Mankind off to the back, and Shawn slowly gets up in the ring with the belt. I mean what can I say about this that hasn’t been said already, it had counter-wrestling, hardcore, psychology and high-flying no rest holds. Just everything and if it wasn’t for the DQ finish this might be the greatest match ever. ****3/4

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God damn, love that main event. The rest of the show is iffy besides some cool promos.

I'd say that's Foley's second best match behind Trips/Foley RR 2000 at least in WWE. I could watch Vader pound on Foley all day.
 

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Mankind added some much needed toughness to the pretty boy character Shawn Michaels played at the time. He was not that over as champion before this, if anyone watches his feud with Bulldog and Vader you would see that.

Rest of the show was shit tbh, what a terrible time this was. Why the fuck was Austin not wrestling? Smoking Gunns were the worst tag team ever. And Cornette and Lethario was Finkle/Whipplemen bad.

And if Sandman and Dreamer were not plants, Bradshaw and Savio would've fucked them up for realsies.
 

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oh yeah Bradshaw would have went one night stand 2005 on them
 

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Thought it'd be interesting to compare your ratings to Meltzer's so here goes:

Vega/Bradshaw *1/4
Lothario/Cornette -*
Owen & Bulldog/Gunns **1/4
Henry/Lawler DUD
'Taker/Goldsut *1/2
Michaels/Mankind ****3/4
 

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You're a Meltzer........Tell me what's going to happen on Raw tonight....Be as vague as you can.
 

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Punk chants, sting, Sting & STING! oh and Cena wins.
 
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Punk chants, sting, Sting & STING! oh and Cena wins.
Forgot the stuttering and stammering and tons of "I don't know, but I'll confirm this as soon as this is over".
 

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Mankind added some much needed toughness to the pretty boy character Shawn Michaels played at the time. He was not that over as champion before this, if anyone watches his feud with Bulldog and Vader you would see that.

Rest of the show was shit tbh, what a terrible time this was. Why the fuck was Austin not wrestling? Smoking Gunns were the worst tag team ever. And Cornette and Lethario was Finkle/Whipplemen bad.

And if Sandman and Dreamer were not plants, Bradshaw and Savio would've fucked them up for realsies.

Always thought this, think it was a character which was better suited for the mid-card or at least the babyface version was. HBK 2006 lacked the edge of HBK 2007.

Didn't know that Dreamer and Sandman were plants, was that to set up some of the ECW invades stuff the next year or something?
 

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Always thought this, think it was a character which was better suited for the mid-card or at least the babyface version was. HBK 2006 lacked the edge of HBK 2007.

Didn't know that Dreamer and Sandman were plants, was that to set up some of the ECW invades stuff the next year or something?
Yes.

I think tiny Taz jumped the guardrail on the following Raw.
 

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Still the greatest debate ever.

 

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Always marked for King calling ECW "Extremely Crappy Wrestling!"