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In Your House 1
Onondaga County War Memorial[1]
Attendance7,000[2]
Buy rate332,000[3]
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In Your House (retroactively titled In Your House: Premiere, and sequentially known as In Your House 1) was the inaugural

Onondaga County War Memorial in Syracuse, New York. The In Your House series was established to be held as monthly PPVs to take place between the WWF's "Big Five" PPVs at the time: WrestleMania, King of the Ring, SummerSlam, Survivor Series, and Royal Rumble
.

The event consisted of ten professional wrestling matches, six of which were broadcast live. In the

The Roadie in a two-on-one handicap match
.

The pay-per-view received a 0.83 buyrate, equivalent to approximately 332,000 buys.

Production

Background

By 1993, the

Onondaga County War Memorial in Syracuse, New York.[4]

The WWF ran a

sweepstakes to promote the event, giving away a new house in Orlando, Florida. Todd Pettengill and Stephanie Wiand toured the house and conducted the drawing during the pay-per-view, which was won by an 11-year-old resident of Henderson, Nevada, and presented to his family during the May 22 episode of Raw. They sold the house for $175,000 six months later.[6][7]

This initial In Your House event was initially known simply as In Your House. It was later retroactively renamed as In Your House: Premiere, due to it being the very first In Your House event.[8] It would sequentially be known simply as In Your House 1.[1][2]

Storylines

Sid, who challenged Diesel for the WWF Championship at In Your House.

The most prominent

Razor Ramon on the May 1 episode of Raw,[14] Diesel approached the ring ready to fight Sid, who, along with the corporation's manager DiBiase, left the arena abruptly.[16][18] The following week on Raw, DiBiase revealed that he and Sid had been working together for a while, admitting that it was him who told Shawn Michaels to get a bodyguard.[19]

Prior to the event, the feud between

The Roadie) and Hakushi. Bret and Ramon won the match, with Ramon pinning Jarrett.[13] On the May 1 episode of Raw, Bret offered to face Lawler at In Your House after his scheduled match with Hakushi.[16] Bret dedicated his match with Lawler at In Your House to his mother, as the pay-per-view was going to take place on Mother's Day. Lawler also responded that on the May 8 episode of Raw that his mother was going to be at ringside for their encounter.[16][19]

The most prominent rivalry on the

Aldo Montoya on the April 8 episode of Superstars of Wrestling in a non-title match, where Jarrett accidentally pinned himself (he never lifted his shoulder off the ground after being slammed to the mat by Montoya). Jarrett was initially announced the winner, but Montoya was later declared the winner.[24] Jarrett and Montoya faced each other again two weeks later, on the April 22 episode of Superstars of Wrestling. During the match, Razor Ramon came to ringside and chased The Roadie backstage. Despite this, Jarrett managed to gain the victory, making Montoya submit to the figure four leglock.[24] The next day on Wrestling Challenge, Ramon and the 1–2–3 Kid were scheduled to square off against Jarrett and The Roadie at In Your House. After a legitimate neck injury[1] rendered the Kid unable to wrestle,[18] the match was changed into a Handicap match, in which Ramon would face both Jarrett and The Roadie by himself.[16]

The other main rivalry on the undercard was for the WWF Tag Team Championship between the team of Owen Hart and Yokozuna and

New Headshrinkers (Sionne and Fatu). Hart and Yokozuna interfered in the contest, attacking the New Headshrinkers, causing a disqualification. The Smoking Gunns ran to the ring, attacking Hart and Yokozuna. The Headshrinkers posed with Hart and Yokozuna's tag team belts and celebrated with the Smoking Gunns.[13] The following night, on Raw, the Smoking Gunns were awarded a rematch for the WWF Tag Team Championship at the In Your House pay-per-view. They made their intentions of winning the title clear by quickly defeating Barry Horowitz and the Brooklyn Brawler.[18] In their last encounter before the event, Bart defeated Hart via pinfall on the May 8 episode of Raw.[16][19]

Event

Before the event went live on pay-per-view,

Bob Holly in a standard dark match.[26]

Preliminary matches

Hakushi, who faced Bret Hart at In Your House.

The first match that aired was a standard match between Bret Hart and Hakushi (managed by Shinja). Bret announced before the contest that he was dedicating his performances to his mother because it was Mother's Day. Jerry Lawler, who faced Bret later in the pay-per-view, watched the match backstage on a monitor. Bret won the contest,[27] when he rolled-up Hakushi to gain a pinfall and end Hakushi's six-month-long undefeated streak.[28][29] As Hart jumped to the arena floor after the contest, he appeared to legitimately injure his knee.[1]

A two-on-one Handicap match was next as Razor Ramon faced Intercontinental Champion Jeff Jarrett and The Roadie. During the match, Jarrett went to perform the figure four leglock submission hold, but Ramon blocked the maneuver, sending Jarrett to collide with his partner. Ramon performed his "Razor's Edge" finishing move and pinned Jarrett for the victory.[1][27] After the contest, Ramon tried to perform the "Razor's Edge" on The Roadie, but Jarrett attacked him and applied the figure four leglock. Aldo Montoya went to ringside and attempted to help Ramon, but Jarrett and The Roadie threw him to the arena floor. An "unknown man" ran to the ring and attacked both Jarrett and The Roadie,[27] and several people escorted the "unknown man" backstage.[1] Later in the pay-per-view, Ramon introduced the "unknown man" as Savio Vega during an interview in the "WWF Hotline Room", a fictitious interview room for the WWF.[1][27][28]

A qualifying match for the

one-sided and ended in two minutes when Mabel pinned Bomb after he powerslamed him down to the mat.[1] Mabel advanced to the next round of the tournament, beginning a push for the superstar.[1][2][27]

Next, Jerry Lawler went to the ring to give a promotional interview before his scheduled match with Bret Hart, declaring that he wanted his match with Bret to take place despite Bret's injury. Lawler was then sent backstage by

Rene Goulet, and Bret was shown icing down his knee.[1][28]

Next was a tag team match for the WWF Tag Team Championship, where the team of Owen Hart and Yokozuna (managed by Jim Cornette and Mr. Fuji) defended their titles against The Smoking Gunns (Bart Gunn and Billy Gunn). Owen pinned Bart for the victory after Yokozuna delivered a leg drop to Bart's chest, therefore retaining the championship.[1][2][27]

Other on-screen personnel[27]
Role: Name:
Commentator Vince McMahon
Dok Hendrix
Spanish Commentator Carlos Cabrera
Hugo Savinovich
Ed Trucco
Interviewer Stephanie Wiand
Todd Pettengill
Ring announcer Howard Finkel
Referee
Tim White
Jack Doan
Mike Chioda
Danny Davis
Earl Hebner

Main event matches

Before his match with Bret Hart, Lawler introduced a woman obviously younger than himself as his mother, and wished her a happy Mother's Day. Moments before the contest, Hart revealed that his knee injury was fake.[1] During the contest, referee Earl Hebner became tied upside down in the ropes after being distracted by Shinja.[27] While Hebner was tied upside down, Hakushi interfered and performed a diving headbutt to Hart. Lawler won the match when he rolled-up Hart for the pinfall.[1][27][28]

The pay-per-view's main event was a standard match for the WWF Championship, where the champion Diesel defended the title against Sid (managed by Ted DiBiase). Late in the contest, Diesel performed a Jacknife Powerbomb on Sid and went for the pinfall. Tatanka came out and attacked Diesel, which resulted in Diesel retaining the championship via disqualification. Tatanka, along with DiBiase, attacked Diesel. Sid attempted to perform a powerbomb, but Bam Bam Bigelow ran to the ring, forcing the villains to go to the outside.[1][27][28]

Dark matches

After the live pay-per-view went off the air there were 3 more dark matches. The first was between

Kama in a standard match, which The Undertaker won after giving Kama a "Tombstone Piledriver". While this match was not shown on pay-per-view, it was included as a bonus match on the VHS home video release.[27][28]

The next dark match was between Bigelow and Tatanka, which Bigelow won after diving off the top rope and hitting a sunset flip for the pin. This match was also included on the VHS home video release.[27][28]

The final dark match of the night was a qualifier for the King of the Ring tournament between Davey Boy Smith and Owen Hart (managed by Jim Cornette). The match went to a fifteen-minute time-limit draw. Unlike the other dark matches, this was taped for the June 5 episode of Raw.[27][28]

Aftermath

The pay-per-view garnered 332,000 buys, which is equivalent to a 0.83 buyrate,[3] a large number that generally surprised many pay-per-view providers.[30] It had more buys than all the other In Your House pay-per-views, with In Your House: Good Friends, Better Enemies receiving the second highest buyrate of 324,000 buys.[3]

At the following pay-per-view, King of the Ring, Diesel teamed up with Bam Bam Bigelow to defeat Sid and Tatanka.[31] Sid faced Diesel in a rematch for the WWF Championship at the In Your House 2 pay-per-view in a Lumberjack match. Diesel retained the title after hitting Sid with his boot.[32] Mabel's push culminated with him winning the King of the Ring tournament by defeating Savio Vega in the finals.[31] With this, Mabel went on to face Diesel at SummerSlam for the WWF Championship, where Diesel retained the title.[11][33] The rivalry between Bret Hart and Jerry Lawler also continued into King of the Ring, with the two facing each other at the event in a "Kiss My Foot" match. Hart won the match despite outside interference from Hakushi, making Lawler submit to the Sharpshooter. After the match, Hart forced Lawler to kiss his feet.[31]

The In Your House shows would continue until February 1999's

orphaned initialism in 2011),[34] the promotion announced that In Your House would be revived for their NXT brand division as an NXT TakeOver event entitled TakeOver: In Your House on June 7, 2020, which aired exclusively on WWE's online streaming service, the WWE Network. The announcement and the event marked the 25th anniversary of the first In Your House PPV.[35][36] A second TakeOver: In Your House was scheduled for June 13, 2021, thus making In Your House an annual subseries of TakeOver events held in June. This second event aired on both the WWE Network and traditional pay-per-view, thus returning In Your House to pay-per-view.[37]

Results

No.Results
dark match
  1. ^ The match was taped for the June 5 episode of Raw.

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