Unforgiven: In Your House
Unforgiven: In Your House | |||
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Promotion World Wrestling Federation | | ||
Date | April 26, 1998 | ||
City | Greensboro, North Carolina | ||
Venue | Greensboro Coliseum Complex | ||
Attendance | 21,427 | ||
Buy rate | 300,000[1] | ||
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Unforgiven: In Your House was the 21st
This was one of the In Your House events which later became the title of an annual pay-per-view, replacing the method at the time of making new names for all events aside from the "Big Five" (
Production
Background
Storylines
Nation of Domination leader Faarooq felt his leadership compromised by the egotism of The Rock and so when Rock was tapping out to Ken Shamrock's anklelock at WrestleMania XIV, rather than appear to save him, Faarooq merely laughed as The Rock ostensibly lost his Intercontinental Championship (the decision was soon reversed).[3] The following night Rock promised to Faarooq that in their match against Shamrock and Steve Blackman, the Nation of Domination would find a new strength. The new strength turned to be a double cross as Rocky left the match, making it a de facto handicap match which Faarooq lost.[4] After the match, Faarooq demanded The Rock return so they could face each other man to man but when Rock came back to the ring, it turned into a coup d'état as all the other members turned on their leader and Rock took leadership of the newly named Nation. The next week, as Faarooq arrived at the arena, he was met with a beating in the parking lot by all the Nation members, which they also filmed. Ken Shamrock, meanwhile, was forming an ad hoc tag team with Blackman based on their martial arts backgrounds, and still wanted his hands on the Intercontinental Champion.
As the only Hart family member left after the
Marc Mero's jealousy over the attention his wife and valet, Sable, gained from the crowd. To mock her, he sent her from ringside and invited out to accompany him The Artist Formerly Known as Goldust, dressed up as Sable, which started a short-lived tag team between the two. The team would come undone, however, when Goldust's valet Luna Vachon took exception to Sable. After Sable dominated Vachon in a mixed-tag match at WrestleMania XIV,[3] Vachon demanded a rematch with Sable between just the two of them, which was instantly accepted. The stipulation was later revealed to be an Evening Gown match, in order for Vachon to humiliate Sable, which she initially did by having Goldust dress up again as Sable and strip him as she intended to do to Sable. Sable appeared, though, and assaulted Vachon, with the latter having to flee.
After a series of successive losses,
Since Kane's debut in the WWF, interrupting The Undertaker's match and ruining his chances of beating Shawn Michaels at Badd Blood: In Your House,[5] Paul Bearer ordered Kane to be constant trouble to his half-brother, who in turn had refused to fight Kane. Things changed though, during a casket match at the Royal Rumble when Kane interfered again, chokeslamming The Undertaker into the casket then padlocking it shut before setting it ablaze, seemingly destroying The Undertaker.[6] After he returned, just before WrestleMania, he claimed to have gone to the afterlife and spoken to his parents and could now justify fighting his brother. Despite winning the match, it took him three tombstone piledrivers to do the job, and Kane recovered afterwards and tombstoned his brother onto a chair. Paul Bearer challenged him soon after on Raw, to a match surrounded by fire where the loser would be determined by the first to be set on fire. The following week Kane and Bearer were shown at the graves of Undertaker's parents, smashing the headstones and setting it ablaze. The week before the event, Undertaker went to the crypt of his parents only to find their coffins gone; they reappeared in the arena under the auspices of Kane and Bearer, who then set one of them on fire and when Undertaker tried to stop them, Kane chokeslammed him into the other coffin.
On the road to WrestleMania,
Event
Role: | Name: |
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English commentators
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Jim Ross |
Jerry Lawler | |
Spanish commentators | Carlos Cabrera |
Hugo Savinovich | |
Interviewer
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Michael Cole |
Ring announcer | Howard Finkel |
Referees | Earl Hebner |
Jim Korderas
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Jack Doan | |
Mike Chioda |
D'Lo Brown began the six-man tag match with a snap suplex on Steve Blackman but a reversal allowed Blackman to take control and soon things heated up when ex-Nation member Faarooq was tagged in, scoop slamming Brown and then untying his belt to whip Brown with, while The Rock complained to the referee preventing him from seeing the illegal weapon. The Nation varied between the slow, heavy style of Mark Henry, the quick pace of The Rock and Brown's flying manoeuvres to dominate Blackman with The Rock eventually landing the People's Elbow. The match would turn after Brown missed a moonsault, allowing for Blackman to tag in Faarooq, taking down the newly tagged Rock and an interfering Henry when all six men came in the ring. The non-legal men soon brawled out of the ring leaving the legal men to complete the match after Faarooq reversed a DDT attempt into his Dominator to win the match.[8][7] After the match, Stone Cold Steve Austin came to the ring, bringing the official timekeeper with him, and threatening the timekeeper to call the match right down the middle, regardless of what Vince McMahon's orders to him were.
Before the
An unscheduled
The first ever WWF
The
The first WWF
The main event began with
Reception
In 2008, J.D. Dunn of 411Mania gave the event a rating of 5.5 [Not So Good], stating, "The Inferno Match was the big selling point of the PPV, but Austin versus Dude Love was the only match that delivered. The undercard ranges from crap to crap with an asterisk, so you'll probably be doing a lot of fast-forwarding to get to the main event. Thumbs down."[10]
Aftermath
The In Your House branding was retired following February 1999's St. Valentine's Day Massacre: In Your House event, as the company moved to install permanent names for each of its monthly PPVs. Unforgiven returned in September 1999 as its own PPV event, and thus established Unforgiven as the annual September PPV for the promotion that was renamed to World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) in 2002.[8] The PPV would continue for another decade, with the final produced in 2008, after which, Unforgiven was discontinued and replaced by Breaking Point in 2009.[11]
Sable finally had enough of Marvelous Marc Mero's jealousy and challenged him to a match at Over the Edge and began his heel turn which would see him drop Sable as his valet and join forces with the debuting
The Rock & Roll Express would leave the WWF while the New Midnight Express would break up (and forfeit the NWA World Tag Team championship) as the WWF ended its NWA "invasion" angle and the titles returned to NWA control. Bart Gunn would later participate in the
Results
No. | Results | Stipulations | Times WWF Championship 18:49 | | |
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References
- ^ "WWF PPV Statistics 1998". OSW Review. Retrieved February 23, 2021.
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- ^ a b c "WrestleMania XIV". WWE. Retrieved 2008-07-18.
- ^ a b c d "Raw is War 1998 Results". Online World of Wrestling. Archived from the original on 2008-07-20. Retrieved 2008-07-21.
- ^ "Undertaker Gets Cain-ed at Badd Blood". SLAM! Sports. Archived from the original on December 6, 2012. Retrieved 2008-07-13.
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: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ "Austin Wins Predictable Rumble". SLAM! Sports. Archived from the original on July 21, 2012. Retrieved 2008-07-18.
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- ^ a b c d e f g "Unforgiven Results". WWE. Retrieved 2007-09-16.
- ^ "Main Event". WWE. Retrieved 2008-07-21.
- ^ Dunn, J.D. (2008-01-29). "Dark Pegasus Video Review: In Your House 21 – Unforgiven '98". 411mania.com. Retrieved 2021-09-23.
- ^ "Poll on a Pole!". WWE Magazine: 29. August 2009.
External links
- Unforgiven: In Your House at IMDb