WWF In Your House Badd Blood. The Netcop Retro Rant for In Your House: Badd Blood.(Whoops, almost forgot I was doing the WWF shows too.
UT match in 1. 99. After we get this one done, then it's onto the King of the Ring rants. And speaking of which, since the only real point of comparison for the Mankind- Undertaker match in 1. Hell in a Cell, let's set the way- back machine for October, 1.
HBK Shawn Michaels vs. Undertaker Badd Blood 1997 Full. Dailymotion O nas Prasa Praca Blog Wszystkie materia Plot Outline / Introduction / Synopsis: WWF in Your House: Badd Blood: Kevin Dunn Director of the movie WWF in Your House: Badd Blood with Cast Shawn Michaels, Mark Calaway, Owen Hart. WWF in Your House: Badd Blood released on 1997.
Louis, MO Your hosts are Vince, JR and the King. Opening match: Rocky Maivia, Kama Mustafa & D- Lo Brown v. The Legion of Doom. Scheduled partner Ken Shamrock is injured, so the OLD go 3 on 2.
Crowd isn't really responding positively to the OLD, however - it's all negative reaction to Rocky. Really, really dull segment with Hawk and Kama follows, but Rocky DDTs Animal (drawing more chants) and the Nation takes over.
The crowd is silent when D- Lo or Kama is in, and gets on Rocky as soon as he comes in. Kama misses the Ho Train and Animal makes the false tag, which allows D- Lo to frog splash him for two while the ref escorts Hawk out. Hot tag for real and a brawl breaks out. LOD goes for the Doomsday Device, but Faarooq comes out to draw Animal's attention, and Rocky hits the Rock Bottom (not called as such) for the pin. Vince announces the cancellation of the Pillman- Dude Love match due to Pillman's death.
Max Mini & Nova. You might know Max Mini better today as Taz, while Nova went on to become Chris Candido. Yeah, I know, if in doubt, go for the midget joke. They seem to be blowing a lot of spots here, possibly due to lack of preparation. There's a few nice spots, but the rest of the match has zero flow. Max pins Tarantula after an armdrag- into- crucifix move that probably sounded better in theory than it ended up looking in execution. The Bangers, bless their souls, try really hard, but the magnitude of suck is just too much to overcome.
If only Mark Canterbury and Dennis Knight weren't such good company men, maybe Vince wouldn't feel the need to reward them with the tag belts on every repackaging. This is *such* an unspeakably horrible and boring match.
The crowd might as well be at a Thunder taping for all the noise they're making. After about 1. 8 hours, Mosh gets the hot tag and the Bangers wake up the crowd with more double- team stuff. Mosh comes off the top with an ugly rana attempt, but Phineas catches him with an ugly powerbomb for the pin and the titles, which was the decision NO ONE wanted to see. The title reign would only last two days, before the OLD won their last tag title. Even then the LOD were basically just transitional champions in of themselves to get the belts onto the New Age Outlaws.
Louis legends segment, which is very classy and well- done, and also helps to eat up time that was supposed to be used by the Pillman angle. Owen Hart. For those wondering why there's a heel v. Ahmed Johnson, which actually would have had intrigue and stuff, but Ahmed got injured or injured someone (it's hard to keep track after a while) and was on suspension or injury leave or whatever, so Faarooq got stuck back in there. He does color commentary and improvises a little routine, but sounds like he's on the verge of breaking down and crying, which he disguises with bluster. Faarooq throws Owen around for a while, but Owen comes back and goes to work on the knee. Meanwhile, Austin terrorizes the various announcing teams. Faarooq misses a legdrop and Owen goes for the Sharpshooter.
WWF in Your House: Badd Blood (1997) on IMDb: Hell in a Cell(Non-Title):WWF European Champion Shawn Michaels vs. The Undertaker, WWF Intercontinental Title: Owen Hart vs. Faarooq, WWF Tag Team Tit. Hell in a Cell(Non-Title):WWF European. Badd Blood: In Your House October 5, 1997 St. Louis, Missouri Kiel Center Shawn Michaels vs. The Undertaker in the first Hell in a Cell match for the number one contender to the WWF Championship Bad Blood (2003) June 15, 2003 Houston, Texas Triple H. Add to Want to watch this again later? Sign in to add this video to a playlist.
Faarooq escapes and gets a powerslam for two, which draws Jim Neidhart to ringside as a spinebuster gets two. Faarooq leans up against the ropes and Austin smacks him in the head with the IC title belt, and Owen gets the pin and his second title. See, Austin wanted Owen to get the title so he could win it from him. Match was a total yawner. Wanna know how nicely some things end up where you least expect it? Because of this match, Faarooq started making challenges to Steve Austin, leading to a sort of unspoken feud between Austin and the Nation.
After Survivor Series, Rocky Maivia made the first challenge to Austin's title, and that was the feud that launched the careers of Austin and the newly dubbed Rock into the stratosphere. Back when they made their debut as a gang in mid- 9. DOA was hugely over, but because Vince's braintrust thought it best to push the visible minority groups (Hispanic Boriquas, black Nation and retarded Truth Commission), the DOA inevitably got jobbed out in every match, until finally by this point any heat they initially had was gone. And the Nation didn't get over until mid- 9. DX necessitated them all having personalities so DX could spoof them. It's another horribly boring match in a series of them tonight.
I mean, let's not kid ourselves, you're reading this review for the Hell in the Cell match, just like I'm watching this show again for the same reason, and the only reason I'm even bothering to watch the entire show is to pay lip service to the review format and satiate the large number of people who bug me for this show. So I guess what I'm trying to say is: If you're not reading this, I don't blame you, because I'm not watching that closely. Crush gets a tilt- a- whirl slam on Jose for the pin, and big pop. See what I mean about DOA being over? Vince could have had something huge with these guys, at the very least a new form of Demolition with Brian Lee and Crush.
Oh well, hindsight and all that.. DUD (I know he’s long retired now, but just for visual impact alone, wouldn’t it be kinda wacky for Lee to be unmasked as the leader of the Aces & 0. The Patriot & Vader. Big brawl to start here, as Hart and Smith use the flags as weapons. Match finally kicks off with Bulldog and Patriot. Bulldog gets dominated and tags out to Bret, who gets pummelled by Vader to a big pop. Vader was actually pretty over as a babyface, revisionist claptrap of Vader apologists aside.
Patriot and Bulldog both get punked making a try for their flag. Pretty boring match so far. Bret tries a Sharpshooter on the Patriot, who reverses it for one of his own. Patriot tries to sneak up and grab the flag during a dogpile, but gets tossed off and into the Ricky Morton role. Doesn't last long as Vader gets the hot tag and destroys Bulldog. The Harts nail him and go to work, however.
Patriot comes in without a tag and it's allowed for some reason. Harts kick *his* ass too, however. Man, this is a long match. Vader gets another hot tag and misses the moonsault on Bulldog, but lands on his feet and nails Bulldog anyway. Brawl breaks out and Bret clocks Vader with the bell. That enables more beatings from the Harts, until a fan charges the ring and gets the shit kicked out of him. Patriot hits Uncle Slam on Bret and Vader hits the Vaderbomb, but Bret reverses the Patriot's rollup for the pin.
Really long match at 2. The Undertaker. This was the final result of Summerslam 9. Shawn reffed the UT- Bret title match, and ended up fucking up and hitting UT with a chair to give Bret the WWF title. After another couple of weeks of incredibly obnoxious antics on Shawn's part, this match was signed. And the general consensus was that Shawn was dead meat.
DX tries to accompany Shawn, but get sent back. Shawn tries to avoid UT, who slowly stalks him around ringside. He runs into the ring and right into a big boot. UT rams him to the turnbuckle, and again, which Shawn sells bigtime. He goes for the chokeslam but Shawn kicks him in the shin and hammers away. UT shrugs it off and reverses a whip, sending Shawn crashing to the corner. UT with a wristlock, and he slams into Shawn's shoulder a few times, then does the ropewalk.
Shawn oversells again. UT with a headbutt and choking. Slam and legdrop for two. Michaels is dazed, and UT backdrops him to the heavens. Shawn gets up so UT knocks him on ass several times, and then tosses him over the top rope in a wicked bump for Shawn. He chokes Shawn against the cage, prompting Shawn to try to climb out of the cage.
UT pulls him down to the floor, another wicked bump. Front row starts yelling . UT whips him into the cage, and then tears his head off with a clothesline coming back. Great bumping by Shawn. The announcers are totally selling the idea of UT taking his time and destroying Shawn bit by bit.
Taker tries a piledriver on the floor, but Shawn flips up and hammers on his head. UT calmly smashes the back of his head into the cage and drops him on the floor. UT hammers away on Shawn, and rams him backfirst into the ringpost, then to the cage, then to the ringpost, to the cage again.
This, folks, is a shitkicking of the first order. Shawn tries to push UT into the cage, but UT simply clotheslines him on the way back. He smashes Shawn into the stairs. UT whips Shawn into the cage, but Shawn uses the momentum to nail UT on the way back, giving him the advantage. He wisely rolls back into the ring to escape the Undertaker. He nails him a few times on the way back in, but UT snaps Shawn's neck on the top rope on the way down. Shawn comes back and knocks UT off the apron into the cage.
Shawn tries a tope suicida, sending UT crashing into the cage, then he climbs halfway up the cage and drops an elbow to UT on the floor. UT keeps getting up, so Shawn clotheslines him off the apron. Shawn, getting desperate, grabs the stairs and rams them into UT's back a few times. He piledrives Taker on the remains of the stairs and rolls back into the ring to escape again. He comes off the top rope with a double- axehandle to UT on the floor.
Back in the ring, and Shawn finds a chair under the ring before returning. A shot to the back puts UT down again. UT gets up, so Shawn knocks him down again. Notice the story, as UT controlled for the first portion, while Shawn had to use his brain and every advantage possible to come back.
UT tries to come back, but gets caught in the ropes and pummelled by Shawn. Shawn charges and eats a boot to the mouth, and charges again and gets backdropped over the top, onto a cameraman.
He nails the cameraman (a local worker) and injures him.