sinfony
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Post by sinfony on Mar 13, 2024 10:59:36 GMT -5
How did you feel about the launch of In Your House back at the time?
I remember reading about it and being shocked that the WWF was adding even more PPVs, albeit these were "mini PPVs". I felt that they would take some of the uniqueness away from the Big Five (with KOTR having been established by then) and having such a show in every single month without one of the Big Five felt somewhat like overkill.
Admittedly, growing up in the UK, Sky Sports didn't even bother to show the IYH shows until Spring 1997, so it wasn't like I had to decide whether to watch or whether to cough up a PPV fee, but we did get the releases on home video. Even though I often bought the home videos to the big events, I never could bring myself to shell out for the IYHs, as they felt a bit meh and you would have to buy 7 more VHS tapes a year to build up a full collection.
So.. how did you all feel? Like it was a money grab or were you excited at getting to see more shows? The IYH cards certainly seemed to offer more than what the regular WWF TV shows of the time generally offered.
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ClassicFan2
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Post by ClassicFan2 on Mar 13, 2024 11:14:11 GMT -5
kinda mixed on it
felt they shoulda just did a free monthly sat night main event or something
but there were some great cards and great matches
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fabulous1971
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Post by fabulous1971 on Mar 13, 2024 11:21:43 GMT -5
Eh, they were cheap and basically a Raw show without the commercials.
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Post by tmnt316 on Mar 13, 2024 11:25:53 GMT -5
I was 6 and glad to see more wrestling plus thought the set was cool.
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Post by hbkjason on Mar 13, 2024 11:34:39 GMT -5
I was mad as hell that they didn't air them in the UK for the better part of two years! We would get highlights the following Saturday on WWF Superstars.
That made getting each on on VHS that little bit more exciting. I liked the In Your House shows, they were fun, In Your House 5 is my favourite of them all.
Plus it had that fun country style theme song that went great with the WWF Superstars song from 95-96.
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Post by The Brain on Mar 13, 2024 11:37:29 GMT -5
To me the 4/5 PPVs a year prior to this was perfect but for 15/20 bucks still was a good deal even if a good portion of the matches were Raw quality Plus like tmnt316 mentioned the house set was awesome |
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Post by theoutlaw1999 on Mar 13, 2024 17:53:09 GMT -5
Aired long before I started watching but I loved the entire arena set up and atmosphere of the PPV's.
Also some of them were better than the Big 4 events.
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Post by ASR (therockisback) on Mar 13, 2024 18:26:24 GMT -5
I loved it but didn't get to watch em properly til the later 90s / early 2000s.
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Post by JokerFC on Mar 13, 2024 18:52:49 GMT -5
I was meh on them at first until Seasons Beatings.
From then on I knew they were good for at least 1 outstanding match. I lapsed as a fan though from 95 to 97 big time
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Post by hbkbigdaddycool on Mar 14, 2024 1:59:38 GMT -5
I liked them a lot!
I remember in 1997 watching them for the first time live and seeing they would be 2 hours and would be done before 9 pm and I would still have a few hours to do whatever I wanted before bed before school the next day.
With that being said, I feel that in 1995 that the In Your House PPV events were more entertaining then the original 5 PPVs that the WWF did.
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Post by JokerFC on Mar 15, 2024 10:43:22 GMT -5
I liked them a lot! I remember in 1997 watching them for the first time live and seeing they would be 2 hours and would be done before 9 pm and I would still have a few hours to do whatever I wanted before bed before school the next day. With that being said, I feel that in 1995 that the In Your House PPV events were more entertaining then the original 5 PPVs that the WWF did. they often times were better......for instance IYH: Bad Blood was better than SSeries 97 |
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ClassicFan2
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Post by ClassicFan2 on Mar 15, 2024 11:53:41 GMT -5
I liked them a lot! I remember in 1997 watching them for the first time live and seeing they would be 2 hours and would be done before 9 pm and I would still have a few hours to do whatever I wanted before bed before school the next day. With that being said, I feel that in 1995 that the In Your House PPV events were more entertaining then the original 5 PPVs that the WWF did. they often times were better......for instance IYH: Bad Blood was better than SSeries 97 for sure you guys! quite a few were better than the big 5 ppv's! |
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Post by JokerFC on Mar 15, 2024 12:41:41 GMT -5
Backlash 99 was still under the IYH branding and it was better than WM15 too.
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Post by ASR (therockisback) on Mar 16, 2024 21:03:56 GMT -5
Backlash 99 was still under the IYH branding and it was better than WM15 too. Amazing show |
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