WWE In Your House 12: It's Time (1996)

Wonderful Movie

Memorable, crazy movie

Good movie but grossly overrated

The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

Live from West Palm Beach, FLAttendance: 5,708Your commentators are Vince McMahon, Jerry Lawler & Jim RossFlash Funk Vs Leif CassidyLeif Cassidy is Al Snow. Funk wins with a 450 splash from the top. This was a fun opener. Neither guy had nothing to lose at this juncture, and both went out and put on a show. It's full of great high-flying manuevers and solid wrestling.***Tag Team ChampionshipOwen Hart & The British Bulldog (C) (W/Clarence Mason) Vs Razor Ramon & DieselOwen and The Bulldog retain. During and after the match, Stone Cold plays mind games with The British Bulldog. He even attacks him at one point with a chopblock. This was an average match. Despite how hard JR tried to put them over, the "fake" Razor and Diesel storyline was flopping miserably. Vince always has to take shots at his competition. **Up next is an interview with Ahmed Johnson. I'll try to translate this since it's hard to understand what he's saying at times. Ahmed says he's lost everything due to the kidney injury Farooq gave him. He says all he has left is the fans. Vince says Farooq almost cost him his life. Ahmed says his life was over a long time ago, and all he lives for is the fans. Farooq appears up in the balcony. Farooq says he's gonna end Ahmed Johnson's comeback at the Royal Rumble. Ahmed says Farooq's going down and starts a "You're going down" chant.Thoughts: The feud between Ahmed and Farooq was intense, if nothing else. I thought this segment was OK.Intercontinental ChampionshipHunter Hearst Helmsley (C) Vs Marc Mero (W/Sable)Goldust comes out and nails both Helmsley and Mero with the Intercontinental title on the outside behind the ref's back. Mero makes it into the ring first and wins by countout. Goldust attacks Hunter after the match. This was a really good match ruined by a crappy finish. I was initially not looking forward to this match, but they surprised me. ***1/4Armageddon RulesThe Undertaker Vs The Executioner (W/Paul Bearer)The rules are as followed1. No disqualification2. No countout3. After a pinfall or a submission, the defeated wrestler has a 10 count to get up. The match ends when one match can't continue. The Undertaker wins with a tombstone. This turned into a handicapped match until Mankind was put in a straight jacket. The Undertaker and The Executioner destroyed the In Your House set and fought all over the building. As good as it may sound, it's not. Trust me, it's pretty damn boring. The Executioner was barely treated like a threat.*WWF ChampionshipSycho Sid (C) Vs Bret HartShawn Michaels joins for commentary. I have a lot to report here. Stone Cold attacks Bret Hart at one point during the match. Bret accidentally nails Shawn Michaels off the apron. Sid takes advantage and delivers a powerbomb on Bret to retain the title. Bret Hart takes his anger out on Michaels after the match. As exciting as all of that was, the match itself was a mediocre main event. As I've stated before, I love Sid, but he's not exactly a great wrestler. Bret spent most of it dissecting Sid by working over the leg. They just didn't mesh well.*3/4This PPV was hit and miss overall. Things were really beginning to heat up. Bret was showing off a very bitter attitude. Shawn was turning into the self-righteous douche. The Attitude Era was forming right before our very eyes. 5.5/10

1. Rocky Maivia Vs. Salvatore Sincere - Dq ending in a normal match 6/10 2. Leif Cassidy Vs. Flash Funk - FF with boringly long dance before match... Move list was decent but I really don't get into FF's gimmick. 6.5/10 3. WWF Tag Team Title Match: Diesel/Razor Ramon Vs. Champs-Owen Hart/British Bulldog - At least the very end of the match was well coordinated. 6.5/10 4. WWF Intercontinental Title Match: Wildman Marc Mero Vs. Champ-Hunter Hearst Helmsley - Mero won by Count out in an decent match. 6.5/10 5. The Executioner Vs. The Undertaker - Nothing special occurred except fight "In House" and backstage 6/10 6. WWF World Heavyweight Title Match: Bret Hart Vs. Champ-Psycho Sid - I was very surprised, when Sid retained the Belt, couldn't say a word. Real animosity between Hart and Michaels there is noticeable. 6.5/10

WWE ensured that they maintained their momentum from Survivor Series with another solid show here.The VHS starts off with what was actually a pre show match pitting Rocky Maivia against Salvatore Sincere. Sincere was accompanied by Jim Cornette, but he turned out to be a liability rather than an advantage as he interfered in the match and got his charger disqualified.The night officially got under way with Flash Funk (wow, I'd forgotten that guy existed) defeating Leif Cassidy with a 450 splash (wow I'd forgotten that move existed). Not great execution there Flash, but it wasn't the worst splash I've seen, or the worst match for that matter.Next we saw Owen Hart and British Bulldog successfully defend their tag team titles against the new Deisel and Razor II. This was not a great match, Owen and Bulldog double teamed Razor II to get the pin. The new Razor and Diesel were introduced by Jim Ross as part of a silly storyline, which was soon dropped. Razor and Diesel stayed on for a while longer though. In the end both guys were dropped, but the New Diesel went on to become Kane.Next came the big rematch for the Intercontinental Championship between former Champion Marc Mero and Hunter Hearst Helmsley. Helmsley had defeated Mero to win the title on RAW after Mero's mentor Mr Perfect had turned on him. He was unable to get revenge tonight, winning by disqualification after Goldust interfered by attacking Helmsely. At least he had Sable to cheer him up once he got back to the locker room. Passable match.Now it was time for the Undertaker to face The Executioner under Armageddon Rules. Armageddong Rules takes care of count outs and DQs, and gives a wrestler 10 seconds to get up after being pinned. The Executioner had earned the ire of the Undertaker when he assaulted after his Buried Alive match with Mankind at In Your House 11. Taker and Executioner brawl around the place a little and Undertaker gets the win following a tombstone. Interesting match, but just not a great stipulation.Finally came the big WWE Championship match with Sycho Sid, capitalising on an appearance from Shawn Michaels to hit his powerbomb and defeat Bret Hart. Hart had looked in control until Michaels climbed the apron distracting him. Hart was then sling shot into Michaels and ate the pin. This was a good match. Hart was very upset after the match, feeling Michaels had cost him the title. This was a subtle beginning to Hart's heel turn.So there you have it, an entertaining PPV with a good main event, some rivalries resolved and a nice set up for the year ahead. A positive end to a disappointing year in the WWE.

This is one of the best In Your House WWF PPV's that I have ever seen.We first start off with Free-For-All action with Salvatorie Sincere Vs. Rocky Miavia (who later was known as The Rock).A very good match which kept my attention until the very end, when Jim Cornette interfered and gave Rocky the DQ Victory over Sincere.We then go onto our first match of the actual PPV.Flash Funk w/ The Funkettes Vs. Leif Cassidy.Very good entertaining match with some good unique High Flying moves, and really showed what a real wrestling match was suppose to be.Flash finally got the double flip star press from the top and got the 1-2-3 on cassidy.The next match was the Tag Team Championship match between - Owen Hart & Davey Boy Smith (the champs) Vs. Fake Diesel & Fake Razor Ramon.This was dead beat to start off, but things got interesting when a UN-invited Stone Cold Steve Austin made his presents felt. Davey got the pin of Ramon and remained tag team champions!Our next match was a very big grudge match that had been going on for a very long time in that era and was for the Intercontinental Championship.Hunter Hearst Hemsley (The Champ) Vs. Wildman Marc Mero w/ Sable.The match went from outside to inside, a very grueling and intense match for both of them. The match finally wounded up again on the outside when gold-dust came out, and knocked both mero and hemsley out. Mero got in the ring just before the 10 count and won, however a title change can't change hands on the 10 count.Now it's Semi-Main-Event time with the Armegeddon Rules match.The Undertaker Vs. The Executioner w/Paul Beare and very shortly MankindThe undertaker took it to the Executioner quickly when mankind came out and attacked the undertaker!The undertaker then started beating up on both exe and mankind when it started to escalate out into the aisle way.It was a first when i saw the undertaker throwing MANKIND Through THE WALL OF THE IYH LOGO!!!!!! AND THEN THROUGH THE DOOR!!!!!!!!!!!!!.But anyways the undertaker got the tombstone on the exe and the executioner could not answer the 10 count afterward, so the undertaker won.Main Event Time - WWF Championship - Psycho Sid (champ) Vs. Brett "Hitman" Hart. (Remember, Shawn michaels was doing color commentary during this match.)This was one of the best IYH Main events in my opinion.It stayed clean and very intense all through the match.At the end of the match Sid was outside of the ring and had face pushed michaels into the guardian rail.HBK with anger and rage got onto the ring apron and Sid whipped hart into the ropes and hit HBKSid then POWERBOMBED hart for the 1-2-3After the match hart took his frustration out on HBK, by violently kicking him, and thats how the show ended.The reason i like it so much, is because it was before all this crap about DX and the HART Foundation and sh*t like that.It was very clean and traditional wrestling.