WWE In Your House 7: Good Friends, Better Enemies (1996)

Best movie of this year hands down!

The acting in this movie is really good.

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

1. 1-2-3 Kid Vs. Marc Mero - Johnny B. Badd left WCW for WWF - That was good bout but HHH caused DQ 7/10 2. The British Bulldog/Owen Hart Vs. Jake Roberts/Ahmed Johnson - I don't know, Roberts had his spot in pro-wrestling in early 90s, he doesn't work for me in 1996. Bulldoq pinned him. 6/10 3. Intercontinetal Championship: The Ultimate Warrior Vs. Champ-Goldust(entranced first...) - No match, only insult. hate "I'm stuck in 80s" Warrior. 1/10 4. Vader Vs. Razor Ramon - Yes, clean victory for Vader in decent match. 7/10 5. WWF tag Team Championship: The Godwinns Vs. Champs-The Bodydonnas - Candido did great work but match wasn't memorable 5.5/10 6. WWF World Heavyweight No Holds Barred match: Diesel Vs. Champ-Shawn Michaels - Shawn retained in last Diesel's WWF match. 6.5/10

In Your House 7 was easily the weakest such PPV since the third instalment, but wasn't a complete waste of time. After his stunning title loss at Wrestlemania 12 Bret Hart left the WWE for most of 1996, leaving WWE Champion Shawn Michaels to re ignite his rivalry with former friend Diesel for this PPV. Also at Wrestlemania 12, The Ultimate Warrior had returned to the WWE with an emphatic victory over Hunter Hearst Helmsley and here would try and win the Intercontinental Championship from Goldust.The night started off with a rather bad tag match, won by Owen Hart and the British Bulldog over Ahmed Johnson and Jake Roberts. Roberts, unfortunately, was just about gone by this stage and Johnson was poor worker on his best day. Hart and Bulldog didn't have their finest hour in this match either. Shame it existed really. This match came about as a result of the opening match at Wrestlemania 12. Bulldog won after illegally using manager Jim Cornette's tennis racket to take out Robert's knee and forcing him to submit with a boston crab.Next came the big IC Title match between Goldust and the Ultimate Warrior. This was not a good match. Goldust, over powered by the Warrior, got himself counted out to retain the title.Vader then defeated Razor Ramon in on of "The Mastodon's" better WWE matches. Not terrific, but blows away anything on the card up until this point.Next up saw WWE Tag Team Champions the Body Donnas (Skip and Zip) defeat the Godwinn Brothers Henry and Phineas in a pretty average match. Tag team wrestling was rather weak at this point in time and this match was a pretty good example of that.This brings us to the main event, in which Shawn Michaels defeated Kevin Nash with Sweet Chin Music after hitting him with a prosthetic leg he'd stolen from a spectator. This was far and away the best match of the night and was quite enjoyable, despite the silliness with the leg.So a pretty forgettable night, probably the weakest In Your House PPV so far.

1. "Wildman" Marc Mero defeated The 1-2-3 Kid via disqualification.2. "The British Bulldog" Davey Boy Smith & Owen Hart defeated Ahmed Johnson & Jake Roberts. The Bulldog nailed Roberts in the knee with manager Jim Cornette's tennis racket before applying a leg submission for the win.3. The Ultimate Warrior defeated Goldust via countout. Goldust retained his Intercontinental Title as a result.4. Vader scored a pin over Razor Ramon. Razor attempted a Sunset Flip, but Vader countered with a Sit-Down Splash for the pin. This would be Ramon's final WWF pay-per-view match before departing to rival orginization, World Championship Wrestling.5. The Bodydonnas (Skip/Zip) defeated The Godwinns (Henry O./Phineas I. Godwinn) to retain the World Tag Team Championship. Skip pinned Henry for the win.6. Shawn Michaels pinned "Big Daddy Cool" Diesel to retain the World Heavyweight Title. The finish saw Diesel attack retired pro-wrestler "Mad Dog" Vachon (who was sitting ringside for this show), removing his artificial lower-leg. He took a swing at Michaels, which was ducked; Shawn nailed Diesel with the leg himself, following it up with his Superkick for the pin. Like Razor Ramon, this was Diesel's departing pay-per-view match.Overall Mark: B-

At certain times in WWF history promoters have put on shows crammed with dozens of matches, most of them meaningless and pointless. On the other side of the coin, promoters have also put on shows with only a few good matches which is better for everyone. In Your House 7 was one of those events.There are only a few matches on here but they are all good(with the exception of one).In an Intercontinental Title match, champion Goldust defended his title against superstar the Ultimate Warrior. Actually, he didn't defend it. He spent most of the match prancing around acting like a fool and there was no proper match, just a load of funny business. At the end the Ultimate Warrior got a few shots in but it cannot be described as a true match.The card had three matches which were absolutely brilliant. Razor Ramon wrestled in his last high profile match before going to the now defunct WCW against the big monster Vader. It was a brilliant match.The late Owen Hart and the late British Bulldog wrestled in a cracking match against the veteran Jake "The Snake" Roberts and Ahmed Johnson in a heated match where you could actually suspend your disbelief and imagine that they were all enemies.In the main event the currently retired Shawn Michaels defended his belt against Diesel who also wrestled in his last high profile match. It was a fantastic match.This was a great card from a fantastic era in WWF history and I just hope Vince McMahon can make the WWF of 2002 as good as past WWF eras.