WWF In Your House Degeneration X Results and Review A Better VHS Experience

WWF In Your House Degeneration X 1997 Results and Review 

Continuing my series of reviews of all things VHS versus the WWE network, I would like to present you with the December 1997 pay per view that the WWE put up against WCW Starrcade 1997. Now, you’ll have to remember that Starrcade 1997 was huge, it had 17,500 people at the MCI Center in Washington D.C. and it featured Hulk Hogan versus Sting for the World Title. This build up took 1 full year, that’s right, 1 year of Sting not wrestling at all, versus Hogan that was supposed to be absolutely scared of the guy. Now, that happened on December 28, 1997, meanwhile WWF put out In Your House on December 7, 1997. That card for comparison’s sake only drew 6,358! That’s right, compared to WCW drawing 17,500 people, that’s a big jump. So here we go, a review of WWF’s In Your House Degeneration X pay per view from 1997!

WWF In Your House Degeneration X Results and Review

So, in 1997 the WWF introduced a light heavyweight championship title, and they held a tournament. The names in this one were very diverse from Devon Storm to Flash Flanagan, to Eric Shelley (YES THAT ERIC SHELLEY). At the end of the day, the finals were held here in the first major match and they featured Taka Michinoku versus Brian Christopher. This had a lot of great jokes as Jerry Lawler wouldn’t admit that Christopher was his son. Great one liners and commentary from both Jim Ross and Jerry Lawler here.

Taka Michinoku defeated Brian Christopher for the light heavyweight championship

Great match here, 12 minutes of non stop action, with great back and forth. Taka won with the Michinoku driver, and it was the end for Brian until Too Cool made it big. I miss the lightweight heavyweight days.

Los Boricuas defeated The Disciples of Apocalypse

The DOA was a biker gang way before Aces and Eights or even Samcro was mentioned. The teams worked well, but in the end, it was Los Boricuas that got the win. Not a great match, but fun enough.

Butterbean defeated Mar Mero in a “Toughman Match”

A glorified, fixed boxing match, with Mero losing via disqualification. Mero is a legit golden gloves boxer, but this was a joke.

The New Age Outlaws defeated The Legion of Doom via disqualification

This was a ten minute match that had a lot of jokes involved with the younger guys getting the most of the LOD. Eventually, LOD got disqualified and buried on Raw the next night, moving forward. They would come back in 1998, but it didn’t matter, they were already tarnished.

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Triple H defeated Sgt. Slaughter in a Boot Camp Match

This was great. Triple H and Slaughter threw some haymakers, and Slaughter did not work soft at all. This was a heavy handed match and the two really put the boots to each other. Chyna got involved, but there was a great moment when Slaughter threw salt in her eyes and the crowd went into a frenzy. Triple H won, but by no means was this an easy match for him, Slaughter put on a show in his old age.

Jeff Jarrett defeated The Undertaker via Disqualification

Double J has a victory over the dead man? Yep! He won here when Kane showed up. Not much of a match.

Stone Cold Steve Austin defeated The Rock in an Intercontinental Championship Match

The nation of domination got involved, but Stone Cold drove into the arena in a F150 and beat the hell out of them, giving everyone stunners. Then The Rock and Stone Cold put on the most entertaining 5 minutes of your life. These two are amazing, and this was for the IC title. You have to remember that the next night Stone Cold threw the title over a bridge, which was great. This match was fast paced, only 5 minutes, but loads of entertainment in a short span.

Ken Shamrock defeated Shawn Michaels via disqualification

You’d be surprised how well Ken Shamrock worked here. Michaels can make anyone look good,but it takes two most often. This was great, I loved it. The DQ finish wasn’t bad, and it made Shamrock look like he could very well win the big one. He did get the intercontinental championship in 1998 and worked a program with The Rock, so that’s something. 18 minutes, but no clear winner.

Overall Rating: 6 out of 10

There were two major highlights in this show, and they only amount for around 22 minutes of wrestling and entertainment. The rest is forgettable. The original release is in fact unedited has better sound, better cuts, and lots of cussing from Stone Cold, including some back stage segments.

You can pick up the VHS edition of this if you’d like or you could watch it on the wwe network. Overall, though, this was a good show, but compared to Starrcade 1997, it was way worse.

WWE Monday Night Raw 11/9/09 Results and Review Ricky Hatton Guest Host

WWE Monday Night Raw 11/9/09 Results

Alicia Fox defeated Kelly Kelly
Shaemus defeated random jobber
Evan Bourne defeated Jack Swagger
Randy Orton defeated Mark Henry
Ricky Hatton defeated Chavo Guerrero
Degeneration X defeated The Big Show & Chris Jericho

WWE Monday Night Raw 11/9/09 Review

Ricky Hatton, the Raw guest host, was introduced first and he made his way to the ring, to open up another edition of Monday Night raw. Of course, the guest host was interrupted during his speech by Y2J and the Big Show, a tradition that is now seen on Raw.

Of course after some words were exchanged, Dx came out. This part of the show was ok at best, just another cookie cutter opening, that’s all I could think about that.

Alicia Fox defeated Kelly Kelly

This was a flop of a match. This match featured two women that can’t really wrestle that well, trying to put on a singles match, and it really didn’t work for me personally, it just seemed lame in a lot of different ways.

Shaemus defeated random jobber

Shaemus beat up some random dude, I’m sick of this. On one hand it’s really 1980’s to do this, which is a classic era, on the other hand, we’re in modern times, give me something different, something worth watching…not this.

Evan Bourne defeated Jack Swagger

Jack Swagger was basically having his way with Evan Bourne, for a good portion of this match up. It just seemed to easy in my view, as Swagger didn’t even break a sweat in the early goings, as he was killing Bourne. Bourne did not get a lot of offense in, but he did manage to impress with some quick reversals and even hitting the 450 splash out of nowhere to win the match up! This of course after The Miz came down to watch the ongoing match up. Swagger loses, clean…there goes his streak.

The VIP Lounge was set up with MVP and Mark Henry taking hosting roles. Randy Orton and his cronies interrupted, while Kofi Kingston and the guys were getting familiar with themselves or whatever. It was boring to me. It should’ve bored you too. Kofi and Orton could end up being an interesting feud indeed.

Randy Orton defeated Mark Henry

Mark Henry was beating the hell out of Randy Orton for a good part of this match. The Former champion was having trouble with dealing with the size of Mark Henry during this match up. However, it was Orton that got the final laugh as he hit the RKO and won the match, despite the fact that Mark Henry was in control for most of this match up.

Ricky Hatton defeated Chavo Guerrero Ricky Hatton defeated Chavo Guerrero

Chavo Guerrero got thrown into a boxer vs wrestler match and it looked evenly matched. But of course, Hatton was getting way more offense than I gave him credit for initially. I guess since I’m not a big boxing fan, I wouldn’t know what was up with Hatton’s past, but he managed to knock out Chavo with ease.

Degeneration X defeated The Big Show & Chris Jericho

This match took some time to build, therefore it wasn’t that bad. At least not in the ways some of the other tag matches I’ve seen these guys put together do. They might have been putting on a good show for their over seas fans, which was nice. That meant a longer match with good timing, and of course Chris Jericho didn’t hurt things either. The match was back and forth, until they isolated Triple H and eventually prompted HBK to get the hot tag. Big Show ran in and accidentally knocked out Chris Jericho! HBK covered for the win, and got it clean! I liked this match and it was the highlight of Raw.

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WWE Monday Night Raw 9/7/09 Results and Review Bob Barker Hosting

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WWE Monday Night Raw 9/7/09 Results

MVP defeated Chris Jericho
Evan Bourne defeated Chavo Guerrero
John Cena defeated Cody Rhodes via disqualification
Big Show defeated Santino in a Body Slam Challenge
Mark Henry defeated The Big show in a Body slam Challenge
Degeneration X defeated Chris Masters & Randy Orton

WWE Monday Night Raw 9/7/09 Review

The show opened up with Bob Barker and he started out a game show of sorts. The show then had some game, and Chris Jericho came out alongside Santino, IRS, and Jillian Hall, which is lame. This whole thing smelled lamed, they did a mock pricing game, which was just a knockoff of the price is right. This was serious the worst thing I’ve ever seen, what a train wreck.

Chris Jericho won something lame….i don’t remember, so a match was next.

MVP defeated Chris Jericho

MVP and his partner are set to get a tag title shot, but overall it’s interesting to see a singles match between the two. This match was actually going well, until the commercial break took out the momentum for me. MVP was looking good, but it seemed like Chris Jericho had him winded towards the end of this match up. A Lionsault attempt was foiled, and MVP hit a jawbuster on Jericho, which prompted the BALLIN move, but out came Jericho with a WALLS OF JERICHO! MVP rolled out into a school boy, and couldn’t get the win, Jericho kept kicking out and MVP started to get frustrated with all this and missed a Codebreaker when MVP held onto the ropes, MVP then capitalized on the misstep, and pinned Jericho for the quick win.

Evan Bourne defeated Chavo Guerrero

What’s this? Chavo Guerrero finally gets a shot at Evan Bourne, and if he wins apparently he wins a car, a Corvette to be exact. Chavo must be carrying too much weight on him because he seemed extremely slow compared to Evan Bourne in this match up. Chavo was trying to keep pace but it was just painfully obvious that he was out classed. Hornswoggle came out with a super soaker and got beat up for a moment. Evan Bourne got a roll up and it was all over! This match was just bad, Evan Bourne wins, and it looked like Chavo hurt his knee.

John Cena defeated Cody Rhodes via disqualification

John Cena was moving forward in this match with ease, but somewhere along the way Cody got the upper hand. He actually looked promising, but Cena wasn’t going down without a fight, and so this match ended up being another Cena easy momentum swinger. Not without some offense by Cody Rhodes. At one point it almost looked like Rhodes was going to tap out Cena, but nope…Cena was ready for him and turned this thing around as is custom for Cena matches. John Cena was on his way to victory before Orton ran down and interfered. It was the end of that, and John Cena definitely won…via dq.

More of the same old crap, The Price is Right parody nonsense.

Santino ended up having to try and slam The Big Show. The Big Show dropped Santino and that was that.

Mark Henry defeated The Big show in a Body slam Challenge

This too was a body slam challenge. This match was boring but eventually Mark Henry slammed Big Show, which is ridiculous. Whatever, this was boring. A body slam contest? What a load of crap.

Trish Stratus will be returning next week to host Raw.

Degeneration X defeated Chris Masters & Randy Orton

Well, if you wanted a tag team match for your main event, you sure got it. Once again the boys in Degeneration X fought off two cronies, not too unlike past weeks. Another loss is ahead for sure. It’s going to be a sad thing if this is the next few weeks of programming. Dx tried to fight off Masters and Orton and it just seemed like it wasn’t happening. Orton was definitely looking dominant in this match up, and of course DX was looking just out of it completely. This match was on rails, face it, we all knew how it was going to go down and it was telegraphed in a lot of ways. The match got going well when masters tagged in and Triple H tagged in both for the hot tags. The two were going full speed, with Triple H hitting Masters with hard shots, and the neck breaker which made for a good quick onslaught of offense to close this thing down. A high knee nearly got the win over Masters, but Triple H took his eye off of the prize, however it didn't matter he tagged HBK and a big Elbow later this thing looked all about over. While Orton and Triple H fought it out at the announce table, Shawn Michaels was given The Master Lock and was basically being put to sleep! Triple H broke it up, and of course Sweet Chin Music was Hit, and then Triple H had a Sharpshooter on Orton and Michaels had a Figure Four on Masters...this was done.

Wow the same finish that Slamboree 97 had. Great job WWE.

Post match the fight broke out to the back of the arena...just in a street fight of sorts. Nothing really important was going down. Orton seemed to have disappeared. The fight spilled out to the streets...yep...hilarious.