IWF Ground Zero: In Your House

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Ground Zero: In Your House
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Promotional poster featuring Steve Johnson
Tagline(s) That's the Bottom Line...
Imformation
Promotion International Wrestling Federation
Date September 7, 1997
Attendance 4,963
Venue Louisville Gardens
City Louisville, Kentucky
Pay-per-view chronology
SummerSlam (1997) Ground Zero: In Your House One Night Only
In Your House chronology
In Your House
16: Canadian
Stampede
Ground Zero: In Your House Badd Blood: In Your House

Ground Zero: In Your House was a professional wrestling pay-per-view event produced by the International Wrestling Federation (IWF), which took place on September 7, 1997 at Louisville Gardens in Louisville, Kentucky. This was the first three-hour In Your House pay-per-view, and also the first that featured the "In Your House" name as the subtitle rather than the main title.

Seven professional wrestling matches were scheduled on the card. One of the main event matches saw Ryan Barnhart and "The Deadman" Martin McAlmond wrestle to a no contest in their first ever one-on-one match in the IWF. In the other main event match, Bret Heart defeated The Patriot to retain the IWF Championship. The Headbangers won the vacant IWF Tag Team Championship in a Four-Way Tag Team Elimination match and Bryan Pillman defeated James Thomas. Due to prior stipulations, Thomas' manager/wife (storyline and real-life) Melissa was required to become Pillman's personal assistant for 30 days.

Contents

Background

Event

Preliminary matches

Main event matches

Aftermath

Reception

Results

# Results Stipulations
1 Bryan Pillman defeated James Thomas (with Melissa) Singles match
2 Brian Christopher defeated Scott Putski by countout Singles match
3 David Roope defeated Crush and Faarooq Triple threat match
4 Max Mini defeated El Torito Singles match
5 The Headbangers defeated The Legion of Doom, The Godwinns, and Owen Heart and The American Bulldog Four-way elimination match for the vacant IWF Tag Team Championship
6 Bret Heart (c) defeated The Patriot Singles match for the IWF Championship
7 Ryan Barnhart fought Martin McAlmond to a no contest Singles match
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