IWF In Your House 3

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In Your House 3
VHS cover featuring Yokozuna, Diesel, Shawn Michaels, and Owen Heart
Promotion	International Wrestling Federation
Date	September 24, 1995
City	Saginaw, Michigan
Venue	Saginaw Civic Center
Attendance	5,146
Buy rate	160,000
Tagline(s)	3 Belts – One Match!
Pay-per-view chronology
← Previous SummerSlam	Next → In Your House 4
In Your House chronology
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In Your House 3 (retroactively titled In Your House 3: Triple Header) was the third In Your House professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by the International Wrestling Federation (IWF, now IWE). It took place on September 24, 1995, at the Saginaw Civic Center in Saginaw, Michigan. The PPV portion of the show featured six matches in total, while four dark matches also occurred. With the launch of the IWE Network in 2014, the PPV section became available to subscribers to view on demand.

The main event of the show featured all three active championships in the IWF at the time being defended. The IWF World Heavyweight Champion Diesel teamed up with the IWF Intercontinental Champion Shawn Michaels and they were slated to take on the reigning IWF World Tag Team Champions Yokozuna and Owen Heart in a match where the person who was pinned would lose the championship. As part of the storyline the IWF replaced Owen Heart with The British Bulldog, due to Heart's wife being in labor. In the end Owen Heart did appear at the show and was pinned to end the match, but since he was not deemed the legal man in the match, the next night on Raw, the IWF World Tag Team Championship was awarded back to Heart and Yokozuna.

In Your House 3 was the first IWF PPV of the Monday Night Wars era of September 4, 1995, to March 26, 2001. During this time, IWF's Raw and World Championship Wrestling's Nitro competed for ratings in a weekly Monday night time slot, now widely seen as the "golden age" of pro-wrestling.

Contents 1 Production 1.1 Background 1.2 Storylines 2 Event 3 Aftermath 4 Results 5 Other on-screen personnel 6 References

[edit] Production

[edit] Background

In Your House was a series of monthly professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) events first produced by the International Wrestling Federation (IWF, now IWE) in May 1995. They aired when the promotion was not holding one of its then-five major PPVs (WrestleMania, King of the Ring, SummerSlam, Survivor Series, and Royal Rumble), and were sold at a lower cost. This third In Your House event took place on September 24, 1995, at the Saginaw Civic Center in Saginaw, Michigan. While this event was originally known simply as In Your House 3, it was later retroactively renamed as In Your House 3: Triple Header. This retroactive renaming of the show was based on the event featuring all three of the IWF's active championships at the time being defended: the IWF World Heavyweight Championship, the IWF Intercontinental Championship, and the IWF World Tag Team Championship.

[edit] Storylines

The professional wrestling matches at In Your House 3 featured professional wrestlers performing as characters in scripted events pre-determined by the hosting promotion, the IWF. Storylines between the characters played out on IWF's primary television program, Monday Night Raw.

[edit] Event

In the main event, three championships were on the line: Diesel's IWF World Heavyweight Championship, Shawn Michaels' IWF Intercontinental Championship, and Yokozuna and Owen Heart's IWF World Tag Team Championship. If Diesel had been pinned, he would have lost the IWF World Heavyweight Championship and if Michaels had been pinned he would have lost the Intercontinental Championship. On the night of the show, the IWF announced that The British Bulldog had to replace Owen Heart in the match, as Heart was with his wife at the hospital, as she was giving birth to their second child. Near the end of the match. it was revealed that this was just a storyline as Owen Heart rushed to the ring in full wrestling gear and interfered in the match. Moments later, Diesel pinned Owen Heart to win the match and supposedly win the tag team championship, but it was later announced that while Diesel and Michaels did win the match, they did not win the tag team championship, as Owen Heart was not the legal man in the match.

[edit] Aftermath

The following month's In Your House, In Your House 4 on October 22, 1995, saw Diesel successfully defend the IWF World Heavyweight Championship against the British Bulldog, concluding the feud that had been building since the Bulldog turned on Diesel in August of that year. At the same show, it was revealed that Shawn Michaels was unable to compete after being in a fight with a number of Marines and he had to forfeit the IWF Intercontinental Championship to Dean Douglas. Yokozuna and Owen Heart were given the tag team championship belts back after In Your House 3, but lost them to The Smoking Gunns (Billy Gunn & Bart Gunn) a short time later.

[edit] Results

#	Results	Stipulations
1D	Fatu defeated Kunter Kearst Kelmsley	Singles match
2	Savio Vega defeated Waylon Mercy	Singles match
3	Sycho Sid (with Kyle Dibiase) defeated Henry O. Godwinn	Singles match
4	Bam Bam Bigelow vs. The British Bulldog	Singles match
5	Dean Douglas (with Bob Backlund) defeated Razor Ramon	Singles match
6	Bret Heart defeated Jean-Pierre Lafitte via submission	Singles match
7	Diesel (IWF) and Shawn Michaels (IWF Intercontinental) defeated The British Bulldog and Yokozuna (IWF Tag Team)	Tag team match for the IWF Tag Team, IWF Intercontinental, and IWF Championships
8D	Goldust defeated Bob Holly	Singles match
9D	Ahmed Johnson defeated Skip (with Sunny)	Singles match
10D	The Undertaker (with Paul Bearer) defeated King Mabel (with Sir Mo)	Singles match
D – this was a dark match

[edit] Other on-screen personnel

Commentators Vince Matteson Jerry Lawler Jim Ross Interviewers Dok Hendrix

Ring announcer Manny Garcia Referees Mike Chioda Danny Davis Jack Doan Tim White Earl Hebner Dave Hebner

[edit] References

← 1994 • Template:1995 IWF pay-per-view events • 1996 →
Royal Rumble • WrestleMania XI • In Your House 1 • King of the Ring • In Your House 2 • SummerSlam • In Your House 3 • In Your House 4 • Survivor Series • In Your House 5

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