January 1, 2026 • 26 mins
On May 14, 1995 (Mother’s Day), WWE changed pay-per-view history forever. The very first In Your House event introduced a bold new concept during the New Generation Era—a shorter, fast-paced, two-hour PPV designed to be more affordable for fans. But what truly made this night unforgettable wasn’t just the wrestling… WWE literally gave away a real house live on pay-per-view. 🏠
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History Channel time in thirty History Channel from giving away
a house to having a two hour pay per view
instead of a three hour pay per view. Walking with
the history of the first Ever in Your House right
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here on the Wrestling History Channel. And let's get into it.
Because some people love this event and some people hate
this event. Well, let's discuss the historic reasons behind that.
First off, this event took place on Mother's Day. Now,
as a child watching this event, I'm gonna tell you something,
it was very hard to convince your mom on her
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day to let you have her by you a pay
per view. I watched it. I convinced her somehow, I
guess Boyish charms for your Mother. May fourteenth, nineteen ninety five, Syracuse,
New York. First Ever in Your House and the whole
concept behind in Your House was a cheaper pay per
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view for less money than say, a Summer Slam or
a Survivor series. Now, this pay per view only costs
fourteen ninety five. WrestleMania, Royal Rumbull Survivor Series, King of
the Ring, so on, and so forth, the Big Five.
They cost twenty nine ninety five in nineteen ninety five.
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Pretty good deal, so it seven three hours for about
thirty dollars. You're getting two hours for fifteen, so it's
a good price. In reality that WWF was already going
to house shows putting on these events, so why not
tape them? Why not air them? Add some more lights
And WCW also expanded its pay per views at this time,
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so no longer did you just have a maybe five
or six in a year. They were adding eight, ten,
and then suddenly twelve, And suddenly you had WWE, ECW
and WCW eventually all having twelve pay per views in
a calendar year. So if you're a wrestling fan, you
had the money, you can watch a pay per view
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every Sunday except maybe one, depending on what you're gonna watch,
watch football that Sunday. I guess I love the concept
in your house two hours for less money, and you're
trying to compete with w CW, so it makes sense. Now,
how do you convince people to watch this event? They're
already paid to watch WrestleMania, They've already gotta pay to
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see King of the Ring next month. What do you do?
How do you get people interested? Should it be good storylines?
Should it be marquee matches? Superstar Wars Superstar. No, it's
gonna be We're gonna give away a house. The WWF
decided to give away as to attract viewers to watch
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this event. No, you had to end this event by
filling out a form and it would go online, excuse
me online. It would be mailed out to WWF headquarters.
It was in the magazine. You could get something on
it was interesting. Yet this is also a hilarious way
to get your mailing address to send you catalogs and
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the mail so you might want to buy some right
harder diesel or Shawn Michael's merchandise. So a brilliant campaign
to convince you, you know, little billy, little Sarah, to
get your parents to put in their address, put in
their names, send it out to headquarters with the WWF,
and then a month later you get a catalog. Hey,
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the new summer shirts are here. Hey the new winter
shirts are here. By a wrestling buddy. They did this
with Holk Cogan in nineteen ninety and here in ninety five.
They needed some fresh blood. All those five year olds
now are ten and maybe they're not watching anymore. So
it's a brilliant way to get a giant list for
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all your fans. Now, according to the rumors, three hundred
thousand people put in their names to be able to
enter this contest. So think about that now, you, as
a WWF employee, as Vince mcmah, buying a house must
be a tax right off, because in reality, you're buying
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a house for your company to give away. It must
be like, well, I paid three hundred grand, but in reality,
did I spend three hundred grand? No? So you know
you think we're gonna give a house away, it's got
to go to an adult. No, it does not go
to an adult. Eleven year old boy wins and he
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sells it six months later because the f family, the
little boy who won, didn't live in Florida, where the
house was located. It'd be very odd to think you're
going to take your entire family and move from one
state toward another because someone gave you a house. Maybe
they wanted to go. But guess what, you have a
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school when your kids are in school. It's a little
of year old boy. He's in school, he's got a mom,
he's got a dad, they have jobs. They can't just
get up and leave. So they got the house and
they sold the house because years later they would do
a like a blog about this event. Many people have,
but ww dot com that whole article about this saying hey,
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where's this house, and like, oh shit, I sold it?
So no onenewver years what happened to this house until
they did, Hey, let's school look check back in history
and see if anybody actually still has this house. Turns
out they don't. Yeah. But but three hundred and thirty
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two thousand people purchase this pay per view. It's the
highest by raate in the In Your House history. King
of the Ring ninety five only got ninety thousand buys.
So think about that. A lot of things are changing
in the WWF. New generation era stars are emerging, stars
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are leaving. But god damn it, if you watch in
Your House, you could maybe win a free house. And
with giveaways, I'm not sure if you do, oh the giveaway,
you have to follow the rules. You can't just pretend
you're giving away a house. If you're doing this, it's
by the law, it's by the books. So Todd Pettengale
and Stephanie wa are here calling out people on the
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phone telling them that they have won the house. Well,
a few people don't even answer. One goes right through.
Clearly the numbers don't work. Now, they easily could have
had some backstage type in these numbers and then transfer
the call to Todd Pettingale, who would then call the fan. No,
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they actually have Todd Pettingile using a telephone, and other
backstage people probably were doing the same thing, but it
just wasn't working out in the way you wanted to. Bizarre.
Many years ago on a WWFA per view, they gave
away a Cadillac. It was called the Wrestling Classic, so
they gave away a Cadillac, and now they're giving away
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a house. This is the first time, either because they'll
do Star Survivor series supper giveaways or Summer Slam vacations.
They still do this in today's world. It's nothing new
to give away something to get people to watch, to
maybe think, well, if I watch this, maybe they'll like it.
Maybe they'll keep watching next week, maybe they'll keep watching
next month. Sometimes sometimes that works out. But the storyline
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surrounding this event some are a little I'm sorry, what
are we doing? One is Brett Hart and Jerry Lawler
have a rivalry, and Brett Hart recently became the Wrestler
of the Year, and so Jerry Lawler told viewers that
Brett Hart excluding Japanese fans because they were voting for him.
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But Jerry Lawler suggests that they weren't, and Jerry Lawler
told viewers that Brett Hart excluded Japanese fans from voting
and tried to convince Hakushi that Brett Hart was a racist.
I'm sorry, what are we doing now? This is the
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first time we've done this. Rodney Piper wearing blackface to
Tanka getting his feathers stolen from Rick the Mauder Martel,
and Martel using some very razy language on Tatanka. Here
we are again, Jerry Lawler suggesting that Brett Heart is
a racist. So that's the storyline heading into Brett Hart
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versus Hakushi on Mother's Day. We're giving away a house.
It's Mother's Day and we have racist storylines. Cool, that's
the way to get kids to watch this, convince them
that Brett Heart's a racist. No, Now, Shawn Michaels and Diesel,
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We're gonna have a series of rematches from WrestleMania eleven
because Diesel retained his championship against Sean Michaels well, apparently
Sean Michaels was actually injured. And listen, I love Sean Michaels.
When I hear he's injured or he has to lose
a championship around this time, well, I really don't believe
him because most likely Sean Michaels, if he did fight
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Diesel again a month after WrestleMania HBK would have lost instantly.
And if there was another rematch after that one, Shawn
Michaels would have lost instantly. Why Diesel is your big daddy,
cool Diesel character. He's your new hole Cogan. He's not
going to be losing anytime soon. Doesn't lose until Survivor
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series about a year goes by. It's him as champion.
Shaw Michaels was injured after getting power bomb by Psycho
Sid three times on episode of Monday Night Ross. They
pivot and it's Sid versus Diesel. Now that's the rumor online,
but I find that hard to believe as well, because
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Shawn Michaels had an amazing performance at WrestleMania eleven. So
now the turning Sean babyface Sid turns on Sean. Shawn's
out for a little while, while Sid now is this
new bad heel and he joins up with a million
dollar corporation and so on and so forth, and so
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now you have big men versus big man psychos said
versus Diesel. That is more plausible to me than the
story out there that Shawn Michaels was hurt and they
were gonna have a series of matches is now that
has been out there for years. So depending on what
rumor you want to believe of the history of in
your house one, that's up to you. Now, the first
matchup is Brett the Hitmanhart versus Hakushi. It is the
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best matchup of the night. If you're going to back,
go back and watch this. Don't watch it for the
racy storylines, watch it for the match now. During it, though,
Brett Hart faked an injury after his Hakushi match, building
sympathy because Jerry Lawler now has a match against Brett
Hart later on in the evening, So Brett Hart is
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pretending to be hurt to trick Jerry Lawler. Now I
do like that. I do like that part of it.
Hit but again, Hakushi, he had an undefeated streak up
at this point. It ends after Brett Hart defeats him. Now,
according to the history surrounding this is a lot of
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people were very high on Hakushi. They wanted him to
become a main event star. They originally wanted hakush to
fight Undertaker Light versus Dark. Akushi is much shorter than
the Undertaker, so apparently Vince McMahon soured on Kushi because
he was short. You know any big men we've seen
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in the WWF that were terrible but kept going through
the process of in storylines and being pushed because they
were tall, and you have wrestlers who have skills. Yes,
he couldn't cut a promo, but he could wrestle his
ass off. He was the best wrestler in the WWF
right now, him Shawn Michael's one, two, three, kid, those
are your top three wrestlers, of course, Brett Hart I guess.
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But Akushi is something different. He was offering a new
palette of moves that we've never seen before. But yet
he lost here to Bert Heart. Vincec. Mann wasn't really
interested in continuing the undefeated streak for many reasons, and
one was he was short. He was short. Cool. Now
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Razor Ramone is taking on Jeff Chair in the Roadie
and if you know anything about the first half of
nineteen ninety five. Rasor Ramone and Jeff Jarrett are attached
at the hip. And let me tell you something. This
isn't history talking, this is facts. They have no chemistry whatsoever.
You watch Royal Rumble matches with Raiser Ramon and Jeff Jarrett,
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no chemistry, WrestleMania, no chemistry here, no chemistry. It's an
endless loop of Jeff Jarrett versus Razor Ramon matches that
have no chemistry and nothing against Jeff Jarrett and nothing
against Razor Ramon. But sometimes people just don't work well together.
And Razormone and Jeff Jarrett never did. The Internet Continent
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on the title around this time suffered, and it's not
because of the lack of trying. Just didn't seem to
have the same ooh it did when we had Brent
and Sean and Mister Perfect Warrior, Macha Man Texas Tornado,
Tito Santana. Those were different. They got nothing against any
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of these wrestlers. Razor Ramone defeats Jeff Jarrett and the Roady.
Now the big thing about this matchup is towards the end,
a mystery man saves Razor Ramone from being double teamed
at the end, who's the mystery man? It's the debut
of Savio Vega. Now, Salvio Vega up to this point
was known as Qwang. He wore a mask, he was
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doing martial arts. This is what he did. You shoot
the Green mist Classic. Apparently a Puerto Rican wrestler under
a mask is now Japanese or Asian one of the
I don't know what they were trying to go for there,
but Savio Vega and storyline is apparently Razormone's friend from
the streets and now Savio Vega's here to have his back.
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This is the debut. The next paper of view is
King of the Ring. Salvio Vega has to replace Razor
Ramone in the tournament because Razors injured in Savio just
making debut. Here Russell's four matches in one night on
a pay per view, the lowest by rate for a
King of the Ring and WWF pay per view up
to that point. So Sabio Vega great character, but his
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initial push might have been too quick depending on who
you talk to, but that raised our moon. Jeff Jared
come Bo, I'm sorry, I'm sorry if I offended anyone
about that, but they had no chemistry whatsoever. Up next,
it's Mabel defeating Adam Baum and a King of the
Ring qualifier. It's a two minute squash. This is the
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beginning of Mabel in his huge push. He wins the
King of the Ring. In a month, he goes on
to fight Desent SummerSlam has a storyline with Undertaker all
the way up until the end of ninety five. Where
however you feel about Mabel, his in ring work, his promos, whatever,
this personally to him must have been the best time
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of his career because now he is the main event spot.
He's winning big matches. He's no longer in men in
a mission dancing like this, not being able to win
the tag team titles at WrestleMania. He is focused and
he he you know whatever you want. The matches are
not good. Okay, let's just be honest, Mabel. Matches not good.
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But if you are Mabel, you're probably thinking, oh, finally
I've made it in this world. I've made it. Hooray.
What One of the stories around this was Adam Baum
was told he was going to win the Intercontinental Championship. Well,
that never happens, and I have a feeling that happens
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a lot with wrestlers, or told something and then think
plans change pal and here a two minute squash match
for Mabel to begin the push of a lifetime for him.
I'm good for him, honestly, like good for Mabel. I
know everyone hates King Mabel, but I'm all about hailing
King Mabel. All hail King Mabel. Say what you want.
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But if you're Mabel and you're Mo and this is
this is the beginning of everything for them and some
people these are core memories at the last a lifetime.
To other people, they're just wrestlers who wore a crown.
To me, they're a huge part of my childhood, and
so I want to throw respect on every wrestler who
put in the work again, from Mantar to man Mount
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Rock to Duke to Dumpster Drosie. You think they're stupid characters,
but in reality, they are core memories for a lot
of people who hold on to these memories like myself,
and I think they're very important to the history of
the WWF. Not everyone's gonna be Holpe Cogan or John
Cena or you know, Cody Rhoads or Rooman Raines like
the Brett Hart Chaum Michaels. Some of these wrestlers have
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to be here just to get us through to the
main events. We can't have all bangers with Brett Howard
and Chum Michaels and Diesel Razor Ramona went to a
three kid. We need some of that maybe versus at
a bomb King. The Ring Qualifier squash matches up next,
though Tagtoom titles are on the line. Owenhart and Kozuna
defeat the Smoking Guns. This is a rematch from Wrestling
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in the eleven when Owen Hart originally was going to
team up with Jim the Anvil knight Heart to take
on the Smoking Guns. Well, the Invil was laid off
because he missed a few dates, so he was fired.
So Yokozuna made his return and the reason he came
to the WWF again was Owenhart wanted to find someone
who hates his brother Brett just as much as him.
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At Yoko Zuna, Owenhart pans Bart Gun after Yokozuna drops
the Big Leg. This is the start of Owen and
Yoko just being a dominating force. They're very entertaining, even
Bulldog eventually joining up and camp Cornett being a stable.
It's very you know, Yoko needed some people to be
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around him so he could continue wrestling, like Andre the
Giant at one point needed Haku to be tag team
partner so he continue wrestling. Well here it allows Yoko
to keep his career going. But with Yoko, Zuna and
Owen Hart as a tag team, it was entertaining smoking guns.
You know, they eventually get the titles back, but it
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takes them some heel turns and Sonny to really start
making the smoking guns more than just yeha, we're cowboys
and we're here to have guta. Yeah we are. Now.
As I mentioned before, it's Mother's Day. It's a pay
per review, So Jerry Lawler is taking on Brett the
Hitman Heart. Next, Jerry Lawler brings out his mother. It's
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clearly a young woman, a beautifully young woman, and Jerry
Lawler is trying to play off this is my mom.
If anything, that would be Jerry Law's probably girlfriend at
the time, don't put don't quote me on that, but
that's probably what happens. Uh. Pretty funny handed because Earl
Hebner and during this matchup, he gets his leg all
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tangled uppies upside down the road. So remember earlier the
night Bert Hart was pretending to be injured, Well, it
gets Jerry Lala here. Jerry Loal was convinced that Bert
Hart was hurt and he Joy Lal backstage is yelling,
we cannot cancel this matchup. Bret Hart has to wrestle.
He has to wrestle. It's unfair if he doesn't. So
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Brett comes out trying to be hurt and then just
suddenly pretending to know, well, it was all the rules.
He's playing possum. He tricked you, Bert Hart. Jerry Lawler
something you can't escape in the w W WEFT and
the New Generation. It's just something part of it when
people always talk about storylines that mattered to them, or
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storylines that dominated at a certain time. Attitude era Austin
Rus McMahon New Generation one is Brett Hart and Jerry Lawler.
Give them credit. They are always putting on entertaining, weird storylines. Hakushi, though,
interferes in this matchup and Jerry Laller picks up the win.
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Go again. I think it's hilarious. Sherylol Like my mom my,
Mom's here, guys, she's here. I know your mom, dude,
I think your mom. And the main event of the
evening is the WWF Championship. It's Diesel after rust manning
and defending against Sid, who beat up Sean Michaels that bastard.
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The match ends in this qualification. Diesel hits the jackknife
power bomb on Sid, but Tatanka jumps in and interferes.
Screwy Finish protects Sid, Diesel retains. Then bambab Bagelo runs
down to make the safe because he was kicked out
of the Million Dollar Corporation and that's who Sid is
with now. So Sid Tatanka, Bam Bam Diesel. We're building
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to King of the Running nineteen ninety five, or they
will have a tag team match. This is the beginning, Unfortunately,
in the end of Bam Bam Bagelo becoming a main
event superstar after wrestlming in eleven when he took on
Lawrence Taylor, everyone thought this is the beginning of Bam
Bam Bigel'll becoming one of the top tier five guys.
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You got Diesel, Razor, you know Taker, Brett, Sean Bam Bam.
Well turns out not so quick because Bam Bam bigelow
is now teaming up with Diesel. Diesel is complaining to
Vince that he wants it to be Sean Michaels to
be his buddy on television. Well after King the Ring
ninety five a month later, Bam Bam Bigelow is pushed
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out of one of being the top baby faces, one
of the top guys being Diesel's friend, and then Sewn
Michaels takes over that spot. So it's sad to see
this is really the beginning of Bam Bam Bagel'll becoming
something huge. It can only lasts for maybe three months,
and then Bam Bam had a rivalry with Dink and
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then Lawrence Tailor WrestleMania, and now he we're out with Diesel,
teams up with Diesel and then right to the bottom.
And it's unfortunate because any interview Bam Bam Bielow ever did,
he always would mention how the Click and Shawn Michaels
and Diesel held him down. They did not allow certain
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rustles to get to a level, because that means Bam
Bam could steal money from Seaw Michaels and Diesel and
Razor and one two three kid like I get that part.
And that's the problem with wrestling is it's cutthroat. It's
not just because you think you deserve to be world
shaming doesn't mean you're going to be. Sometimes you have
to be a shark. Sometimes you have to be using
politics and diesel and the click, John Michaels, they honestly,
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obviously they did that here, and I'm not saying that's right,
but I'm also saying that's not wrong. Because anywhere you work,
from Saint McDonald's to Target, to an office to wherever
you work, you know your boss has their favorite because
that favorite sucks up to the boss. It happens you
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might be putting in amazing work your job, but guess
what if you're not doing also the sucking up on
the Paul thinking, well, you might get lost in the
shuffle and when it's time for layoffs, you'll be laid off,
even though you're a better worker than the suck up.
Why because your boss is friends with the suck up,
not you, And it seems like that's what happened here
with the click. It's unfortunate. It's the end. Well. Also,
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we have dark matches. Owenhak took on British Bulldog Bam Bam,
Bigelow took on to Tanka and the Undertaker took on
Kama Mustafa. So we do get dark matches at these
in your House pay per views. It's just you're paying,
as of you at home fourteen ninety five to watch
the event. If you're going to this event, you get
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three more matches. So it's nice to see that this
pay per view really is building though to King of
the Ring and in your House to where Diesel and
say we'll have a rematch lumberjack match, and again this
is obviously the beginning of Diesel and Bigelow taking on
sale to Tanka at King of the Ring and this
would continue Mabel King of the Ring Tournament wins it.
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Brett Hart and Jerry Lawler continue their storyline into a
kiss My Foot match at King of the Ring ninety
five as well. So this paper bew really is just
an episode of say like Raw setting up the next event,
which is fine, I get it. But the biggest, biggest
thing coming out of this event obviously is they gave
away a house to a little boy who then sold
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it six months later. That's me the funniest part, the
weirdest part, is Jerry Lawler calling Bretteart a racist? They
dropped that storyline pretty quick once once Hakushi is done
in the storyline, and they dropped that pretty quick, like, oh,
we never said that, We never said he was raight
cleost ha ha. There you go. The history of the
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first ever in your House. They gave away a house.
Jay Lawler's mom was here a mother's day, very historical event. Again,
some people love this event, some people hate it. I
personally loved it because I was a little kid. In
your House was invented to me. That makes it nostalgic
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for me. But thank you for watching the history of
in your House, the first one in nineteen ninety five,
right here on the Wrestling History Channel. I'm see fall
have a wonderful day and we'll see you next time.
Past you let yourself for Seve Pastory Channel Time Reverting
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History chant
History Channel time in thirty History Channel from giving away
a house to having a two hour pay per view
instead of a three hour pay per view. Walking with
the history of the first Ever in Your House right
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here on the Wrestling History Channel. And let's get into it.
Because some people love this event and some people hate
this event. Well, let's discuss the historic reasons behind that.
First off, this event took place on Mother's Day. Now,
as a child watching this event, I'm gonna tell you something,
it was very hard to convince your mom on her
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day to let you have her by you a pay
per view. I watched it. I convinced her somehow, I
guess Boyish charms for your Mother. May fourteenth, nineteen ninety five, Syracuse,
New York. First Ever in Your House and the whole
concept behind in Your House was a cheaper pay per
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view for less money than say, a Summer Slam or
a Survivor series. Now, this pay per view only costs
fourteen ninety five. WrestleMania, Royal Rumbull Survivor Series, King of
the Ring, so on, and so forth, the Big Five.
They cost twenty nine ninety five in nineteen ninety five.
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Pretty good deal, so it seven three hours for about
thirty dollars. You're getting two hours for fifteen, so it's
a good price. In reality that WWF was already going
to house shows putting on these events, so why not
tape them? Why not air them? Add some more lights
And WCW also expanded its pay per views at this time,
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so no longer did you just have a maybe five
or six in a year. They were adding eight, ten,
and then suddenly twelve, And suddenly you had WWE, ECW
and WCW eventually all having twelve pay per views in
a calendar year. So if you're a wrestling fan, you
had the money, you can watch a pay per view
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every Sunday except maybe one, depending on what you're gonna watch,
watch football that Sunday. I guess I love the concept
in your house two hours for less money, and you're
trying to compete with w CW, so it makes sense. Now,
how do you convince people to watch this event? They're
already paid to watch WrestleMania, They've already gotta pay to
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see King of the Ring next month. What do you do?
How do you get people interested? Should it be good storylines?
Should it be marquee matches? Superstar Wars Superstar. No, it's
gonna be We're gonna give away a house. The WWF
decided to give away as to attract viewers to watch
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this event. No, you had to end this event by
filling out a form and it would go online, excuse
me online. It would be mailed out to WWF headquarters.
It was in the magazine. You could get something on
it was interesting. Yet this is also a hilarious way
to get your mailing address to send you catalogs and
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the mail so you might want to buy some right
harder diesel or Shawn Michael's merchandise. So a brilliant campaign
to convince you, you know, little billy, little Sarah, to
get your parents to put in their address, put in
their names, send it out to headquarters with the WWF,
and then a month later you get a catalog. Hey,
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the new summer shirts are here. Hey the new winter
shirts are here. By a wrestling buddy. They did this
with Holk Cogan in nineteen ninety and here in ninety five.
They needed some fresh blood. All those five year olds
now are ten and maybe they're not watching anymore. So
it's a brilliant way to get a giant list for
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all your fans. Now, according to the rumors, three hundred
thousand people put in their names to be able to
enter this contest. So think about that now, you, as
a WWF employee, as Vince mcmah, buying a house must
be a tax right off, because in reality, you're buying
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a house for your company to give away. It must
be like, well, I paid three hundred grand, but in reality,
did I spend three hundred grand? No? So you know
you think we're gonna give a house away, it's got
to go to an adult. No, it does not go
to an adult. Eleven year old boy wins and he
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sells it six months later because the f family, the
little boy who won, didn't live in Florida, where the
house was located. It'd be very odd to think you're
going to take your entire family and move from one
state toward another because someone gave you a house. Maybe
they wanted to go. But guess what, you have a
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school when your kids are in school. It's a little
of year old boy. He's in school, he's got a mom,
he's got a dad, they have jobs. They can't just
get up and leave. So they got the house and
they sold the house because years later they would do
a like a blog about this event. Many people have,
but ww dot com that whole article about this saying hey,
(05:39):
where's this house, and like, oh shit, I sold it?
So no onenewver years what happened to this house until
they did, Hey, let's school look check back in history
and see if anybody actually still has this house. Turns
out they don't. Yeah. But but three hundred and thirty
(06:01):
two thousand people purchase this pay per view. It's the
highest by raate in the In Your House history. King
of the Ring ninety five only got ninety thousand buys.
So think about that. A lot of things are changing
in the WWF. New generation era stars are emerging, stars
(06:22):
are leaving. But god damn it, if you watch in
Your House, you could maybe win a free house. And
with giveaways, I'm not sure if you do, oh the giveaway,
you have to follow the rules. You can't just pretend
you're giving away a house. If you're doing this, it's
by the law, it's by the books. So Todd Pettengale
and Stephanie wa are here calling out people on the
(06:44):
phone telling them that they have won the house. Well,
a few people don't even answer. One goes right through.
Clearly the numbers don't work. Now, they easily could have
had some backstage type in these numbers and then transfer
the call to Todd Pettingale, who would then call the fan. No,
(07:06):
they actually have Todd Pettingile using a telephone, and other
backstage people probably were doing the same thing, but it
just wasn't working out in the way you wanted to. Bizarre.
Many years ago on a WWFA per view, they gave
away a Cadillac. It was called the Wrestling Classic, so
they gave away a Cadillac, and now they're giving away
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a house. This is the first time, either because they'll
do Star Survivor series supper giveaways or Summer Slam vacations.
They still do this in today's world. It's nothing new
to give away something to get people to watch, to
maybe think, well, if I watch this, maybe they'll like it.
Maybe they'll keep watching next week, maybe they'll keep watching
next month. Sometimes sometimes that works out. But the storyline
(07:55):
surrounding this event some are a little I'm sorry, what
are we doing? One is Brett Hart and Jerry Lawler
have a rivalry, and Brett Hart recently became the Wrestler
of the Year, and so Jerry Lawler told viewers that
Brett Hart excluding Japanese fans because they were voting for him.
(08:19):
But Jerry Lawler suggests that they weren't, and Jerry Lawler
told viewers that Brett Hart excluded Japanese fans from voting
and tried to convince Hakushi that Brett Hart was a racist.
I'm sorry, what are we doing now? This is the
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first time we've done this. Rodney Piper wearing blackface to
Tanka getting his feathers stolen from Rick the Mauder Martel,
and Martel using some very razy language on Tatanka. Here
we are again, Jerry Lawler suggesting that Brett Heart is
a racist. So that's the storyline heading into Brett Hart
(09:04):
versus Hakushi on Mother's Day. We're giving away a house.
It's Mother's Day and we have racist storylines. Cool, that's
the way to get kids to watch this, convince them
that Brett Heart's a racist. No, Now, Shawn Michaels and Diesel,
(09:25):
We're gonna have a series of rematches from WrestleMania eleven
because Diesel retained his championship against Sean Michaels well, apparently
Sean Michaels was actually injured. And listen, I love Sean Michaels.
When I hear he's injured or he has to lose
a championship around this time, well, I really don't believe
him because most likely Sean Michaels, if he did fight
(09:47):
Diesel again a month after WrestleMania HBK would have lost instantly.
And if there was another rematch after that one, Shawn
Michaels would have lost instantly. Why Diesel is your big daddy,
cool Diesel character. He's your new hole Cogan. He's not
going to be losing anytime soon. Doesn't lose until Survivor
(10:08):
series about a year goes by. It's him as champion.
Shaw Michaels was injured after getting power bomb by Psycho
Sid three times on episode of Monday Night Ross. They
pivot and it's Sid versus Diesel. Now that's the rumor online,
but I find that hard to believe as well, because
(10:30):
Shawn Michaels had an amazing performance at WrestleMania eleven. So
now the turning Sean babyface Sid turns on Sean. Shawn's
out for a little while, while Sid now is this
new bad heel and he joins up with a million
dollar corporation and so on and so forth, and so
(10:50):
now you have big men versus big man psychos said
versus Diesel. That is more plausible to me than the
story out there that Shawn Michaels was hurt and they
were gonna have a series of matches is now that
has been out there for years. So depending on what
rumor you want to believe of the history of in
your house one, that's up to you. Now, the first
matchup is Brett the Hitmanhart versus Hakushi. It is the
(11:11):
best matchup of the night. If you're going to back,
go back and watch this. Don't watch it for the
racy storylines, watch it for the match now. During it, though,
Brett Hart faked an injury after his Hakushi match, building
sympathy because Jerry Lawler now has a match against Brett
Hart later on in the evening, So Brett Hart is
(11:33):
pretending to be hurt to trick Jerry Lawler. Now I
do like that. I do like that part of it.
Hit but again, Hakushi, he had an undefeated streak up
at this point. It ends after Brett Hart defeats him. Now,
according to the history surrounding this is a lot of
(11:54):
people were very high on Hakushi. They wanted him to
become a main event star. They originally wanted hakush to
fight Undertaker Light versus Dark. Akushi is much shorter than
the Undertaker, so apparently Vince McMahon soured on Kushi because
he was short. You know any big men we've seen
(12:14):
in the WWF that were terrible but kept going through
the process of in storylines and being pushed because they
were tall, and you have wrestlers who have skills. Yes,
he couldn't cut a promo, but he could wrestle his
ass off. He was the best wrestler in the WWF
right now, him Shawn Michael's one, two, three, kid, those
are your top three wrestlers, of course, Brett Hart I guess.
(12:36):
But Akushi is something different. He was offering a new
palette of moves that we've never seen before. But yet
he lost here to Bert Heart. Vincec. Mann wasn't really
interested in continuing the undefeated streak for many reasons, and
one was he was short. He was short. Cool. Now
(12:58):
Razor Ramone is taking on Jeff Chair in the Roadie
and if you know anything about the first half of
nineteen ninety five. Rasor Ramone and Jeff Jarrett are attached
at the hip. And let me tell you something. This
isn't history talking, this is facts. They have no chemistry whatsoever.
You watch Royal Rumble matches with Raiser Ramon and Jeff Jarrett,
(13:19):
no chemistry, WrestleMania, no chemistry here, no chemistry. It's an
endless loop of Jeff Jarrett versus Razor Ramon matches that
have no chemistry and nothing against Jeff Jarrett and nothing
against Razor Ramon. But sometimes people just don't work well together.
And Razormone and Jeff Jarrett never did. The Internet Continent
(13:42):
on the title around this time suffered, and it's not
because of the lack of trying. Just didn't seem to
have the same ooh it did when we had Brent
and Sean and Mister Perfect Warrior, Macha Man Texas Tornado,
Tito Santana. Those were different. They got nothing against any
(14:03):
of these wrestlers. Razor Ramone defeats Jeff Jarrett and the Roady.
Now the big thing about this matchup is towards the end,
a mystery man saves Razor Ramone from being double teamed
at the end, who's the mystery man? It's the debut
of Savio Vega. Now, Salvio Vega up to this point
was known as Qwang. He wore a mask, he was
(14:25):
doing martial arts. This is what he did. You shoot
the Green mist Classic. Apparently a Puerto Rican wrestler under
a mask is now Japanese or Asian one of the
I don't know what they were trying to go for there,
but Savio Vega and storyline is apparently Razormone's friend from
the streets and now Savio Vega's here to have his back.
(14:49):
This is the debut. The next paper of view is
King of the Ring. Salvio Vega has to replace Razor
Ramone in the tournament because Razors injured in Savio just
making debut. Here Russell's four matches in one night on
a pay per view, the lowest by rate for a
King of the Ring and WWF pay per view up
to that point. So Sabio Vega great character, but his
(15:13):
initial push might have been too quick depending on who
you talk to, but that raised our moon. Jeff Jared
come Bo, I'm sorry, I'm sorry if I offended anyone
about that, but they had no chemistry whatsoever. Up next,
it's Mabel defeating Adam Baum and a King of the
Ring qualifier. It's a two minute squash. This is the
(15:35):
beginning of Mabel in his huge push. He wins the
King of the Ring. In a month, he goes on
to fight Desent SummerSlam has a storyline with Undertaker all
the way up until the end of ninety five. Where
however you feel about Mabel, his in ring work, his promos, whatever,
this personally to him must have been the best time
(15:58):
of his career because now he is the main event spot.
He's winning big matches. He's no longer in men in
a mission dancing like this, not being able to win
the tag team titles at WrestleMania. He is focused and
he he you know whatever you want. The matches are
not good. Okay, let's just be honest, Mabel. Matches not good.
(16:20):
But if you are Mabel, you're probably thinking, oh, finally
I've made it in this world. I've made it. Hooray.
What One of the stories around this was Adam Baum
was told he was going to win the Intercontinental Championship. Well,
that never happens, and I have a feeling that happens
(16:43):
a lot with wrestlers, or told something and then think
plans change pal and here a two minute squash match
for Mabel to begin the push of a lifetime for him.
I'm good for him, honestly, like good for Mabel. I
know everyone hates King Mabel, but I'm all about hailing
King Mabel. All hail King Mabel. Say what you want.
(17:07):
But if you're Mabel and you're Mo and this is
this is the beginning of everything for them and some
people these are core memories at the last a lifetime.
To other people, they're just wrestlers who wore a crown.
To me, they're a huge part of my childhood, and
so I want to throw respect on every wrestler who
put in the work again, from Mantar to man Mount
(17:27):
Rock to Duke to Dumpster Drosie. You think they're stupid characters,
but in reality, they are core memories for a lot
of people who hold on to these memories like myself,
and I think they're very important to the history of
the WWF. Not everyone's gonna be Holpe Cogan or John
Cena or you know, Cody Rhoads or Rooman Raines like
the Brett Hart Chaum Michaels. Some of these wrestlers have
(17:50):
to be here just to get us through to the
main events. We can't have all bangers with Brett Howard
and Chum Michaels and Diesel Razor Ramona went to a
three kid. We need some of that maybe versus at
a bomb King. The Ring Qualifier squash matches up next,
though Tagtoom titles are on the line. Owenhart and Kozuna
defeat the Smoking Guns. This is a rematch from Wrestling
(18:11):
in the eleven when Owen Hart originally was going to
team up with Jim the Anvil knight Heart to take
on the Smoking Guns. Well, the Invil was laid off
because he missed a few dates, so he was fired.
So Yokozuna made his return and the reason he came
to the WWF again was Owenhart wanted to find someone
who hates his brother Brett just as much as him.
(18:32):
At Yoko Zuna, Owenhart pans Bart Gun after Yokozuna drops
the Big Leg. This is the start of Owen and
Yoko just being a dominating force. They're very entertaining, even
Bulldog eventually joining up and camp Cornett being a stable.
It's very you know, Yoko needed some people to be
(18:55):
around him so he could continue wrestling, like Andre the
Giant at one point needed Haku to be tag team
partner so he continue wrestling. Well here it allows Yoko
to keep his career going. But with Yoko, Zuna and
Owen Hart as a tag team, it was entertaining smoking guns.
You know, they eventually get the titles back, but it
(19:15):
takes them some heel turns and Sonny to really start
making the smoking guns more than just yeha, we're cowboys
and we're here to have guta. Yeah we are. Now.
As I mentioned before, it's Mother's Day. It's a pay
per review, So Jerry Lawler is taking on Brett the
Hitman Heart. Next, Jerry Lawler brings out his mother. It's
(19:38):
clearly a young woman, a beautifully young woman, and Jerry
Lawler is trying to play off this is my mom.
If anything, that would be Jerry Law's probably girlfriend at
the time, don't put don't quote me on that, but
that's probably what happens. Uh. Pretty funny handed because Earl
Hebner and during this matchup, he gets his leg all
(19:58):
tangled uppies upside down the road. So remember earlier the
night Bert Hart was pretending to be injured, Well, it
gets Jerry Lala here. Jerry Loal was convinced that Bert
Hart was hurt and he Joy Lal backstage is yelling,
we cannot cancel this matchup. Bret Hart has to wrestle.
He has to wrestle. It's unfair if he doesn't. So
(20:18):
Brett comes out trying to be hurt and then just
suddenly pretending to know, well, it was all the rules.
He's playing possum. He tricked you, Bert Hart. Jerry Lawler
something you can't escape in the w W WEFT and
the New Generation. It's just something part of it when
people always talk about storylines that mattered to them, or
(20:39):
storylines that dominated at a certain time. Attitude era Austin
Rus McMahon New Generation one is Brett Hart and Jerry Lawler.
Give them credit. They are always putting on entertaining, weird storylines. Hakushi, though,
interferes in this matchup and Jerry Laller picks up the win.
(21:00):
Go again. I think it's hilarious. Sherylol Like my mom my,
Mom's here, guys, she's here. I know your mom, dude,
I think your mom. And the main event of the
evening is the WWF Championship. It's Diesel after rust manning
and defending against Sid, who beat up Sean Michaels that bastard.
(21:23):
The match ends in this qualification. Diesel hits the jackknife
power bomb on Sid, but Tatanka jumps in and interferes.
Screwy Finish protects Sid, Diesel retains. Then bambab Bagelo runs
down to make the safe because he was kicked out
of the Million Dollar Corporation and that's who Sid is
with now. So Sid Tatanka, Bam Bam Diesel. We're building
(21:47):
to King of the Running nineteen ninety five, or they
will have a tag team match. This is the beginning, Unfortunately,
in the end of Bam Bam Bagelo becoming a main
event superstar after wrestlming in eleven when he took on
Lawrence Taylor, everyone thought this is the beginning of Bam
Bam Bigel'll becoming one of the top tier five guys.
(22:07):
You got Diesel, Razor, you know Taker, Brett, Sean Bam Bam.
Well turns out not so quick because Bam Bam bigelow
is now teaming up with Diesel. Diesel is complaining to
Vince that he wants it to be Sean Michaels to
be his buddy on television. Well after King the Ring
ninety five a month later, Bam Bam Bigelow is pushed
(22:29):
out of one of being the top baby faces, one
of the top guys being Diesel's friend, and then Sewn
Michaels takes over that spot. So it's sad to see
this is really the beginning of Bam Bam Bagel'll becoming
something huge. It can only lasts for maybe three months,
and then Bam Bam had a rivalry with Dink and
(22:50):
then Lawrence Tailor WrestleMania, and now he we're out with Diesel,
teams up with Diesel and then right to the bottom.
And it's unfortunate because any interview Bam Bam Bielow ever did,
he always would mention how the Click and Shawn Michaels
and Diesel held him down. They did not allow certain
(23:12):
rustles to get to a level, because that means Bam
Bam could steal money from Seaw Michaels and Diesel and
Razor and one two three kid like I get that part.
And that's the problem with wrestling is it's cutthroat. It's
not just because you think you deserve to be world
shaming doesn't mean you're going to be. Sometimes you have
to be a shark. Sometimes you have to be using
politics and diesel and the click, John Michaels, they honestly,
(23:37):
obviously they did that here, and I'm not saying that's right,
but I'm also saying that's not wrong. Because anywhere you work,
from Saint McDonald's to Target, to an office to wherever
you work, you know your boss has their favorite because
that favorite sucks up to the boss. It happens you
(23:58):
might be putting in amazing work your job, but guess
what if you're not doing also the sucking up on
the Paul thinking, well, you might get lost in the
shuffle and when it's time for layoffs, you'll be laid off,
even though you're a better worker than the suck up.
Why because your boss is friends with the suck up,
not you, And it seems like that's what happened here
with the click. It's unfortunate. It's the end. Well. Also,
(24:22):
we have dark matches. Owenhak took on British Bulldog Bam Bam,
Bigelow took on to Tanka and the Undertaker took on
Kama Mustafa. So we do get dark matches at these
in your House pay per views. It's just you're paying,
as of you at home fourteen ninety five to watch
the event. If you're going to this event, you get
(24:43):
three more matches. So it's nice to see that this
pay per view really is building though to King of
the Ring and in your House to where Diesel and
say we'll have a rematch lumberjack match, and again this
is obviously the beginning of Diesel and Bigelow taking on
sale to Tanka at King of the Ring and this
would continue Mabel King of the Ring Tournament wins it.
(25:06):
Brett Hart and Jerry Lawler continue their storyline into a
kiss My Foot match at King of the Ring ninety
five as well. So this paper bew really is just
an episode of say like Raw setting up the next event,
which is fine, I get it. But the biggest, biggest
thing coming out of this event obviously is they gave
away a house to a little boy who then sold
(25:30):
it six months later. That's me the funniest part, the
weirdest part, is Jerry Lawler calling Bretteart a racist? They
dropped that storyline pretty quick once once Hakushi is done
in the storyline, and they dropped that pretty quick, like, oh,
we never said that, We never said he was raight
cleost ha ha. There you go. The history of the
(25:50):
first ever in your House. They gave away a house.
Jay Lawler's mom was here a mother's day, very historical event. Again,
some people love this event, some people hate it. I
personally loved it because I was a little kid. In
your House was invented to me. That makes it nostalgic
(26:11):
for me. But thank you for watching the history of
in your House, the first one in nineteen ninety five,
right here on the Wrestling History Channel. I'm see fall
have a wonderful day and we'll see you next time.
Past you let yourself for Seve Pastory Channel Time Reverting
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History chant
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