WWF's In Your House PPV drew a 0.65 buy rate, easily the best ever for a WWF In Your House PPV. Razor Ramon vs. 1-2-3 Kid, Shawn Michaels vs. Owen Hart, and the main event Steel Cage WWF Championship match between Bret Hart and Diesel were the major highlights.
The Undertaker came up through the bottom of the ring and pulled Diesel in the hole, costing him the WWF Title as Bret escaped the cage as these two will be likely facing at WrestleMania. Since Michaels beat Owen in a thrilling match to retain his WrestleMania title match with Bret. It is expected for Michaels to dethrone Bret for the WWF Championship at WrestleMania.
Scott Hall (Razor Ramon) announced he will be leaving the WWF to join WCW as he signed a three-year deal with a fully guaranteed contract. The contract will give Hall more money while working a lot fewer dates than he had in the WWF. Vince McMahon responded by suspending Hall without pay for failing a drug test and Hall will be off WWF TV in the coming weeks.
Hall was to face Goldust at WrestleMania in a "Miami Street Fight" but that won't be happening with the suspension. Reports are that Hall's best friend Kevin Nash (Diesel) will announce he too will leave the WWF to go with Hall to WCW for a very similar contract. Hulk Hogan apparently wants to work with Nash in WCW.
Hogan continues to lose matches on Nitro, this time to Arn Anderson as it widely speculated this is a response to the Billionaire Ted skits that Hogan "never loses." Chris Benoit signed a two-year contract extension to remain in WCW with his buddies Eddie Guerrero and Dean Malenko.
Brian Pillman showed up at the ECW Arena at Cyberslam where he mocks Eric Bischoff calling him "Eric Jerkoff" and calling the fans "smart marks" then threatens to whip out his Johnson and piss all over the ring in an attempt to make him look more crazier than he had been in WCW.
Paul Heyman, Tod Gordon, and Shane Douglas all come out to prevent this as Heyman yelled "this is not part of the deal." Pillman then hit Heyman with a "Bookerman" blast like he did to Kevin Sullivan at SuperBrawl. Pillman then "attacked" a fan and pulled out a fork to use on him as he was escorted out of the building by security.
Even though Pillman appears to be fired by WCW, he is still on the payroll as they are making this look like it's a shoot but it's a total work as they are working on a new contract. He is only supposed to appear twice more in ECW. Pillman's matches on syndicated WCW TV have been taken off the air.
WWF attorney Jerry McDevitt does an exclusive interview with Prodigy. He states that Ted Turner tried many times to buy the WWF from Vince McMahon from the late-1980s up until about 1993 or 1994 when McMahon turned him down each time.
Since McMahon refused to sell the company and it wasn't for sale, Turner vowed to put the WWF out of business.
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