In Your House 13: Final Four
1997 World Wrestling Federation pay-per-view event
In Your House 13: Final Four was a 1997 professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE) and presented by Western Union. It was the 13th In Your House and took place on February 16, 1997, at the UTC Arena in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Five matches were broadcast on the PPV portion, with one match held before the event as a dark match.
The name of the show was in reference to the main event, which was a four corners elimination match for the WWF Championship, which had been vacated by Shawn Michaels three days before the event. The match, which had originally been conceived to settle the controversy over the finish of the 1997 Royal Rumble match the prior month and name a number one contender for the championship at WrestleMania 13, featured Bret Hart, "Stone Cold" Steve Austin, The Undertaker, and Vader. The main matches on the undercard were Owen Hart and The British Bulldog versus Doug Furnas and Phil Lafon and Rocky Maivia versus Hunter Hearst Helmsley for the WWF Intercontinental Championship.
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In Your House was a series of monthly professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) events first produced by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE) 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. In Your House 13: Final Four took place on February 16, 1997, at the UTC Arena in Chattanooga, Tennessee. The name of the show was based on the event's main event match, which was a four corners elimination match.
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