In Your House 10: Mind Games
1996 World Wrestling Federation pay-per-view event
In Your House 10: Mind Games was a 1996 professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE). It was the 10th In Your House and took place on September 22, 1996, at the CoreStates Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The name of the show was in reference to the rivalry between Shawn Michaels and Mankind.
The main event of the show saw Shawn Michaels retain the WWF Championship against Mankind in a match that Mankind regarded as the finest of his career. Also on the show, the Smoking Gunns defended the WWF Tag Team Championship against Owen Hart and the British Bulldog. On the undercard, former Olympian Mark Henry made his pay-per-view debut against Jerry "The King" Lawler.
In Your House 10: Mind Games was attended by 13,000 people and drew 120,000 buys (a 0.48 buy rate). In 2014, the event became available for streaming on the WWE Network.
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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.
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