25 Best Wrestling PPVs Ever
11. WWF In Your House: Canadian Stampede
Best Match: The Hart Foundation Vs. Steve Austin, Ken Shamrock, Goldust & The Legion Of Doom
Worst Match: N/A
Headlined by one of the most novel main events in WWF history, Canadian Stampede was a first-class affair from beginning to end.
The opener - an exquisitely-worked match which was let down slightly by the usual non-reaction to Hunter Hearst Helmsley's pre-DX incarnation - was just about enough to engage the audience for the rest of the card, the quality and pace of which was escalated perfectly.
The match between imminent inaugural Light Heavyweight champion Taka Michinoku and venerable puroresu legend The Great Sasuke was, alongside Dean Malenko Vs. Scotty 2 Hotty at Backlash 2000, the very best the halfhearted division had to offer, a fairly depressing indictment of Vince McMahon's attitude towards the style.
Undertaker Vs. Vader was a marked improvement on Sycho Sid's WWF title exploits, but the main event is what has come to define the show. And with good reason: it was a pulsating, all-action affair which still managed to seamlessly advance future and recall past storylines in a dazzling affirmation of the WWF's sadly-missed predilection for shared universe storytelling.
Steve Austin's performance, in which he smashed the various Hart family members stationed at ringside with gleeful abandon to the audible disgust of the Canadian crowd, was a masterclass in heat generation and a string to his incredible '97 bow.