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10. In Your House- Canadian Stampede (06/07/97)

Wrestling is pretty simple right? There's the good guys, then there's the bad guys and everybody is happy when the good guys win. What this doesn't take into account however is what happens when an audience completely ignores what promoter wants them to do and flips the whole match. One of the biggest examples of this is the main event of Canadian Stampede. 

Bret 'Hitman' Hart started his singles career in WWE as a beloved hero. His championship reigns were always punctuated by matches in which he squared off against opponents bigger and stronger than he. That all changed during his match against Stone Cold Steve Austin as WrestleMania 13 in 1997. 

Feeling disrespected as he saw fans start to warm to Austin instead of him Bret unleashed a new brutal side, infamously refusing to release the Sharpshooter as Austin passed out through the pain. Bret then went on to apologise to all his fans apart from the American ones. The main event of this show is an utterly chaotic five versus five match that sees Bret Hart team with his brother Owen, Jim Neidhart, The British Bulldog and Brian Pillman to take on the American team of Steve Austin, Ken Shamrock, Goldust and The Legion of Doom.

In his home country of Canada, he and his Hart Foundation allies are treated as if they could walk on water whilst Austin's team experience a hostile reception. What follows is a twenty five minute long barn burner of a match in which the crowd remain invested in every single moment. It's also only the last of a five match card so it's a snappy, to the point show. The other matches fair quite well also as The Undertaker defended his WWF Championship against Vader, Mankind takes on Triple H in a match that goes all over the arena and it also features a rare WWF appearance of The Great Sasuke as he takes on Taka Michinoku.