10 Best Wrestling Matches NOBODY Watched

2. Owen Hart Vs. Shawn Michaels (WWF In Your House 6: Rage In The Cage)

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Remember that thing about the New Generation Era being rotten? Yeah, the sixth In Your House was among the worst.

Razor Ramon and The 1-2-3 Kid worked a loathsome Crybaby match. Hunter Hearst Helmsley and Duke Droese wrestled a match as memorable as anything WWE did during the Thunderdome days. Yokozuna and The British Bulldog had a stinker of a disqualification-finish match. Bret Hart and Diesel contested a half-decent, if not formulaic, Steel Cage match.

The show gained 150,000 pay-per-view buys and WWE had clearly given up on the IYH concept here - business-wise, they consistently performed terribly compared to the 'proper' pay-per-views - but even Rage In The Cage had a show-stealer.

Owen Hart and Shawn Michaels were a shot in the arm to the card, an adrenaline boost on a show desperately lacking any. Three months removed from working the most underappreciated worked injury on a November '95 Raw, they worked a blinder here, relying just enough on the kayfabed injury to put over the legitimacy of Owen Hart in a match he was never going to win.

The finishing sequence, with Michaels missing the Sweet Chin Music, Owen missing the enzuigri, and Michaels eventually nailing the Superkick, is among the most inspired you'll see. Owen sold it wondrously, too, instantly falling to the mat like he'd been hit with a killshot. Prior to the Superkick's exploitation, it wholly was a killing shot.

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