10 Things You Need To Know About WWE Bad Blood

3. Brian Pillman Passed Away Hours Before The Original Event

When Vince McMahon woke up on October 5, 1997, the WWF owner was expecting a different card to the one he'd present hours later at In Your House: Bad Blood.

Originally, Mick Foley's over-the-top Dude Love character was supposed to square off with the 'Loose Cannon' Brian Pillman, but the latter wrestler tragically passed away and was found dead in his hotel room that afternoon; the proposed Pillman vs. Love match now impossible, McMahon elected not to simply push Foley into another match on the pay-per-view.

Reshuffling his deck, the industrious Vince instead added two matches to the lineup as a replacement for the Pillman bout.

First, Max Mini and Nova met Tarantula and Mosaic in a midget tag-team match, before the Disciples Of Apocalypse wrestled Los Boricuas in an 8-man tag effort; both matches went a combined 16 minutes, which could feasibly have been the length of Pillman vs. Love.