10 Wrestling Stipulations WWE Never Followed Through

8. At Least One Title Will Change Hands (In Your House 3)

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Naked sh*thousery, this one.

Getting increasingly desperate as little-to-nothing drew any money in 1995, WWE - through "fan friendly" new President Gorilla Monsoon - announced that September's In Your House 3 would be headlined by a match that had never happened before and a guarantee they could almost never offer.

WWE and Intercontinental Champions Diesel and Shawn Michaels were set to take on Tag Team Champions Owen Hart and Yokozuna, with all titles on the line and a pinfall assured. Gold was changing hands, live on pay-per-view! And it did...technically.

Showtime came and news broke that Owen Hart wasn't there. Monsoon, desperate not to - yawn - screw the fans, allowed Jim Cornette to pick a replacement for his team. Davey Boy Smith was the chosen one but the referee apparently forgot this when Hart arrived late in the day to take a Jackknife and pin from 'Big Daddy Cool'.

The show went off the air with the babyfaces celebrating becoming the "chaps with all the straps", but the booking was too true to be good. Monsoon addressed the mess the next night on Raw by returning the belts to the heels before The Smoking Gunns beat them later that night as Billy and Bart were somehow a make good for the mess.

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