20 Years On From WWE In Your House: Canadian Stampede's Main Event: Where Are They Now?
2. Stone Cold Steve Austin
Though the famous Canadian Stampede belonged to the mammoth Hart Family, it also did a sensational job in protecting Stone Cold Steve Austin as the company's next bankable headliner.
Despite taking the deciding fall against Owen Hart to build to their aforementioned Intercontinental Title clash at August's SummerSlam '97, Austin was a relentless mad man in his efforts all the same, flailing wildly at everybody that came near him in a believable rendering of his dive behind enemy lines.
Ahead of his ascension to the top of the card months later, it was irrefutably as hot as the crowd had ever been for the rising star. He was unquestionably the top babyface in North America at this point, which allowed him to be a despicable heel once again after crossing the border. But the fans were undeniably wired to see him all the same, and the white hot atmosphere he generated inside the Calgary Saddledome was only topped by the hero he stood across from.
The chaos in this contest for foreshadow his entire run as WWE's top draw between 1998-2000. Regardless of injuries or other setbacks, he ploughed forward through innumerable on-screen odds and finally gave Vince McMahon the tonic to Hulkamania he'd been looking for since his golden goose's 1993 departure.