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In Your House was a series of
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supercard events created by
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, a
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based in
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. The events originally aired on
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(PPV) from May 1995 to February 1999 when the promotion was still called the
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(WWF; renamed WWE in 2002). In 2020, WWE revived In Your House for its
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NXT. The 2020 event was
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exclusively on the
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with the 2021 event also available via traditional PPV and the
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, while the 2022 event was only available via WWE's livestreaming platforms. A total of 30 In Your House events were held between May 1995 and June 2022. The original concept of the In Your House series was that in the months when the promotion was not holding one of its then-five major PPV events ( WrestleMania,
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,
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,
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, and
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), it would offer a two-hour PPV for a lower price. In Your House was established in response to a move by competitor
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to increase its annual PPV events. The In Your House branding was retired following February 1999's St. Valentine's Day Massacre: In Your House event, as the company moved to install permanent names for each of its monthly PPVs, which began with
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. After 21 years and in response to the
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, WWE revived In Your House for NXT in 2020 and it was subsequently held annually in June until its final event in 2022. The 2020 and 2021 events were held under the
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series, but after TakeOver's discontinuation in late 2021, the final In Your House was a standalone event for NXT.


History

The first In Your House
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(PPV) was held on May 14, 1995, in
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(then known as Oncenter War Memorial Arena). To promote this first event, the
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(WWF, now WWE) held a
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to give away a new house in
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. The original concept of In Your House was that in the months when the WWF was not holding one of its then-five major PPV events ( WrestleMania,
King of the Ring King and Queen of the Ring, formerly and still commonly known as simply King of the Ring, was a professional wrestling event produced by WWE, a Connecticut-based professional wrestling promotion. The event was established in 1993 and originally c ...
,
SummerSlam SummerSlam is a professional wrestling event, produced annually since 1988 by the world's largest professional wrestling promotion, WWE. Dubbed "The Biggest Party of the Summer", it is considered WWE's second biggest event of the year behind th ...
,
Survivor Series Survivor Series, branded as Survivor Series: WarGames since 2022, is a professional wrestling event produced annually since 1987 by WWE, the world's largest professional wrestling promotion. Held in November generally the week of Thanksgiving ( ...
, and
Royal Rumble The Royal Rumble is a professional wrestling event, produced annually since 1988 by WWE, the world's largest professional wrestling promotion. It is named after, and centered on, the Royal Rumble match, a modified Battle royal (professional wre ...
, which at the time ran for three hours and retailed for US$29.95), they would offer a two-hour PPV, priced at US$14.95. The price was raised to US$19.95 starting in December 1995 with
In Your House 5 In Your House 5 (retroactively titled In Your House 5: Seasons Beatings) was the fifth In Your House professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE). The event took place on December 17, ...
. The WWF did this in response to a move by competitor
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(WCW) to increase their annual pay-per-view events (in 1995, WCW held 9 PPV events, then 10 in 1996, and finally started airing monthly events in 1997). Notwithstanding the addition of more WWF events, WCW's events regularly ran between 2.5–3 hours. Starting with Ground Zero: In Your House in September 1997, the WWF expanded all of its In Your House events to three hours, thus matching the runtime of its major PPV events. The first six In Your House events were not promoted with
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s, which were retroactively added (shown below in the table in small print), sometimes making use of a tagline. The first event to officially use a subtitle was the seventh event, In Your House 7: Good Friends, Better Enemies. From September 1997 onwards, the subtitles replaced the In Your House label as the main titles (e.g., the PPV was not named "In Your House: Ground Zero", but instead, "Ground Zero: In Your House"), until regular named shows such as
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took over in 1999. The In Your House branding was retired following February 1999's St. Valentine's Day Massacre: In Your House event, as the company moved to install permanent names for each of its monthly events, which began with Backlash. Early advertising for that year's
Backlash Backlash may refer to: Literature * '' Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women'', a 1991 book by Susan Faludi * ''Backlash'' (Star Wars novel), a 2010 novel by Aaron Allston * Backlash (Marc Slayton), a comic book character from ...
featured the "In Your House" branding until it was quietly dropped in the weeks leading to the pay-per-view. Following this, several of the In Your House shows were rebranded as their own PPV chronologies, including Over the Edge, Fully Loaded,
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, No Way Out,
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, and Bad Blood. In 2002, the WWF was renamed to World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), and in 2011, the promotion ceased using its full name, with WWE becoming an
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. On May 13, 2020, WWE announced that the In Your House branding would be revived for the NXT brand division as an
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event entitled TakeOver: In Your House on June 7, which aired exclusively on WWE's online streaming service, the
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. The announcement and the event marked the 25th anniversary of the first In Your House PPV. The event featured homages to the WWF in the early 90's, including a recreation of the house-themed stage used during the earlier In Your House events, and
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appearing in a parody of the commercials for ICOPRO
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s. A second TakeOver: In Your House was scheduled for June 13, 2021, thus making In Your House an annual subseries of TakeOver events. This second event aired on both the WWE Network and traditional pay-per-view, thus returning In Your House to pay-per-view. It also aired on
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after the American version of the WWE Network merged under Peacock in March 2021, thus being the first In Your House to air on Peacock. In September 2021, NXT was rebranded as NXT 2.0, returning it to its original function as WWE's
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, and the NXT TakeOver series was subsequently discontinued. The 2022 event was in turn held without the TakeOver branding, and it only aired on WWE's livestreaming platforms as NXT's events ceased airing on traditional pay-per-view that year. This would be the final In Your House as another event was not scheduled for 2023.


Events


References


See also

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