by 1997
The co main event was between the WWF Tag Team Champions Shawn Michaels and Stone Cold Steve Austin to determine the team captain. The match seemed forced and made little to no sense.
Making matters worse was the strange booking of the actual match as the referee was knocked out during the match countless times for no reason at all.
After Austin hit Michaels with a Stone Cold Stunner. He picked up the referee and hit him too with a Stone Cold Stunner.
A pointless match that very few wanted to see, had a even more pointless ending to it. Little did anyone know, that 10 months later that same match would become the Main Event of WrestleMania 14.
One could only wonder if Bret Hart was healthy, how, if it all, he could have helped this mess. He chose to watch from the stage with the Hart Foundation in a wheel chair.
The main event was between The Undertaker and Faarooq for the WWF Championship in another strange booking. The Undertaker was trying to keep Paul Bearer from revealing a deep dark family secret, so he did anything Bearer told him to.
This included, giving Faroog several post match Tombstone Piledrivers after he had already beaten him at the request of the deranged Bearer.
The lone bright spot was the actual King of the Ring Tournament Main Event between HHH and Mankind. These two had instant chemistry and it showed in their first big match together.
They would go on to have a long and memorable feud over several years and various Mick Foley characters. HHH won the crown that was promised to him the year before in a sensational match.
In other news and notes, the WWF once again tried to force Jerry The King Lawler onto the card. They believed that because he was the King, he had to be on these pay per views each year. The problem was, every time he was, his match was a clunker.
94 with Piper, 95 with Hart, 96 with Warrior and 97 with Mankind all stunk. You would have hoped they learned their lesson, but in 98 it got even worse for Lawler. More on that later.
