SlyGuy21 1st Match: HHH vs Mankind. Following their super boring match from King of the Ring, we get this alright one. I remember them having a cage match at Summerslam, and it makes sense given how this one ends in a no contest. The crowd's more into the match, and there are some cool spots, so I guess it does a good job of starting the show. Rating: 3/52nd Match: Taka Michinoku vs The Great Sasuke. Part of WWF's Light Heavyweight division, or "Not Cruiserweight division". The match is entertaining enough, there are some good spots, but the crowd's kind of distant except for the end. I'd like to see more from Michinoku though, mostly because he has one of my favorite finishers. Rating: 3.5/53rd Match: Undertaker vs Vader, WWF Championship. This was supposed to be Taker vs Ahmed Johnson, but because of injury, Vader got the scraps. This is also the weird waiting period before Kane's debut at Badd Blood, so expect a lot of "Undertaker is a murderer!" lines. It's good for a big man match, but I'm guessing Ahmed would've gotten a bigger reaction. The match is alright though. Rating: 3/54th Match: The Hart Foundation vs Goldust, Ken Shamrock, The Road Warriors, and Stone Cold Steve Austin. This is the match everyone knows from this show, and given how loud the crowd is, it's not hard to see why. Granted, Austin appears to love the crowd hating his gets, and baits them like crazy to boo him. The usual chaos you'd expect from a match this size is here, only with the crowd cheering everything the Hart's do. Owen gets injured and taken out, then Austin gets injured and taken out, then both guys come back out. Weird booking, and the finish is super weak, with a roll-up defeating Austin's team, but it makes sense for the Harts to win on their home turf. It's an exciting match, the finish is just lackluster. Rating: 4.5/5Final Rating: 7 out of 10. This won "Best Major Show" from Dave Meltzer in 1997, and while I can see that, the show as a whole is mostly elevated by the main event. The other matches are good, but not the killers you'd expect.

tyhdavis None of the matches, except for the free-for-all, were below the 3/5 range. Mankind and Hunter Hearst Helmsley battled in the best brawl that they ever had (until, of course, Royal Rumble 2000), TAKA/Sasuke is the best high-flying, non-gimmick one-one-one match in the history of the company, and Vader and Undertaker put on an incredible big-man match. Oh, and, not to mention, THE BEST GIMMICK TAG-TEAM MATCH IN THE HISTORY OF WRESTLING. Respectively:Mankind and HHH's match was a downright fight. After the King Of The Ring a month earlier, these two had built up so much heat to their feud that it felt impossible to settle it in one match. Without spoiling it... well it's impossible to go further. SCORE: 3.75/5The Great Sasuke is one of the greatest light-weight Japanese wrestlers of all-time, maybe the best alongside Tiger Mask I. TAKA Michinoku is one of those wrestlers that, if given at least 10 minutes and a half-capable opponent, WILL produce a 4 star match. Needless to say, given the intro I gave them, they put on a clinic. SCORE: 4.5/5Undertaker and Vader: Now here's a story. Originally, Faarooq (Ron Simmons) was scheduled to face The Dead Man for the title on this evening. Due to an injury, a last minute substitute was issued, that being Big Van Vader, one of the all time great heavyweights in the industry. With little build and hardly any mic time given to the Rocky Mountain Monster, the two were left to simply wrestle in front of the lions. Without a doubt one of the Taker's best Title defenses of his career, and Vader's second best WWE match of his short tenure. SCORE:3.5/5Team America (Steve Austin, The Road Warriors, Goldust, Ken Shamrock) vs. The Hart Foundation (Bret Hart, Owen Hart, The British Bulldog, Brian Pillman, Jim Neidhart) is without a doubt the best non-traditional tag-team match in the history of pro wrestling. Building up to this event, The Hart Foundation was the most hated thing in pro-wrestling at the time, while Steve Austin was on his way to becoming THE professional wrestler of all time. Most all of WWF's shows and events were held in the U.S.. For this event was held in Calgary, the home of the famous Hart family, The Hart Foundation was treated as it's hometown heroes (of-course) and Team America was booed simply because they opposed Calgary's home team. The match was so phenomenal, however, that neither team received any heel heat from the Canadian crowd. In-ring, however, you had five of the best wrestlers of the nineties, those of which made up a good 75% of the ring time. Simply amazing, and a ridiculously overlooked classic. SCORE: 5/5

Ronald Quincy Dobbs Deep into the WWF's "US vs. Canada/Hart Foundation" storyline, the WWF decided to have their July In Your House in the Hart family's hometown of Calgary, Alberta Canada. The environment is absolutely UNREAL as the fans go nuts for everything the Canadians do (Brian Pillman gets cheered for cheating for example) and boo the US team out of the building with their every move (Steve Austin takes on a heel persona and plays against the crowd getting some of the loudest heat ever, Ken Shamrock tries to play to the crowd and gets booed right out of the building) Just a break down of the matches here.Mankind vs. HHH Probably the best of their original feud, if you loved the Street Fight or the HIAC or the MSG Raw match this is an essential, this is from their original feud and was an absolutely wild brawl leading to a double countout and they fought throughout the rest of the show, the feud culminated the next month at Summerslam ****Taka vs. The Great Sasuke Although they've had many matches on Michinoku Pro TV this is the first time North American WWF fans had been treated to these two (although they made a very very impressive NA PPV debut at ECW's barely legal 4 months prior), a great outing which changed Taka's entire career path because of how the crowd rallied behind him, originally Sasuke was to be pushed and Taka was supposed to be fodder for the light heavyweight division. This match was excellent although a bit short, and is one of the best cruiserweight matches i've ever seen, even close to Eddy vs. Rey. ****1/4 Vader vs. The Undertaker This was originall supposed to be Ahmed vs. Taker, but big surprise, Ahmed Johnson got injured before the match! Thank god his heel push got cut off at the legs. Anyway, this is a really good big man match that really makes you realize how washed up Taker is after he was this great in 97. The selling and bumping are really sound for these two, especially considering how injuries were getting to Vader at this point. ***3/4 10 Man Tag Steve Austin/Ken Shamrock/Goldust/Road Warriors vs. Bret Hart/Owen Hart/Jim Neidhart/British Bulldog/Brian Pillman Wild, 30 minutes of non stop action with the best crowd heat ever for any match (although it was nearly duplicated on Raw in 2000 during the Radicals debut). Wild stuff as Owen Hart and Steve Austin both were "injured" during the match, leading to their exits and eventual return for the finish, Austin gets in a brawl with the Hart family at ringside and gets taken to jail, but is able to get the middle fingers up past the handcuffs. Why couldn't he play THIS character in 2001? Awesome stuff, and i wish that Bret Hart could've gone out on this note. ***** If you don't own this tape...what is wrong with you?!!?!? Get a VHS copy of the coliseum video version "WWF Maximum Impact (97)" which should say contains matches with the July in your house and has Bret Hart on the cover. Probably the best show the WWF has EVER done in competition with only Wrestlemania X-7 and a few others. WWE is nuts not to release this on DVD, i'd upgrade my copy in a second.

Big Movie Fan This wrestling event is still talked about today and many wrestling magazines over the world still rate this card as one of the best of the 1990's.It may have only had four matches but isn't it better to have four good matches on a card than dozens of meaningless and pointless matches?Rising star Hunter Hearst Helmsley had a wild brawl with the deranged Makind. Japanese stars Taka Michinoku and The Great Sasuke had a dazzling match. The Undertaker defended his WWF Title against Vader in a sensational match.The main event was fabulous. At the time the WWF were promoting a storyline featuring Canada VS The United States. On American soil the American wrestlers were the good guys (obviously) but this event took place in Calgary, Canada so paradoxically the good guys became the bad guys and vice versa. In Canada, Bret Hart and his team battled Steve Austin and his team in one of the best WWF matches ever. This match was amazing which was typical for the WWF of 1997.