Over the Edge: In Your House

Over the Edge: In Your House
Promotional poster featuring Ken Shamrock and Billy Gunn
PromotionWorld Wrestling Federation
DateMay 31, 1998
CityMilwaukee, Wisconsin
VenueWisconsin Center Arena[1]
Attendance9,822[2]
Buy rate203,000[3]
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Over the Edge: In Your House was the 22nd In Your House and inaugural Over the Edge professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF; WWE as of 2002). The event took place on May 31, 1998, at the Wisconsin Center Arena in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Eight matches were contested at the event.

In the main event, WWF Champion "Stone Cold" Steve Austin defeated Dude Love after overcoming biased officiating from Vince McMahon. On the undercard Nation of Domination members Owen Hart, Kama Mustafa, and D'Lo Brown defeated D-Generation X members Triple H, Billy Gunn, and "Road Dogg" Jesse James in a six-man tag team match.

Over the Edge: In Your House was the first WWF pay-per-view event to have a TV Parental Guidelines rating of TV-14. The company gave all of its pay-per-view events TV-14 ratings from this point through The Great American Bash 2008, with SummerSlam 2008 being the first of their pay-per-views to be rated TV-PG in over a decade.[citation needed]

This was the first of the In Your House events which later became the title of a pay-per-view, replacing the method at the time of making new names for all events aside from the "Big Five" (Royal Rumble, WrestleMania, King of the Ring, SummerSlam, and Survivor Series). Over the Edge returned in May 1999 and was intended to be the annual May PPV; however, due to the death of Owen Hart at that 1999 event, Over the Edge was discontinued and replaced by Judgment Day, which was also a former In Your House event.

  1. ^ "Over the Edge 1998 results". Warned. Retrieved February 5, 2008.
  2. ^ "In Your House Results". TWNP. Retrieved February 15, 2008.
  3. ^ "WWF PPV Statistics 1998". OSW Review. Retrieved February 23, 2021.