10 WWE Title PPV Matches Nobody Remembers
Nobody remembers these WWE Title matches
7. Bret Hart vs. The Patriot - In Your House: Ground Zero
Bret Hart may have been the WWE Champion coming out of SummerSlam 1997, but the main story was very much the dispute between Shawn Michaels and The Undertaker after The Heartbreak Kid had inadvertently cost The Deadman the title.
The first Michaels/’Taker meeting took place in the main event of the next month’s In Your House: Ground Zero pay-per-view, with The Hitman having to settle for the semi-main slot.
His opponent was The Patriot, who pretty much only existed to play a part in The Hart Foundation’s righteous Canadian crusade against the evils of the United States.
The man behind the mask, Del Wilkes, was a decent enough worker, but he obviously wasn’t at the level where you expected him to truly test someone the calibre of Bret.
As the Excellence of Execution routinely did when paired against inferior opposition, he worked his pink and black backside off to make the match an engaging one before retaining with his trusty Sharpshooter.
Engaging, perhaps, but Ground Zero was such a throwaway show and The Patriot was such a minor character in the grand scheme of things that this one doesn’t really register.
