Background In Your House was a series of monthly
professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV)
events first produced by the
World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE) in May 1995. They aired when the promotion was not holding one of its then-five major PPVs (
WrestleMania,
King of the Ring,
SummerSlam,
Survivor Series, and
Royal Rumble), and were sold at a lower cost. This fourth In Your House event took place on October 22, 1995, at the
Winnipeg Arena in
Winnipeg, Manitoba,
Canada. While this event was originally known simply as In Your House 4, it was later retroactively renamed as In Your House 4: Great White North. This retroactive renaming of the show was based on the event being held in Canada.
Storylines The
professional wrestling matches at In Your House 4 featured professional wrestlers performing as characters in
scripted events pre-determined by the hosting
promotion, the WWF.
Storylines between the characters played out on WWF's primary television program,
Monday Night Raw. On August 21, 1995,
WWF Champion Diesel teamed up with
Davey Boy Smith to take on the team known as
Men on a Mission (
King Mabel and
Sir Mo) in the main event of the WWF's
Monday Night Raw show. Up until that day Davey Boy Smith had always been a face in the WWF, but turned on Diesel that night, attacking him and then leaving him alone to fight off King Mabel and Sir Mo. The storyline was picked up against at
In Your House 3 when The British Bulldog (Smith was billed exclusively as the British Bulldog by then) teamed up with
Yokozuna to take on Diesel and
Shawn Michaels in the main event. On September 25 the British Bulldog lost a match to
the Undertaker by disqualification as he kept attacking his opponent, which led to Diesel running to the ring to chase the British Bulldog off. Two weeks later the Bulldog pinned Diesel during a six-man tag team match, earning a title match in the process. In the weeks leading up to In Your House 4, the
WWF Intercontinental Champion Shawn Michaels had been targeted by the heel
Dean Douglas, who claimed to be both intellectually and physically superior to Michaels. In the days before the In Your House show, Shawn Michaels was beaten up by a single
Marine outside of a bar, which meant that he was unable to compete at the In Your House show against Dean Douglas. ==Event==