In Your House 18 : Badd Blood Badd Blood : In Your House was a professional wrestling pay - per - view event produced by the World Wrestling Federation , that took place on October 5 , 1997 at the Kiel Center in St . Louis , Missouri . On the afternoon preceding this event , Brian Pillman , who was scheduled to face Dude Love on the show , was found dead in his hotel room . The announcement was made to fans during the half - hour " pregame show " prior to the pay - per - view broadcast itself . This event was also notable as the debut of The Undertaker ' s kayfabe brother , Kane , in WWF ' s inaugural " Hell in a Cell " gimmick match , as well as Vince McMahon ' s last pay - per - view appearance as the WWF ' s lead commentator . Background . WWF Intercontinental Championship tournament . The tournament to determine the new WWF Intercontinental Champion was held between September 8 and October 5 , 1997 , with the finals occurring on October 5 at the pay - per - view . The tournament brackets were : Notes : Event . A Legends Ceremony was held during the event to honor some legends of St . Louis wrestling . It was hosted by Jim Ross and honored wrestlers , including Harley Race , Jack Brisco , Dory Funk , Jr . , Gene Kiniski , Terry Funk , Lou Thesz , and promoter Sam Muchnick . Also , at the top of the show , as the Nation of Domination was preparing for their match , Vince McMahon announced , as had been already announced on the Free For All show directly preceding Badd Blood , that Brian Pillman had died earlier that day ( October 5 , 1997 ) . This was the last pay - per - view event that McMahon called in his position as the WWF ' s lead broadcaster , as he left the broadcast team altogether following the events of the next month . The event started with the Nation of Domination taking on The Legion of Doom in what was supposed to be a six - man tag team match . However , as noted above , Ken Shamrock ( who was supposed to be Hawk & Animal ' s partner ) was out due to injury . Faarooq interfered on behalf of his Nation teammates , which enabled Kama Mustafa to kick Hawk in the back of the head and Rocky Maivia to hit the Rock Bottom for the pin . Due to Pillman ' s death , his match with Dude Love was canceled and two matches had to be added to the card at the last minute to fill out the time . The first of those was a midget wrestling tag team match pitting Max Mini and Nova against Tarantula and Mosaic ; Max Mini and Nova emerged victorious when Mini pinned Tarantula despite a kickout at 2 . The Headbangers then defended their WWF Tag Team Championships against The Godwinns . Late in the match , Phineas caught Mosh going for his Mosh Pit finisher and powerbombed him for the pin while Uncle Cletus held Thrasher to prevent him from making the save . After the contest was over the new champions assaulted the old champions , only stopping when threatened with losing the belts . The next match saw the finals of the Intercontinental Championship Tournament , where Owen Hart faced Faarooq for the belt that Stone Cold Steve Austin was forced to vacate due to an injury he suffered at SummerSlam in August . Austin was at ringside for the contest , as he was to present the belt to the winner . Austin also served as guest timekeeper and guest commentator , and factored in the outcome as he hit Faarooq with the belt to knock him out while Commissioner Slaughter , who was also at ringside to prevent any incidents , was distracted . After Hart pinned Faarooq to win the belt , Austin then attacked him . The second of two matches necessitated by the cancellation of Pillman ' s match was an eight man tag team contest pitting the Disciples of Apocalypse against Los Boricuas . DOA won the match after Crush pinned Miguel Perez , Jr . , after a tilt - a - whirl backbreaker . WWF Champion Bret Hart and The British Bulldog took on Vader and The Patriot in a tag - team match that followed the eight man tag . Originally scheduled to be a capture - the - flag match , where the object was to go to the opponent ' s corner and grab their country ' s flag ( Canada ' s or America ' s ) to win , this was changed to allow for pinfalls and submissions due to all four competitors entering the match with injuries . The changed enabled Hart to roll - up The Patriot and pin him for the victory . After the match both members of the American team assaulted their opponents . The main event of the evening saw European Champion Shawn Michaels face off against The Undertaker in the first ever Hell in a Cell match , with the winner to face Hart for his championship at Survivor Series in November . Michaels was initially accompanied to the ring by Triple H , Chyna , and Rick Rude , his cohorts in D - Generation X , but after the cage was locked all three of Michaels ' allies were forced to leave the ring . Undertaker took the fight to Michaels early and often , and his opponent was unable to mount much of an offensive attack early on in the match . Approximately halfway through the match a cameraman was ( kayfabe ) injured , forcing the cell door to unlock . Michaels and Undertaker took the fight to the outside of the cell ; Michaels was then thrown face - first into the cage , causing him to begin bleeding profusely . The two men even climbed to the top of the Hell in a Cell to fight . This culminated with Michaels hanging from the side of the cell helplessly while Undertaker stomped on his hands , causing Michaels to fall and crash through the Spanish announcers ' table . Action then returned to the inside of the cell , where the door was once again locked . Late in the match , Undertaker used a steel chair to hit Michaels hard in his head , which was referred to on air as " payback " for a similar incident involving Michaels costing Undertaker the WWF Championship at SummerSlam when Michaels was the guest referee for Undertaker ' s match with Bret Hart . As Michaels lay unconscious , Undertaker made his throat - slash gesture to signify that he was either going to chokeslam or hit the Tombstone Piledriver on Michaels . As he was readying to do so , all of the lights in the arena went out and organ music began to play . Within seconds , red light filled the arena and Paul Bearer walked to the ring with the debuting Kane . Kane proceeded to rip the door of the cell off its hinges , assault referee Earl Hebner , and enter the ring . He then turned the lights in the arena back on with his soon - to - be trademark gesture of summoning fire from the corners , and nailed the Tombstone Piledriver on the Undertaker and exited the cell . Michaels then crawled over to the Undertaker while referee Earl Hebner , who had also been taken out , slowly crawled back into the ring . Undertaker was counted out and Michaels scored the victory . Aftermath . For the next several weeks leading up to Survivor Series , D - Generation X and the Hart Foundation engaged in a battle that largely centered around Bret Hart ' s being from Canada . Michaels took opportunities to deface the Canadian flag quite often , including in their match at the event . As for the match itself , the controversial ending lives on in professional wrestling history as the Montreal Screwjob . Hart left the WWF afterwards for rival promotion WCW . Austin and Owen Hart resumed their feud that had been interrupted after Summerslam due to his injury . Austin made it a point to interfere in every single one of Hart ' s title defenses to ensure that Owen would keep the title until Survivor Series , where he planned to take it from him . Austin did exactly that and kept the championship for most of the remainder of the year . The Patriot disappeared from the WWF after Badd Blood due to injuries , but Vader continued to wrestle and was part of an eight - man tag match at Survivor Series where he was pinned by Davey Boy Smith . He then entered a feud with Goldust , which lasted until the Royal Rumble . Ken Shamrock returned from his injuries shortly after Badd Blood and set his sights on the WWF Championship . He got an opportunity at when he faced off against Michaels , only to lose the match via disqualification . He resumed his ongoing feud with the Nation of Domination after that , specifically targeting Rocky Maivia ( who by this time was known as The Rock ) . The Godwinns lost their tag team championships to the Legion of Doom on the episode of " Raw " aired eight days after Badd Blood . Shortly thereafter , the team began to move down the card and was eventually broken up and repackaged . The Headbangers returned to contending for the WWF Tag Team Championships for a brief period before challenging for the NWA World Tag Team Championship when that title began appearing on WWF programming as part of the WWF ' s NWA invasion angle . Mosh and Thrasher beat The Rock ' n ' Roll Express for the titles in February 1998 and lost to Bob Holly and Bart Gunn , a repackaged version of The Midnight Express , the following month Kane won his debut match against Mankind at Survivor Series and entered various feuds with other wrestlers , with the goal to eventually bring his brother The Undertaker into the ring with him . For months and months he staunchly refused to face him , not wanting to fight his brother . As for Undertaker , he returned to pay - per - view action at D - Generation X : In Your House by losing to Jeff Jarrett . He faced Michaels one more time at the Royal Rumble in January 1998 , in a casket match for the WWF Championship . Undertaker lost the match after Kane and Paul Bearer , who came to the ring and looked like they were going to help Undertaker , instead assaulted him and locked him in the casket themselves to give Michaels the victory . After the match was over Kane struck the still - locked casket with an axe , then poured gasoline all over it and set it on fire . This was enough for Undertaker to finally agree to wrestle his brother , and the two began feuding with a match at WrestleMania XIV . At Hell In A Cell on October 3 , 2010 , nearly 13 years after the first Hell In A Cell match , Kane and The Undertaker faced each other in their first actual encounter inside the Cell . Kane won , after Paul Bearer cost Undertaker the match . Reception . The main event was given a 5 - star match rating by Dave Meltzer , which would be the last WWF / WWE match to receive the honor until the John Cena vs CM Punk match at the 2011 Money in the Bank event . The pay - per - view received a 0 . 60 buyrate , equivalent to approximately 240 , 000 buys .