Starting off with the first WWE pay-per-view of the widely-known bully of professional wrestling, John Layfield, this _Mind Games_ card was pretty interesting, in my opinion. The match between the bully who would go on to become better known as "JBL" (Justin Bradshaw Layfield) vs Savio Vega was basically a rehashing of the "strap match" between "Stone Cold" Steve Austin vs Vega at the preceding PPV, wherein Austin managed to drag Vega around to all four corners (the stipulation of the match was to be the first man to touch all four ringposts in succession) before tugging so strongly on the strap - in an effort to yank Vega off his feet, mind you - that Vega somehow catapulted over Austin and hit the fourth corner post before Austin could. Only here, Vega managed to run straight into the fourth corner post before Layfield could hit it. Yawn. It would be nice if the storywriters didn't give us repeats so frequently. Next up was an absolute joke - and not a very funny one, either - of a "match" between the ancient "Jose Lothario" vs the ridiculous James Cornette in a fat suit. Fortunately it was VERY short-lived, lasting only a few short seconds, but even that was too long. I _will_ give Cornette a ton of credit, though: the man was more than willing to take "bumps" to sell a promotion, and he took his fair share during his time in the WWE. He did so in this laughingstock of a match, so my hat's off to him for that...but it was still awful. After that, you had the rambling of Brian Pillman and Owen Hart before they were joined by "Stone Cold" Steve Austin who finally let loose on Vince McMahon's rated G show with some classic colorful language about the missing Bret "The Hitman" Hart. McMahon kept apologizing for Austin's language, but you know he was loving the introduction to the soon-coming "Attitude Era" of the WWE. This was also the card that was "invaded" by members of ECW at ringside, although nothing really happened apart from them making a scene during one of the matches. The "Smoking Gunns" have never been my favorite tag-team, so normally their matches get semi-ignored but this one was worth watching simply for its conclusion. The same could almost be said for the Mark Henry vs Jerry Lawler "non-match" that was painful to watch. Henry was very green here on this card and it showed but give the WWF (and even Lawler) a little credit for at least _trying_ to make the match interesting. The match between Undertaker vs Golddust was supposedly "the final match" and let's hope so: this story was old before it even started. Nothing they do can make that character (Golddust) interesting or watchable. And finally the "main event" championship match between Michael Hickenbottom vs Mick "Mankind" Foley ended just like you expected it to: kip up (even though you're battered and "beat to hell" to quote Jim Ross) and somehow find it in your pretty-boy _I'm Vince's Boy-Toy So I Get To Keep My Belt_ self to win a match...albeit by disqualification. And the conclusion, I have to admit, was a fun twist on an old story. All in all, this was just another run-of-the-mill _In Your House_ card with a few new stories that make it worth watching.