Judgment Day: In Your House was the twenty-fifth In Your House professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by World Wrestling Federation (WWF), which took place on October 18, 1998, at the Rosemont Horizon in Rosemont, Illinois. It was the first pay-per-view titled Judgment Day as WWF were giving all pay-per-views under the In Your House banner unique names. When this pattern stopped in 2000, Judgment Day was one of the In Your House titles picked to be used on an annual basis.

Nine professional wrestling matches were scheduled on the event's card. The main event saw The Undertaker and Kane fighting each other, despite their alliance at the time, for the WWF Championship which was vacant at the time after company owner Vince McMahon stripped former champion Steve Austin to further the storyline. Austin was made special guest referee for the match, a role he was not keen to accept. The card included four other championship matches. All WWF championships except the WWF Women's Championship, which had been reinstated only a month before, were contested at the event.

Breakdown: In Your House finished with both The Undertaker and Kane simultaneously pinning the WWF Champion Steve Austin. Vince McMahon retrieved the belt and the following evening on Raw, called Undertaker and Kane to the ring to crown a new champion, intending to award the title to both men. However, Austin stormed the building on an ice resurfacer, assaulting McMahon before being arrested and taken away. McMahon then reneged on awarding the brothers the title, saying that Kane and Undertaker did not live up to their obligation to protect him from Austin. Instead, he ordered both of them to face each other for the vacant championship and named Austin the special guest referee for the match in order to see him "suffer the indignity" of having to count the fall and award the title to one of the men who caused him to lose it. McMahon then insulted the two men, calling Kane and Undertaker "handicapped" physically and mentally, and made an obscene gesture toward the pair; they responded by breaking his leg with the ring stairs.

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