Survivor Series (1997)

Survivor Series (1997)
Promotional poster featuring various sillhouettes
Tagline(s)	Gang Rulz
Information
Promotion	World Wrestling Federation
Sponsor	Milton Bradley
Date	November 9, 1997
Attendance	20,593
Venue	Molson Centre
City	Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Pay-per-view chronology
Badd Blood: In Your House Survivor Series (1997) D-Generation X: In Your House
Survivor Series chronology
Survivor Series (1996) Survivor Series (1997) Survivor Series (1998)

Survivor Series (1997) was the eleventh annual Survivor Series pay-per-view professional wrestling event produced by the World Wrestling Federation. It was the third consecutive Survivor Series presented by Milton Bradley's Karate Fighters, and took place on November 9, 1997, at the Molson Centre in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The tagline "Gang Rulz" refers to the various wrestling stables that feuded with each other coming to this event.

The main event was a standard wrestling match for the WWF Championship, in which Bret Hart defended the title against Shawn Michaels. It would be the last of three WWF Championship matches between the two, who had previously headlined the 1992 Survivor Series and WrestleMania XII together. Michaels won the title in controversial fashion when Vince McMahon ordered match referee Earl Hebner to end the match as Michaels held Hart in Hart's own finishing maneuver, the Sharpshooter, even though Hart had not submitted.^[1] This incident became known as the Montreal Screwjob and marked Hart's last appearance on WWE programming until 2005, and his last in-ring appearance until 2010. This was also the last time that Hart held a title in WWE until May 2010, and the last time he headlined a WWE pay-per-view until SummerSlam 2010.

The undercard featured Stone Cold Steve Austin versus Owen Hart in a standard wrestling match for the WWF Intercontinental Championship, Legion of Doom (Hawk and Animal), Ahmed Johnson and Ken Shamrock versus Nation of Domination (The Rock, Faarooq, Kama Mustafa and D'Lo Brown) in a four-on-four Survivor Series elimination match, Kane versus Mankind in a standard wrestling match, Team Canada (The British Bulldog, Jim Neidhart, Doug Furnas and Phil Lafon) versus Team USA (Vader, Goldust, Marc Mero and Steve Blackman) in a four-on-four Survivor Series elimination match, Truth Commission (The Jackyl, The Interrogator, Sniper, and Recon) versus Disciples of Apocalypse (Crush, Chainz, 8-Ball and Skull) in a four-on-four Survivor Series elimination match and New Age Outlaws (Billy Gunn and Road Dogg) and The Godwinns (Henry and Phineas) versus The Headbangers (Mosh and Thrasher) and The New Blackjacks (Blackjack Windham and Blackjack Bradshaw) in a four-on-four Survivor Series elimination match.^[2]

Results

Survivor Series elimination matches

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Other on-screen talent

References

• "2007 Wrestling Almanac & Book of Facts". Wrestling’s Historical Cards (Kappa Publishing). 2007. p. 99. 
• hoffco-inc.com - Survivor Series '97 review
• 1997 Survivor Series Results

External links

• Official 1997 Survivor Series site