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The 1997 Royal Rumble was the 10th annual Royal Rumble professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE). It took place on January 19, 1997, from the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas .
Stone Cold Steve Austin won the 1997 Royal Rumble. The main angle entering this edition of In Your House was, as mentioned above, the resolution to the Royal Rumble match from the previous pay-per-view. Officially, the match had been won by Stone Cold Steve Austin, but there was significant controversy surrounding the way Austin won the match.
Finally, the two had an encounter at Royal Rumble 1997, where Johnson won by disqualification. [19] Two days later, Johnson and The Undertaker defeated Faarooq and Nation member Crush in a No Holds Barred match at the Triple Threat event. [20]
The Royal Rumble match is a professional wrestling match based on the classic Battle Royal match in which a number of wrestlers ... achieved in 1997, 1998, and 2001, ...
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The Royal Rumble match was created by wrestler and WWE Hall of Famer Pat Patterson and the event was established by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE). After the match was first tested at a house show in October 1987, [1] the first Royal Rumble event took place on January 24, 1988, and was broadcast live as a television special on the USA Network. [2]
Diesel and Ramon last appeared on television at the 1997 Royal Rumble, where Jacobs was the third-to-last participant. Jacobs continued to work sporadic live events as Diesel through April. [35] In May he and Razor Ramon went to Mexico to work for Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide.
At the 1997 Royal Rumble, Hart accidentally eliminated Bulldog from the Royal Rumble match. [14] On February 26, 1997, Bulldog defeated his partner Hart in a tournament to be crowned the first-ever WWF European Champion in a 20-minute match. [15] [16] [17] After this defeat, the tension between Bulldog and Hart began to build.