Royal Rumble (1997)

**Royal Rumble (1997)** was a professional wrestling pay-per-view event made by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now known as WWE). It took place on January 19, 1997, at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas. It was the tenth Royal Rumble event held by the WWF.

## Background

As is the case every year since the event's beginning, the event featured the 30-man over-the-top-rope battle royal, also known as the Royal Rumble match. The match started with two wrestlers and a new one was added every 90 seconds. To eliminate an opposing wrestler he must be thrown over the top rope and have _both_ his two feet hit the floor, this continued until there was only one man left, who was named the winner. The winner received a match for the WWF Championship at WrestleMania 13. The match was won by Stone Cold Steve Austin. The main event saw Shawn Michaels defeat Sycho Sid to win his second WWF Championship.

The event also featured wrestlers from the WWF's partner promotion Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide, which would later be purchased by WWE in 2025.

## Results

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| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|Perro Aguayo Jr. and Venum defeated Maniaco and Mosco de la Merced|Tag team match|10:00||||||
|Blue Demon Jr., Octagón and Tinieblas Jr. defeated Abismo Negro, Heavy Metal and Histeria|Six-man tag team match|14:00||||||
|Mascarita Sagrada Jr. and La Parkita defeated Mini Mankind and Mini Vader|Tag team match|4:29||||||
|Hunter Hearst Helmsley (c) (with Mr. Hughes  defeated Goldust (with Marlena)|Singles match for the WWF Intercontinental Championship|16:50||||||
|Ahmed Johnson defeated Faarooq (with The Nation of Domination) by disqualification|Singles match|8:48||||||
|Vader (with Paul Bearer) defeated The Undertaker|Singles match|13:19||||||
|Canek, Héctor Garza and Perro Aguayo defeated Heavy Metal, Fuerza Guerrera, and Jerry Estrada|Six-man tag team match|10:56||||||
|Stone Cold Steve Austin won by last eliminating Bret Hart|30-man Royal Rumble match for a WWF Championship match at WrestleMania 13|50:30||||||
|Shawn Michaels (with José Lothario defeated Sycho Sid (c)|Singles match for the WWF Championship|13:49||||||
|colspan="4" align="center"|(c) – is the champion(s) going into the match **D** – This match was a dark match **F** – This match aired before the pay-per-view on _:en:WWE Free for All_|||||||

### Royal Rumble entrances and eliminations

– Represented Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide (AAA)

– **Winner**

|Draw|Entrant|Order|Eliminated by|Time|Eliminations||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
||Crush||Phineas Godwinn|06:17|0||
||Ahmed Johnson||Himself|03:02|2||
||"Razor Ramon"||Ahmed Johnson|00:17|0||
||Phineas I. Godwinn||Steve Austin|02:52|1||
|****|**Stone Cold Steve Austin**|****|**Winner**|**45:07**|**10**||
||Bart Gunn||rowspan="2"|Steve Austin|00:26|0|
||Jake Roberts||01:10|0|||
||The British Bulldog||Owen Hart|08:04|1||
||Pierroth|10|Mil Máscaras|10:32|1||
|10|The Sultan||The British Bulldog|03:23|0||
|11|Mil Máscaras|11|Himself|07:28|2||
|12|Hunter Hearst Helmsley|12|Goldust|06:42|0||
|13|Owen Hart|17|Steve Austin|08:29|2||
|14|Goldust|13|Owen Hart|05:33|1||
|15|Cybernetico||Mil Máscaras and Pierroth|01:25|0||
|16|Marc Mero|16|Steve Austin|03:53|0||
|17|Latin Lover|14|Faarooq|01:47|0||
|18|Faarooq|15|Ahmed Johnson|00:41|1||
|19|Savio Vega|18|rowspan="3"|Steve Austin|00:46|0|
|20|Jesse James|19|00:29|0|||
|21|Bret Hart|29|21:12|2|||
|22|Jerry Lawler|20|rowspan="2"|Bret Hart|00:04|0|
|23|"Diesel"|28|17:49|0|||
|24|Terry Funk|24|rowspan="2"|Mankind|15:18|0|
|25|Rocky Maivia|23|13:00|0|||
|26|Mankind|25|The Undertaker|12:20|2||
|27|Flash Funk|21|Vader|06:12|0||
|28|Vader|26|Steve Austin|10:06|1||
|29|Henry O. Godwinn|22|The Undertaker|06:11|0||
|30|The Undertaker|27|Steve Austin|06:46|2||

## Infobox (wrestling event)

- **name**: Royal Rumble (1997)
- **tagline**: No More Mr. Nice Guy!
- **promotion**: WWE, World Wrestling Federation
- **date**: January 19, 1997
- **venue**: Alamodome
- **city**: San Antonio, Texas
- **attendance**: 60,477
- **lastevent**: In Your House 12: It's Time
- **nextevent**: In Your House 13: Final Four
- **event**: Royal Rumble
- **lastevent2**: Royal Rumble (1996)
- **nextevent2**: Royal Rumble (1998)