WrestleMania X-Seven

**WrestleMania X-Seven** was the 17th yearly WrestleMania professional wrestling pay-per-view to be made by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF). It happened on April 1, 2001 at the Reliant Astrodome in Houston, Texas. The event was the first WrestleMania held in the state of Texas. The number of people who went to the event broke the record for total number of people attending at the Reliant Astrodome and was counted at of 67,925. The event resulted in total receipt of $3.5 million. It is often cited as the end of The Attitude Era.

The main event was a No Disqualification match between Steve Austin and The Rock for the WWF Championship. During the match, Austin turned heel after he told Vince McMahon, a man that he had called his nemesis, to give him a chair. Austin hit The Rock with sixteen chair shots, which led to Austin pinning The Rock and becoming the new WWF Champion. The PPV ended with Austin and McMahon shaking hands and sharing beers.

The main matches on the undercard featured Triple H versus The Undertaker, the second TLC match for the WWF Tag Team Championship, and Vince McMahon versus Shane McMahon in a Street Fight.

## Matches

|style="border-style: none none solid solid; background: #e3e3e3"|**#**|style="border-style: none none solid solid; background: #e3e3e3"|**Matches**|style="border-style: none none solid solid; background: #e3e3e3"|**Stipulations**|style="border-style: none none solid solid; background: #e3e3e3"|**Times**|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|Sunday Night Heat|X-Factor (Justin Credible and X-Pac) (with Albert) defeated Steve Blackman and Grand Master Sexay|Tag team match|2:46|||||
|1|Chris Jericho (c) defeated William Regal|Singles match for the WWF Intercontinental Championship|7:08|||||
|2|Tazz and The Acolytes Protection Agency (Bradshaw and Faarooq) (with Jacqueline) defeated Right to Censor (The Goodfather, Val Venis and Bull Buchanan) (with Steven Richards)|Six-man tag team match|3:52|||||
|3|Kane defeated Raven (c) and Big Show|Triple threat hardcore match for the WWF Hardcore Championship|9:17|||||
|4|Eddie Guerrero (with Perry Saturn) defeated Test (c)|Singles match for the WWF European Championship|8:30|||||
|5|Kurt Angle defeated Chris Benoit|Singles match|14:04|||||
|6|Chyna defeated Ivory (c)|Singles match for the WWF Women's Championship|2:39|||||
|7|Shane McMahon defeated Mr. McMahon (with Stephanie McMahon-Helmsley)|Street Fight with Mick Foley serving as special guest referee|14:12|||||
|8|Edge and Christian defeated The Dudley Boyz (Bubba Ray and D-Von) (c) and The Hardy Boyz (Matt and Jeff)|TLC match for the WWF Tag Team Championship|15:47|||||
|9|The Iron Sheik won by last eliminating Hillbilly Jim|19-man Gimmick battle royal|3:07|||||
|10|The Undertaker defeated Triple H|Singles match|18:57|||||
|11|Stone Cold Steve Austin defeated The Rock|No Disqualification match for the WWF Championship|28:07|||||
|colspan="4" align=center|(c) – refers to the champion(s) heading into the match|||||||

### Battle Royal

|Elimination|Wrestler|Eliminated by|Time|
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1|Repo Man|Hayes||
|2|Gobbledy Gooker|Tugboat||
|3|Tugboat|Earthquake||
|4|Earthquake|Kamala||
|5|Kim Chee|Kamala||
|6|Bushwhacker Luke|Cornette||
|7|Jim Cornette|Hillbilly||
|8|Duke Droese|Doink||
|9|The Goon|Butch||
|10|Nikolai Volkoff|Slaughter||
|11|Bushwhacker Butch|Doink||
|12|Doink the Clown|Kamala||
|13|Michael Hayes|Gang||
|14|One Man Gang|Kamala||
|15|Kamala|Slaughter||
|16|Brother Love|Slaughter||
|17|Sgt. Slaughter|Hillbilly||
|18|Hillbilly Jim|Sheik||
|**Winner**|The Iron Sheik|-||

## Other websites

- Official _WrestleMania X-Seven_ website

## Infobox (wrestling event)

- **name**: WrestleMania X-Seven
- **tagline**: Apollo 13 (film), Houston... We Have a Problem
- **theme**: "My Way (Limp Bizkit song), My Way" by Limp Bizkit
- **promotion**: WWE, World Wrestling Federation
- **date**: April 1, 2001
- **venue**: Reliant Astrodome
- **city**: Houston, Texas
- **attendance**: 67,925
- **lastevent**: No Way Out (2001)
- **nextevent**: WWE Backlash#2001, Backlash (2001)
- **event**: WrestleMania
- **lastevent2**: WrestleMania 2000
- **nextevent2**: WrestleMania X8