Canadian Stampede (1997)

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Canadian Stampede was a professional wrestling pay-per-view produced by World Wrestling Federation which took place on 25th May 1997

## Background

The main match heading into the show is Hart Foundation vs D-Generation X and Stone Cold Steve Austin in a winner take all for the WWF, Intercontinental and World Tag Team Championships. A DX vs Hart Foundation feud started brewing in 1996 with Barry Windham's return and inclusion on DX as he called out the only men he knew from his time, the Harts. The feud would quickly involve Shawn Michaels and then Bret Hart who was the last one to join in March 1997, Wrestlemania 13 ended up being the DX vs HF show as British Bulldog and Jim Neidhart defeated Road Dogg and Billy Gunn to become tag team champions, Brian Pillman defeated Barry Windham and in the main event Shawn Michaels defeated Bret Hart to become WWF champion. Stone Cold was also involved in this feud as Bret turned heel against him at Royal Rumble 1997 so he wanted to beat up a Hart, by exclusion Vince gave him Intercontinental champion Owen Hart and Austin picked up the win to become champion. A huge winner take all was announced, since Pillman, Bret and Owen all wanted to be WWF champions they had a triple threat to determine who would win which titles if Hart Foundation won the match, since Bret Hart pinned Brian Pillman to win, if Hart Foundation win Bret becomes WWF champion, Owen wins the Intercontinental title and Brian Pillman gains nothing.

Faaroq started a stable called "Nation of Domination" as he was tired of his black bois being disrespected by the audience and the roster and wanted black power to come back in full force, a recently turned heel The Rock called him out on this asking how can they have this group if they don't have the best black wrestler currently alive, The Rock. He challenged Faaroq to a match which was accepted

During a Bradshaw vs Steve Blackman match, the lights went out and Bradshaw disappeared. The week afterwards, Bradshaw was convinced he was kidnapped by Ministry of Darkness so he beat up Mankind and challenged him to a match while Undertaker said he wouldn't care about a guy like Bradshaw, Goldust revealed he was the one who kidnapped Bradshaw and had fun with his body so he was added to this NO1 contendership for the Intercontinental Championship

Terry Funk recently announced that he was signed back to WWF, he was mad that Undertaker was pretending he ended Vader's streak when Funk had actually defeated Vader at In Your House 21 in 1996, Vader said it was an unsanctioned match so it didn't count, they had a hardcore match which ended with Vader putting Funk through a flaming table and winning, Funk ended up challenging the leader of MoD Undertaker to a match as he still didn't like what he was trying to achieve with his group

## Results

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This was Owen Hart's cash-in match

## Details

* This was the PPV with less matches ever
* Faaroq agrees to take Rock under his wing and shakes hands with him, Rock does the NOD pose
* Ministry of Darkness carry Bradshaw backstage after the match
* During the main event, Owen piledrivers Shawn onto a chair as they're the only ones left standing, Owen leaves and then comes running down with the briefcase as he cashes in during the match. Owen piledrivers Shawn again and becomes WWF champion when the rules were that if Hart Foundation won, Bret would become WWF champion but Owen found a loophole. Bret enters the ring confused as the ref gives Bret the IC title, Bret and Owen argue and Owen says they'll talk about it later, HF celebrate with all the titles but Bret looks infuriated