The Big Five Project: Royal Rumble '97- Episode 350
About this episode
The episode discusses the significance of Royal Rumble '97 and its impact on the wrestling industry as the Attitude Era begins.
On this special 350th Episode of the show, the Big Five Project returns as we enter the year PC Tunney has been looking forward to for a very long time. 1997 is here and so too is the Attitude Era. More or less anyway. We begin what will surely be an epic run of episodes here on the Big Five Project with Royal Rumble '97. It was a night that saw the WWE return to a stadium as over 61,000 fans packed the Alamodome in San Antonio to see the boyhood dream come true all over again as Shawn Michaels reclaimed the WWF Championship from Sycho Sid. But it was also the night that saw "Stone Cold' Steve Austin capture the first of his three Royal Rumble wins, and the most controversial of all of them as Austin was eliminate, but the refs never saw it. Austin's victory would set off a wild chain reaction of events that would completely shift the landscape for WrestleMania XIII. In reality, the entire evening was a who's-who of huge players in WWF at the time, even if they still were not quite fully aligned with the gimmicks that would launch the industry into the stratosphere. It was an epic night in every sense of the word so come with us deep into the heart of Texas and celebrate as the…
People in this episode
Host: David Ungar
Topics covered
- Royal Rumble
- Attitude Era
- Wrestling history
- WWE
- 1997 wrestling events
Keywords
- Royal Rumble
- 1997
- WWE
- Shawn Michaels
- Stone Cold Steve Austin
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: WWE, WWF
Places: Alamodome, San Antonio
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