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Tagline(s) | Gang Rulz | |||
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Promotion | World Wrestling Federation | |||
Sponsor(s) | Milton Bradley | |||
Date | November 9, 1997 | |||
Attendance | 20,593 | |||
Venue | Molson Centre | |||
City | Montreal, Quebec, Canada | |||
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Survivor Series (1997) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view event produced by World Wrestling Federation (WWF) and presented by Milton Bradley's Karate Fighters. It was the eleventh annual Survivor Series event and took place on November 9, 1997, at the Molson Centre in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The tagline "Gang Rulz" refers to the various wrestling stables that feuded with each other coming to this event. Seven matches were contested on the event's card. The undercard featured Stone Cold Steve Austin versus Owen Hart in a standard wrestling match for the WWF Intercontinental Championship, Kane versus Mankind and 4 four-on-four elimination tag team matches.
The main event was a standard wrestling match for the WWF World Heavyweight Championship, in which Bret Hart defended the title against Shawn Michaels. It would be the last of three WWF World Heavyweight Championship matches between the two, who had previously headlined the 1992 Survivor Series and WrestleMania XII together. Michaels won the title in controversial fashion when Vince McMahon ordered match referee Earl Hebner to end the match as Michaels held Hart in Hart's own finishing maneuver, the Sharpshooter, even though Hart had not submitted. This incident became known as the Montreal Screwjob and marked Hart's last appearance on WWE programming until 2010. This was also the last time that Hart held a title in WWE until May 2010, and the last time he headlined a WWE pay-per-view until SummerSlam 2010.