Steve Austin & Dude Love for the WWF Tag Team Championship The Hart Foundation ( Owen Hart & The British Bulldog) (c) vs. The Nation of Domination ( D-Lo Brown & Faarooq) vs. The Nation of Domination ( Faarooq & Kama Mustafa) vs. Steve Austin & Shawn Michaels for the WWF Tag Team Championship The New Blackjacks ( Blackjack Bradshaw & Blackjack Windham) in a Four Way Elimination Match for the WWF Tag Team Championship The British Bulldog and Owen Hart (c) vs. Hunter Hearst Helmsley for the WWF Championship Bret Hart for the WWF Intercontinental Championship Bret Hart in a Steel Cage Match for the WWF Championship Owen Hart in a Tournament Final Match for the vacant WWF European Championship Faarooq & Mankind in a No Holds Barred Matchīret Hart (c) vs. Mankind & VaderĪhmed Johnson & The Undertaker vs. Monday Night RAW results 1997 dates and venues Event The era drew to a close on May 6, 2002, as WWF changed its name to WWE and ceased using "WWF Attitude" branding.The following is a list of all the episodes of Monday Night RAW that took place in 1997. The Hardcore Championship was established on November 2, 1998, and this chaotic division involved no disqualification, falls count anywhere matches that would start and then would be taken outside the ring, with blunt weapons involved. Distinguished stables were established in this era, such as D-Generation X, Nation of Domination, The Corporation, Ministry of Darkness, Corporate Ministry and The Brood, among others, and developed major rivalries among each other. The era also saw the resurgence of tag team wrestling, namely The Hardy Boyz, The Dudley Boyz, and Edge & Christian, who were featured in several destructive, physical and stunt-filled Tables, Ladders and Chairs matches during this era. WWF also signed a number of wrestlers who left WCW during this period, including Chris Jericho, Big Show and The Radicalz. While most of the company's female talent, such as Sable, Sunny and Stacy Keibler during this time period were marketed as sex symbols and often booked in sexually provocative gimmick matches (for example "bra and panty" matches, bikini matches, etc.) in an effort to draw more male viewership, prominent female stars such as Chyna, Lita, and Trish Stratus among others were presented as legitimate wrestlers in legitimate wrestling matches. The WWF Women's Championship, which had lain dormant since December 13, 1995, was reactivated on September 15, 1998. The Steve Austin- Vince McMahon feud was one of the longest-running and most prominent rivalries of the era. The Attitude Era marked the rise of many WWF male singles wrestlers, including "Stone Cold" Steve Austin, The Rock, Triple H, Kane, Mick Foley (in various personas), Kurt Angle, and The Undertaker (who was already a veteran but continued to gain popularity). This era was part of a wider surge in the popularity of professional wrestling in the United States and Canada as television ratings and pay-per-view buy rates for WWF and its rival promotions saw record highs. WWF's programming in this era featured adult-oriented content, which included increased depicted violence, profanity, and sexual content. Shawn Michaels, which retrospectively would be known as the Montreal Screwjob due to the match's controversial finish. The era was initiated on November 9, 1997, at Survivor Series 1997, when a video package aired ending with the first use of the "WWF Attitude" scratch logo this was immediately before the main event featuring Bret Hart vs. It began during the Monday Night Wars, a period in which WWF's Monday Night Raw (later Raw Is War) went head-to-head with World Championship Wrestling's (WCW) Monday Nitro in a battle for Nielsen ratings each week from September 4, 1995, to March 26, 2001. The Attitude Era was a period in which the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE) used the term "WWF Attitude" to describe its programming from Novemto May 6, 2002.
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