WWE Survivor Series 1997 (1997)

It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

an ambitious but ultimately ineffective debut endeavor.

This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Of course when wrestling fans think about the 1997 Survivor Series it's best known for the biggest Screw job in the history of Pro Wrestling everything this event is talked about we are reminded of the Screw Job where Vince McMahon cause Bret 'Hit Man' Hart the WWF Championship during the match with Shawn Michaels due to the fact that Vince didn't want Bret to leave the WWF with his Championship and Bret didn't want to lose in Canada to Shawn Michaels.You can watch "Hitman Hart: Wrestling With Shadows" to know more about the events leading up to this Survivor Series. This event is overlooked just for one match but when you actually watch the event you see some good wrestling matchesMatch 1: The New Age Outlaws (Billy Gunn and Road Dogg) and The Godwinns (Henry O and Phineas I) Vs The Headbangers (Mosh and Thrasher) and The New Blackjacks (Bradshaw and Windham) now while I did say this show had some good matches this one wasn't one of them it just feature some slow pace and pretty much a one sided match at best.Rating: 4 out of 10Match 2: The Truth Commission (The Jackly, The Interrogator, Sniper and Recon) vs DOA: The Disciples Of Apocalypse (Crush, Chainz,8-Ball and Skull) Again this match wasn't much to talk about while DOA did get a huge roar from the fans this match just felt stall Rating: 5 out of 10Match 3: Team U.S.A (Vader, Goldust,Marc Mero, and Steve Blackman) with Sable vs Team Canada (The British Bulldog, Jim The Anvil Neidhart, Doug Furnas, and Phil Lafon) now this when the show starts to get better and this was a pretty good match from the start with drama and good spots as Vader show case his skills and Team Canada shows they came to fight. Could be match of the nightRating: 8 out of 10Match 4: Kane with Paul Bearer vs Mankind, when Kane debut in 1997 he was a monster and this was his first match on PPV, Mankind and Kane work a good match together and the whole match was light in red which made it a different feel for the match and they put off a strong one.Rating: 8 out of 10Match 5: The Legion Of Doom (Hawk and Animal) Ahmed Johnson and Ken Shamrock vs The Nation Of Domination (The Rock, Faarooq, Kama Mustafa, and D'Lo Brown) The fans show a lot of respect for L.O.D. during the match, clearly the fans were on the side of L.O.D. Johnson and Shamrock. The match itself could have been more but still a entertainment matchRating: 7 out of 10Match 6: Stone Cold Steve Austin vs Owen Hart for the WWF Intercontinental Championship. This match had a lot going into it since Owen injury Steve's neck and since has taunted him for it the match they pretty much brawl and it could have been a hardcore match but it was short which is a shame but still interesting match with Stone Cold getting his revenge Rating: 7 out of 10Match 7: Shawn Michaels vs Bret 'Hit Man' Hart for the World Wrestling Federation ChampionshipThe match that is best know about this Survivor Series as it is without doubt one of the most controversial WWF matches in history both men started to brawl outside the ring before the match started and they couldn't be control when the match started finally it was mix as both men have been known for their classic matches but clearly this match was going to be talk about and in the match's climax when the finish about to take place Shawn had Bret in the Sharpshooter where Vince order the match and the Ref to ring the bell where Bret was robbed of his championship and you can see Shawn was very upset about the move.Now you know why this Survivor Series only gets talk about one moment that is still talk about 18 years after the factI give the 1997 WWF Survivor Series an 8 out of 10

Survivor Series 1997 let me get right to the point,the Main event of the Pay Per View the other matches were OK but i was only really interested in Bret's match so that's all I'm going to summarise Main Event the best there is the best there was and the best there ever will be, Bret "Hitman" Hart vs HBK Shawn Michaels the match starts before the bell rings Hart and Michaels fight up and down the aisle before being coaxed into the ring to start the match for real. I'm not going to spoil the ending of the match except to say that what happened was absolutely ridiculous and Vincent Kennedy McMahon should be ashamed of himself! I strongly suggest you get this pay per view on video or DVD and watch it for yourselves.

Before I get to the obvious match, let me just say that this was a time when the WWE's or F's (whatever) mid-card was terrible. I'm not going to go over the under card as they were only there to fill up time.Stone Cold Steve Austin vs Owen Hart - This match wasn't a good match, but is wasn't really supposed to be. It was just supposed to be Stone Cold re-establishing himself as the main mid-carder on his way to the top. All you had to do was see his beer belly to know that the pre-Summer Slam Steve Austin that Bret Hart said was the best wrestler in the world, was gone.Bret Hart vs Shawn Michaels - This match lets us see how Americans can't see past their own existence and how Canadians hate them for it. For all those who say get over it. What would you do if you carried a company for the majority of the 90's & was responsible for elevating Stone Cold Steve Austin to mainevent status? Bret Hart gave his life and sacrificed his marriage for the WWF only to be screwed like that in his own country. Not only would I not have let it go, but I wouldn't have left Montreal without making good use of my knuckle dusters.Leave Bret Hart alone, he has every right to moan as long as he feels like it!

It is now May 2004. This event took place in November 1997, Six and a half years ago. Even now Vince McMahon (owner of WWE) is trying to smooth things over with Bret, but Mr Hart will only return on the proviso that he can 'get revenge on Shawn Michaels or Vince McMahon' after what happened at this event. Three words Bret: GET OVER IT. It happened, its in the past, LET IT GO.Every time I hear the term "The Montreal Screw-job" a shudder courses through my body. Bret Hart was leaving to go to WCW. He wanted the PPV match that people had payed good money to see, both in person & on Pay - Per - View from home to end in a massive brawl, and a double disqualification, then he wanted to ditch the WORLD Title the next night on TV and walk away. I'm sorry, but how would that have been better for anyone other than Bret himself, and his own fans? Neutrals will recall that titles in the WWF (as it was back then) were only ever surrendered due to injury, or other personal problems where the Wrestlers were left with no choice but to vacate their title. Even Shawn Michaels (who was fond of winning, but not very fond of losing his numerous titles) dropped the World Title to Stone-Cold Steve Austin at 'The Big One' Wrestlemania 14. What if he had refused? Austin winning his first World Title by being given it the next night on Raw wouldn't have had quite the same feel. Bret Hart's problem was that he couldn't handle not being the top dog anymore, and he wanted to spoil it for the fans by not doing the decent thing and letting Shawn win. A victory for Shawn after interference surely would have been a more acceptable way to end his tenure than what we got. Its just a pity that the owner was forced into doing something he didn't want to do by Bret's petulance.Shawn Michaels was put in a precarious position. Whether he knew what was going to happen is fiercely debated even to this day, but even if he did, what was he meant to do? Refuse his chance at the World Title to show loyalty to someone who had dragged their feud into the schoolyard by saying his parents must be ashamed of their son Shawn? Why should he? The only person who screwed Bret Hart was Bret Hart, the minute he thought he was bigger than the Man and the company he was working for.And on a side note, the only people that were really screwed that night were the fans, because controversial ending aside, the PPV was not memorable for anything else. The whole event had been built on the title match and it showed with a poor under-card. Normally any other Survivor Series (bar The woeful 6th Annual in 1992, which coincidently also had World Champion Bret Hart vs Intercontinental Champion Shawn Michaels for the World Title as the main event - which Bret won) would be recommendable, but not this one. Probably one of the hardest old events to get hold off, but unfortunately for all the wrong reasons.