WrestleMania X-Seven

WrestleMania X-Seven
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Promotion	World Wrestling Federation
Date	April 1, 2001
City	Houston, Texas
Venue	Reliant Astrodome
Attendance	67,925
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WrestleMania X-Seven was the seventeenth annual WrestleMania professional wrestling pay-per-view produced by the World Wrestling Federation. It took place on April 1, 2001 at the Reliant Astrodome in Houston, Texas. The event is the highest grossing in the company's history as well as the highest grossing professional wrestling pay-per-view. A record-breaking attendance for the Reliant Astrodome of 67,925 resulted in gross receipts of $3.5 million USD.

WrestleMania X-Seven is usually considered as the event that concluded the Attitude Era for the World Wrestling Federation and the pinnacle of the 1990s wrestling boom. The tagline for WrestleMania X-Seven was Houston... We Have A Problem. The theme song for the event was "My Way" by Limp Bizkit.

The commentators for the event were Jim Ross and Paul Heyman. The Spanish language commentators were Carlos Cabrera and Hugo Savinovich. The guest commentators for the Gimmick Battle Royal were Gene Okerlund and Bobby Heenan. Howard Finkel served as the ring announcer for the event.

Results

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An attendance record setting 67,925 fans at the Reliant Astrodome for WrestleMania X-Seven

• Sunday Night HEAT match: X-Factor (Justin Credible and X-Pac) defeated Steve Blackman and Grand Master Sexay (2:46)
  • X-Pac pinned Blackman
• Chris Jericho defeated William Regal to retain the WWF Intercontinental Championship (7:08)
  • Jericho pinned Regal following a Lionsault.
• Tazz and The APA (Bradshaw and Faarooq) defeated Right to Censor (The Goodfather, Val Venis and Bull Buchanan) (3:53)
  • Bradshaw pinned Goodfather after a Clothesline From Hell.
• Kane defeated Raven (c) and The Big Show in a Triple Threat Hardcore Match to win the WWF Hardcore Championship (9:18)
  • Kane pinned Big Show after a Leg drop off the stage.
• Eddie Guerrero defeated Test to win the WWF European Championship (8:30)
  • Guerrero pinned Test after hitting him with the title belt.
• Kurt Angle defeated Chris Benoit (14:02)
  • Angle pinned Benoit with a roll-up using Benoit's tights for leverage.
• Chyna defeated Ivory to win the WWF Women's Championship (2:39)
  • Chyna pinned Ivory after a Gorilla Press Drop.
• Shane McMahon defeated Vince McMahon (w/Mick Foley as special guest referee) in a Street Fight (14:12)
  • Shane pinned Vince after a corner-to-corner missile dropkick.

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Stone Cold winning the WWF Championship

• Edge and Christian defeated The Dudley Boyz (Bubba Ray and D-Von) (c) and The Hardy Boyz (Matt and Jeff) in a TLC match to win the WWF Tag Team Championship
  • Edge and Christian won by climbing a ladder and retrieving the belts hanging above the ring.
• The Iron Sheik won a Gimmick Battle Royal featuring: Bushwhacker Luke, Bushwhacker Butch, Duke Droese, Doink the Clown, Nikolai Volkoff, Tugboat, The Goon, Earthquake, Gobbledygooker, Hillbilly Jim, Brother Love, Michael Hayes, One Man Gang, Kamala, Jim Cornette, Repo Man, and Sgt. Slaughter. (3:05)
  • The Iron Sheik won by eliminating Hillbilly Jim last.
  • After the match Slaughter locked a Cobra clutch on The Iron Shiek.
• The Undertaker defeated Triple H (18:17)
  • Undertaker pinned Triple H after a Last Ride Powerbomb.
• Steve Austin defeated The Rock in a No Disqualification match to win the WWF Championship (28:06)
  • Austin pinned Rock after hitting him fourteen times with a steel chair.

Notes

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Austin and McMahon shake hands as an era comes to an end

• The second time that the main event featured The Rock and "Stone Cold" Steve Austin (They met each other previously at WrestleMania XV. A third match between the two would happen again at WrestleMania XIX.)
• This event holds the record for most title changes at a single WrestleMania with 5 title changes. The WWF Championship, Tag Team Championship, Women's Championship, European Championship and Hardcore Championship titles all changed hands at this event.
• Featured an appearance by Motörhead who would play Triple H's theme music as he walked down the ramp to the ring. Motörhead would appear again at WrestleMania 21 to perform Triple H's theme music yet again.
• This WrestleMania took place only about a week after the World Wrestling Federation announced the purchase of long time rival promotion WCW.
• This was the first WrestleMania whose title included a combination of a Roman numeral and a number being spelled out (rather than using purely Roman or Arabic numerals).
• This was the first WrestleMania logo to make use of the font Bodega Sans.
• Bobby "The Brain" Heenan called his first WrestleMania Match in 8 years alongside "Mean" Gene Okerlund.

References

• WrestleMania X-Seven Sets Revenue, Attendance Records

External links

• The Official Website of WrestleMania X-Seven