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Halloween Havoc (1997)
The 1997 Halloween Havoc was the ninth annual Halloween Havoc professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by World Championship Wrestling (WCW). It took place on October 26, 1997, from the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Paradise, Nevada.
The event is notable for the Rey Mysterio Jr. vs. Eddie Guerrero title vs. mask match for the WCW Cruiserweight Championship, which is considered both one of the best matches in WCW history, and one of the best matches of the 1990s.
In 2014, all of WCW's Halloween Havoc PPVs became available on WWE's streaming service, the WWE Network. The event had a buyrate of 405,000.
Halloween Havoc was an annual professional wrestling pay-per-view event produced by World Championship Wrestling (WCW) since 1989. As the name implies, it was a Halloween-themed show held in October. The 1997 event was the ninth event in the Halloween Havoc chronology and it took place on October 26, 1997, from the MGM Grand Garden Arena in the Las Vegas suburb of Paradise, Nevada for the second consecutive year.
The event featured professional wrestling matches that involve different wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds and storylines. Professional wrestlers portray villains, heroes, or less distinguishable characters in the scripted events that build tension and culminate in a wrestling match or series of matches.
One of the major stories involved the rivalry that had developed between Larry Zbyszko and the nWo over the course of the previous several months. Earlier in the year, in one of the many instances where the nWo ran the WCW Monday Nitro broadcast crew out of their position, Eric Bischoff was on commentary mocking The Giant, who was in the ring cutting a promo. Zbyszko decided he had had enough of Bischoff's antics and returned to the desk, demanding Bischoff to leave. Bischoff responded by picking a fight with the former wrestler, which allowed Zbyszko to apply a front facelock on Bischoff and drag him to the ring for Giant to chokeslam him.
A match was signed pitting Scott Hall against Lex Luger for Halloween Havoc with Zbyszko as the special guest referee. Later, on the October 13 edition of Nitro, Hall and Syxx were defending the WCW World Tag Team Championship against the Steiner Brothers, with the team using Wölfpac Rules to allow Syxx to substitute for Kevin Nash. Zbyszko got involved after Hall pulled referee Charles Robinson out of the ring, chasing him into the ring where he counted the pin for Rick Steiner on Hall; Roddy Piper, who had recently returned to television as the onscreen WCW commissioner, upheld the decision after an nWo protest.
Piper himself, meanwhile, still had a problem with reigning WCW World Heavyweight Champion Hollywood Hogan. Since Piper made his WCW debut at the previous year's Halloween Havoc, the two wrestlers had squared off three times in pay-per-view main events. Piper won the first match, a non-title match at Starrcade in December 1996, while Hogan won the rematch to retain his title at SuperBrawl in February 1997. Piper had also been part of the three team elimination battle royal at Uncensored in March of 1997, but his team was eliminated. Had his team won, Piper would have received a third match with Hogan inside a steel cage; since he was now in power, Piper decided to make that match for Halloween Havoc. Since Hogan was slated to defend his championship against Sting at Starrcade in December of that year, the title was not on the line in this match.
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Halloween Havoc (1997)
The 1997 Halloween Havoc was the ninth annual Halloween Havoc professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by World Championship Wrestling (WCW). It took place on October 26, 1997, from the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Paradise, Nevada.
The event is notable for the Rey Mysterio Jr. vs. Eddie Guerrero title vs. mask match for the WCW Cruiserweight Championship, which is considered both one of the best matches in WCW history, and one of the best matches of the 1990s.
In 2014, all of WCW's Halloween Havoc PPVs became available on WWE's streaming service, the WWE Network. The event had a buyrate of 405,000.
Halloween Havoc was an annual professional wrestling pay-per-view event produced by World Championship Wrestling (WCW) since 1989. As the name implies, it was a Halloween-themed show held in October. The 1997 event was the ninth event in the Halloween Havoc chronology and it took place on October 26, 1997, from the MGM Grand Garden Arena in the Las Vegas suburb of Paradise, Nevada for the second consecutive year.
The event featured professional wrestling matches that involve different wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds and storylines. Professional wrestlers portray villains, heroes, or less distinguishable characters in the scripted events that build tension and culminate in a wrestling match or series of matches.
One of the major stories involved the rivalry that had developed between Larry Zbyszko and the nWo over the course of the previous several months. Earlier in the year, in one of the many instances where the nWo ran the WCW Monday Nitro broadcast crew out of their position, Eric Bischoff was on commentary mocking The Giant, who was in the ring cutting a promo. Zbyszko decided he had had enough of Bischoff's antics and returned to the desk, demanding Bischoff to leave. Bischoff responded by picking a fight with the former wrestler, which allowed Zbyszko to apply a front facelock on Bischoff and drag him to the ring for Giant to chokeslam him.
A match was signed pitting Scott Hall against Lex Luger for Halloween Havoc with Zbyszko as the special guest referee. Later, on the October 13 edition of Nitro, Hall and Syxx were defending the WCW World Tag Team Championship against the Steiner Brothers, with the team using Wölfpac Rules to allow Syxx to substitute for Kevin Nash. Zbyszko got involved after Hall pulled referee Charles Robinson out of the ring, chasing him into the ring where he counted the pin for Rick Steiner on Hall; Roddy Piper, who had recently returned to television as the onscreen WCW commissioner, upheld the decision after an nWo protest.
Piper himself, meanwhile, still had a problem with reigning WCW World Heavyweight Champion Hollywood Hogan. Since Piper made his WCW debut at the previous year's Halloween Havoc, the two wrestlers had squared off three times in pay-per-view main events. Piper won the first match, a non-title match at Starrcade in December 1996, while Hogan won the rematch to retain his title at SuperBrawl in February 1997. Piper had also been part of the three team elimination battle royal at Uncensored in March of 1997, but his team was eliminated. Had his team won, Piper would have received a third match with Hogan inside a steel cage; since he was now in power, Piper decided to make that match for Halloween Havoc. Since Hogan was slated to defend his championship against Sting at Starrcade in December of that year, the title was not on the line in this match.