The Big Five Project returns to cover another huge transitional event on the Road to the Attitude Era. King of the Ring ’97 might not have delivered an iconic catch phrase, like the event a year earlier. But it still packed quite the punch as Hunter Hearst Helmsley would finally capture the crown a year later than originally planned. Along the way, we saw the birth of one of the best rivalries in WWE history as HHH and Mankind would square off in the KOTR Final in the first salvo of a legendary series of battles between the two. Also on this card, we saw Undertaker defend his WWF Championship against Faarooq, Bret “Hitman” Hart issuing an open challenge for The Canadian Stampede, and an excellent match between “Stone Cold” Steve Austin and Shawn Michaels. While it is not their most famous match ever, the meeting of the tag team champions at King of the Ring ’97 showed the kind of match we might have gotten at WrestleMania XIV, had Shawn not been a broken man by then. It is another step on the road to the Attitude Era, and we have all the details for you here on the Big Five Project, so tune in!
