Tournament Brackets
The tournament was held between May 12 and June 8, 1997. The tournament brackets were:
| Quarterfinals (TV) | Semifinals (PPV) | Final (PPV) | |||||||||||
| Ahmed Johnson | DQ | ||||||||||||
| Hunter Hearst Helmsley | 3:25 | ||||||||||||
| Ahmed Johnson | Pin | ||||||||||||
| Hunter Hearst Helmsley | 7:42 | ||||||||||||
| Hunter Hearst Helmsley1 | Pin | ||||||||||||
| Crush | 18:56 | ||||||||||||
| Hunter Hearst Helmsley | Pin | ||||||||||||
| Mankind | 19:28 | ||||||||||||
| Goldust | Pin | ||||||||||||
| Jerry Lawler | 11:55 | ||||||||||||
| Jerry Lawler | Sub | ||||||||||||
| Mankind | 10:24 | ||||||||||||
| Mankind | Pin | ||||||||||||
| Savio Vega | 14:35 | ||||||||||||
1. ^ Helmsley was allowed another spot in the tournament because he was not properly instructed prior to his match with Ahmed Johnson the previous week that he could be eliminated via disqualification and thus threatened the WWF with legal action; Vader was originally in this spot but sustained a broken nose after his No Holds Barred match with Ken Shamrock at In Your House: A Cold Day in Hell on May 11. This gave Helmsley the opportunity to fill in the vacant space and face Crush. Vader fought Ahmed on the May 26 episode of Raw for his spot, but lost.
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