Road Wild - 1997

1997

Road Wild 1997 took place on August 9, 1997 from the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in Sturgis, South Dakota.

Numbers in parentheses indicate the length of the match.

• Harlem Heat (Booker T and Stevie Ray) defeated Vicious and Delicious (Buff Bagwell and Scott Norton) (with Vincent) (10:20)
  • Booker pinned Norton after two Harlem Sidekicks.
• Konnan defeated Rey Mysterio, Jr. in a Mexican Death match (10:20)
  • Konnan forced Mysterio to submit with the Tequila Sunrise.
• Steve McMichael and Chris Benoit defeated Jeff Jarrett and Dean Malenko in an Elimination match (9:36)
  • McMichael pinned Jarrett when Jarrett pulled McMichael on top of himself (7:11)
  • McMichael pinned Malenko after a Tombstone Piledriver (9:36)
• Alex Wright defeated Chris Jericho to retain the WCW Cruiserweight Championship (13:03)
  • Wright pinned Jericho with a roll-up.
• Ric Flair defeated Syxx (11:06)
  • Flair pinned Syxx with his feet on the ropes.
• Curt Hennig defeated Diamond Dallas Page (with Kimberly Page) (9:41)
  • Hennig pinned Page with a Hennig-Plex.
• The Giant defeated Randy Savage (with Miss Elizabeth) (6:05)
  • Giant pinned Savage after a chokeslam.
• The Steiner Brothers (Rick and Scott) (with Ted DiBiase) defeated WCW World Tag Team Champions The Outsiders (Scott Hall and Kevin Nash) by disqualification (15:29)
  • The Outsiders were disqualified after Nash pulled the referee out of the ring, The Outsiders retained the titles.
• Hollywood Hogan defeated Lex Luger to win the WCW World Heavyweight Championship (16:15)
  • Hogan pinned Luger after a impostor Sting (Dennis Rodman in a Sting costume) hit Luger with a baseball bat.