Fall Brawl - 1997

1997

Fall Brawl 1997

Promotional poster featuring The Giant and Scott Hall
Information
Promotion World Championship Wrestling
Date September 14, 1997
Attendance 11,939
Venue Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum
City Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Pay-per-view chronology
Road Wild 1997 Fall Brawl 1997 Halloween Havoc 1997

Fall Brawl 1997: War Games took place on September 14, 1997 from the Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

Numbers in parentheses indicate the length of the match.

  • Eddy Guerrero defeated Chris Jericho to win the WCW Cruiserweight Championship (17:19)
    • Guerrero pinned Jericho after a Frog Splash.
  • The Steiner Brothers (Rick and Scott) (with Ted DiBiase) defeated Harlem Heat (Booker T and Stevie Ray) (11:44)
    • Rick pinned Booker after a German Suplex/Lariat combination.
  • Alex Wright defeated Último Dragón to retain the WCW World Television Championship (18:43)
    • Wright pinned Dragon with a German Suplex.
  • Jeff Jarrett (with Debra) defeated Dean Malenko (14:53)
    • Jarrett forced Malenko to submit with the Figure-Four Leglock.
  • Wrath and Mortis (with James Vandenberg) defeated The Faces of Fear (Meng and The Barbarian) (12:22)
    • Wrath pinned Meng after a Death Penalty.
  • The Giant defeated Scott Norton (5:27)
    • Giant pinned Norton after a chokeslam.
  • Lex Luger and Diamond Dallas Page defeated Scott Hall and Randy Savage (with Miss Elizabeth) in a No Disqualification match (10:19)
    • Luger pinned Hall with a roll-up.
  • The nWo (Buff Bagwell, Kevin Nash, Syxx and Konnan) defeated The Four Horsemen (Chris Benoit, Steve McMichael, Ric Flair and Curt Hennig) in a WarGames match (19:37)
    • Team nWo won the match after Hennig turned on the Horsemen.
    • McMichael surrendered for the Horsemen in order to get the nWo to stop attacking Flair, after which Hennig slammed Flair's head in between the cage door and the cage structure.


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