Summerslam - Continental Airlines Arena, East Rutherford New Jersey, August 3rd 1997

I say it all the time but WOW, this opening video package. I had goosebumps folks; LOVE this one, please check it out if you’ve never bothered clicking on these videos before

The PPV itself kicked off with an instrumental version of the US National Anthem and the fans (and commentary team) standing with their hands on their hearts. Americans are so silly about this stuff aren’t they?

Steel Cage match

Mankind vs. Hunter Hearst Helmsley (w/Chyna)

This one hasn’t had much build on TV since the previous PPV but it was certainly heated last month at In Your House. I did love Mankind dressing up as a camera man complete with WWF boiler suit to attack Helmsley on Raw. 

Mankind has become beloved; there’s no other way to say it. He gets a huge pop from the fans here tonight as he’s been getting on TV for a couple of months now. A weirdo who just wants to be loved. Why have I not listed him as one half of the WWF Tag Team Champions tonight? Well because Mankind isn’t a champion, Dude Love is! The commentary team make zero mention of Mick Foley’s other character so he’s working full time as two people at once; I wonder if he got two pay cheques? 

These two had an awesome match at King of the Ring and an even better one last month at Canadian Stampede so you’ll forgive me for just sitting back and watching this one! HHH dives for the door as soon as the bell rings but Mankind cuts him off and brings him back in the hard way, bouncing him around the ring with forearms and punches. Helmsley tries to climb right away too; is he smart and trying to win, or is he scared of being in a cage with Mankind?

He hammers on Hunter with a running knee in the corner and a gorgeous piledriver before locking in the Mandible Claw. Chyna makes a difference from the outside, climbing the wall and wrapping her belt around Mankind’s neck and choking him against the cage wall! Mankind shrugs it off and throws Helmsley into the cage before trying to climb out but Chyna is there with a low blow to stop his progress and, with Mankind stuck on the top of the cage, HHH brings him down the hard way with an awesome suplex from the top of the cage! He has the match won, thanks to Chyna, and is about to step out of the door but decides he’s not done yet - Helmsley shows off his mean streak by getting back into the cage to continue hammering on Mick, slamming his head over and over into the cage wall. The fans are really into this and rally behind Mankind, cheering and clapping and getting loud with boos when Triple H tries to climb out and it wakes up Mankind who stops him from escaping and brings him back into the cage by a handful of hair. It’s an awesome sight with both men fighting on top of the cage wall and Helmsley almost escapes. Credit to the camera work here as they get right underneath both men; it made my knees wobble seeing them fight precariously balanced 10 - 15 feet above the arena floor! Mankind gets him back into the ring and its his turn to bounce his opponent off the cage walls. Chyna interferes again, climbing up to grab Mick’s hair and throw forearms at the top of his head.

They keep fighting back and forth and there’s an awesome spot I don’t think I can do justice; Mankind suplexes Triple H up so that his feet go over the cage wall and he finds himself hanging upside down. He drops a big elbow across Hunter’s face and he bounces around on the top rope before falling into the ring. Helmsley gets a lot of the credit for how good all of that looked. He backdrops Mankind as he hits the ropes and it's his turn to crash upside down into the cage wall. 

They fight it out while standing on the top rope and it’s Hunter who falls worst, crotch first onto the top rope. That gives Mankind the chance to escape out the door but Chyna slams the cage door on his head! Mick Foley talked about that spot in his book and said its one of the most painful things he’s ever endured in his career; the metal bars CRACKED him in the top of the head. Ouch. 

Chyna knocks down the referee and throws a steel chair into the ring which Hunter tries to use for a Pedigree but it’s countered into a slingshot, sending HHH crashing into Chyna and she falls against the security wall. 

Mankind hits a DDT onto the chair and climbs out of the cage; he makes it all the way out to the floor and has the match won but instead he stops himself and, after removing his mask, climbs back up the cage so that he can drop a big elbow off the top of the cage! He crushes Triple H which gets a huge pop and, with him now down and out he climbs to escape. Chyna gets into the ring to try and drag HHH to the door - a spot she did moments ago but had to be told to get out of the cage because she was too early - but Mankind wins the race and the match! Mankind wins an awesome steel cage match which I absolutely loved.

Mankind’s victory music plays but then stops and, with him laying at ringside he starts to tap his foot. Dude Love’s theme music starts to play and Mankind dances his way to his feet, turning into Dude Love right before our eyes! This was SO well done, with the crowd cheering really loudly as the camera focused in on his tapping foot. God, I love Mick Foley and I loved this match. Jim Ross really hammers home the dive off the top of the cage being a tribute or reference to Mick Foley’s story about watching Jimmy Snuka do the same thing at Madison Square Garden in his youth. 

Todd Pettengill introduces, alongside WWF President Gorilla Monsoon and The Headbangers (who were from New Jersey) the governor of New Jersey who removed some taxes and is given personal credit for bringing the WWF back to New Jersey. This is obviously politically motivated by Vince, but was needed so that they could disassemble the steel cage (which you can hear them doing in the background). More importantly, this event sadly marks the final on screen appearance of Todd Pettengill! I loved Todd and he’ll be a big miss. He’d been on TV less and less over the previous two years as he also hosted his own radio show and was finally forced to commit to one or the other full time. Hilariously, the crowd in New Jersey pretty loudly booed Whitman; she was a Republican (obviously or Vince wouldn’t have been nice to her) and remained Governor until 2001. None of you care about this, but I know I certainly don’t so let's move on. 

Brian Pillman vs. Goldust (w/Marlena)

If Brian Pillman loses, he must wear a dress

The first Hart Foundation match tonight and the first goofy stipulation. Pillman made a lot of homophobic and transphobic jokes about Goldust in the run up to this match hence the dress stipulation but, most of that took place on the weekend shows rather than on Raw is War. Shotgun Saturday Night in its early days was promoted as the WWF’s Late Night show where people could do and say “anything” so Pillman was very much the star of that so that he could live up to his reputation as a mad man who likely needed serious psychological assistance. I’m sure he was a lovely bloke in real life, but he’s a maniac heel here and jumps Goldust as soon as they’re both in the ring to kick things off.

Pillman costs himself, giving up advantage to chase Marlena around the ring which he pays for when Goldust cuts him off with a big clothesline. He shakes it off and regains control in the ring; despite having signed with the WWF almost a full year ago this is only Pillman’s second PPV match and his first singles match. He was injured for a long time but they kept him on TV the whole time because his allure was always his promos and character work anyway.

Goldust catches Pillman on the top rope and knocks him to the outside so Marlena throws gold dust in his face but he uses Goldust’s wife as a human shield and catches him with a DDT on the floor. Pillman is confidently in control of this match with Goldust unable to get much offence in at all, grinding Goldust down with a sleeper hold in the middle of the ring. 

The finish of this is botched but the two of them do the best they can; Goldust tries a sunset flip up and over the top rope but lands on his face. Pillman has to wrestle and struggle to get to the ropes and into positon so that Marlena can hit him in the face with her purse! That allows Goldust to complete the roll up and win the match. Too short to be good but it wasn’t “bad” either. 

Marlena throws the mannequin wearing the dress which now, per the stipulation, Brian Pillman will be forced to wear tomorrow night on Raw. The Loose Canon beats up the mannequin and leaves but I assume his anger was really directed at the botched finish.

The Legion of Doom (Hawk and Animal) vs. The Godwins (w/Phineas I and Henry O Godwin)

This has a solid bit of build as back in April, a botched Doomsday Device resulted in Henry Godwin “breaking his neck”. Given that he was only gone a couple of months, the break doesn’t appear to have been hugely serious however it was a very different time in sports medicine so I think it's probably an injury that he’d have missed a LOT more time for if it happened in 2026. The Godwins turned heel and have been attacking Hawk and Animal with their steel buckets time and time again ever since including busting the back of Hawk’s head open with a Slop Drop on the metal ramp. 

This is a big power match and the crowd are into it; the LOD was very popular. Henry and Phineas try to isolate Animal but he backflips out of a double suplex attempt and lands on his feet to put them down with a double clothesline. Hawk tags in and the Godwins do finally manage to build some momentum, cutting him off and trying to focus their attack on his neck. He fights out and tags in Animal. This started hot mostly thanks to the fans being really into the LOD but it's quite slow and disjointed with each man hitting a move, then tagging out. It’s not botched but it's not smooth either basically. Animal gets clotheslined up and over the top rope and then knocked off the apron sends him crashing into the security railing. 

The Godwins work over Animal and focus on his lower back. He guts it out and reverses a suplex into a DDT to tag out to Hawk who runs through both Godwins. He hits Henry with a neckbreaker and then flatten him with a spike piledriver to win the match and, apparently, rebreak his neck? 

This wasn’t a great match but the crowd were red hot for it, really behind Hawk and Animal. 

In the months leading up to this event there’s been a big competition to give away $1 million dollars. Two guys won tickets to Summerslam on Raw in the lead in to the event and they’re both here getting to stand with the gorgeous Sunny and Sable (which is the real prize) and then Todd Pettengill calls a couple more potential winners; the first number doesn’t get answered and the second goes straight to an answering machine. Vince laughs through all of this but I’m sure was mortified by how messy all of this was. The third guy is called and immediately says he’s not watching Summerslam; his cable company doesn’t carry it! He picks key number 33 which Sunny tries but it doesn’t work. The guy did win $5k just for answering at least! The fourth and final call is successful; she thankfully IS watching Summerslam and sounds actually excited. Her key isn’t lucky either, nor is the two lads who won the Summerslam tickets. Just to prove that this wasn’t a scam, one of the officials comes out to prove that key number 3 would have unlocked the money. This was fun but awkward. 

WWF European Championship

The British Bulldog © vs. Ken Shamrock

If Bulldog loses, he must eat a can of dog food

On Raw last week, Bulldog cheated in an arm wrestling contest with a headbutt and then hammered Shamrock with a steel chair over and over before dumping a can of dog food in his face. If you think that means Shamrock should DEFINITELY win this match to redeem himself you’re not alone; I mentioned it in the preview but he was a legit celebrity in 1997 and the World’s Most Dangerous Man so I fail to see why the WWF wouldn’t strap a rocket to him. He was a terrible promo but that just made him seem more “real”? I dunno, maybe I’m being overly critical.

This is the first ever PPV defense of the European Championship which was originally intended to only be defended in Europe but the WWF didn’t have the patience for those things at the height of the Monday Night War and just needed more stuff to promote on TV to draw in fans. They’re already plugging that Bulldog will defend the title against Shawn Michaels on September 20th on the UK PPV One Night Only, so does that give away the finish of this match? Probably.

Shamrock marches to the ring at high speed and hammers Bulldog with punches and kicks. He throws him out of the ring, into the ringsteps and punts him in the chest for a near fall. JR says that Shamrock has barely slept since Monday because he’s so angry about what Bulldog did, he’s obsessed with making him pay for it. Bulldog finally recovers with a bit clothesline and a delayed vertical suplex for the first near fall of his own. 

Bulldog controls the match with a long sleeper and on the outside, throws him into the security wall, the ring steps and slams him on the floor. Somewhere in here, Shamrock got a bloody mouth. Bulldog makes the mistake of picking up the can of dog food from the announce table and slaps Shamrock in the face with it and that makes Ken snap; he loses his shit! He beats Bulldog up and hits him acorss the back of the head with the can which is enough for the referee to disqualify him! Shamrock doesn’t care and is so intense he just wants to hurt Bulldog. He shoves the referee down for trying to stop him and locks in a chokehold on Bulldog, taking him down in the middle of the ring. He refuses to break the hold as the ring fills with referees to try and break the hold. Bulldog has passed out but Shamrock refuses to break the hold; he wants to hurt Bulldog and hurt him badly for what he’s done! 

The commentators adopt a somber and worried tone as Bulldog’s well being becomes a concern. Shamrock finally breaks the hold but he is GONE and hits belly to belly suplexes on Pat Patterson, Gerald Briscoe and a couple of referees! He screams “Get out of my way!” and the fans go ballistic, chanting his name and cheering for the World’s Most Dangerous Man! The commentators go quiet and let the fan reaction overwhelm; they must have felt like they had a new mega star on their hands here. Shamrock screams and roars before leaving with this short temper and uncontrollable intensity being his gimmick. It’s a perfect one for him.

Backstage, Todd Pettengill interviews Shawn Michaels about his role as referee. Will he throw away his career just to screw over Bret Hart? HBK says that he has no issue with Bret and that he will call this match right down the middle. Vince McMahon doesn’t believe him; Shawn Michaels is a very emotional person and thinks he’ll do something silly in tonight’s main event and probably end up paying for it. The commentators take the chance to talk about Shamrock’s actions and how people need to learn to control themselves with a new Commissioner being named tomorrow night on Raw to try and keep law and order.

Los Boricuas (Savio Vega, Jesus Castillo, Miguel Perez Jr and Jose Estrada Jr) vs. The Disciples of Apocalypse (Crush, Chainz, 8-Ball and Skull)

This match gets a video package documenting the WWF’s faction warfare which was basiclly started by Faarooq and The Nation of Domination despite them not being in this match. This video package is useful for giving a proper introduction to the two stables that are in this match even if they still haven’t directly told us most of their names. “Faction warfare” continues all over the WWF with The Nation, The Hart Foundation and the newly debuted Truth Commission on the roster too.

Los Boricuas have had different theme music every single time we’d seen them so far. I haven’t mentioned it because I don’t recognise or know how to describe any of these songs. Savio is carrying a baseball bat and makes a point of shaking hands with the Spanish announce team. Latinos tonight, I guess. WWF creative in 1997 assumed that American audiences would cheer for the white biker gang over the Puerto Ricans or Black Militants and it's kind of sad to find out that they were right. Maybe it’s not a race thing and they just thought the motorbikes were cool?

The DOA do a lap of the ring on their bikes, park up at the top of the ramp and then rush the ring. It’s a brawl which the DOA come out on top of and clear the four Boricuas out of the ring. It settles down with Skull and Jose Estrada Jr as the two legal men. I’ve commented before on my thoughts on the Harris twins as human beings (garbage and confirmed white supremacists) which sadly means I’m forced to paint Crush and Chainz with the same brush.

The big men isolate Estrada but a well timed spinning heel kick from Savio gets his team back into things and they isolate and work over Skull. The focus is fulled form this match as The Nation of Domination make their way down to the ring through the crowd. Faarooq, Kama, D’Lo Brown and Ahmed Johnson get all the way down to ringside and position themselves as close as possible to watch this match and provoke both teams. 

JR goes into analogy overdrive in this match comparing it multiple times to a bar fight, a prison riot, a gang attack, a mugging and other violent encounters. The match breaks down and when Crush is clotheslined out of the ring he punches Ahmed Johnson in the face. Ahmed hits the DOA leader with the Pearl River Plunge on what was supposed to be the exposed concrete floor but thanks to the camera angle and some dodgy feet placement its pretty clear it was incredibly weak. Regardless, he rolls him back into the ring and Savio Vega pins him to win the match for Los Boricuas. I didn’t really enjoy this but then I don’t really care about two of these three teams truth be told. 

The match breaks down into a wild twelve man brawl all around the ring and we just move on to the video package for the next match.

WWF Intercontinental Championship

Owen Hart © vs. WWF Tag Team Champion Stone Cold Steve Austin

If Stone Cold loses he must kiss Owen Hart’s ass

The video package for this match doesn’t focus too much on their specific feud because, in all honesty, there wasn’t one. Stone Cold is feuding with the Harts in general so Owen carries the weight of this feud by reminding us over and over again that he pinned the Rattlesnake to win last month’s 10 man tag main event.

This match is infamous for the wrong reasons but I’ll get to that at the conclusion. Owen has adopted a bit more of a serious edge since reforming the Hart Foundation and has been on a tear with his Intercontinental title, reign as Tag Champions and his two Slammy awards. Owen is pretty awesome and he exposes one of the turnbuckles as soon as he gets to the ring. Michael Cole tries to speak to Stone Cold as he makes his way to the ring but is continually shoved away and told that he’s going to get his ass kicked if he doesn’t back off.

The glass shatters and the crowd goes nuts for the WWF’s surefire main eventer in waiting. There was no doubt that this guy would be WWF Champion very soon and he even gets a big pop for stopping to shove his middle fingers right in Owen’s face. He pays for that and the Black Hart chop blocks him and goes right after the challenger’s leg to start this match. I’ve been calling Steve the Rattlesnake for a few shows now because Jim Ross has made the comparison a few times but this match is the first time I recall the commentators openly calling him it too. Stone Cold avoids Owen’s corner charge and gets back into the match, working on the champion’s wrist and shoulder as the fans chant “USA” at Owen. Focusing on the arm is smart as a weak arm will stop him from being able to lock in the Sharpshooter. It’s nice seeing Stone Cold actually wrestle and show off his technical skill but he isn’t afraid to play dirty and uses a thumb in the eye to stop Owen’s escape and goes back to the arm.

There’s no mention of the fact that Stone Cold is one half of the Tag Team Champions here and he didn’t bring his belt to the ring; I guess tonight isn’t about the Tag Team titles so I can forgive that. Owen wrestles out of the hold and then turns his attention to Austin’s hand, bending and twisting his fingers like he’s trying to break his fingers and hand. JR and Vince do a good join of pointing out that Owen would be happy to get disqualified and keep his title and Stone Cold has to actually win the belt to avoid kissing Hart’s ass. Austin reverses Owen into a stun gun, dropping him across the top rope and then drills him with a powerbomb. Owen bails out of the ring and tries to leave - a spot fans had seen hundreds of times in WWF history - but this is a new era and Austin chases him, mows him down and brings him back to the ring which got a big pop. 

In the ring, Owen slows things back down and starts to work on Austin’s neck with a chinlock. JR tells us that Stone Cold has a history of neck problems which is spookily prophetic. They go back and forth trading big clotheslines - this is a good match but I’m distracted from enjoying it because I know what’s coming. 

They pick up the pace and Owen counters a slam into a German suplex before locking in a camel clutch. Stone Cold fights up and out of that but is put back down with a DDT and another deep sleeper hold. 

After trading more sleeper holds back and forth, as they go off the ropes Owen flips Austin upside down into a Tombstone position. He doesn’t drop to his knees and instead sits straight down to complete the piledriver.

Austin’s head was sitting very low and was driven HARD into the mat. He immediately stopped moving and, in a scary moment, had to communicate to both Owen and the referee that he couldn’t feel his legs. Owen taunted the crowd and kept his distance, trying to give Steve a chance to recover as the commentators went quiet. Stone Cold’s neck was badly, badly injured here and spent several seconds being unable to move. Owen delays until Austin can perform a very weak schoolboy roll up. That gets the three count and Stone Cold Steve Austin wins the Intercontinental Championship as planned. That is very much not the story here.

Austin has to be helped to his feet by three referees and does his best to celebrate. In a shocker they showed multiple replays of the piledriver and Jerry Lawler snapped into heel commentator mode, delighting in Stone Cold having apparently broken his neck. This injury was the beginning of the end for Stone Cold - a wild thing to say before he’d even won his first WWF title. He struggled with neck problems for the rest of his career, missing most of the year 2000 after having surgery on it. He retired in 2003 because of nagging neck problems but, in the years since, has said his neck is perfectly healthy today. The early retirement almost certainly did him a favour. Sadly, he and Owen Hart’s relationship was also never the same; Austin blamed Owen for the injury calling that version of the piledriver wildly unsafe (which it was, I’ve never seen that version before or since) and angry that Owen didn’t offer enough remorse or an apology afterwards. I’m not sure if that’s true but either way, Steve wasn’t impressed by Owen’s attitude. 

WWF Championship

The Undertaker © vs. Bret Hart

Special Guest Referee: Shawn Michaels

If Bret Hart fails to win the WWF Championship he will never be allowed to wrestle in the United States again. 

If Shawn Michaels shows any bias as referee, he will never be allowed to wrestle in the United States again.

Watching the video for this match you might be confused as to why the build centred more on Bret Hart and Shawn Michaels than on The Undertaker. That’s because the Deadman was all tied up in his storyline with Paul Bearer, which isn’t mentioned here.

After Bret enters he demands the Canadian national anthem be played for him and stands in reverent silence as the fans boo him and his country. It's only a wrestling storyline but I’m sure the Americans turning on his home country so aggressively did bother him. In 2025, WWE played the US national anthem at a show in Canada and the fans loudly booed the United States. Commentator Pat Macafee lost his temper and threw multiple tantrums during the live broadcast over it which did nothing but earn him a lot of mocking and criticism online from all the fans not located in America. I’m sure when Canada boos the US anthem, the Americans won’t find it nearly as amusing. 

Shawn Michaels enters second to provide a buffer between Bret and Undertaker. Or they didn’t want Shawn to have to stand around at ringside while the Canadian anthem played. Bret and Shawn ignore each other once they’re both in the ring; their real life animosity was significantly worse than their on screen animosity and I’m confident neither man wanted to even look at the other until they were forced to. Even back then, The Undertaker was the most respected man in the locker room so I’m sure him being in this match and there to keep these two on their best behaviour helped. Shawn takes delight in performing the traditional referee pre-match checks on both men to get in their heads and then shows off the WWF title belt. Bret grabs the title belt and hits Undertaker with it! A dirty trick and Shawn is forced to ring the bell and start the match officially with Bret in control. 

Undertaker fights back and the match spills to the outside so that we can get a look at Shawn Michaels as referee; he’s clearly willing to get the rules bend a little here as they run each other into the ring post and ring steps with little admonishment. 

In the ring, Undertaker works on Bret’s lower back, bending him across his knee and hammering on it with elbows but after he misses a big elbow drop on the mat, Bret goes to exactly the strategy you’d expect and starts working over Undertaker’s leg, picking apart his knee and working towards the Sharpshooter. Shawn keeps his distance and calls this match right down the middle, getting right in Undertaker’s face when Bret locks in the figure four to see if the champion submits. It’s at that point that Paul Bearer waddles to the ring. JR gets all over him calling him a hideous human being. Bearer is telling anyone who’ll listen that Undertaker murdered his parents and that his little brother Kane survived the fire and is horrifically disfigured. Vince speculates that perhaps we’ll see Kane tonight as Paul Bearer keeps promising that he’s coming to confront the Deadman soon. There’s a lot of different story threads going on here isn’t there?

Undertaker reverses the figure four to break it and gets out of the hold but can’t resist going to ringside and throwing some punches at Paul Bearer! Bret Hart smartly goes right after Undertaker’s leg again and, after Bearer is removed from ringside, locks the figure four in around the ringpost. Shawn threatens to disqualify Bret and we get our first real drama between them as he contests that decision. Bret calms down and returns to working over the leg in the ring as Hart Foundation members Brian Pillman and Owen Hart come down for a closer look. 

Undertaker’s leg is worked on some more and, just like before, when he manages to fight out of it he gets out of the ring and throws punches at Pillman and Owen! It doesn’t backfire this time and he returns to the ring and spikes Bret Hart with a massive chokeslam but when he goes for the cover, Shawn is distracted ejecting Owen and Brian from ringside. Undertaker is pissed as he clearly had the three count and he physically drags Shawn into the ring. Undertaker is a man possessed, dropping Bret with a big boot as Shawn tells him to calm down and focus on his opponent. Bret runs Undertaker’s lower back into the ring apron as Shawn begs them to get back in the ring and keep things fair and square.

Bret continues to slowly pick apart The Undertaker, stopping to throw middle fingers at the American fans and at Vince McMahon while the Deadman just keeps kicking out and sitting up to stay in the match.

The two trade big moves back and forth - a chokeslam from the ring apron back into the ring, Bret blocks the old school walk along the ropes and brings Undertaker down with an awesome looking superplex and then locks in the Sharpshooter. Undertaker does what no one has ever done before and kicks out of it, breaking the hold! Bret is relentless and tries to lock the Sharpshooter in around the ring post but as Undertaker kicks out of that, Bret falls onto Shawn Michaels. With HBK down, Bret cracks Undertaker in the head with a wicked chair shot but, by the time Shawn recovers, Undertaker kicks out! 

Shawn spots the chair and starts to argue with Bret about whether he used it so Bret barks “fuck you!” and spits in Shawn’s face! That’s too much for Michaels to bare and he swings the chair for Bret’s head. The Hitman ducks and he cracks Undertaker with it instead! The Deadman is down and Bret gets the cover. Shawn has no choice but to count and its an awesome visual as he counts the three while making eye contact with Bret. Bret Hart is now a five time WWF Champion! 

The Undertaker leaves immediately and takes off after Shawn Michaels, I’m sure with lots of questions of his own for the referee. I loved the finish, I thought it was so well done! The PPV ends with Bulldog, Pillman and Owen coming to the ring and celebrating with Bret, draped in the Canadian flag to boos and jeers. 

I thought this was an awesome PPV - the opening steel cage match was fantastic and I really enjoyed the main event. Owen vs. Austin was a good match too even with the sad ending and nothing on the show was long enough to be considered bad by any stretch of the imagination. Two big thumbs up for Summerslam 1997!