The Wrestling Yearbook 1997

The Wrestling Yearbook is the sport’s foremost book of record, faithfully chronicling decades of tradition and evolution.

The 350-page 1997 edition is the third in our retro series of yearbooks, in which we go back and document a classic year in wrestling history in painstaking detail. Our goal is to ensure that the rich history of our great sport does not become lost to time, and lives on eternally via the written word.

The 1997 edition is crammed with facts, figures, records and statistics. Included within:

• From the Montreal Screwjob to Shawn Michaels losing his smile, we cover the biggest news stories of the year
• Complete television results from WWF, WCW, ECW, and USWA.
• 1997 supercard reviews
• Comprehensive television ratings
• Title histories for all major active promotions of the era
• Over 150 in-depth wrestler bios, featuring career records, title histories, statistics and detailed 1997 match records
• Match listings and dates for every WWF VHS release up to and including 1997
• Tournament records
• At-a-glace five-star match guides from Dave Meltzer, Scott Keith and The Wrestling Yearbook
• Comprehensive listings of newsletter and magazine award winners, and magazine ranking list history.
• Our legendary Historical Shows section, featuring results from thousands of worldwide cards from the 1900s through to 1997, ratings for hundreds of major cards, and tens of thousands of matches reviewed.
• Extensive In Memoriam section tracking the wrestlers no longer with us from the 1800s through to 1997, with detailed obituaries for those who passed in 1997.