Every WWE Royal Rumble 'Final Four' - From Worst To Best

5. 1997 - Undertaker, Fake Diesel, Bret Hart & Steve Austin

One of these things is not like the other. One of these things just doesn't belong. How weird is it that the final four men fighting to lead the charge to the first WrestleMania of the Attitude Era included Fake Diesel? It's like the Man€™s Man Steven Regal being in the Deadly Game tournament, you know? If you squint and pretend that he's just Kane already, then it's genuinely a who€™s-who of early Attitude Era standard-bearers. This whole match was the Austin Show, with the story being that no one could stop Stone Cold€™s ascent but Bret Hart. Even that proved untrue; Hart eliminated Austin, but he just rolled back in and won the match anyway! Ain't nothing could stop that Stone Cold train.
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