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{{Infobox Wrestling episode
| name = Monday Night Raw
| image = [[File:WWF Monday Night Raw.png|200px]]
| promotion = [[WWF]]
| date = January 20, [[1997]]
| venue = Unknown Arena
| city = [[Beaumont, Texas]]
| previous = [[January 13, 1997 Monday Night RAW results|January 13, 1997]]
| next = [[January 27, 1997 Monday Night RAW results|January 27, 1997]]
}}
The '''January 20, 1997 Edition of [[RAW]]''' is a [[Professional wrestling]] television show of the [[WWF]]'s [[RAW]] brand, took place on January 20, 1997 in [[Beaumont, Texas]].

==Results==
*[[WWE Tag Team Championship|WWF Tag Team Champions]] [[Owen Hart]] & [[Davey Boy Smith]] (w/ [[Clarence Mason]]) defeated [[Doug Furnas]] & [[Phil LaFon]] in a non-title match when Smith defeated LaFon with the running powerslam after Hart hit LaFon in the face with his Slammy; during the bout, it was announced [[The Undertaker]] had been fined his entire Royal Rumble pay for chokeslamming the referee after his loss to [[Vader]] at the [[pay-per-view]]; it was also announced [[Sid|Psycho Sid]], out with a concussion, would be back in action Wednesday in Dallas.

*[[Farooq]] defeated [[Bart Gunn]]

*[[The Undertaker]] (sub. for [[Sid|Psycho Sid]], out with a concussion) defeated [[Steve Austin]] via disqualification when Vader and [[Paul Bearer]] appeared ringside, with Vader attacking Taker; prior to the bout, as [[Bret Hart]] was still ringside following his brawl with Austin moments earlier, Hart and Taker briefly fought in the aisle; [[Vince McMahon, Jr.|Vince McMahon]] returned to commentary for the match after being backstage the majority of the show; during the bout, [[Jerry Lawler]] briefly left the commentary position to tell Austin that Taker's ribs were still hurting from the Royal Rumble; moments later, backstage footage showed Bret and Vader having to be pulled apart by other wrestlers; after the match, Hart returned to the ring and joined in a brawl with Austin, Taker, and Vader, with Hart and Austin brawling in the aisle and Taker and Vader fighting in the ring as the show came to a close.


==Other Segments==
*[[Bret Hart]] interrupting the opening of the show by cutting an in-ring promo directed at [[Vince McMahon, Jr.|Vince McMahon]], going over the promises McMahon made to him since returning and the screwjobs that happened in his match with [[Sid|Psycho Sid]] at [[In Your House 12: It's Time]] and the [[Royal Rumble 1997|Royal Rumble]] the previous night; Hart said he had been screwed by [[Shawn Michaels]], [[Steve Austin]], the [[WWF]], and McMahon; moments later, he said since he wasn't going to get his WWF title shot, he quit; Hart then slammed the mic down and - despite McMahon trying to stop him - left through the crowd as the audience chanted "We Want Bret;" Austin then appeared in the ring and attempted to cut a promo on a bad mic until he was given one that works; Austin then claimed Bret was a whiner and told him to go back to Canada because the only person he could beat was his own father; he then said he was supposed to wrestle [[Sid]] later in the show but WWF President [[Gorilla Monsoon]] said Sid was at home with a concussion and he would be facing [[The Undertaker]] instead; Austin then challenged Taker to an immediate fight, during which McMahon left the broadcast table and went backstage for an unknown reason; included McMahon conducting an in-ring interview with Monsoon in which Monsoon announced that while Austin did win the Royal Rumble, he would not earn a [[WWE Championship|WWF World Title]] shot at WrestleMania due to the controversial nature of the finish; he then said a four-man No DQ bout would be held at the next pay-per-view involving Taker, Austin, [[Vader]], and Hart - if Hart chose to accept the invitation - and the winner of that bout would face the WWF World Champion at [[WrestleMania 13]]; moments later, Austin appeared, reminded Monsoon that Hart was gone, and called him a jackass; Austin then said when he was done with Hart, Taker, and Vader, he would finish Monsoon; Austin then confronted Monsoon and McMahon on the floor until Hart came back out from the crowd, got in the ring, and accepted the invite; Hart and Austin then began brawling in the aisle until referees, [[Gerald Brisco]], [[Tony Garea]], and [[Rene Goulet]] spent several minutes trying to break it up, leading into the main event.

===Commentators===
*[[Vince McMahon, Jr.|Vince McMahon]]
*[[Jim Ross]]
*[[Jerry Lawler]]

===Ring Announcer===
*[[Tony Chimel]]

==Image Gallery==
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==External links==
*[[File:Cm logo.jpg|50px]] [http://cagematch.net/?id=1&nr=3436 Raw #194]
*[[File:WWE Network New Logo.jpg|50px]] [https://watch.wwe.com/episode/Raw-6317 Raw #194 on WWE Network]

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