Would you consider 1997 to be the absolute hottest wrestling year of the 1990's?

it was but i think you are overrating the wwf that year as that was wcw's year. That was NWO v Sting through and through. Only good thing for WWF that year was mainly Austin v Bret. But i guuess you can definetly say that the seeds were starting for wwf to rise while the crap taht hogan did at starrcade not putting sting over clean was the start of the wcw down turn.