What was the best 'Survivor' rules match at Survivor Series?

[thegreatanurag900]

survivor series has been there for a long time.For me the best match tag match was smackdown vs raw in 2005.Because the hype was too much.Nobody was caring who was heel and who was face,people were just cheering their favourite show.I was personally cheering smackdown.And after the match when when undertaker returned and chockslamed superstars of smackdown,it was just awesome.

 

[saywhat]

I liked the Main Event of Survivor Series 88. The Mega Powers (Hogan,Savage,Koko B Ware, Hillbilly Jim, and Hercules) Vs Twin Towers (Akeem,Big Boss Man, Red Rooster, Million Dollar Man and Haku). We knew who would win but I enjoyed how they did it.

 

[The Brain]

My favorite was the opening match from 1991. It was Roddy Piper, Bret Hart, Virgil, and The British Bulldog vs. Ric Flair, The Mountie, Ted Dibiase, and The Warlord. That's some pretty strong talent in there and they all matched up well together. There was a lot of action and great wrestling in this match. It went a long time and there was never a dull moment. Some of those tag elimination matches went too long or moved too slowly. Not this one. If you haven't seen it I suggest you check it out.

 

[Post]

I liked Survivor Series 1989, The Hulkamaniacs (Hogan, Ax, Smash Jake Roberts) vs The Million Dollar team (ted DiBiase, Warlord, Barbarian, Zeus)

This probably wasn't the best match ever, but I was really into the Demolition vs Powers of Pain feud. I know Zeus was a joke, but I was 9 years old and they really hype it up.

 

[lamo78]

My favorite match from Survivor Series was the main event from the first one. It was the first time since WM3 that Hogan and Andre were in the same ring together. Even though the outcome was tainted, it was still awesome with the hype and buildup. It was also the first time I saw matches of that type before.

 

[jmyers19]

I agree with the Smackdown vs. Raw Survivor Series Match-Up. I was actually loving it even more considering the amount of hype it had, stemming for months over who was better. The two tag matches from SS 2004 I liked as well. Also the Raw 5 on 5 Team Bischoff vs. Team Austin was a great one as well, the build-up was great since you had Austin and Bischoff, Co-GMs who didn't like each other etc, and they both put their positions on the line. Team Lesnar vs. Team Angle was a nice opener for the PPV as well. Team DX vs. Team Rated-RKO was essentially a squash and only good for a few laughs thrown in but wouldn't consider it a great.

 

[SexandWrestling]

I was always a fan of the huge Survivor Series tag team elimination matches from both the original one in 1987 and the one the following year in 1988. I believe there were ten tag teams combined and really having the tag team focused on was an awesome thing! Imagine having ten REAL tag teams in the same match that aren't just singles wrestlers thrown together that aren't getting pushed at the moment. It was a tag team wrestling fan's dream.

 

[Miko]

Either Team Angle vs Team Lesnar or Team Austin vs Team Bischoff from the same PPV, despite the fact that one of them had Hardcore Holly in them. They were some of the last Survivor matches that I can remember that had a legitimate reason for the people involved to team up.

Runner up would be the WWE vs the Alliance, the storyline wasnt that great, but the Survivor Series match itself was really good I thought.

 

[London_RKO]

My fave ever Survivor Series event was the 1990 one and loved the Warriors. At the time the Ultimate Warrior, Texas Tornado and LOD were the most over stars in their fields and made an awesome team.

 

[FunKay the Inevitable]

Personally my favourite has always been:

Great PPV. All 5 matches were Survivor Series Matches, and they were all entertaining. The main event iteslf is great, if only for seeing Heenan getting his comeuppance after The Warrior Gorilla Pressed him.

 

[JoeyDice420]

Defiently Would Be Between the Survivor Series 2001 Match,and the Survivor Series 93 i believe,the one that was suppose 2 have The Harts Vs. Jerry lawler and the Knights. Every one knows it was suppose 2 be Lawler,but because of some Legal actions taken againts lawler,he was replaced with HBK at the last second.Was still a good match tho,and Survivor series 2001 was a great match IMO,the angle was decent but the match was better

 

[harrythem]

From an in ring stand-point I'd have to pick the all tag-team match from the 1988 Series as, for me, that was my hook on tag team wrestling and still love it to this day.
As a pure fan it has to be the 1990 where the winners went on to team and you had Hogan Warrior and Chico Santana against 6 or 7 dudes, was so f'n awesome as a little kid!!

 

[natlee75]

Admittedly, most of the talent, if you could even call them that, involved in the match were jokes. The match is only one of my favorite Survivor Series elimination style matches because of:

a) The debut of The Undertaker,
b) The inclusion of two of my favorite wrestlers of all time - Bret Hart and Ted DiBiase,
and
c) The effort and real drama for Bret, who IIRC had just lost his nephew to I believe leukemia that morning.

Also, seeing Bret mouth the F bomb after being pinned by DiBiase to end the match was kinda cool for a little kid.

The bad things about the match:

a) As I mentioned earlier, most of the involved wrestlers - Polka Dot Rhodes, Rhythm & Blues (what a freakin' joke they were), Koko B. Ware and Jim Neidhart,

b) The idiotic elimination of The Undertaker via count-out simply because he left ringside to go after Koko B. Ware. He wasn't the legal man in yet the referee still counted him out and eliminated him. What kind of bullsh*t was that?

I have a soft spot for that PPV in general since it was the last "pure" Survivor Series: the 1991 edition featured a non-elimination match when The Undertaker challenged Hogan for his belt.

 

[natlee75]

I also love this match because of the people involved. I really dug the whole "Foreign Fanatics" gimmick: even the name was kinda catchy in a 90's wrestling kind of way. Yokozuna, Borga and The Quebecers were all great heels so there really was a whole "the faces have a real fight" kind of vibe.

I also was a huge Steiner Brothers fan back then. The Frankensteiner was amazing to me because you didn't see a lot of aerialists back in the day and to see someone as big as Steiner doing that move was just incredible to me. He didn't have much of a personality back then but at least he didn't look *too* much like a roided up monster (just a little bit ;-).

For some reason, I also liked Tatanka. Something about his gimmick appealed to me. I still don't know what it was. I'm still kinda pissed WWE didn't give him much of a chance during his most recent return to the company.

I wasn't much of a fan of Luger, but he was the only real weak link in the match in my eyes.

 

[Rammsteinerteen]

Everybody else says something else, but honestly, the best one ever was the main event in Survivor Series 2001. It was great.

TEAM ALLIANCE: rvd, booker t, shane mcmahon, kurt angle, and stone cold steve austin
vs.
TEAM WWF: undertaker, kane, big show, chris jericho and THE ROCK!!!

epic match

 

[thebrownmenace]

It has to be Team Bischoff vs Team Austin, simply because of the last three eliminations. I remember watching that one live on ppv and just being on the edge of my seat. The buildup was fantastic with Austin having to put his trust in 5 men to keep him as GM of Raw. The finish had a bloody, beat up HBK against Christian, Y2J and Randy Orton and it seemed as though HBK was going to get the W. The interferences by Bischoff and Austin were great and then out of nowhere Batista comes out and plants HBK with the Batitsta Bomb getting Orton the win. It was just freakin awesome.

 

[ChrisNutter]

All-Americans vs. Foreign Fanatics, such a great main event to a Survivor Series, but also a close second are, WWF vs. WCW/ECW, Heenan Family (I'm a huge Arn Anderson mark so it was great) vs. Ultimate Warriors, and Wild Card match, had so many issues in it and really helped establish Ahmed Johnson as a superstar.

 

[mister_b1LL]

I thought Team WWF vs. Team Alliance was the the best one. The stakes probably were never higher than in that match and I remember being absolutely shocked when Aliiance member Kurt Angle turned on his fellow teammate Stone Cold and helped win the match for the WWF.

My other favorite one was Team SmackDown vs. Team RAW. Being a major fan of SmackDown, seeing Batista get destroyed by Big Show and Kane the week before made me think Team SmackDown was gonna go down in flames. But then having Randy Orton become the sole survivor was quite the awesome moment for me. It made me think, if Eddie was still alive, he'd be the sole survivor. And then seeing Undertaker return and take out a bunch of SmackDown superstars was tight as well and made me prepare for Hell In A Cell.

 

[SickJames]

I have to go with the one that was more important than any other and that was Team WWF vs Team Alliance

This was WINNER TAKE ALL After the InVasion PPV 5 on 5 Match

Now you can go on about how it's storyline, but we do get into it emotionally and I wasnt on wrestling sites that ruin the show a lot so at this time for a match like this to happen was huge to me and had me worried that WCW & ECW may win. I did think, hey this is happening in WWE but at the same time here were Shane & Steph turning on Vince to help it win and it was well done imo to make it believeable

I loved every minute of it and Kurt Angle turning last minute was great so I have to say I've enjoyed many 5 on 5 Traditional Survivor Series Tag Team Elimination Matches from the early years of the event to the late 90's, 2000's I love SS, but the match in 2001 did it for me because of the star power, but more importantly what was on the line and how intense it was

Seeing the faces & heels set aside their differences for the company and unifying for survival that was special, it felt magical and I enjoyed it as a fan


2nd Place would go to Team Austin vs Team Bischoff

I would have to carefully pick my 3rd place match but those are definately my top 2 and both had things on the line that were meangingful to the fans

invested emotion in a match and storyline is key and these did it

 

[Dan E. Inferno]

I'm going to have to agree with anyone who said Team Bischoff vs Team Austin from 2003. It had some pretty big names in there including HBK, Booker T, RVD, Jericho and a young Randy Orton. Of course, the biggest part of the match was the stipulation regarding Stone Cold's career. This added some real importance to the match. It wasn't just for bragging rights between the two captains, there was something on the line.

The match itself was pretty good and it always kept me interested, despite Scott Steiner and Mark Henry being involved. Booker and RVD were eliminated a little early for my liking, but that's just nitpicking. The last 5 to 10 minutes were especially intriguing as HBK put in a wonderful performance and I was so sure he was going to pull out the win before Batista cost him the match. Very good match with a great ending.

 

[SniperY2K]

Best survivor series match ever was the 2nd Annual first match. The one with like 20 tag teams, 10v10. Team Demolition v Team Powers of Pain! AWESOME!! any1 know when silver vision is bringing out the box set??