Survivor Series '91: The Gravest Challenge
- Before we get to the show, here's an advertisement for Supertape '92, featuring the Tuesday In Texas PPV a week following this PPV. Also included on the tape is a special 8-Man Tag Match with the LOD, Boss Man, and Jim Neidhart against The Mountie, Nasty Boys, and Earthquake. That's not all... on top of all of this, there's a special profile on The Undertaker (including promo).
- WWF Hasbro Wrestling Figures commercial. This series (2nd series most likely) includes another version of Hulk Hogan, Ted Dibiase, the Ultimate Warrior, Macho King Randy Savage and Big Boss Man. New Superstars include Dusty Rhodes, Jim Duggan, The Honkytonk Man, Roddy Piper. There appears to be recycled versions of Jake Roberts and Brutus Beefcake Series 1 in the commercial too. Let's not forget about the Tag Team Figures! The Rockers, Demolition (Smash and Crush), and The Bushwackers! Oh, and the giant Hulk Hogan and Ultimate Warrior dolls that talk. The Warrior doll probably cuts better promos than the real guy.
- Highlights from Superstars of Wrestling. Following a squash match, Jake Roberts tricked Randy Savage to come to ring side, kicking his ass in the process, and tying him up in the ropes intribute to Andre The Giant. In one of the most shocking moments in wrestling, Roberts unleashes his cobra to bite Savage. Savage must've had giant fucking balls to let the snake go to town on his arm like that. Savage overacts though, but it still is a pretty awesome angle, even going by todays standards of tasteless shock value television. We follow with an announcement from President Jack Tunney that Jake Roberts has been pulled from Survivor Series, and will face Randy Savage at the PPV 12,404 Tuesdays Ago In Texas.
- Live from Detroit, Michigan in the Joe Louis Arena, it's the Survivor Series! Sadly, we don't get the whacky introduction openings from 1989 and 1990 with Vince McMahon running down the card. The broadcast team tonight is Gorilla Monsoon and Bobby Heenan, making the PPV a thumbs up already if you want to watch the show with your eyes closed. I should note it took almost 10 minutes into the PPV to get the formal opening.
- "Rowdy" Roddy Piper, Bret "Hitman" Hart, The British Bulldog, Virgil vs. Ric Flair, "Million $ Man" Ted Dibiase, The Mountie, The Warlord:
Talk about having a stacked lineup. Everyone in this match comprised most of the uppercard feuds for House Shows leading up to the PPV. The pairing off feuds appear to be Piper/Flair, Hart/Mountie, Virgil/Dibiase, and Warlord/Bulldog, but Warlord had been challenging Hart for the IC Title at house shows, so you could say both men were filler and it was a coincidance that both feuded earlier in the year. Managers are banned from ringside, but Sherri remains for some reason (and looking awful in that costume she's wearing). After some stalling, Piper and Dibiase start the match. Dibiase sure had some shit luck. He had angles with Dusty Rhodes over Sapphire, the Texas Tornado, and Roddy Piper all inside of a year that went nowhere because of various reasons. Flair knees Piper from behind, giving Dibiase a chance to pound away. Piper comes back with a clothesline and crotches Dibiase across the top rope. Piper then pulls Sherri into the ring and gives her a big kiss. That's the last we see of Sherri tonight. Piper hammers on Dibiase and applies a wristlock. Bulldog tags in and drives several knees into the elbow of Dibiase. Virgil tags in with some stomping on the arm as well, and in comes Hart now to complete the cycle. The faces continue the quick tags while working on the arm of Dibiase. Hart takes over Dibiase with an arm drag and applies an armbar. Dibiase mounts a comeback, calls a spot on camera (quite loudly "reverse charge"), and they do the reversal into corner spot as I expected. Hart comes back though with several near falls and goes back to the armbar. Hart with a shoulder block, but Dibiase takes him over with an arm drag. Flair tags in to miss an elbow drop. Hart with an inverted atomic drop and Bulldog tags in to slingshot Flair into the turnbuckle. Irish whip is reversed, and Bulldog press slams Flair. Piper tags in, causing Flair to beg him off in the corner. Piper unloads with rights and lefts, giving Flair a chance to run outside and fall on his face. Piper follows out and rams Flair into the steel steps. Back inside, and The Warlord tags in for the first time. Piper teases a test-of-strength, but decides to tag Bulldog in. A series of shoulder blocks do nothing, but Bulldog puts him down with a dropkick. Warlord catches Bulldog coming in the corner with a big boot, and here comes the Mountie. We cut backstage to Jimmy Hart having an orgasm over the Mountie. Bret Hart tags in, but the Mountie runs to tag Dibiase back in. Lockup into the corner, and Hart is the one to do the cheap shots. Back breaker and second rope elbow from Hart gets a two count. Irish whip, and a collision puts both men down. The Mountie and Bulldog get the hot and heel tags. Bulldog puts Mountie down with a clothesline and back elbow. Irish whip, and Bulldog with another press slam. Flair comes in to cheap shot Bulldog, but gets caught. Flair chops away on Bulldog, but they get no sold. Irish whip to the corner and Bulldog charges out with clotheslines to Flair and Dibiase. The Bulldog nails a running powerslam on the Mountie, but all heel breaks loose, and Flair comes off the top rope with a sledge to the back of the head and covers the Bulldog for the elimination at 10:57.
Piper comes in to hammer on Flair, but Dibiase gets tagged in. Piper goes crazy on all the heels wearing black tights, but the numbers game EVENTUALLY catches up to him. Flair comes back in to take Piper over with a snapmare and follows with a knee drop. He tries for a second one, but Piper rolls out of the way and quickly applies the Figure-Four. Dibiase helps break Flair free of the hold with a helpful distraction from the Mountie. Dibiase tags in and connects with an atomic knee drop. Dibiase kicks thge leg from under Piper's leg and applies a spinning toe hold. Piper turns it into a small package for a two count. The Mountie tags in to keep Piper in the ring and applies a Boston Crab. Virgil gets the really lame hot tag and clotheslines Mountie from behind. Irish whip to the corner and Virgil hits another clothesline. Mountie tries tagging out, but gets short-armed by everyone. He tries again, and this time Flair tags him. Virgil and Flair exchange blows, with Virgil getting the upperhand. Irish whip to the corner, and Virgil back drops Flair. Dibiase tags in for his feud partner confrontation. Dibiase with a knee to the midsection, but Virgil blocks being sent to the buckle and introduces Dibiase to it instead. Irish whip is reversed and Dibiase catches Virgil with a powerslam. The Warlord comes in to clean up the left overs, but quickly dumps him outside, giving Flair a chance to cheat. Back inside the ring, the Warlord rams Virgil into the turnbuckle and pounds away. Full Nelson is applied, but heck breaks loose again, and Hart comes off the top rope with a sledge to Warlord, allowing Piper to illegally make the cover at 16:59, eliminating The Warlord.
Piper with a surprise roll up on Dibiase gets a two count. Irish whip, and Dibiase puts Piper down with a back elbow. Dibiase goes for a suplex, but Piper counters with one of his own. Virgil tags back in to hammer on Dibiase and drops him with a series of clotheslines. Dibiase rakes the eyes, but gets caught in the Virgil version of the Million Dollar Dream. Dibiase escapes by ramming Virgil into the buckle using his own momentum. Flair tags in with more chops. Back suplex by Flair and the Mountie tags in to stomp away. Irish whip and the Mountie connects with a dropkick. Mountie holds up Virgil, giving Dibiase some cheap shots from the apron. Dibiase tags in and comes off the top rope with a bionic elbow. Dibiase takes over Virgil with a gutwrench suplex, but doesn't try for a pin. Flair tags in for a double clothesline, but that only gets a two count. Dibiase comes in again, seems to call another spot, but I can't hear clearly enough. Anyway, he nails a clothesline. Irish whip and Virgil takes him down with a swinging neck breaker. Flair and Piper get the tags in. Piper with a poke of the eyes and mounted punches in the corner. Flair goes for an inverted atomic drop, but Piper casually pokes him in the eyes again. Piper unloads on everyone and slams Flair off the top rope. All hell breaks loose Part III. Piper whips Flair to the corner, giving hima a chance to fall outside. Everyone else continues brawling until the referee Disqualifies everyone by Ric Flair at 22:49, making Ric Flair the Sole Survivor of the match! ***1/4 Very good match with an ultra-lame finish, but unlike in 1996 when it was done because of lack of time (and they were all JTTS'), you couldn't have 8 uppercarders do jobs in one match. Smart booking kept the good workers in the ring for the majority of the match and kept the dead weight (Warlord most specifically) out other than to hit a few signature moves. The faces, upset with the decision, beat up the heels some more.
- Mean Gene Okerlund has a very special Interview done with the newly reinstated Macho Man Randy Savage, who has a giant fucking feather in his hat, making him the wrestling version of Yankee Doodle. The only point of this interview was to continue the hype job of 45,603 Tuesdays Ago in Texas. I guess someone forgot this is a PPV too.
- "Hacksaw" Jim Duggan, "Texas Tornado" Kerry Von Erich, "El Matador" Tito Santana, Sgt. Slaughter vs. Col. Mustafa, The Berzerker, Skinner, Hercules:
This match was butchered with substitutions from it's earlier version. The original match was scheduled to be Duggan, Tornado, The Dragon (replaced by Santana), and Jim Neidhart (replaced by Slaughter) against Mustafa, Berzerker, Skinner, and Big Bully Busick (replaced by Hercules), but a few people leaving the company and an injury angle switched everything around. The only feuds for the match were Dragon/Skinner and probably Duggan/Mustafa, but with Dragon gone, that leaves a lot of empty and pointless crap. Slaughter had recently turned face, but this is his first match since SummerSlam, so no one knew if he meant that he wanted his country back. The heel side is like the elephants graveyard of awful characters. If you put Busick back in, you have a foursome of crap gimmicks. Just a quick note: Heenan is absolutely on fire with his one liners in this match, so it may cloud my opinion on the match. The usual stalling before everyone decides who starts, and we get the combination of Santana and Skinner. Lockup into the corner, and Skinner with a bitch slap. Santana returns it with a shove and quickly goes to a side headlock. Irish whip and Santana comes off the ropes with a shoulder block. The Flying Jalupeņo connects, but Skinner rolls outside to avoid being pinned. Santana applies another headlock, but a crisscross leads to a missed cross body. Berzerker tags in, but misses a second rope leg drop. Tornado tags in to hammer away. Berzerker returns the favor with shots in the corner. Irish whip, and the Berzerker misses a dropkick. Tornado gets caught in the heels corner, and in comes Col. Mustafa (a.k.a The Iron Sheik). Duggan and Hercules tag in for a "Big" confrontation. They exchange blows, and amazingly, Hercules is the first to sell something. Duggan cleans house of all the heels on the apron, but Hercules attacks from behind to break it up. This beating in the corner makes me long for the infamous Orton/Foley beatdown that lasted 20 years. Mustafa tags in to rams Duggan into his pointy boots and applie a reverse chinlock. Wait... is Mustafa wearing Hulk Hogan wrist bands?! Duggan makes the non-miracle comeback to tag Slaughter in. Slaughter nails an atomic drop and clothesline, and that's good enough to pin the Iron Mustafa at 7:57.
The Berzerker comes in to ambush Slaughter, but he gets caught. Slaughter rams Berzerker into the buckle and pounds away. Irish whip to the corner is reversed, and Berzerker charges in with a clothesline. Irish whip to the corner gives Slaughter a chance to work in his signature chest first bump. Berzerker puts down Slaughter with a big boot for a two count. Hercules tags in with a sledge to the back and rams Slaughter into the buckle for a lame two count. Berzerker comes back in to continue the beating. Crowd chants USA, but everyone on the heel side is either from Parts Unknown or America, and we all know Parts Unknown is in Arizona. The Slaughter/Berzerker clash continues to suck until Duggan tags in to suck it up more. Duggan with a boot to the face and a clothesline sends Berzerker flying over the top rope. Berzerker comes back in for a charge and gets back dropped back out. Berzerker with a headbutt to the midsection, but dumbly whips Duggan into his own corner. Tornado tags in and nails a discuss punch, but it's no sold. Hercules comes in, but does nothing. Santana gets the blind tag in and nails the El Paso De Salsa to pin Hercules at 12:06.
Skinner comes in quick with a stomp to the back of the head and some choking. Santana gets introduced to the turnbuckle and Skinner chokes him more across the middle rope. Double teaming in the corner from the remaining heels. The Berzerker comes in with a rake of the eyes and puts Santana down with a clothesline. Skinner in with a sledge to the lower back followed by a scoop slam. Santana with a series of blows to the midsection, and makes the blind tag to Slaughter. Skinner gets caught with a school boy, and that eliminates him at 13:33. Slaughter gets jumpes by the Berzerker again, but avoids a dropkick. Slaughter rams the Berzerker into the turnbuckle 10 times and whips him across the ring. Irish whip and Duggan nails his 3-point stance clothesline to pin the Berzerker at 14:19, making all the faces the Survivors of the match. * The match was pretty bad from a workrate point of view (maybe in the negative rating scale), but the awesomeness from the commentary made it a lot more enjoyable than it should've been. Since I need some padding, I'll mention the "Coliseum Video Exclusive" of the faces celebrating backstage while going back to the dressing room.
- Gene Okerlund has another special Interview to conduct, this time with the Snake Man himself, Jake Roberts. Damn that's an ugly sweater he's wearing. We get even more pimping of 895,305 1/2 Tuesdays Ago in Texas, and right now it's getting really annoying. Roberts is always a good interview, but I'm skipping this because it's time filler. And speaking of annoying, now we get a graphic on the screen pimping Tuesday in Texas!
- WWF World Championship Match:
Hulk Hogan © vs. The Undertaker (w/ Paul Bearer):
Before we get to the match, we see highlights from Superstars where the Undertaker attacked Hogan on the set of the Funeral Parlor and no sold a con-chair-to from Piper and Savage. I'm a bit upset that the WWF didn't follow up on the "why was Undertaker afraid of Hogan's cross?" bit. The crowd appears to be 100% Pro-Hogan for the start of the match, but we all know the ending and who got the pop for winning. I remember when the PPV first happend that Hogan was the underdog for the match, meaning the WWF did a good job promoting the Undertaker, since I thought Hogan was damn near invincible back then. Blink and you won't miss the loser superfan of Hogan who dresses like him at several PPV's and appears to be at the shows where Hogan loses badly (see also: KOTR 1993). Lockup to start, and Undertaker shoves Hogan into the corner. Undertaker misses a charge, and Hogan dances around the ring. Hogan applies a standing side headlock, but a shoulder block puts Hogan down and out of the ring. Hogan is doing a good job selling in his facial expressions, that maybe he can't beat the Undertaker. Back inside, the Undertaker chokes Hogan into the corner. Undertaker with a series of shots to the throat and he pulls on the face of Hogan. More methodical offense from the Undertaker, this time with some choking across the top rope. Paul Bearer gets in his shots as well while 'Taker distracts the referee. Undertaker casually slams Hogan, but misses the jumping elbow drop that always misses. Hogan tries a comeback with a series of rights. Hogan connects with a clothesline, but Undertaker doesn't go down. Undertaker blocks a slam, so Hogan rakes the eyes a few times. Irish whip and Hogan nails a running elbow. More raking of the eyes by Hogan and he sends 'Taker into the turnbuckle. Hogan clotheslines Undertaker over the top rope, but Undertaker lands on his feet. He drags Hogan out of the ring and rams him into the steel steps. 'Taker chokes Hogan with a microphone wire while Earl Hebner pretends to be blind. Back inside the ring and Undertaker continues to go in slow motion. Heenan points out the tattoo of the Grim Reaper on Undertakers arm. Remember the days when you could tell which was which, or when he only had just one? 500 years of choking makes me prepare to fast forward (name that movie reference). Crowd chants for Hogan, with the loser in the front row playing cheerleader, but Undertaker is dominating. Hogan comes back with some boots to the midsection and a rake of the eyes. Several shoulder blocks rock the Undertaker, but he bounces off the ropes with the diving clothesline to put Hogan back down. Tombstone piledriver connects, but Hogan pops right back up for the Hulk Up. Some roundhouse rights put Undertaker down to one knee, and a scoop slam completes the job. Out comes Ric Flair to run a foul. Bearer trips up Hogan from doing the leg drop. Hogan goes outside to lay out Flair, then goes back inside to work on Undertaker. Big boot puts him back down, but again Hogan is caught by the leg to stop the leg drop. Undertaker is back up, and with a well placed chair from Ric Flair, tombstones Hulk onto it for the three count and the World Title at 12:42 to a pretty nice pop for the top heel in the promotion. 3/4* Match was complete dog shit, but the crowd was at least alive for most of it. Hogan sells the piledriver onto the chair like he's paralyzed, but after a few minutes is able to walk out with the help from several WWF Stooges from 1991.
- Interview-O-Rama begins! Here's Roddy Piper for no reason to complain about the Undertaker. Mooney is with Ric Flair and Mr. Perfect, who gloat about what happened, Gene Okerlund is with I.R.S. and the Natural Disastors, Mooney is with the Boss Man and LOD, and Gene is with Jack Tunney, who announces Undertaker vs. Hogan for 1,390,449 Tuesdays Ago in Texas.
- The Rockers & The Bushwackers vs. The Nasty Boys & The Beverly Brothers:
This match is proof to show how horrible the WWF Tag Division was when it came to depth in the workrate department. The only team that can be called good workers are Michaels and Jannetty, while everyone else sucks. The Beverly Brothers less than the others, but they still do. The Bushwackers and Beverly's had a thing going at the time, but I don't recall the Rockers and Nasty Boys having a program. The Beverly Brothers have a different theme music than what I remember, and it's very el generico. The Rockers get the super-girly-face-pop for their entrance. Butch and Knobbs start the match for their teams, guaranteeing the workrate to improve once someone tags out, unless it's to their natural partners. Butch hammers on Knobbs with rights, then we get an exchange of eye rakes. Irish whip is reversed and Butch with a knee to the midsection following by a running knee lift. The Bushwackers double clothesline Knobbs and Butch takes over Saggs with a bulldog. Double-double clothesline to the Nasty Boys, and now the Beverly Brothers come in for beatings. Battering Rams to both men, but everyone clears out. The Rockers come in with dropkicks to the Nasty Boys. Michaels and Blake Beverly go at it now. Lockup into the corner, and Blake gets in a cheap shot. Irish whip to the corner is reversed, but Michaels runs into a back elbow. He comes back though with a swinging neck breaker. Blake no sells though and puts Michaels down with a back breaker. Michaels with a running high knee to Knobbs, and Luke tags in to hammer him rather weakly. Irish whip to the corner is reversed, but Knobbs misses a charge. Knobbs comes off the second rope with a ugly cross body/clothesline move, and Luke is pinned at 5:21.
Michaels comes in pounding away on Knobbs, but gets caught with his head down and Knobbs floors him with a sledge to the back of the neck. Saggs tags in to pound away on Michaels some more. Saggs takes over Michaels with a suplex as we get an advertisement for Tuesday in Texas. Michaels comes off the top rope with a cross body press for a two count. Michaels with an arm drag and Jannetty tags in for the first time to splash the left arm of Saggs. Jannetty applies an armbar. Irish whip is reversed, and Saggs mows over Jannetty with a shoulder block. Jannetty comes back with a series of arm drags and reapplies the armbar. Beau Beverly tags in to beat on Jannetty and executes the Curt Hennig float-over neck snap move. Irish whip and Jannetty escapes a back drop and connects with a reverse crescent kick for a two count. Beau with a series of knees to the midsectio in the corner. Irish whip is countered with a drop toe hold and Jannetty goes to a front facelock. Beau places Jannetty on the second turn buckle, giving Jannetty a chance to botch another land on his feet spot. Beau takes over Jannetty with a gutwrench suplex for a two count. Irish whip is reversed and an ugly spot sees both men collide. Jannetty must be on something, because he's all over the place. Butch gets the hot tag and cleans house of the Beverly Brothers. It doesn't last long though, and the Beverly Bomb (a back drop into an X-Factor type move) ends Butch's night at 10:14.
Jannetty pounds on Beau and fucks up something else. Irish whip and he puts Beau down with a back elbow. Jannetty keeps working the armbar and whips Beau to the corner. Monkey flip takes over Beau (quite sloppy too), and Jannetty follows with a hurricanrana for a two count. Front facelock applied by Jannetty. An Irish whip leads to a Jannetty enziguri. Blake comes in and walks right into an arm drag. Michaels tags in to work the arm of Blake, and applies a wristlock. Blake escapes with a headbutt and hammers away. Blake chokes Michaels across the middle rope, and Knobbs helps from the apron. The Beverly's work in the leap frog splash across the back spot that Charlie Haas and Shelton Benjamin did a few years ago. Michaels is dumped outside, giving Knobbs a chance to get some more shots in. Back in the ring and Beau connects with a back elbow. Elbow drop to the lower back of Michaels and Beau puts him down again with a side back breaker. Irish whip to the corner, and this time Michaels rolls through a back breaker and back slides Beau for the three count at 13:55.
Blake comes back in to pound away on Michaels and puts him down with a powerslam for a two count. Knobbs comes in and Michaels takes him over with a sunset flip for a two count. Saggs tags in with some stomping. Michaels avoids being dumped out of the ring and dropkicks Saggs out of the ring. He follows out with a diving clothesline off the apron and a reverse crescent kick to Knobbs. Back into the ring and Michaels comes off the top rope to get punched in the mouth, making Saggs my favorite wrestler for 1.7 seconds. Blake Beverly comes in with a leg drop, followed by dropping Michaels across the top rope. Michaels comes back with a kick to the face and makes the hot tag to Jannetty. He hammers away on everyone and nails a diving back elbow on Knobbs. Snapmar takeover gets a two count. Jannetty takes over Blake with an arm drag and applies an armbar. Irish whip is escapes with a tumble roll and Jannetty takes over Blake with a modified sunset flip for a two count. Knobbs comes back in with a sledge to the back of the head. Irish whip to the corner and Jannetty sells like he always does. Front powerslam by Knobbs gets a two count. Saggs tags in to make Jannetty his bitch. Pump-handle slam by Saggs, but he doesn't go for a cover. Saggs connects with a back suplex and tags Knobbs in for more fun. Knobbs goes up to the second turnbuckle and splashes the knees of Jannetty in an obvious spot. Michaels gets the 2nd hot tag of the match and pounds away on Knobbs. Irish whip is reversed and Michaels nails a hart-attack clothesline. Jannetty comes in and we get a Beverly Brother sandwich with Nasty bread. Jannetty scoop slams Saggs, but the feet of Saggs take out Michaels and Knobbs rolls him up for the three count at 16:41. Michaels is pissed off and yells at Jannetty for the fuck up, and yes, it's the teased breakup of the Rockers. All is well though... until 6 weeks later when Michaels superkicked Jannetty on the Barber Shop and tossed him through the window of the set.
Knobbs quickly goes to work on Jannetty and we get an odd tape cut that rewinds the tape about 5 seconds. Irish whip to the corner and Jannetty comes off the second rope with a bulldog for a two count. Jannetty gets dumped out of the ring for some stalling. Blake Beverly pulls him back in the ring and connects with a powerslam. He pulls Jannetty up from the pin attempt, giving Knobbs a chance to beat on him. Jannetty springboards off the top rope to counter a wristlock and pulls Knobbs out of the ring to ram him into the ring post. Superkick connects to Saggs and Jannetty comes off the top rope with a cross body onto both Nasty Boys on the outside! Jannetty comes back in with a diving hair pull slam on Blake Beverly. The Nastys miss a double clothesline, allowing Jannetty to boot Knobbs and cradle Saggs, but Knobbs turns it over, and Jannetty is eliminated at 23:10, making the Nasty Boys and Blake Beverly the Survivors. That was one devistating cradle, eh? I really hate that spot... ** Once the Bushwackers were eliminated, the match picked up a bit, but outside of a few offensive spurts from the Rockers, the entire match is pretty forgetable, but it's perfectly acceptable in the action department... draw your own conclussion from there.
- Big Bossman & Legion of Doom vs. Irwin R. Schyster & The Natural Disastors:
This riginally was supposed to have Sid Justice and Jake Roberts captaining each team, but an injury took Sid out a few weeks before the show, and Roberts was pulled out in favor of milking the PPV cash cow with the Tuesday in Texas PPV. What a match to end the show with, eh? The worst part is how some retards try and say this was the Main Event, despite the PPV being called the Gravest Challenge, and we all know that was the World Title Match. The usual stalling before the action begins from both teams. Bossman and I.R.S. start the match with a lockup into the corner. Schyster with a knee to the midsection, and I'm amazed he could do a leap frog in that ring attire. Bossman hammers away and whips Schyster hard into the turnbuckle. The spot is done again, but this time Bossman runs around and into the ring at a fast pace and boots Schyster in the face. Earthquake tags in and he wants some of Animal. Shoving match from the two and Animal applies a headlock. Irish whip, and a shoulder block doesn't move anyone. Animal tries a cross body, but Earthquake catches him and connects with a back breaker. He misses a big splash, and Animal comes back with a dropkick. Irish whip reversed and Animal nails the diving shoulder tackle for a two count. Schyster tags back in, but gets caught in the face corner and Hawk comes off the top with a sledge. Wristlock applied by Hawk, and he hammers away on him in the corner. Typhoon tags in too soon, giving Hawk 50 seconds to press slam I.R.S. onto him. Hawk plays heel to give Animal and Bossman a chance to double team Typhoon in their corner. Hawk gets his shots in too, and Typhoon is down. Hawk slaps a headlock on Earthquake, but gets pulled into the heel corner. Schyster tags back in to stomp away, but gets dropped with a back suplex. Bossman tags in for some shots to I.R.S. Sit-down splash across the top rope and Bossman stands on I.R.S' tonuge to prevent him from escaping. I.R.S. grabs his briefcase to bonk Bossman (behind the referee's back) and covers for the three count at 6:25.
Typhoon works over Animal in the corner and now it's the heels turn to double team. Earthquake tags in and takes Animal over with a belly-to-belly suplex for a two count. I.R.S. comes in with a sledge from the top rope and a leg drop between the legs of Animal. I.R.S. with some field goal punting on Animal and the Disastors work in some more double teaming. Typhoon tags in to apply a bearhug, but he's not strong enough to keep Animal off the ground. Typhoon humps Animal in the corner, but ends up getting caught with a boot to the face and Animal floors him with a clothesline. Hawk gets the hot tag and takes a shot on Quake from the apron. Irish whip and Hawk connects with the diving shoulder tackle. Heck breaks loose, but this time a briefcase shot KO'S Typhoon, and Hawk covers to eliminate Typhoon at 9:39. Earthquake is pissed off, even though he gave the weapon to I.R.S., and walks off for the count-out at around 11:00, leaving I.R.S. alone against the LOD. The Disastors walking off gets a face pop, but they remained heels for 3 more months.
Hawk hammers away on I.R.S. and takes him over with a powerslam. Hawk rams him into the buckle but misses a charge, smacking his shoulder on the ring post in the process. Schyster with a series of quick elbow drops and he dumps Hawk outside. Hawk is introduced to the steel steps, and damn, Rotundo is sweating fucking bullets. Back into the ring and Schyster connects with a back elbow. Reverse chinlock is applied and the crowd chants "Hawk." Schyster goes for a suplex, but Hawk counters with one of his own. Really slow the match has gotten. Animal gets the hot tag and puts down Schyster with a shoulder tackle. Irish whip and Animal turns him over with a powerslam. A clothesline sends Schyster out of the ring, and he tries walking, but Bossman cuts him off and chases him back into the ring. Animal brings Schyster back into the ring with a suplex, and Hawk nails a top rope clothesline for the pinfall and eliminate I.R.S. at 15:23, making the LOD the Survivors of the match. * Much like the match with the Craptastic 4 vs. Team Duggan, the match was pretty bad, but not bad enough to warrant a DUD rating, and the crowd was really into it. Plus Heenan was on fire once again, but not as much. The crowd goes happy and the show is... almost over.
- Gene Okerlund does an interview with the Undertaker and Paul Bearer in the "bowels" of the Joe Louis Arena. We get one more hype job for 560 billion Tuesdays Ago in Texas, and Undertaker closes a casket on the poor cameraman to finally end the show and the shill job for a the PPV coming up 6 days later, or 129,560,503,209,406 days since Tuesday in Texas.
Final Thoughts: From a mark point-of-view, this is an enjoyable card featuring most of the top names from the WWF. However, when you disect the show, nothing but the opening match was worth anything, and that had one of the worst possible finishes ever for a Survivor Series Match. Also the fact that the WWF did nothing more than hype the Tuesday in Texas job at every chance they could during a PPV makes it even less enjoyable, showing how worthless this Survivor Series was to the powers that be in the company. Solid Thumbs Down Recommendation, but I wouldn't mind suggesting watching the opener and stopping the tape after that.