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[1993-11-13-WWF-Superstars] Survivor Series Report


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Undertaker has now replaced Tatanka at Survivor Series. I like the Survivor Series music. Hart Family versus Lawler and his Knights. Bret talks about a recent survey of 15 million people who were asked who was most likely going to get his ass kicked at Survivor Series. That is a lot of people.

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These aren't the same without Gene O. I also don't get the industrial crane graphic motif for a show in Boston. With current WWE events being what they are, the phrase "excusively on pay-per-view" jumps out at me now--it occurs to me that's not a phrase we're apt to hear again for awhile. We mercifully miss out on Undertaker's promo with an American flag inside his coat. I know it was a hot feud, but it's pretty audacious to hype a Survivor Series match with five non-WWE guys, three of whom are anonymous dudes in masks, as part of a "double main event." It really showed how stretched the roster was at this point. Bret cuts a promo with a shoehorned Family Feud reference, which is an understandable but odd element to an otherwise strong piece. Cornette gets promo time to hype the SMW tag match!

 

Pettingill goes over the Survivor Series rules, which was another annual tradition that I miss.

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I liked Bret's promo; yes, Family Feud ​was dragged in by the feet kicking and screaming, but better that than constant references to survival like we've had every other year since 1987. I liked the photos we saw of the Hart family in happier times, which showed how close they are as opposed to Lawler and his Knights, three of whom we don't even know at this time. (I know that this was impossible for various reasons, but in a perfect world the Knights would have been Dundee, Dutch, and Austin Idol.)

 

Corny never really got going, but that's not his fault. Neither is the fact that the WWF put this match on in a market that had never seen SMW before and didn't know the full history between Rock 'n' Roll and the Bodies. If I'd been Vince, I might have worked out a traditional Survivor Series match for SMW and hyped the wrestlers through videotape from SMW TV. How about the Bodies, Brian Lee and Chris Candido (with Tammy and Corny) against Rock 'n' Roll, Tony Anthony and Bobby Blaze (with Ron and Kim)? Can you imagine Ron Wright on WWF TV? Talk about a Twilight Zone ​moment!

 

I thought I heard somewhere that Pierre got busted for steroids around this time, which might explain why Crush had to be subbed in for him. Why Crush? Probably because he was managed by Fuji. That's really all the connection that was necessary for a match like this.

 

Does anyone know the story of the dissension on the Nash/Adam Bomb/Rotundo/Martel team? I know they turned Bomb face not too long after this.

 

Todd was all right here. He's not Okerlund by a longshot, but he did his job effectively enough.

 

Talking about how Thanksgiving Eve is the biggest travel day of the year accidentally spotlighted what a bad idea holding a pay-per-view on that evening was. Why would you schedule a pay-per-view on a night where a good portion of your audience was unlikely to be at home, or worse yet in a home that couldn't or wouldn't order a pay-per-view? That may have been one of the reasons why the WWF moved almost all of their pay-per-views to Sunday nights over the next couple of years.

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That graphic looked really modern. I thought this did a great job hyping the PPV. We hear Taker has been added but I am sad they didn't show a clip of him opening the coat as that was a big moment for my childhood fandem. Hart cuts a really good promo against Lawler and his Knights. We also get a good promo by Corny for the tag match. The card actually looks pretty good and I am a mark for running Survivor Series on Thanksgiving Eve.

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