WWF Survivor Series 1993

Thoughts while watching this...

• Lex Luger opens the show in a sweater with his family wishing us all a Happy Thanksgiving.
• Bobby Heenan and Vince McMahon are tonight's commentators, I believe this was Heenan's last PPV for the company (not counting WM17 Gimmick Battle Royale).
• first up is IRS, Rick Martel, Diesel and Adam Bomb vs Razor Ramon, The 123 Kid, Marty Jannetty and Mr. Perfect Randy Savage.
• Mr. Perfect is not here but luckily the disappointment is short lived when his replacement is announced as Randy Savage who was in the middle of being a commentator/feuding with Crush.
• This always bothered me as a kid about IRS - why would you wear a tie if you are wrestling.
• The 123 Kid's selling to the bigger guys is awesome.
• wait, Diesel is the first eliminated - at least Randy Savage gets to be the one doing this.
• Crush causes Randy Savage to get eliminated while IRS gets Razor eliminated after he himself is eliminated by hitting him with his briefcase.
• All 8 competitors would go onto compete in wCw in the next five years with varying degrees of success.
• The 123 Kid and Marty Jannetty (who was probably released by the time he got ot back) are your survivors.
• Next up is Bret Hart, Owen Hart, Bruce Hart and Keith Hart vs Jerry Lawler Shawn Michaels, The Red Knight, The Blue Knight and The Black Knight.
• The Knights are Barry Horowitz, Greg Valentine and Jeff Gaylord.
• Jerry Lawler was supposed to captain but a rape allegation against a 13 year old girl came up (she later she said had made it up), Shawn Michaels who had walked out a month earlier was reinstated to take his place.
• Family Feud host Ray Combs is on commentary making lots of corny and/or unfunny jokes, McMahon laughs his fake laugh every time.
• Owen Hart does a good showing but is the only Hart eliminated due to a miscommunication.
• Bret and his 2 bland brothers end up as the survivors, Owen comes out while they are celebrating and is pissed, this was the seeds started of the great feud between Bret and Owen.
• The Heavenly Bodies (Tom Prichard and Jimmy Del Ray) vs The Rock N Roll Express (Ricky Morton and Robert Gibson) up next for the SMW Titles.
• Smokey Mountain Wrestling where a regional company ran by the WWE manager James E. Cornette who got some exposure in the WWF.
• Jim Ross and Gorilla Monsoon get to call this one for some reason (maybe because it's more old school), the pair where doing Radio WWF that night and the swap roles.
• The Rock N Roll Express' look as literally never changed whenever I have seen them be it the 80's, watching it now or when they showed back up in the company in 1997/98.
• Crowd chants boring through parts mostly because they don't give a crap about any of the competitors, but the match is better then the crowd are suggesting..
• Ricky Morton does a dive outside the ring through the ropes, so very rare in this time in the company.
• The Heavenly Bodies win and pick up the titles.
• Up next the treat of the four Doinks vs Bam Bam Bigelow, Bastion Booger, Samu and Fatu.
• It turns out we don't get the actual Doink wrestling as it's the Bushwhackers and Men On A Mission dressed as Doink.
• Luke bites Bastion Booger on the arse, now there's a vision I will have trouble getting out of my mind.
• Samu seriously gets eliminated after a water balloon goes off in his face!
• Some neat dancing by Bastion Booger but rather then pin the Bushwacker he decides to eat a banana, the sequence ends with him getting pinned.
• Fatu years before Make A Difference/Dancing Rikishi/Bad Man/brings some turkey in on a pole (more food), Mo then is seriously on a scooter in the middle of the ring while Fatu is fighting a Bushwacker, Bam Bam knocks him off the scooter and throws it out the ring, best moment of the match.
• Some banana skin in the ring, Fatu seriously slips on it after the Bushwhacker does the old fake bucket trick.
• Bam Bam is the only one left now, he doesn't deserve the indignity of this match, he at least gets a couple of decent moves including on the bigger Mabel.
• All four end up pinning him at the same time to thankfully end this so called "comedy" match.
• The real Doink makes absolutely no appearence during this match... well I know what I mean. He does appear on the screen afterwards taunting Bam Bam, he actually comes more across as an annoying dick more then anything, he's mean't to be the face.
• Main event time - The All Americans (Lex Luger, Rick and Scott Steiner and Tatanka The Undertaker) vs The Foreign Fanatics (Yokozuna, Ludvig Borga, Jacques and Pierre Crush).
• Tatanka got took out the match in the lead up, losing to the then undefeated Borga ending us own nearly 2 year streak, Pierre of the Quebecers himself also got took out.
• There replacements are for the All Americans The Undertaker because being an undead zombie doesn't stop you from having pride in your company, the Foreign Fanatics got Crush, because Hawaii is foreign enough I suppose.
• Always weird seeing Johnny Polo there knowing he became Raven.
• I don't think Borga was around the that long, his character was that he hated America's polluting ways. I think he went into politics in his native Finland later and was a bit of a homophobe.
• Jacques who is not The Mountie according to his song, I just find the guy so damn entertaining.
• Crush gets Yokozuna's theme music which I think confuses even the commentators.
• Before the music starts again to give us then WWF Champion Yokozuna (accompanied by Mr. Fuji and Cornette).
• Conan O'Brien mention of Yokozuna being interviewed on that show - that show would have been in it's infancy at the time.
• Sad to think 3 of the 4 are now dead.
• Undertaker out first with Paul Bearer dressed like Uncle Sam... well not really but that would have been cool.
• The Steiner Brothers out next, who I always thought had cool music, I don't think they really stayed around that long did they, and if he didn't keep the same name it would be hard to believe that was the same Big Poppa Pump years later.
• Lex Luger out who let's just saying is going all overkill on the all American stuff, can't you tell they had just lost Hulk Hogan earlier in the year.
• Great start with Undertaker and Yokzouna doing a face-off, followed by the expected chants of USA, The Steiner Brothers are also in American Flag singlets which makes Taker the odd man out.
• Good little sequence with Rick and Yokozuna.
• Ludvig captures in Rick in a botched away it looks like and turns it into a pin, Rick is gone fairly quickly.
• Vince tells us that Randy Savage as been spotted in the building, gee wonder if he will show up to cost Crush is elimination somehow.
• Officials and The Smoking Gunns are trying to hold Savage back, Pat Patterson looks like one of the guys holding him back.
• To be honest Crush and Scott Steiner is doing nothing for me...
• Savage makes a second attempt to get in the ring at Crush, he ends going after Savage and gets himself counted out, silly boy, he then attempt to nonchalantly come back in the ring like he wasn't eliminated.
• McMahon keeps referring to Jacques as the Quebecer, is that because he as forgot which one is still in?
• Heenan points out Luger and Undertaker haven't in the ring yet which was a bit douchey of them.
• Luger then gets tagged in, and unfairly uses his arm with that steel plate on a elbow drop to pin him.
• Bobby Heenan says Borga is the wrestler of the 90s... not the best prediciton there Brain.
• Yokozuna takes out Scott who at least gets to last a while in this match, as Yokozuna faces off in the ring against Luger, maybe the crowd are tired by this point but the reaction is more lukewarm then ecstatic.
• Vince mentions that Luger thinks he will be champion someday, somehow... wrong there Luger.
• Bobby Heenan mentions Undertaker is going to start a basketball team for six feet and under, I have to admit that was kind of funny.
• Luger plays the man in peril aginst Borga and Yokozuna and finally gets the tag on Undertaker after Zuna misses the splash.
• Undertaker is finally in after what seems like 2 hours and is clearly getting the better of Zuna, actually this is a decent set up for for their soon Rumble match, there's also a cools equence where Taker keeps sitting up after Zuna gets him down.
• The two end fighting to a count out, like I set a decent little set up for Royal Rumble.
• Luger and Borga are the last two with Borga as expected initially having the advantage before a double clotheline brings them both down, Luger then ends up kicking out after a bucket shot to the head, Borga then ends up hitting him with the elbow with a steel plate (what a cheat).
• Luger ends up winning for America and pollution, does this mean Borga is no longer undefeated.
• It begins to snow and we get good old Santa Claus who Luger helpfully lets him into the ring, if this was Stone Cold Steve Austin he would have stunned him by now!
• and so the show ends up Luger and Santa standing tall...

Overall, it's an event of multiple wrestlers getting replaced, a SMW match none of the fans clearly care about, 2 Hart Brothers who never wrestled in the company, 3 masked men and a lame comedy match, it's only enjoyable for the most part in a nostalgia sort of way, for me the shows coolest moments really where the seeds of the Owen turn and sometimes the odd little sequences involving wrestling.