WWF Survivor Series

Survivor series opens with Vince Introduction the great names given to each team this year. The perfect team v Warriors to kick of the show Bobby the brain fugi outside the ring piper & gorilla on the mic . all the face paint all the carisma of 8 legends , on paper or a poster maybe the best looking lineup for a single survivor series match ever . Mean gene backstage interviewing with the ultimate warrior legion of doom & Texas tornado before facing mr perfect and Three members of demolition."he's up and down more than a toilet seat " piper on mr perfect 👌 . Million dollar 💵 team v dream team match two . million dollar man rhythm & blues and mystery partner. Take on dusty the hart foundation and Koko showing what a great lineup of characters the WWF had on its roster in 1990. The mystery partner will go on to have one of the longest and popular runs in wrestling ever becoming a true legend along the way. Money well spent by Ted diBiase . One eyed snake 🐍 superfly & Rockers v model power & Glory warlord match 3 the best inring story so far was in this match. Natural disasters team Earthquake the worlds strongest man Dino bravo Haku barbarian v you know something brother it's time for Hulk hacksaw Tugboat Big boss man . "This ain't no beauty contest " piper points out as these 8 large men fill the entire ring together. Someone must have liked the name as the tag team of the natural disasters where in competition against each other tugboat would become typhoon to complete the partnership with earthquake. The alliance v the mercenaries felt very random teaming and match but not as random as what would follow when mean gene cracked his 🥚 egg. This event good v bad guys could have done with Jesse the body commentary to support the bad guys. The winners of each match this year would team in a final match. It's like watching highlights from the very first pin it becomes clear this match is against the clock ⏰. The best and most fun survivor series to date . Timing was sometimes all over the place with some weird moments and quick pins and count outs . Not one to watch for great wrestling but a really fun night.

The 1990 installment of WWF's Survivor Series has its own up and downs. Starting with the first match, a four-on-four Survivor Series match between The Warriors (Animal, Hawk, The Texas Tornado, and Ultimate Warrior) and The Perfect Team (Ax, Crush,Mr. Perfect, and Smash), the PPV event are basically wrestlers forming teams to compete in Survivor Series matches. The first match was a disaster, as it involved four wrestlers being disqualifed for brawling outside the ring (ending with a kick to the referee's groin) which basically proved to be a cheap writing and the fact that Ultimate Warrior no sells Mr. Perfect's finish and goes on to win the fight made that a lame opener.

However, the second match between The Million Dollar Team and The Dream Team (Dusty Rhodes, Bret Hart, Jim Neidhart, and Koko B. Ware) that is more memorible. After the first three members of the Million Dollar Team, Ted DiBiase, Honky Tonk Man, and Greg Valentine, the Million Dollar Man would take over the announcer and announce the fourth member of his team (which until the match, has been kept secret). That moment is remembered by many as the debut of The Undertaker, a wrestler who sadly, in this match was eliminated by count out, even though he tagged out to another teammate and was no longer the legal man, which makes less sense when the reverse happened in the next match with Rick Martel, a member of the The Visionaries, when Jake "The Snake" Roberts was counted out to end the match he was in, proving whoever wrote these two matches still had a lot to learn about the rules of pro wrestling.

So, for the main event, the survivors of the team matches face each other to see who the sole survivor is, which ended up being a three-against-five, with Hulk Hogan, Ultimate Warrior, and Tito Santana taking on Ted DiBiase and the four other wrestlers who survived their matches, but not before we get a scene where Mean Gene Okerlund being forced to dance with the infamous Gobbledy Gooker (who made his debut here as WWF's attempt to create a mascot, but would be dropped in a month, and become infamous for being another one of those horrible wrestling gimmicks). Overall, it's okay, but it could have been better.

This one was marred by potentially great matches being cut very short.

The opening match was a waste of the Legion of Doom, but I guess the only way they could have been eliminated by Demolition was a double-DQ. Otherwise, Mr. Perfect would have had to put in overtime. Kerry von Erich, the I-C champ, was wasted here. And this was the third ppv in a row where Perfect jobbed. Remember, before that he never lost a match.

The second match was very good, possibly the best of the night. Ted DiBiase and the Undertaker were excellent, while the Jim Neidhart had one of his WWF highlights, pinning the Honky Tonk Man. Koko B. Ware continued his tradition of being the first to put over a new heel (remember the Big Bossman and Yokozuna?). This was a foreshadowing of Bret Hart's singles career, as he came back from two-on-one and almost survived the match. He and DiBiase put on a wrestling clinic, making us forget that the point of the match was DiBiase's boring feud with Dusty Rhodes.

Even though the Visionaries were the first team to have all of its members survive (and only the second since '87 to have four survivors), this match was not a squash. This was the longest match of the night, and Jake did a repeat of his '88 performance when he was left alone against four men and dominated. I think he could have actually pulled off an upset. These days, the match would have ended the other way around.

One of the shortest SS matches ever was also one of its most surprising. Possibly the most underrated wrestler ever, Tito Santana was the inspirational wrestler of the night, putting on war paint and pinning Boris Zukhov, Tanaka, and even the Warlord in the final survival match. It was so strange to see him put over so overwhelmingly, then go right back to his mediocre career. Sgt. Slaughter also did well, getting rid of Volkoff and the Bushwhackers, but that just wasn't a surprise. Tito was.

I think the only point of the survival match was to have Hogan and the Warrior win together at the end.

This show was boring and the matches were too short. The Undertaker's debut was cool, but Tito Santana is the reason I will remember this one.

the real problem with this time in wrestling was the lack of surprises we new hogan would survive and so would the warrior the WWF seemed only to care about these two characters when there was so much talent about. The debut of the Undertaker and a v good couple of minutes between Bret Hart and Ted DiBese make this match the best by far. I still enjoyed it because it was my first survivor series but looking back it was a waste. In a time when there was only four pay per views a year this is a real letdown. Worth watching to see some classic characters Mr.Perfect ,Demolition ,L.o.d and Kerry Von Erich all in one elimination match but the WWF commitment to trying to make certain people come of looking good ruins the quality of the match the event feels like just another stepping stone for certain wrestlers. If this eventually led to Wrestlemania 7 Hogan vs Warrior 2 and l.o.d vs Demolition it would have been good hype but the WWF seemed to lose its bottle

This event was great, and had some of the greatest gimmicks here. In the opening match we have Mr Perfect (with Bobby Heenan) and Demolition (Ax, Smash and Crush with Mr Fuji) vs. Ultimate Warrior, Texas Tornado, and Legion of Doom (Hawk and Animal). This was during the time that Ax was on his way out and Crush was on his way in, when Demolition was a 3 man team. I thought that was pretty cool.

Then we have Dusty Rhodes, Hart Foundation and Koko B Ware vs Million Dollar Man (with Virgil), Rhythm and Blues (Honky Tonk Man and black-haired Greg Valentine with Jimmy Hart) and the Undertaker (with Brother Love). This is the event where the Undertaker was introduced to the WWF and this is his first match ever. Here, Brother Love is he chubby manager/boss, before Paul Bearer.

The next match is Jake the Snake, the Rockers and Jimmy Snuka vs. Rick Martel, Power and Glory (with Slick) and the Warlord (with Slick).

Then we have Hulk Hogan, Tugboat, Big Boss Man and Hacksaw Jim Duggan vs. Earthquake (with Jimmy Hart), Dino Bravo (with Jimmy Hart), Haku (with Bobby Heenan), and Barbarian (with Bobby Heenan). Rick Rude (who had a world title shot at Summerslam just 3 months earlier) was scheduled to be on Earthquake's team, but he quit the WWF before this event took place. He was replaced by Haku, another Heenan family member. This is during a period where the entire Heenan family was feuding with the Big Boss Man.

The next match is Nikolai Volkoff, Bushwackers and Tito Santana vs. Sgt Slaughter (with General Adnan), the Orient Express (Sato and Tanaka with Mr Fuji) and Boris Zukov (replacing Akeem). I am no sure why Slick's man Akeem did not appear at this event, he was a no show at last year's Survivor Series also. Boris Zukov replaces him (I didn't know Zukov was still in the WWF at this time!) Zukov was once managed by Slick, too, so I am not sure why Slick does not appear with him here.

We then have Mean Gene with the hatching of the Gobbledy Gooker (a gimmick played by Hector Guerrero) This was the only appearance of the Gobbledy Gooker until Wrestlemania X-7 in 2001.

The last match feature the the good guy survivors from the previous matches against all the bad guy survivors from the previous matches, so this match was Hulk Hogan, Ultimate Warrior and Tito Santana vs. Million Dollar Man, Rick Martel, Power and Glory and Warlord. 3 vs 5. In all, this event was one of the best WWF pay per views ever and I give it 10 out of 10