Backstage: ‘Mean’ Gene is in the interview area, shocked that Undertaker is the new champion. Okerlund calls ‘Rowdy’ Roddy Piper in for his thoughts, Hot Rod talking about anything happening in the WWF. He calls for WWF President Jack Tunney to do something about it, warning Flair & Undertaker that he can hear the bells and they are calling. Sean Mooney is in the locker room with Ric Flair & Mr. Perfect, Perfect speaking about the end of Hulkamania. Flair wonders what we thought would happen when he arrived in the WWF, saying he warned Hulk that his reign would be short-lived. After all these years of people believing in Hogan, but now that’s all over. No more Hollywood, no more limousines, no more little kids running wild. We go back to Gene Okerlund, breaking the news that Jack Tunney and Hulk Hogan are having a meeting as we speak. Gene brings in The Natural Disasters & Irwin R. Schyster alongside Jimmy Hart. Earthquake says the only shock tonight will be what they do to the Legion Of Doom & Big Boss Man. Jimmy thinks this match should have been 4 on 3, it wasn’t any of their fault that Randy Savage got bitten. Back to Sean Mooney who is with their opponents, The Legion Of Doom speaking about Jack Tunney’s decision to make it 3 on 3, Big Boss Man states he’s not afraid of all the big talk. One way or another, they will all serve hard time. We go to Gene again who’s with WWF President Jack Tunney, Tunney claiming the referee’s decision is final, but there will be a rematch at This Tuesday In Texas where he will be ringside to make sure there’s a fair outcome.

Match #4 – Traditional Survivor Series Elimination Match: The Beverly Brothers (Beau & Blake) & The Nasty Boys (Brian Knobbs & Jerry Sags) w/The Genius & ‘Mouth Of The South’ Jimmy Hart vs. The Bushwhackers (Luke & Butch) & The Rockers (Shawn Michaels & Marty Jannetty)
Butch will begin with Knobbs, Butch with right hands off the tie-up, rakes the eyes, Knobbs battling back, gets a whip to the ropes reversed and takes a knee to the ribs. Luke gets the tag and The Bushwhackers lay out Knobbs with a double clothesline, Sags comes in and is driven to the mat, then driven into his partner. The Bushwhackers dispose of The Nasty Boys with double clotheslines, The Beverlys hit the ring and all 4 men brawl.

The Bushwhackers send them colliding into each other, score with a Battering Ram to each Beverly and clear the ring, The Nasty Boys pull themselves to the apron and The Rockers send them back down with double dropkicks. Order is restored, Shawn & Blake taking the ring now, Blake forces Michaels into the corner and doesn’t break clean. Shawn reverses a whip across, charges in and meets a back elbow to the mouth, irish whip to the ropes, Blake ducks his head for a back body drop and Michaels counters with a swinging neckbreaker.

He can’t capitalize and is split with an inverted atomic drop, Blake follows with a backbreaker and tags out. Knobbs comes in looking for an elbow drop, Shawn rolls out of the way, hits the ropes and connects with a high knee before tagging. Luke is in delivering shots to Knobbs in the corner, Knobbs reverses a whip across and charges in for a splash, but Luke side-steps it. Sags distracts Luke from the apron, Knobbs climbs to the 2nd rope and hits a flying clothesline, hooks the leg and Luke’s night is over. Luke has been eliminated.

Michaels steps right in, sends Knobbs in for a back body drop, Knobbs sees it coming and drops a double axe, then brings in Sags. He plants Shawn with a vertical suplex, buries shoulders to the midsection in the corner, whips Michaels across and rushes in for a back elbow. Shawn hops out of the way to the apron, springs to the top turnbuckle and scores with a crossbody for a count of 2, quickly catches Sags in an armdrag and tagging out. Jannetty comes in with a splash to the arm, locks on an armbar Sags gains a vertical base, gets an irish whip reversed and knocks Marty down with a shoulder.

Back to the ropes, Jannetty with an armdrag and he goes right back to the armbar, Sags using the hair to force Marty in the wrong corner and brings Beau into the match. Beau scores with a neck snap, shoots Marty in for a back body drop, Jannetty lands on his feet and connects with a superkick for a near fall. He hooks an armbar, Beau backs him to the corner to break the hold, but is taken back down with a drop toe hold, then grounded by a front facelock. Beau powers his way up, props Marty on the top turnbuckle, the referee steps in to create a break, Jannetty hops over Beau and bumps into the referee, allowing Beau to attack from behind.

He sends Marty hard into the corner, plants him with a gutwrench suplex and gets a 2 count. He utilizes a side headlock, Jannetty tries to push him off to the ropes, Beau reverses and both guys collide heads and hit the mat. Blake & Butch get tags, Butch unloads with rights and lefts, turns Blake inside-out with a clothesline, Beau hits the ring and is flattened by one of his own. Sags gets the referee’s attention from the apron, the numbers catch up to Butch and The Beverlys send him to the ropes, scoring with the Shaker Heights Spike for the 1-2-3. Butch has been eliminated.

Jannetty hops right in and unloads with punches, sends Beau to the ropes for a back elbow, then into the corner for a monkey flip. He follows with a hurricanrana for a near fall, Marty grabs a front facelock, Beau pushes him off to the ropes, catches a kick attempt, but gets clocked by an enzuigiri. He rolls to his corner to make a tag, Blake rushes right into an armdrag, Michaels makes a tag and uses a wristlock, Blake breaking it with a headbutt. He chokes Shawn on the middle rope, Knobbs intervenes behind the official’s back, Beau with a tag and he leapfrogs Blake into a seated senton on Michaels’ lower back for a count of 2.

Shawn is tossed to the outside, Beau holds the ref’s attention and Knobbs drops down, driving Shawn spine-first into the ring apron. Beau drags him back in by the hair, shoots him in for a back elbow, then drops another on the lower back before sending Michaels hard into the corner. He plants Shawn with a side slam off the rebound, whips Shawn back in for another, Michaels flips over to his feet, hooks a backslide and sneaks in the pinfall. Beau Beverly has been eliminated. Blake ambushes Shawn after the fall, drives him spine-first into the top turnbuckle and plants him with a running powerslam for a 2 count.

Knobbs tags in and sends Michaels in for a back body drop, Shawn counters with a sunset flip and gains his own 2 count, Sags getting a quick tag to prevent Michaels from reaching his corner. He pushes Shawn to the ropes and tosses him over the top, Michaels lands on his feet on the apron, dropkicks Sags from behind and sends him to the outside. He heads to the apron and flies to the floor with a clothesline, Knobbs comes around to help and eats a superkick for his troubles, Shawn rolling Sags back in and scaling the corner. He comes off the top and catches a right hand to the face, Blake tags back in and hits the ropes for a leg drop, hits Michaels with a hot shot and whips him in for a back body drop.

Michaels has it scouted, delivers a kick and finally crawls to a tag as Knobbs enters, Marty coming in with a flurry of fists to all his opponents. He shoots Knobbs to the ropes for a jumping back elbow, snapmares him over and gets a count of 2, Knobbs going to the eyes and bringing Blake back in, Blake getting caught in an armdrag as he enters. Blake pushes Marty to the ropes, Jannetty rolls through, grabs a waistlock and pushes Blake to the ropes for a roll-up, Blake hangs on and Marty rolls through again, hooking Blake for a near fall. Blake squirms away and tags Knobbs, he whips Jannetty hard into the corner plants him with a front slam and merely gets 1 before bringing Sags in.

Sags scores with a pumphandle slam, follows with a back suplex and tags out. Knobbs comes off the 2nd rope for a splash, Marty gets the knees up and makes the tag, Shawn coming in to send Knobbs to the ropes, it’s reversed, but Michaels is right back with a clothesline. All 5 guys are in the ring now, The Rockers sandwich Blake with Knobbs & Sags, Marty lifts Sags for a slam, Shawn is hit in the face accidentally by Sags’ feet, Knobbs grabs a roll-up and Michaels is finished. Shawn Michaels has been eliminated. Michaels loses his cool and berates Jannetty before exiting, Marty looks to apologize, but Shawn pushes him away before finally accepting his apology.

Knobbs ambushes Marty from behind with the numbers in his favor, shoots Jannetty to the corner and charges in, running into a boot to the face. He follows with a bulldog off the 2nd rope and covers, Sags breaks the count at 2 and throws Jannetty to the floor. Blake tags in and drags Marty back inside, whips him to the ropes and plants him with a powerslam, pulling Jannetty up during the count to dish out more punishment. Knobbs comes back in and utilizes a wristlock, Marty springs on the ropes to counter out, slides between the legs and out to the floor, dragging Knobbs with him. Sags looks to intervene and is met with a superkick, Jannetty heads up top and takes out both Nasty Boys on the outside with a crossbody before climbing to the apron.

He slides between Blake’s legs and back into the ring, into the ropes they go and Marty connects with a facebuster, The Nasty Boys entering from behind for a double clothesline to no avail. Blake has the official occupied as Jannetty gets a small package on Sags, Knobbs switches the momentum, the ref turning around to make the 3 count.
Winners & Sole Survivors: The Nasty Boys & Blake Beverly

• EA’s Take: This felt painstakingly long to me, the best spots of the match coming near the end with The Rockers’ high flying. Our newcomers The Beverly Brothers are Wayne Bloom (Beau) & Mike Enos (Blake), formerly known as The Destruction Crew in the AWA and The Minnesota Wrecking Crew 2 in the NWA. After the AWA closed it’s doors down in 1990, the duo would work for New Japan before arriving in the WWF in May of 91, taking on the gimmick of two spoiled, rich, bleach blonde brothers and receiving a fair push in the tag team ranks. The Bushwhackers remain at the lower end of the tag team spectrum, while The Nasty Boys were headed in that direction after losing the tag titles at SummerSlam. The Rockers had a lot of friction between the two backstage, even breaking down into a real-life brawl in which Jannetty put a beating on Michaels (Marty was nearly arrested, but Randy Savage convinced the cops it was part of a storyline). This would be their final PPV match as a team as the split was put into motion on television, with the infamous turn airing in early January of 1992 which saw Shawn superkick Marty on Brutus Beefcake’s show ‘The Barber Shop’, bloodying him by sending him face-first through a glass window. The two were set to feud, however Marty would be fired shortly after the segment aired.

Match #5 – Traditional Survivor Series Elimination Match: The Natural Disasters (Earthquake & Typhoon) & Irwin R. Schyster w/’Mouth Of The South’ Jimmy Hart vs. Big Boss Man & WWF Tag Team Champions The Legion Of Doom (Hawk & Animal)
Boss Man kicks off our main event with IRS, Boss Man backing Schyster into the corner off the lock-up, IRS doesn’t break clean and sends him to the ropes. Big Boss Man slides to the outside, trips up IRS and goes to climb up, but sees Schyster rolling away and changes him mind. He whips Schyster hard into the turnbuckles, tries again and it’s reversed, Boss Man takes to the outside once more and is back in on the other side for a clothesline.

IRS ducks it, charges into the corner and runs into a boot to the face, then gets dropped by an uppercut before making a tag. Earthquake takes the ring and wants a piece of Animal, Boss Man obliges and makes the tag. Animal applies a side headlock, Quake pushes him off to the ropes and they collide shoulders, neither man budging. Animal goes back to the ropes, ducks a back elbow and goes for a crossbody, Earthquake catches him in the air and cracks him with a backbreaker, but misses a follow-up splash. Animal scores with a dropkick, Quake reversing a whip to the ropes, misses a right hand and turns around into a shoulder tackle, Animal gaining a near fall.

IRS re-enters and gets caught in a wristlock, Hawk comes in off the top with a club to the arm and utilizes a hammerlock. Schyster gains the rope to force a break, Hawk reverses a whip in and buries a boot to the midsection, Typhoon making a blind tag on the way through. Hawk presses IRS over his head, throws him at Typhoon and the big man catches him, but Hawk follows with a dropkick to take him down and get a 2 count. He sends Typhoon into his corner and distracts the referee as Animal & Boss Man put a beating on, Hawk unloads with heavy rights in the corner and Typhoon drops like a bad habit.

He crawls over and tags out, Earthquake comes in and locks up, Hawk with a side headlock and Quake carries him to his corner, IRS making the tag and grabbing a side headlock of his own. Hawk powers out with a back suplex, drops a fist and brings Boss Man in for stiff right hands. He hangs Schyster on the middle rope, jumps on his back with a seated senton, then stands on IRS’ tie to prevent him from escaping to the outside. Earthquake makes his way around ringside to bait the LOD, the official turns his back and Typhoon slides in Schyster’s briefcase, IRS clobbering Big Boss Man, disposing of the evidence and covering for the pinfall. Big Boss Man has been eliminated.

Typhoon ambushes Animal as LOD helps Boss Man out of the ring, Hawk is livid and has the ref distracted while The Natural Disasters work him over, Earthquake claiming he was tagged and plants Animal with a belly to belly suplex. He tags out and IRS comes in off the top with a right hand, drops a leg to the lower abdomen and baits Hawk into the ring for more double teaming in the corner. Typhoon back in, sends Animal to the ropes and squeezes him in a bearhug, backs Animal into the corner, shoots him across and charges into a boot. Hawk gets the tag and unleashes a flurry of fists, whips Typhoon to the ropes for a flying shoulder tackle, Schyster steps in and distracts Hawk, also drawing Animal into the ring.

The official works to get Animal back to the corner, Quake hands IRS the briefcase, Typhoon holds Hawk, but Hawk avoids it and Typhoon gets clocked, Hawk immediately taking advantage to get the elimination. Typhoon has been eliminated. Earthquake checks on his partner and points the finger at Schyster. They exchange words and Quake threatens to deck him, but instead grabs his partner and helps him to the dressing room, leaving IRS to fend for himself. Earthquake has been eliminated.

Hawk quickly goes after Schyster in the corner, hits a dropkick and shoots him to the ropes for a powerslam. He whips IRS back to the corner, rushes in and IRS side-steps out, Hawk going shoulder-first into the ring post and getting dumped outside. Schyster rams Hawk into the ring steps, rolls him in the squared circle and sends him to the ropes for a back elbow. He grounds Hawk with a side headlock, Hawk finds his footing, gets sent back to the ropes and they collide in a botched spot. IRS attempts a vertical suplex, Hawk blocks it and hits one of his own, falls backwards into a tag and Animal hits the ring, shooting Schyster to the ropes for a shoulder tackle.

Animal sends him back in for a powerslam, Hawk steps in and the champions connect with a double clothesline, Schyster, rolling outside and he’s had enough. Big Boss Man comes back out through the curtain with his nightstick to force IRS back to the ring, Animal suplexes him in from the apron, Hawk follows with a clothesline from upstairs, Animal makes the cover and they survive.
Winners & Sole Survivors: The Legion Of Doom

• EA’s Take: Nothing too spectacular here, the placement of this match being a little odd to me. LOD is super-over, but with Savage & Roberts no longer involved this didn’t feel like a main event to me. Nothing bad about the match, but nothing too exciting either. Boss Man’s “last laugh” on IRS was a little bittersweet as it wasn’t even his own doing, but LOD’s. The Natural Disasters seemed to tease a face turn here, but that would have to wait as they’d continue to chase LOD for tag team gold heading into 1992.

Backstage: In the locker room is Sean Mooney who just left Hulk Hogan’s dressing room, Hulkster claiming he’ll take back the title Tuesday In Texas, but doesn’t want to be on camera as his actions in the ring will do the talking. Gene Okerlund has finally located The Undertaker & Paul Bearer down in the depths of the arena. Paul says that nothing is immortal, not even Hulkamania as we all witnessed it die tonight. Most of the time services are performed immediately, but they will put that on hold until Tuesday. Taker states that they warned us what was in store for Hogan and he wants to give Gene a glimpse at what’s in store for Hulkamania. Undertaker cracks open a casket and says the burial will be this Tuesday.

EA’s Finisher: This is arguably the best Survivor Series to date in my opinion, the action was a lot cleaner than years past. The 4 on 4 format works and adding in a singles title match really breaks up the repetitiveness of the format. I’d have preferred the title match be the main event though, I have always been a proponent of the championship holding that spot for every PPV, it’s supposed to be the most coveted prize and should be treated as such. It seemed as if the WWF was more focused on promoting the This Tuesday In Texas special to end the night, giving us an LOD babyface victory to finish out the action. The company’s transition to younger talent is becoming more evident, despite the fact that some of the younger fans were afraid of Undertaker, he actually received a fair amount of cheers as well. The people were beginning to yearn for something different and in due time, for better or for worse, that change was inevitable.

Top Three To Watch
1 – Flair’s Team vs. Piper’s Team
2 – Hulk Hogan vs. The Undertaker
3 – LOD’s Team vs. Natural Disasters’ Team

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