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Survivor Series (1996)

World Wrestling Federation pay-per-view event

Summary

World Wrestling Federation pay-per-view event

Field	Value
name	Survivor Series
image	SS 96.jpg
caption	Promotional poster featuring Bret Hart, Shawn Michaels, Sycho Sid, and Stone Cold Steve Austin
tagline	Back to Attack
promotion	World Wrestling Federation
date	November 17, 1996
venue	Madison Square Garden
city	New York City, New York
attendance	18,647
buyrate	160,000
lastevent	In Your House 11: Buried Alive
nextevent	In Your House 12: It's Time
event	Survivor Series
lastevent2	1995
nextevent2	1997

The 1996 Survivor Series was the 10th annual Survivor Series professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE). It was presented by Milton Bradley's Karate Fighters, and took place on November 17, 1996, at Madison Square Garden in New York, New York. The event is notable for seeing the debut of Dwayne Johnson, who wrestled under the name of Rocky Maivia in this event, and would later become known as The Rock.

The main event was a standard wrestling match for the WWF Championship. Shawn Michaels defended the title against Sycho Sid. Sid won the title by pinning Michaels after hitting him with a television camera and performing a Powerbomb. The match was notable for the crowd's unexpected support for the villainous Sid instead of Michaels, an "edginess" that would influence the dawn of WWF's Attitude Era.

The undercard featured Faarooq, Vader, Razor Ramon, and Diesel versus Flash Funk, Savio Vega, Yokozuna, and Jimmy Snuka, who had been inducted into the WWF Hall Of Fame the night before, in a four-on-four Survivor Series elimination match, Bret Hart versus Stone Cold Steve Austin in a standard wrestling match to determine the number one contender to the WWF Championship, Marc Mero, Rocky Maivia, Jake Roberts, and The Stalker versus Crush, Jerry Lawler, Hunter Hearst Helmsley, and Goldust in a four-on-four Survivor Series elimination match, The Undertaker versus Mankind in a standard wrestling match and The Godwinns, Doug Furnas and Phil LaFon versus The New Rockers, Owen Hart and The British Bulldog. The event also marked Yokozuna's final appearance.

Production

Background

Survivor Series is an annual gimmick pay-per-view (PPV), produced every November by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE) since 1987. In what has become the second longest running pay-per-view event in history (behind WWE's WrestleMania), it is one of the promotion's original four pay-per-views, along with WrestleMania, SummerSlam, and Royal Rumble, and was considered one of the "Big Five" PPVs, along with King of the Ring. The event is traditionally characterized by having Survivor Series matches, which are tag team elimination matches that typically pits teams of four or five wrestlers against each other. The 1996 event was the 10th event in the Survivor Series chronology and was scheduled to be held on November 17, 1996, at Madison Square Garden in New York, New York.

Storylines

Survivor Series consisted of professional wrestling matches involving wrestlers from pre-existing feuds and storylines that played out on Monday Night Raw — WWF's primary television program. Wrestlers portrayed a hero or a villain as they followed a series of events that built tension, and culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches.

Results

Paul Bearer was suspended above the ring in a shark cage.

Survivor Series elimination matches

Wrestler	Eliminated by	Method	Time
Aldo Montoya	The Sultan	Submission	3:55
Salvatore Sincere	Bart Gunn	Pinfall	6:55
Bob Holly	Justin Bradshaw	8:35
Justin Bradshaw	Jesse James	8:46
The Sultan	9:44
Jesse James	Billy Gunn	9:59
Billy Gunn	Bart Gunn	10:46
Bart Gunn

Wrestler	Eliminated by	Method	Time
Marty Jannetty	Henry O. Godwinn	Pinfall	8:12
Henry O. Godwinn	Owen Hart	8:18
Phineas I. Godwinn	The British Bulldog	9:04
Leif Cassidy	Phil Lafon	13:43
The British Bulldog	17:22
Owen Hart	Doug Furnas	20:41
Doug Furnas and Phil Lafon

Wrestler	Eliminated by	Method	Time
Jerry Lawler	Jake Roberts	Pinfall	10:01
The Stalker	Goldust	12:44
Hunter Hearst Helmsley	Marc Mero	19:20
Marc Mero	Crush	20:36
Jake Roberts	20:54
Crush	Rocky Maivia	23:12
Goldust	23:44
Rocky Maivia

Wrestler	Eliminated by	Method	Time
Savio Vega	Fake Diesel	Pinfall	8:39
Fake Razor Ramon	Jimmy Snuka	9:28
Faarooq	N/A	Disqualification	9:48
Vader
Fake Diesel
Flash Funk
Jimmy Snuka
Yokozuna
None

Other on-screen personnel

References

Sources

References

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(November 17, 1996). "WWE Championship Match: Sid def. Shawn Michaels to become new WWE Champion". [[World Wrestling Entertainment]].

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