Survivor Series (1996)
World Wrestling Federation pay-per-view event
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The 1996 Survivor Series was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE) and presented by Milton Bradley's Karate Fighters. It was the 10th annual Survivor Series and took place on November 17, 1996, at Madison Square Garden in New York City, New York. The event is notable for the debut of Dwayne Johnson, who wrestled under his original ring name of Rocky Maivia at this event, and would later become known as The Rock.
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| Promotion | World Wrestling Federation | ||
| Date | November 17, 1996 | ||
| City | New York City, New York | ||
| Venue | Madison Square Garden | ||
| Attendance | 18,647[1] | ||
| Buy rate | 160,000[2] | ||
| Tagline | Back to Attack | ||
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The main event was a standard wrestling match for the WWF Championship. Shawn Michaels defended the title against Sycho Sid, who 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.[3]
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 Survivor Series 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 Survivor Series 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 professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event, produced every November by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE) since 1987, held around Thanksgiving in the United States. 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, referred to as the "Big Four",[4] and was considered one of the "Big Five" PPVs with the addition of King of the Ring in 1993.[5] 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 10th Survivor Series event was scheduled to be held on the Sunday before Thanksgiving on November 17, 1996, at Madison Square Garden in New York City, New York.[6]
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.[7]
Results
Survivor Series elimination matches
| Eliminated | Wrestler | Eliminated by | Method | Time[1] |
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| 1 | Aldo Montoya | The Sultan | Submission | 3:55 |
| 2 | Salvatore Sincere | Bart Gunn | Pinfall | 6:55 |
| 3 | Bob Holly | Justin Bradshaw | 8:35 | |
| 4 | Justin Bradshaw | Jesse James | 8:46 | |
| 5 | The Sultan | 9:44 | ||
| 6 | Jesse James | Billy Gunn | 9:59 | |
| 7 | Billy Gunn | Bart Gunn | 10:46 | |
| Sole Survivor: | Bart Gunn | |||
| Eliminated | Wrestler | Eliminated by | Method | Time[1] |
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| 1 | Marty Jannetty | Henry O. Godwinn | Pinfall | 8:12 |
| 2 | Henry O. Godwinn | Owen Hart | 8:18 | |
| 3 | Phineas I. Godwinn | The British Bulldog | 9:04 | |
| 4 | Leif Cassidy | Phil Lafon | 13:43 | |
| 5 | The British Bulldog | 17:22 | ||
| 6 | Owen Hart | Doug Furnas | 20:41 | |
| Survivors: | Doug Furnas and Phil Lafon | |||
| Eliminated | Wrestler | Eliminated by | Method | Time[1] |
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| 1 | Jerry Lawler | Jake Roberts | Pinfall | 10:01 |
| 2 | The Stalker | Goldust | 12:44 | |
| 3 | Hunter Hearst Helmsley | Marc Mero | 19:20 | |
| 4 | Marc Mero | Crush | 20:36 | |
| 5 | Jake Roberts | 20:54 | ||
| 6 | Crush | Rocky Maivia | 23:12 | |
| 7 | Goldust | 23:44 | ||
| Sole Survivor: | Rocky Maivia | |||
| Eliminated | Wrestler | Eliminated by | Method | Time[1] |
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| 1 | Savio Vega | Diesel | Pinfall | 8:39 |
| 2 | Razor Ramon | Jimmy Snuka | 9:28 | |
| 3 | Faarooq | N/A | Disqualification | 9:48 |
| 4 | Vader | |||
| 5 | Diesel | |||
| 6 | Flash Funk | |||
| 7 | Jimmy Snuka | |||
| 8 | Yokozuna | |||
| Survivors: | None | |||
Other on-screen personnel
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