[1990-11-17-WWF-Superstars] Survivor Series Report w/Gene Okerlund

[Loss]

Talk about it here.

[Loss]

Survivor Series sure is going to be egg-citing, as Gene Okerlund says. I still love that Rick Martel called his team The Visionaries. Slaughter being paired with Boris Zhukov and the Orient Express amuses me. The Hulkamaniacs ... you know, it would really annoy me if my team captain insisted that the team be named after him. What a self-absorbed phony Hogan was.

[PeteF3]

I thought the Grand Finale was a way cool method to climax the show, but it's gotten very little hype so far--probably because you can't really hype a match where you don't know the participants.

 

I wish WWF Magazine had produced scorecards for the Royal Rumble. I'd have been all over that shit.

[soup23]

Scorecards were neat.

 

I love these final hype jobs but in 1990 Survivor Series was clearly treated as the 4th most important PPV and Summerslam as 2nd.

[Kevin Ridge]

Gene goes over the Survivor Series card. The Alliance is one of my least favorite Survivor Series teams. Was Santana filling in for someone else? Surprise 4th team member for the Million Dollar Team. Tugboat and Boss Man both put over Hogan for their team. Okerlund didn’t much of a job of explaining how the Grand Finale works.

[garretta]

This question is for anyone who watched this in real time: Who did you think the Million Dollar Team's mystery partner might be? Someone who was returning? A major defection from WCW? I didn't have much of an idea myself, but given that problems were already brewing between Teddy and Virgil on house shows, if they hadn't landed Taker I could see Virgil being the mystery partner and costing Teddy a fall in some way. (The match I'm referring to was in Greensboro on October 28, according to Graham Cawthon, Virgil cost Teddy a match against Dusty and choked Teddy out with a towel when he objected afterward.)

 

I'm not sure they felt the need to explain the Grand Finale; it was supposed to be the same as all the other elimination matches except for the possibly uneven sides. I would have liked the winners to split some sort of cash prize just to make things a bit more interesting, but what do immortals like Hogan and Warrior need with money anyway? They do what they do for their fans and the greater glory of Vince!

 

I find it interesting that this is the only year that they had a grand finale; this was probably so they could end the night with Hogan and Warrior standing united as one. I'll watch the match for review purposes soon, but as I recall it wasn't much of a competitive bout even though the heels had a two-man advantage and a full team (the Visionaries) on their side.

 

The egg didn't exactly get a ton of hype here either; I wonder exactly when Vince settled on the Gobbledygooker as what was going to hatch.

 

The promos here were standard, with plenty of uses of "survive", "survival", etc. to pound us over the head with the idea that this was indeed the Survivor Series. Hogan sounded a bit subdued, and, in a real headscratcher, the Warriors got no mic time at all. The Hulkamaniacs/Disasters match is clearly supposed to be the main event among the known matches.

[thebrainfollower]

Watching at the time I thought it would be Dustin Rhodes but renamed Dustin Dibiase or something like that. "I bought a son dusty bwhahahahahaha" or something like that.