The History of the Survivor Series (1987 - 2024)
POST Wrestling
POST Wrestling
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🗓️ 27 November 2025
⏱️ 199 minutes
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Summary
John Pollock covers the history of the Survivor Series event with a year-by-year analysis, beginning in 1987 and going through its many iterations.
Pollock covers the impact of the inaugural event running on the same day as Starrcade in 1987, the changes involving the elimination matches over the years, the most successful and least successful events, the finale of the Invasion story in 2001, the debut of the Elimination Chamber, Raw vs. SmackDown themed shows, and the usage of War Games.
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| 0:00.0 | This month at post wrestling cafe.com, go Excel and you get live editions of Rewind a raw, |
| 0:06.3 | rewind a dynamite, and rewind a Smackdown featuring all the news of the day, your questions |
| 0:11.1 | and answers, as well as feedback. Post wrestling cafe.com, $6 gets you in the door. |
| 0:17.4 | Hello, everybody. It is John Pollock, and this is a special presentation here at post-wrest wrestling. |
| 0:23.9 | We're following in our lookbacks at WrestleMania and SummerSlam earlier this year. |
| 0:28.9 | It is the history of the Survivor Series with the 39th edition of the show coming up this Saturday in San Diego, California. |
| 0:36.8 | We're going to go back to the very inaugural show in 1997, and then we are going to go through all |
| 0:42.6 | subsequent years briefly discussing the history of the show in each consecutive year up until |
| 0:50.5 | the present. |
| 0:51.1 | So that is what is in store. |
| 0:53.4 | If you're listening to this in audio form, you're going to get this all together. |
| 0:57.8 | Video-wise, on our YouTube subscribers, this is probably going to be broken up because I am only one man that is tackling all of this. |
| 1:05.3 | So we're going to go back and again, it's just going to be, this is not going to be an exhaustive review of every single show, more so some of the highlights, business notes and significant or insignificance of some of the shows. |
| 1:16.7 | When you have 38, there are some important shows in the legacy of the Survivor series. |
| 1:22.6 | There are also a lot of very passable, skippable, and atrocious shows in that given history. |
| 1:29.1 | We also have a stack of books here. |
| 1:31.0 | So when called upon, I may be relying on some other perspectives here when it comes to |
| 1:36.2 | some notable events in the history of the Survivor series. |
| 1:39.9 | But where are we going first? |
| 1:40.7 | We are going to, 1987, which in many ways would be considered right up there of the most dramatic of |
| 1:50.4 | Survivor Series because of the implications that this had. |
| 1:54.0 | Let's go back to 1987 and the WWF is pretty well thriving at this point. |
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