10 Best Survivor Series Teams Of All Time

In today's WWE Universe, the Survivor Series has turned into just another pay-per-view (or "WWE Network special presentation", however you want to say it), but, back in the day, it was one of the premiere events on the WWE calendar.

An Original Four event, the Survivor Series featured an entire card stacked with teams of four wrestlers taking on another team in an elimination tag match. In its earliest incarnation, the "survivors" of the matches on the card would meet in the main event in an Ultimate Survivor Match to determine the king(s) of the Survivor Series.

However, with the Attitude Era came changes in the product and WWE felt that the late 1990s audiences didn't have the attention span for Survivor Series matches, which sometimes ran as long as 40 minutes to tell a proper story. This made the event far less important and less emphasis was placed on the show itself.

With the elimination tag match on Rawnow is the perfect time to look back on some of the best Survivor Series teams (and names) of the past 25 years...

We didn't get any snappy team names at the first Survivor Series event in 1987 but we did get a babyface team that featured 3 Hall of Famers, a brawling crowd favorite, and Brutus Beefcake (they can't all be winners).

This was actually the very first Survivor Series match, as this group took on the team of Harley Race, Hercules, the Honky Tonk Man, Danny Davis and Ron Bass.

Interestingly enough, everyone except Duggan had a program against Honky Tonk Man for the Intercontinental title and drew money with it, giving the babyface squad a common goal.

The babyfaces made pretty quick work of the ragtag group of heels with Savage and Steamboat (bitter enemies only a few months earlier) chasing off the Honky Tonk Man for the victory. While it wasn't a mat classic, it was a great introduction to the format of the match and had the crowd interested the entiretime.