10 Fascinating WWE Survivor Series 1988 Facts

10. The Coliseum Video Version Was Brutally Edited

Whatsamatter, you wanted watch the whole show or something? Before WWE re-released the show as part of a 2009 DVD collection, your only hope was to hit up eBay for someone's personal recording of the pay-per-view. That's because the Coliseum Video version took a chainsaw to much of the show.

For reasons that aren't clear, two of the matches (Ultimate Warrior's team vs. Honky Tonk Man's team, Jake Roberts' team vs. Andre the Giant's team) are whittled down to virtually nothing, jumping from one elimination sequence to the next. Meanwhile, the 20-man tag, which spans more than 40 minutes, is shown in full. Double-you-tee-eff?

Other WWE events of the time were edited for time reasons, with filler bits cut out to fit the event better onto video tape. Cutting filler is one thing, but chopping down entire matches into sped-up highlight packages for an official pay-per-view release is just bizarre.