10 Fascinating WWE Survivor Series 1991 Facts

10. It Was The First To Move To Thanksgiving Eve

The 1991 Survivor Series emanated from the Joe Louis Arena in Detroit, MI, and had the distinction of being the first Survivor Series to not take place on Thanksgiving night. Instead, the event took place one evening earlier, on the eve of turkey day.

It's not exactly clear why WWE made the decision to move the event away from Thanksgiving night. It's not like all of the wrestlers got to fly home for the holiday - the roster was split in half, and worked house shows in Canada on Thanksgiving Day. The only three wrestlers that appeared at Survivor Series that didn't wrestle on those shows were Hulk Hogan, Sgt. Slaughter, and Colonel Mustafa (Iron Sheik).

Whatever the case, WWE liked the idea of Thanksgiving Eve Survivor Series so much that they scheduled it as such up through the 1994 edition. As an elementary school kid of the time, lemme tell you just how weird it was to go to school that day, knowing that a big WWE pay-per-view was going to take place that very night.