Ranking Every WWE Survivor Series From Worst To Best
13. 1997
The Good: The Montreal Screwjob, for how it changed everything. Almost nothing else on the card has any merit, other than Stone Cold Steve Austin's smoke-and-mirrrors return from injury. Bret Hart would have put 'The Rattlesnake' over on this show, but Vince McMahon had the patience to hold off on pulling the trigger.
The Bad: The Montreal Screwjob, for how it forced a good man away from the thing he loved the most in the worst way possible. And the wrest of this wretched show. A Team USA/Team Canada match was the saddest ending imaginable for the Hart Foundation's 1997 war on America, whilst botch-laden openers highlighted the scale of the task at hand as Vince McMahon repositioned his empire going forward.
The Ugly: The Montreal Screwjob, for how it rewarded the persistent bad behaviour of a petulant - and, admittedly, brilliant - top star. Shawn Michaels and Triple H favoured their boss instead of their fellow man and neither particularly suffered any consequences. The wrestling business is sometimes uglier than the angles within it.