10 Awesome Things You Don't Remember About WWE's Ruthless Aggression Era

10. Straight Edge Means I€™m More Popular Than You

At Survivor Series on November 26th 2006, CM Punk teamed with Shawn Michaels, Triple H, and Matt and Jeff Hardy to take on Edge, Randy Orton, Johnny Nitro, Gregory Helms and Mike Knox in a traditional five-on-five elimination match.

The mis-match was embarrassing (Mike Knox?!), and the results confirmed it: a five man shut out, Team Rated-RKO were humiliated in defeat.

You could tell The Game wasn€™t best pleased. You€™ve got to bear something in mind, here: he was standing in the ring with a man that he and Michaels had supposedly buried the year before while watching a 2005 tryout from the gorilla position.

More than that, this wasn€™t a competitive Survivor Series elimination contest designed to conclude or advance storylines. It was a glorified squash match designed to make Triple H and Michaels look (and feel) like heroes on the night.

They were a team that represented the glory days of the Attitude Era: the safest, most generic babyface versions of D-Generation X and Team Extreme. For the Hardy Boyz, it was the first time they€™d teamed in nearly five years.

This was an exercise in nostalgia, the pro wrestling equivalent of getting the old band together for a one-off gig. The Philadelphia crowd had other ideas, however. They knew the future when they saw it.