10 Best Survivor Series Elimination Matches EVER - According To Dave Meltzer
1. Team WWF Vs The Alliance (2001, ****1/2)
Megastars, legends and icons, oh my!
The Invasion story may have been a f*cking compendium of calamity, but it was hard to fault the two 10-man tags that bookended the whole mess. July's 'Inaugural Brawl' had drawn the company's best ever non-'Big Four' pay-per-view buyrate, and this Survivor Series superclash was at least a fittingly humongous end to what should have been the organisation's biggest money angle.
Despite the contest allegedly designed to determine a scorched earth conclusion to the dilapidated drama, the blockbuster contest was instead something of an Attitude Era prologue several months after the period reached its spiritual end at WreslteMania 17. Starring Stone Cold Steve Austin, The Rock, The Undertaker, Kane, Kurt Angle, Chris Jericho, The Big Show and Shane McMahon alongside actual WCW/ECW original talent Booker T and Rob Van Dam, the match was bursting with nearly all of the figures that had featured in Vince McMahon's reascension to the top of the wrestling industry.
Their respective placements in the match ironically highlighted how badly botched the Alliance break-in had been, but was also a stamp of guaranteed quality on the night. A final ten minute match-within-a-match between Rock and Austin highlighted the fact further. That McMahon could pit his two biggest stars against one another in both his biggest and second biggest main events of the year was a stern reminder of exactly how he'd won the real war.