10 Best Survivor Series Elimination Matches
6. Team Pain Vs. Team Demolition (Survivor Series 1988)
The Match: The Powers of Pain (The Warlord and The Barbarian), The Rockers (Shawn Michaels and Marty Jannetty), The British Bulldogs (Davey Boy Smith and Dynamite Kid), The Hart Foundation (Bret Hart and Jim Neidhart) and The Young Stallions (Jim Powers and Paul Roma) vs. Demolition (Ax and Smash), The Brain Busters (Arn Anderson and Tully Blanchard), The Bolsheviks (Nikolai Volkoff and Boris Zhukov), The Fabulous Rougeaus (Raymond and Jacques Rougeau) and The Conquistadors (Uno and Dos)
With this Sunday re-introducing the 10-on-10 elimination match, what better time to go back to an earlier version of the 20-man bout?
There are few matches in WWE history to feature as much star power as this, and to his credit Vince McMahon had faith in audiences to not get bored, letting the match run just over 40 minutes.
The lore behind this match is arguably more famous than the battle itself, namely Vince having the Rougeaus eliminated quickly so they could high-tail it out of the arena before the British Bulldogs could launch a planned attack on them (in revenge for Jacques Rougeau knocking out some of Dynamite Kid's teeth prior to the PPV).
The rule that an eliminated wrestler would also take their partner with them added more tension to proceedings, there was a lot of variety in the bout (including Mr. Fuji bizarrely turning on Demolition for the Powers of Pain) and it sustained its run-time surprisingly well. A classic.