10 Fascinating WWE Survivor Series 1987 Facts
1. Unsurprisingly, It Slaughtered Starrcade In Terms Of Buys
The aggressive coercion toward cable companies, coupled with the promise of a Hogan/Andre showdown to continue their buzzworthy saga, all but guaranteed that Survivor Series would stomp out the guts of Starrcade on Thanksgiving night. When the numbers came in, that was precisely the story told.
Survivor Series couldn't match WrestleMania III's 400,000 buys, but did well enough for itself, to the tune of 325,000 buys. Considering that pay-per-view availability in 1987 wasn't what it would eventually be, that's still a more-than-satisfactory number.
As for Starrcade, their diminished availability, and general paleness when up against WWE's red-hot product, could only account for an estimated 20,000 buys, almost 94 percent less than Survivor Series' total. To call what was going on a "competition" would be a gross overstatement.