10 Fascinating WWE Survivor Series 1999 Facts
8. It Featured The Only All-Heels Survivor Series Elimination Match
Further underscoring just how threadbare the roster became the further you went down the depth chart, the second elimination match of the night pitted two teams of four, with all eight men on the heel side of the fence.
One team featured three men who would all become babyfaces in short-order anyway: captain Val Venis, Mark Henry (due to the Mae Young connection), and Steve Blackman (eventually with Al Snow as Head Cheese). They teamed with Gangrel to take on the oddball quartet of Davey Boy Smith and The Mean Street Posse.
The Posse members all went quickly, and it was Smith (more firmly a heel than some of his opponents) that attempted the valiant babyface comeback. The crowd barely gave a hoot, and didn't react much when Venis and Henry ultimately survived.