10 Fascinating WWE Survivor Series 2000 Facts
1. It Was The Least Bought Big Five PPV For 2000
The 2000 Survivor Series was the first Big Five pay-per-view with an advertised Stone Cold Steve Austin match since the previous year's edition. Austin had sat out through most of the year while recovering from spinal surgery, so his comeback had potential for big business. His return in September 2000 wound up being a pretty big deal, though the resolution to the mystery driver angle was a bit of a letdown.
Still, it's a bit surprising that Survivor Series 2000 performed worse than the other Big Five events, good for a "mere" 400,000 buys. The 2000 Survivor Series joined the 1993 and 1995 editions as the only events of that name to do worse in buys than the King of the Ring events of the same years.
No matter, WCW's Mayhem pay-per-view the following week did fewer than 100,000 buys (Observer statistician Chris Harrington estimates an anemic 55,000), so it's not like WWE brass were crying into their caviar over their own result.