10 Fascinating WWE Survivor Series 2003 Facts
1. The Buyrate Was Up Considerably From The Year Before
Numbers dropped throughout 2002 and 2003, the boom having gone bust. There was no reclaiming the trumped-up metrics of the Attitude Era, no matter what hotshotting or desperation booking was thrown into the mix. When WrestleMania XIX did the lowest 'Mania buyrate in six years, the writing was on the wall for WWE's immediate future.
Survivor Series, however, managed to be a surprise exception. The show did 450,000 buys, up more than 32 percent from one year earlier. With a Buried Alive match, an Ambulance match, a Goldberg title defense, and a do-or-die match involving Austin, there were plenty of special attractions, undoubtedly.
The event was little more than 28,000 buys away from being the most-bought Survivor Series ever, incredibly (Survivor Series 1998 did 478,000 buys). It even narrowly beat out the 1999 show and convincingly topped 2000, so it held its own against fare from a more-watched time, at least for one night.