10 Things You Didn't Know About WWE Survivor Series
2. The Longest Elimination Match Ever
Lengthy elimination matches were once the law at Survivor Series. For example, a huge 10-on-10 tag bout from 1998 went 42 minutes and 12 seconds. The year prior, a similar setup lasted 37 minutes. Later, a traditional match in 1995 lasted 27 minutes and 24 seconds.
All of them stand in awe of 2016's Team Raw vs. Team SmackDown shift.
Ready? Good. That brand warfare battle lasted 52 minutes and 55 seconds, thus making it the longest elimination match in Survivor Series history by a considerable margin. The workers? AJ Styles, Bray Wyatt, Dean Ambrose, Randy Orton and Shane McMahon were on the SmackDown side, and Braun Strowman, Chris Jericho, Kevin Owens, Roman Reigns and Seth Rollins made up Team Raw.
Even (answer to a WWE trivia question about chins) James Ellsworth stopped by to make a cameo during the brawl. It was some set piece, and is best-remembered for Shane almost braining himself during a spear spot with Reigns.
These dudes went close to an hour.