10 Times WWE Survivor Series Decisions Backfired
9. Turning Survivor Series Into A Commercial (1991)
In 1991, WWE experimented with the idea of running weekly pay-per-views down the line (a decade before TNA did so out of necessity) by airing an event six nights following Survivor Series called This Tuesday in Texas. The excuse for running the card was to give Randy Savage an outlet to exact revenge on Jake Roberts, and to hold the immediately-instituted Hulk Hogan/Undertaker WWE Championship rematch.
To the fans at home, Savage seemed like a logical choice to replace an injured Sid Justice in his Survivor Series match (Roberts captained the other team), and it wasn't until the PPV began that President Jack Tunney announced that neither Savage or Roberts would wrestle that night. It was bait-and-switch through implication, and most of Survivor Series was spent hyping another pay-per-view, making the event-in-progress feel secondary. This Tuesday in Texas bombed, doing half the buyrate of the established Survivor Series, and the weekly idea was scrapped.