10 Worst Survivor Series Elimination Matches EVER - According To Dave Meltzer
5. The Godwinns, Billy Gunn & The Road Dogg Vs The Headbangers & The New Blackjacks (1997, DUD)
The real life and kayfabe controversy that bookended Bret Hart and Shawn Michaels' emotionally charged Survivor Series 1997 main event helped mask an utterly pathetic undercard made up of uniformly dreadful four-on-four elimination scraps.
Team USA vs Team Canada was a woefully booked affair and some staple-of-the-time faction action will appear later in the list, but a listles brawl early on the show between two clumsy quartets highlighted exactly why the makeshift pairing of Billy Gunn and The Road Dogg were able to break so far away from a barely chasing pack.
Devoid of heat with six performers either unable or unwilling to generate it, Dogg and Gunn were a riot in their red hot new personas as absolute pr*cks, almost immediately looking the right choice to dethrone the dinosauric Legion Of Doom whenever a tag title shot came their way. Winning this match through chicanery as they had every other one since forming, the duo dodged any form of comeuppance from the babyfaces they'd spent weeks abusing, and even dodged repercussions from a Godwinn duo they'd manipulated into siding with them in the first place.
The New Age Outlaws weren't perfect all-rounders, but their wanton disregard for a division on life support was the last gasp the league desperately needed. This contest couldn't have made it clearer.