10 Worst WWE Survivor Series EVER - According To Dave Meltzer
2. Survivor Series 1999 (1.61)
Steve Austin wasn't half p*ssed off when he returned to television nearly a year after Rikishi mowed him down in the car park of Detroit's Joe Louis Arena before he could main event Survivor Series 1999. If he'd seen the rest of the broadcast instead of being carted off in an ambulance, he'd probably have bought the dancing Samoan an appreciative pint.
Aside from the bait and switch main event (that itself was an absolute stinker), the rest of the card doesn't remotely try and galvanise support from a crowd ordinarily head over heels with the company's output.
White hot on television, WWE was tacitly trapped between creative regimes following the recent exit of Vince Russo and Ed Ferrara and it tended to show itself on pay-per-view around the time. Unforgiven, No Mercy, Survivor Series and Armageddon were all risible before the company sprang back to life and hit home-runs nearly every month in 2000.
The undercard may be one of the most haphazard talent arrangements in company history. Only Kurt Angle's debut victory over Shawn Stasiak warrants rewatch to revel in the birthing of one of Vince McMahon's finest creations, but the elimination matches on the show are uniformly dreadful. Even Chris Jericho, desperate for acceptance in his new surroundings, couldn't get much from Intercontinental Champion Chyna.