30 Greatest EVER WWE Survivor Series Moments

6. Wild Wild Best (1995)

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An ingenious concept for the time, the Wild Card match at Survivor Series 1995 pitted heels and babyfaces with and against one another long before they bizarrely made peace over wearing the same coloured t-shirts.

Intricately booked with just the right amount of comedic and logical backstabbing, the match utilised Shawn Michaels' white hot form alongside new sensation Ahmed Johnson to carry the contest. Shawn's shrug as he inadvertently nailed his partner-for-the-night Sid was a glorious callback to his mistake the prior year, and Sid's maniacal and dramatic revenge powerbomb added great heft to the contest's dynamic final third.

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