7 Survivor Series Statistics You Need To Know
1. The Winning Combination
Last but not least, let’s look at the guys who manage to find themselves on the right team year after year. These aren’t necessarily the guys left standing in the ring at the end of Survivor Series, but they’ve certainly partnered with that guy a few times.
At the end of the day, winning a Survivor Series match gives you bragging rights (unless there are some stipulations attached to the match, like this Sunday’s bout). Your team outlasted the other, possibly overcoming the odds, possibly running right through the other team in a clean sweep. But either way, your team was victorious.
Most Wins: 5 (tie), Shawn Michaels, Davey Boy Smith, Rey Mysterio, Tito Santana, Randy Orton, Big Show
Surprise! The losingest Survivor Series wrestler is also one of the winningest. Michaels is joined by a fellow former tag team specialist who achieved some additional success in singles competition, Davey Boy Smith. The British Bulldog also pulled out five victories, as did Tito Santana. Interestingly, Mysterio is the only one who could break from this pack if SmackDown emerges victorious on Sunday.
Most Wins, No Losses: 4 (tie), Ultimate Warrior, Randy Savage and Undertaker
Three WWE icons are all undefeated in Survivor Series elimination matches, winning four of them. Mark Henry was in this club, until he was KO’d in 2014 and eliminated first.
Highest Winning Percentage, 5 or More Matches: 83.3% (5 wins, 1 loss) (tie), Mysterio and Santana
While this might be surprising to some, both men have managed to survive a couple of elimination matches (Mysterio three, Santana two), so this isn’t a case of them riding everyone’s coattails to victory. Mysterio also has racked up eight eliminations to Santana’s six. Mysterio actually had a perfect 5-0 record until 2013, when he became a footnote to history himself, as he was the fourth person eliminated by Roman Reigns, allowing Roman to set a record for Survivor Series eliminations in one match.
With WWE dialing the number of elimination matches back to about two per Survivor Series PPV, it’s possible that some of these records might remain intact for a long time, but a few of these stats could change after Sunday. As long as WWE keeps trotting out a Survivor Series PPV every Thanksgiving season, we could quite possibly see some records fall over time.