The ultimate goal when youre in a Survivor Series match is to end up standing tall at the end. Sure, it feels great if your team wins, but if youre back in the locker room having been pinned, it doesnt feel quite as sweet. Not surprisingly, some fairly obvious men have been left in the ring to have their hand raised. Most Times A Survivor: 4 (tie), Randy Orton, Hulk Hogan and Ultimate Warrior Given that Randy Orton is 34 years old, odds are that he will break free from this three-way tie and take over the top spot at some point. Orton also has the most elimination, so he has an argument as the best Survivor Series performer of all time. Most Times A Survivor, Never Eliminated: 4, Ultimate Warrior Its absolutely uncanny to think that even Hogan (eliminated once), Orton (four times) and Savage (once) all have been eliminated from a Survivor Series match, but Warrior was left standing at the end of every one in which he competed. Interestingly, the only other person who could touch this record is John Cena, who has never been eliminated from any of the three Survivor Series matches hes entered. If hes in the ring getting his hand raised Sunday, hell tie Warrior. Most Times Sole Survivor: 3 (tie), Randy Orton and Ultimate Warrior Orton and Warrior both managed to pull off a truly impressive feat they not only were sole survivors of three elimination matches, they did it in three consecutive matches. Its a feat that will probably never be duplicated, unless John Cena suddenly gets an itch to enter Survivor Series matches. Of the 253 men who have fought in at least one elimination match, only 92 have actually survived, and many of those who have survived have been eliminated in other matches. In 28 of the 71 Survivor Series matches, there has been just a sole survivor.
Scott is a former journalist and longtime wrestling fan who was smart enough to abandon WCW during the Monday Night Wars the same time as the Radicalz. He fondly remembers watching WrestleMania III, IV, V and VI and Saturday Night's Main Event, came back to wrestling during the Attitude Era, and has been a consumer of sports entertainment since then. He's written for WhatCulture for more than a decade, establishing the Ups and Downs articles for WWE Raw and WWE PPVs/PLEs and composing pieces on a variety of topics.
