Every Swept WWE Survivor Series Team Ranked From Worst To Best
1. The Vipers (1990)
If you were putting together a babyface Survivor Series team in 1990 WWE, you could do worse than going with these four men. On paper this is a legitimately elite team, a group of competitors coming together to do battle against what seemed to be a much weaker team.
Jake 'The Snake' Roberts was arguably the number three babyface in the entire company at the time, behind only Hulk Hogan and The Ultimate Warrior. 'Superfly' Jimmy Snuka was on the way down but he was still a genuinely credible force, a legendary babyface with plenty to prove. You also had The Rockers, less than a month removed from winning the WWE Tag Team Championships only to see the title change wiped from history.
Despite the strength of that team, they managed to get swept by Rick Martel, The Warlord and Power & Glory (Hercules and Paul Roma). Doesn't make much sense, right?
A closer look at the 1990 Survivor Series makes everything clear. The main event of the show was an elimination match between all the evening's survivors, a match that saw three babyfaces take on five heels. You gotta stack the odds against the heroes, right? That is the only plausible explanation for this clean sweep. Martel and his men didn't last long in the main event, falling to the aforementioned Hogan and Warrior (Tito Santana was the only face to be eliminated in the main event).