Every Whitewashed WWE Survivor Series Teams Ranked - From Worst To Best

by John Bills

1. Randy Orton, Edge, Johnny Nitro, Gregory Helms & Mike Knox - 2006

This might be the most famous clean sweep in Survivor Series history, and not just because of the fact it was so recent. Team Rated-RKO contained Randy Orton and Edge, two genuine main event guys at the time with multiple World Championships in their back catalogue. Alongside them was Johnny Nitro (who would go on to become John Morrison), who had just branched out into singles and had a big future ahead of him, Gregory Helms who happened to be the longest reigning Cruiserweight champion in history at the time and Mike Knox. Who? Coming up against a slightly more stacked team in Triple H, Shawn Michaels, CM Punk and the Hardy Boyz was always going to be tough, but a clean sweep? Shocking. However, once Knox was eliminated by Shawn Michaels in under a minute it seemed almost inevitable. The match is remembered for being the night that CM Punk truly arrived on the WWE stage. It also represents the last time a male Survivor Series team was whitewashed. One interesting side note; this team is the only male team included in the list that does not contain someone who has been on the other side of a clean sweep. Shawn Michaels, Hercules, Fatu, Doink (via technicality), Triple H and Viscera all experienced the joy of sweeping your opponents and the misery of being whitewashed. Randy Orton is the only member of the 2006 losers still active in the company, so his place in history might well be assured.
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Born in the middle of Wales in the middle of the 1980's, John can't quite remember when he started watching wrestling but he has a terrible feeling that Dino Bravo was involved. Now living in Prague, John spends most of his time trying to work out how Tomohiro Ishii still stands upright. His favourite wrestler of all time is Dean Malenko, but really it is Repo Man. He is the author of 'An Illustrated History of Slavic Misery', the best book about the Slavic people that you haven't yet read. You can get that and others from www.poshlostbooks.com.