Ranking Every WWE Survivor Series From Worst To Best

6. 1996

Survivor Series
WWE.com

The Good: WWE were relying on big match performers to perform in the big matches back in 1996, and all of them over-delivered here. Shawn Michaels carried Sid to his best match ever, Undertaker and Mankind again beat the sh*t out of each other, and Bret Hart and Stone Cold Steve Austin assembled one of the best contests in company history. The Madison Square Garden setting again aided everybody.

The Bad: Throwing out an elimination match due to a mass disqualification sucked, as did the bulk of the tag battle designed to get 'Blue Chipper' Rocky Maivia over as the next great babyface hope.

The Ugly: The Undertaker was the greatest mystery partner payoff ever in 1990 - most of the ones here wouldn't even make a list of 10 on this site. Jake Roberts and Jimmy Snuka didn't physically belong on the card, nor did a dangerously overweight Yokozuna. Flash Funk's tepid debut in the middle of the aforementioned DQ rush-job rather tragically foreshadowed how well his WWE career would go.

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