Ranking Every WWE Survivor Series From Worst To Best
2. 1998
The Good: The 'Deadly Game' WWE Championship tournament is Vince Russo's finest contribution to professional wrestling. Intricate in the extreme during the embryonic stages of his 'Crash TV' philosophy, the layers of ever-thickening plot remain admirable to this day. Russo was often credited for his ability to find something for periphery characters to be doing, and this event speaks to that. Huge events are afoot at the top of the card, but they require all the other moving parts to function effectively in order for the incomparable twists to feel so satisfying.
The Bad: The matches, without exception, are nothing to write home about. Don't waste time on a single encounter out of context of the show itself - the pay-per-view is far greater than the sum of its parts.
The Ugly: The Tag Team Championship triple threat between The New Age Outlaws, The Headbangers and D'Lo Brown and Mark Henry is only there to give the crowd a breather and feels wholly unimportant next to the tournament. The Champions are, regardless, incredibly over all the same.