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A Great Way To Start A November Tradition
Survivor Series 1987 was the first ever yearly pay-per-view besides WrestleMania which had started two years earlier. Survivor Series only came about due to the huge success of WrestleMania III. The event was advertized solely on the main event which was to be another chapter in the Hogan/Andre feud. Fans at the time were clamoring for more of this feud and Survivor Series made pretty good ratings off of that fact alone. Now, the event may have been advertised on it's main event, but that was almost the least entertaining match of the night. The Randy Savage team vs. Honky Tonk man team was the second best match of the night with the main event and the ladies elimination match tying at number three. By far the best and most entertaining match of not just that Survivor Series, but of any Survivor Series to come, was the 5 tag teams team vs. 5 tag teams team. Yes, that's five tag teams on each team equalling a total of twenty guys grouped in ten tag teams which were split into two teams of five tag teams, it worked like a typical tag match once one member of a tag team was eliminated he and his partner were eliminated, it's like the idea of the normal five on five except instead of five guys on five guys it's five tag teams on five tag teams, but in a sense each team stands alone because once one member of that tag team is eliminated so is his partner which makes it impossibly to see something like 17 guys against 11. This match by far showcased the best in the WWF tag teams of the time and it featured some of the biggest including Strike Force, the Killer Bees, Hart Foundation, Demolition to name a few. This event is really a great one to watch, the only problem I have with the version of this tape I currently own is it is, like many WWF tapes of that time, heavily editied which I frankly can't stand, but still a five star tape in my mind the best Survivor Series I've ever seen.

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The WWF begins their Thanksgiving Night Tradition!
The first annual Survivor Series is considerably old and unpolished compared to the later installments throughout the WWF's history. Instead of teams of 4, originally it was actually teams of 5 and that didn't change until the third Survivor Series rolled around in 1989. When it comes to classic WWF like this, Survivor Series was always my favourite ppv's because some solid wrestling could be found at these events rather than short matches thrown onto an overflowing card at Wrestlemania while Summerslam and Royal Rumble didn't mean much until the early 90's. When this Survivor Series rolled around on the US Thanksgiving Night in 1987 we got a pretty good wrestling event. The Hulk Hogan/Andre The Giant fued was still going on well after Wrestlemania 3 and this event was billed up as the rematch, where Hulk Hogan's team battled Andre The Giant's team in a Survivor match. Hulk's team consisted of Bam Bam Bigelow, The Rock Don Muraco (no not the great one), Ken Patera and Paul Orndroff, while Andre's team consisted of The One Man Gang, Ravishing Rick Rude, Butch Reed and King Kong Bundy. It was the main event and a failry decent Survivor match but it wasn't the best match at all considering the ending was really disappointing. 'Macho Man' Randy Savage led his team of Jake 'The Snake' Roberts, Ricky 'The Dragon' Steamboat, Brutus 'The Barber' Beefcake and 'Hacksaw' Jim Duggan to battle against the Honky Tonk Man's team of Hercules, King Harley Race, 'The Outlaw' Ron Bass and Dangerous Danny Davis in a hot opener to the event. The women's match was suprisingly good as well but that mainly was because of the Japanese tag team of the Jumping Bomb Angels. The best match on the card has to be the 20 man tag team elimination match. The WWF only did this at the first two Survivor Series events which is too bad cause it was a great idea. Strike Force led it's team of The British Bulldogs, The Rougeau Brothers, The Young Stallions and The Killer Bees against The Hart Foundation's team of Demolition, The Islanders, The New Dream Team and The Bolsheviks in a bout that was very long and full of great wrestling action with tons of talent. This match alone is worth the rice of this tape. Overall a pretty good event for old WWF wrestling. It's unpolished but that's usually the case with the first annual event. The Hulk/Andre match and Macho Man/Honky Tonk Man matches are both good. The womens match is suprising but the tag team match just outshines everything.
Unfortuantely don't expect the WWE to release this on DVD anytime soon. People will have to make do with the heavily edited Coliseum video version unless they were lucky enough to tape it straight off ppv when it aired in November of 1987.