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6/10
The series survived don't throw in the towel yet
paudieconnolly5 May 2021
A poor year ends here. In the year were a ladder match would stand the test of time to still be considered one of the best matches. No PPV holds up well what I would say is. There no improvement in the wrestling but story telling was better and definitely better than last years survivor series which isn't saying much as it was the worse one. The Hart family story was good example because without it. It's just two guys on the canvas for a long time. I don't want to spoil anything but some good twists and turns.
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5/10
Average Is Progress At This Point
zkonedog25 February 2017
One would think that a three-star rating for Survivor Series 1994 would be considered a disappointment. However, after how inconsistent of a product WWF had become by the end of 1994, it is actually almost a bit refreshing to see an event just be "okay" and not utterly plagued by issues.

The tag matches here are exactly what you'd expect from SS. If you are into tag matches you'll love it. If not, the FF button will be utilized frequently.

The two featured matches of the event are: -Bob Backlund vs. Bret Hart: I should hate this dumb angle, but for some reason it works for me. I wish Vince McMahon would have concocted the angle a bit less over-the-top and instead played it more straight, but Backlund is still just odd enough to create some intrigue. -Casket Match: Yokozuna vs. The Undertaker. Yokozuna was pretty much played out by this point (those big boys not named Andre have such limited shelf lives), but Taker gives a great performance as per the usual.

Overall, the '94 Survivor Series was an okay event. Not among the greats, but enough entertainment to keep you from being bored. At this point in WWF history, that is progress.
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5/10
The one with Terrible WWF Title match
amanwhorocks3 September 2013
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1. Diesel/Shawn Michaels/Owen Hart/Jim Neidhart/Jeff Jarrett Vs. Razor Ramon/1-2-3 Kid/British Bulldog/Fatu - Strange ending 6/10

2. Jerry Lawler w. his 3 Dwarfs Vs. Doink w his 3 Dwarfs - I really don't like these "family entertainment" matches. Taunting dwarfs, very well. Comedy. 4/10

3. WWF Heavyweight Title Match Bob Backlund Vs. Champ-Bret Hart - Sick, sick match. How anyone could booked Backlund as WWF Champion. Sick to the bone! 4/10

4. Tatanka/Bam Bam Bigelow/King Kong Bundy Vs. Lex Luger/Mabel/Adam's Bomb/Smoking Guns - FInally one better match. Heel team won. 6/10

5. Yokozuna Vs. The Undertaker -Average show. 6/10
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VERY GOOD
Big Movie Fan1 May 2002
This Survivor Series event was very good after the mediocre events from 1992/93.

For the first time since the 1988 event there were some matches pitting teams of 5 against each other. The Bad Guys captained by the ultra cool Razor Ramon battled The Teamsters captained by Jeff Jarrett. This was a superb match spoiled only by it's ending.

Major enemies Lex Luger and Tatanka captained opposing teams in another entertaining brawl.

Doink led 3 midget clowns against Jerry Lawler and 3 midget kings. This was a comedic match which I enjoyed very much and was probably enjoyed by anyone who was under 5 at the time.

Bret Hart faced Bob Backlund in a match that lasted over 30 minutes. It was a technical match and very intense at times.

In the main event The Undertaker fought Yokosuna in a Casket Match which was refereed by Chuck Norris. This was a reasonable match which brought an entertaining card to an end.
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4/10
Another forgettable boring show.
morantjavonte30 April 2023
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Survivor Series 1994 Thoughts

Survivor Series 1994 was the 8th annual Survivor Series PPV event produced by the WWF. It took place on November 23, 1994 at the Freeman Coliseum in San Antonio, Texas. This was also the last Survivor Series PPV to take place on Thanksgiving Day/Eve as the following year and all future Survivor Series PPVs would be held on Sundays before or after Thanksgiving. Attendance was at 10,000 with a buyrate from home being 254,000 buys. *NOTE* I watched the Peacock Version of this. I say this because I seen a VHS verison of this before and there is a notable crowd edit for HBK.

5 matches were held on the main card with the main event being a conclusion to the rivalry of Yokozuna & The Undertaker as they battled it out in a Casket Match with Chuck Norris being the special guest enforcer. We also were given 3 Survivor Series Elimination Matches and a feud between Bret Hart & Bob Backlund where Hart defended the WWF Championship in a Submission Match.

The Good - Well.... the opening kind of kicked off good. For Vince wanting to put Diesel as the top star, he did make him look good in this teasing face turn. That's pretty much it. Truth be told not much to praise.

The Meh - I thought the Million Dollar Team vs. Guts and Glory was doing fine through out the match. It looked like we were going to get a typical face comeback from Luger but no we heels winning for the surprise. Still an average match. Bret Hart vs. Bob Backlund could have been a hell of a match but it wasn't. It's rare for the Bret to have 30 minutes in a match and it turns out to be Lackluster. Stories were told that Bob Backlund had freedom of the booking for the match. Sad part is, Bob & Bret went on to continue the feud and had an even more Lackluster match the then-upcoming WrestleMania. The Casket match too wasn't that good. I gave it an extra star boost for being a slight improvement over the match they had in the beginning of the year at Royal Rumble. Match just also went on too long.

The Bad - The Royal Family vs. Clowns R Us was what you expected. Just as bad as another match that featured clowns the previous year. A match worth skipping unless your nostalgia still can see great comedy in this. One insult was not having HBK do anything in the ring at all. Being a heel, the pop was still there in that hometown crowd and that was an insult to fans who paid tickets.

Overall - Forgettable show. Not recommended. I actually hate to bash too much of the past like one of those sitting in their mom's basement disrespecting the past and embracing the future but this was the New Generation Era of the WWF so....

Score - 4 out of 10: Boring

0 = Terrible : 1 = Bad/Lackluster : 2 = Decent : 3 = Good : 4 = Awesome : 5 = One of the Best of all Time

1. The Bad Guys (Fatu, Razor Ramon, Sionne, The 1-2-3 Kid & The British Bulldog) vs. The Teamsters (Diesel, Jeff Jarrett, Jim Neidhart, Owen Hart & Shawn Michaels) (Elimination Tag) - 2.5/5

2. Clowns 'R Us (Dink, Doink, Pink & Wink) vs. The Royal Family (Cheesy, Jerry Lawler, Queasy & Sleazy) (Elimination Tag) - 0/5

3. Bret Hart vs. Bob Backlund: WWF Championship (Submission Match) - 2/5

4. Guts And Glory (Adam Bomb, Bart Gunn, Billy Gunn, Lex Luger & Mabel) vs. The Million Dollar Team (Bam Bam Bigelow, Jimmy del Ray, King Kong Bundy, Tatanka & Tom Prichard) (Elimination Tag) - 2.5/5

5. Undertaker vs. Yokozuna (Casket Match) - 2/5

Best Match - The Bad Guys vs. The Teamsters

Worst Match - Clowns 'R Us vs. The Royal Family

Most Memorable Moment - Nothing really

Top 5 Performers

1. Owen Hart - Good Performance

2. Diesel - Good Performance

3. Bret Hart - Good Performance

4. Razor Ramon - Good Performance

5. Undertaker - Random.
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8/10
Pretty Sweet
bh_tafe38 March 2009
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Well the WWE made a return to five on five Survivor Series matches this year, after many years of four on four matches. There were two big singles matches on the card, one between Bret Hart and Bob Backlund and the other pitting Yokozuna against the Undertaker in a casket match.

The evening started off with The Bad Guys (Razor Ramon, 1-2-3 Kid, British Bulldog and the Headshrinkers Sionne and Fatu) defeating the Teamsters (Shawn Michaels, Diesel, Jeff Jarrett, Owen Hart and Jim Neidhart). The Teamsters dominated the match, with Fatu, 1-2-3 Kid, Sionne and the British Bulldog were all eliminated, most of them by Diesel, leaving only Razor. Razor, hopelessly outnumbered, was beaten senseless but Shawn Michaels cost his team the match when he accidentally super kicked Diesel. This was the same thing that had happened a few months before at Summerslam and Diesel was very unhappy and started brawling with Michaels. The rest of the team came to help out and all five men were counted out, making Razor the winner. Shawn Michaels who was co-holder of the tag belts with Diesel at that stage, cut all ties to the big man after the match and vacated the title.

Next up saw Jerry Lawler beaten up by six midgets after his team: The Royal Family (Jerry Lawler, Queasy, Sleazy and Cheesy) defeated Doink's team Clowns R Us (Doink, Dink, Wink and Pink) in a comedy match with little to it.

Next up came the big WWE championship match between Champion Bret Hart and Bob Backlund. Backlund had been WWE Champion for five years unbroken from 1978-1983, but was now claiming that he never lost the title legitimately 11 years earlier because his manager had given up on him, throwing in the white towel, and he had not actually submitted. So on this day both men had to have a corner-man and the only way you could win was by forcing your opponent's corner man to throw in the towel. IN Bret's corner was his brother in law the British Bulldog, in Backlund's corner was Owen Hart. These two had a miraculously good match given Backlund's age (44) and it was decided by the weaselly Owen. Bret had Backlund in the sharpshooter and had nearly knocked him out, but instead of throwing the towel in, Owen clotheslined Bret from behind. Perfectly legal because the only way to win or lose was by having your corner man throw in the towel. Bulldog then chased Owen around, but tripped on the steps and was knocked out, distracting Bret. Backlund then put Bret into the chicken wing and Owen talked his mother Helen into throwing in the towel on Bret's behalf. Owen celebrated with Backlund, the new WWE Champion. His joy would be short lived. He was beaten for the title by Diesel three days later.

Next up came another big Survivor Series match, this one based around Lex Luger's feud with Ted DiBiase's Million Dollar Corporation. Luger had been betrayed by his friend Tatanka at Summerslam who had made him look like a fool in their one on one match. Luger wanted revenge, but didn't get any on this night as the Million Dollar Team (Tatanka, Bam Bam Bigelow, King Kong Bundy, Tom Prichard and Jimmy Del Ray) defeated Guts and Glory (Lex Luger, Adam Bomb, Mabel, Billy Gunn and Bart Gunn). Mabel started things off by pinning Prichard, but was then double teame4d by Bigelow and Bundy and counted out. Bigelow then eliminated Adam Bomb, but Luger squared things up a few minutes later pinning Del Ray. Bart and Billy Gunn were then eliminated by Tatanka and Bundy respectively. Luger then pinned Tatanka, but Bundy splashed Luger to win the match. He and Bigelow were the Survivors. Luger's team returned to the ring to save him from a beat down from Bigelow, Bundy and Tatanka. That was the end of the Luger/ MDC feud.

The guest referee in the main event was none other than Chuck Norris, and he had a big say on the match too as The Undertaker defeated Yokozuna in a casket match. Jeff Jarrett had interfered in the match, but was taken care of by Norris. This was Yokozuna's final main event match for the WWE, he was mainly used as a tag teamer after this, before weight issues forced him to leave. He died in 2002 and remains an under rated monster bad guy, who could sell a beating as well as any big guy.
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2/10
Bad booking even for this cartoon company
born_naughty20 April 2021
1. Diesel/Shawn Michaels/Owen Hart/Jim Neidhart/Jeff Jarrett Vs. Razor Ramon/1-2-3 Kid/British Bulldog/Fatu

This wasn't a great match but it was all about the angle at the end and that's fine. Sadly, this is the best thing on the show.

2. Jerry Lawler w. His 3 Dwarfs Vs. Doink w his 3 Dwarfs

Didn't see it, don't want to. Next.

3. WWF Heavyweight Title Match Bob Backlund Vs. Champ-Bret Hart

This one is infamous but I'd like to talk about it anyway. I'm fine with the ending as a concept. However, not even Vince Mcmahon himself knew what was going on. First it's a submission match, ok that's fine. Then both men have a man in the corner who can throw in a towel. That's fine too, it fit the story. However, the announcers say that throwing in the tower is the ONLY way to finish the match. In other words, the wrestlers in the match can't stop the match themselves. How does that make sense? Later, when Backlund holds Bret Hart in the chickenwing for nearly 10(!) minutes Vince Mcmahon suddenly says that Bret Hart can indeed stop the match if he just says "I Quit". That would have been fine if it was explained properly. But then Owen gets all upset because his brother could get injured and no one can stop it. But he can stop it. So how is this different than any other match? Why are you so upset now? The reason being that if he wasn't than the ending wouldn't make any sense. It's written that way. Either way, none of this made any sense whatsoever. This could have been a good angle but the execution is terrible.

4. Tatanka/Bam Bam Bigelow/King Kong Bundy Vs. Lex Luger/Mabel/Adam's Bomb/Smoking Guns

I'm sure this is fine but there's no reason to care about this.

5. Yokozuna Vs. The Undertaker.

I don't like Yokozuna. I'm sorry. Yes he moves well for a 600 pound guy but what does that mean? He still moves like a 500 pound guy, how is that better? Undertaker has proven in later years that he is indeed a great wrestler but in 94 he was still working the gimmick of a dead man, with the stiffness of a zombie. I know he's a legend and the man himself deserves the credit but I never liked the gimmick and any of his matches up until this point. Both of those things would become a lot better.

Anyway, about the match itself. It's the same thing as all of Yoko's matches. A lot of lying around, extreme overbooking and chenanigans, and nothing means anything. I mean, Yoko's supposed to be the immovable object, unbeatable, yet he needs the help of dozens of guys to win every match he's ever in. It feels like Gilberg could beat him if he didn't have a whole stable behind him. And why would anyone help a guy like that? This match had less run-ins then normal but that made yokozuna's shortcomings all the more visible.

3/10 and I'm being very generous.
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Recap
Spawn Devil1 July 2002
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1-2-3 Kid, Fatu, Sionne, British Bulldog and Razor Ramon vs. Jeff Jarrett, Diesel, Jim "the Anvil" Neidhart, Owen Hart and Shawn Michaels Survivor: Razor Ramon

Jerry "the King" Lawler, Sleazy, Queasy and Cheesy vs. Doink, Dink, Pink and Wink Survivors: Jerry Lawler, Sleazy, Queasy and Cheesy

Bob Backlund defeated Bret "Hitman" Hart in a Submission Match to become World Wrestling WWE Champion

King Kong Bundy, Tatanka, Heavenly Bodies and Bam Bam Bigelow vs. Mabel, Adam Bomb, Smoking Gunns and Lex Luger Survivors: King Kong Bundy and Bam Bam Bigelow

The Undertaker defeated Yokozuna in a Casket Match

Overall Mark: B+
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