OSSOTD for 10/7/04: Survivor Series 1989

[JoeDirt 0]

Post your thoughts about this show here. Have you seen it? What do you think of it? What are the best and worst matches? Any other thoughts?

 

The show for today is Survivor Series 1989...now post!

 

Survivor Series 1989

 

November 23, 1989 in Rosemont, IL

The Horizon drawing 15,294 (239,917)

Shown live on PPV (3.3)

 

1. Dusty Rhodes, Brutus Beefcake, Red Rooster, & Tito Santana (The Dream Team) beat Big Boss Man, Bad News Brown, Rick Martel, & Honkytonk Man (The Enforcers) (22:02) in an "elimination" match. Rhodes & Beefcake were the survivors.

* Martel pinned Santana (9:15).

* Brown was counted out (15:26).

* Beefcake pinned HTM (17:24).

* Beefcake pinned Martel (20:13).

* Boss Man pinned Rooster (21:00).

* Rhodes pinned Boss Man (22:02).

 

2. Randy Savage, Canadian Earthquake, Dino Bravo, & Greg Valentine (The King's Court) beat Jim Duggan, Bret Hart, Ronnie Garvin, & Hercules (The 4x4s) (23:25) in an "elimination" match. Savage, Earthquake, & Bravo were the survivors.

* Earthquake pinned Hercules (3:57).

* Duggan pinned Valentine (7:32).

* Bravo pinned Garvin (11:17).

* Savage pinned Hart (19:06).

* Duggan was counted out (23:25).

 

3. Hulk Hogan, Jake Roberts, & Demolition Ax & Smash (The Hulkamaniacs) beat Ted DiBiase, Zeus, & The Powers of Pain (The Million Dollar Team) (27:32) in an elimination" match. Hogan was the survivor.

* Zeus was DQed (3:21).

* Warlord pinned Ax (9:50).

* Barbarian pinned Smash (13:42).

* Powers of Pain were DQed (19:51).

* DiBiase pinned Roberts (23:51).

* Hogan pinned DiBiase (27:32).

 

4. Rick Rude, Mr. Perfect, Jacques & Raymond Rougeau (The Rude Brood) beat Roddy Piper, Jimmy Snuka, & The Bushwhackers (Roddy's Rowdies) (21:27) in an "elimination" match. Perfect was the survivor.

* Snuka pinned Jacques (4:01).

* Piper pinned Raymond (7:30).

* Perfect pinned Miller (10:46).

* Rude pinned Williams (12:14).

* Rude DCO Piper (18:35).

* Perfect pinned Snuka (21:27).

 

5. Ultimate Warrior, Jim Neidhart, & The Rockers (Ultimate Warriors) beat Bobby Heenan, Andre the Giant, Haku, & Arn Anderson (The Heenan Family) (20:28) in an "elimination" match. Warrior was the survivor.

* Andre was counted out (0:27).

* Haku pinned Neidhart (3:32).

* Heenan pinned Jannetty (8:53).

* Michaels pinned Haku (12:54).

* Anderson pinned Michaels (15:47).

* Warrior pinned Anderson (18:19).

* Warrior pinned Heenan (20:28).

[Guest Loss]

I kinda thought this was a real low point for the WWF, as they had gone so far with the cartoon characters and the marketing over booking philosophy that the result was a dull product. My favorite memory from this PPV was probably the Bret/Savage altercation being teased, but they never really followed up on it.

[cawthon777 0]

I thought it was a really fun show being that it was one of the first I ever saw on video when I became a fan. Rude's Brood is one of my favorite teams ever.

 

About two weeks ago I won an auction for the PPV promo poster off eBay. It features pictures of every participant on the card, even the ones that were later subbed like Barry Windham, Akeem, and Tully Blanchard.

[alfdogg 0]

While it's not good wrestling-wise (in fact, it was downright awful with the exception of a couple segments), it's one of my most-watched shows. Really fun show to watch, and the commentary is great.

 

That also reminds me of another quote for the quote thread.

[MARTYEWR 0]

I remember the time period, but I have a question for anyone who can remember these type of details...

 

In the buildup for Rude's Brood vs. Roddy's Rowdies, did the WWF acknowledge, at all, the history between Piper and Snuka, and the irony of them being teammates?

[TheOriginalOrangeGoblin 0]

One of my favorite PPV's ever. The Rude's Brood/Roddies Rowdie's and Warriors/Heenan Family matches are personal favorites and this might be the peak of Jesse & Gorilla's commentary.

 

I love this PPV, period.

[JoeDirt 0]

This is a pay per view I've seen once, but it was several years ago and to be honest I can't remember anything about it. I've always thought that the old school Survivor Series shows are fun to watch or good for a rent or something to check out, though I can see why they started moving away from the "team" formats since the matches were pretty "meaningless". I guess, though, that they've kept the old school elimination matches in most of the Survivor Series shows, but after the 1990 show started to add title matches.

[Jericholic82 0]

I have a used coliseum video of this show with orginal box (though not in great condition) it also shows windhame and blanchard on the back. this was the first cv of ss that wasnt clipped as it proudly advertises all matches complete on the box. Havent watched it in like 2 years, but thought it was ok. dont really want to keep putting old tapes in my vcr for obvious reasons. I should dub them on another tape or if I ever get a dvd burner, transfer them. I used to love ss (my first ppv i ever watched was ss 90) i always liked the team format and was glad they always try to work one in every year (save for 98) I once bought a used sseries 90 but it got stuck in my vcr after watching it once and ruined it. saved the box though. (it was in an oversized plastic case, so i just took out the insert and hung it on my wall where it still is)

 

 

anyways, the best match on this show was probably the opener. the hogan match was lame, considering as jesse said the ref dq 3 of the 4 members of the million dollar team

[Guest DeputyHawk]

The Roddy's Rowdies vs. Rude's Brood match is awesome. The guys are obviously having a blast in the early going - Jacques Rougeau's selling here is some of the funniest I've ever seen while Rude and Perfect pull off some terrific heel miscommunicaion stuff.

 

As for any acknowledgement of the Piper-Sunka history, I'd be quite surprised if they did. WWF tended to shy away from discussing the sport's past back then. Would be interesting to know if they did some sort of reconciliation angle leading up to the match though.

[alfdogg 0]

On the actual show, no, they didn't acknowledge it at all. I'm not sure about leading up to it. Same with Savage & Steamboat being teammates at the first Survivor Series.

[snuffbox 0]

While it wasnt the best wrestling show ever by any stretch...this was one of the first ppvs I remember ever watching. It definitly has a lot of nostalgic value for me, and it still has plenty of entertaining moments - Warrior vs. Heenan, great commentary, Savage missing a bionic elbow by a hilarious mile, even a little bit of decent wrestling.

[DMann2003 0]

This is a cool idea, anyone want to take it a step further and choose a night and anyone who has the show to br discussed watch and post about it here at the same time (Example, On Saturday Oct. 9th at 9pm anyone who has a copy of WrestleMania V watch and discuss it here.)

[UseTheSledgehammerUh 0]

I mark out for the openings where Vince McMahon says each team member's name and then their picture appears.

 

I loved 1990's...

 

"TEAM CAPTAIN Mr. PERFECT LEADS HIS TEAM....AX....SMASH....CRUSH....It's the PERFECT TEAM!"

[JoeDirt 0]

This is a cool idea, anyone want to take it a step further and choose a night and anyone who has the show to br discussed watch and post about it here at the same time (Example, On Saturday Oct. 9th at 9pm anyone who has a copy of WrestleMania V watch and discuss it here.)

That'd be a cool idea, we'll have to figure out a way to do something like that.

 

Old School Theater, we'll call it.

[DMann2003 0]

This is a cool idea, anyone want to take it a step further and choose a night and anyone who has the show to br discussed watch and post about it here at the same time (Example, On Saturday Oct. 9th at 9pm anyone who has a copy of WrestleMania V watch and discuss it here.)

That'd be a cool idea, we'll have to figure out a way to do something like that.

 

Old School Theater, we'll call it.

Well, say post a week before the set date, announce the time and event, and then anyone available who has the event (or can get a copy by then) and wants to sit down and watch it while discussing it would join in on the thread. Kind of like the PPV threads, except as you said, it's "Old School Theater"

 

There's plenty of PPV/Big show events around that most people here have access to to make this a bi-weekly type of thread.

[MillenniumMan831 0]

There'll always be a numskull watching it 5 minutes ahead of everyone else.