Survivor Series

Match 1: WWF European Championship Christian vs Al Snow This match was made after a confrontation between Al and Christian on Sunday Night Heat. Al hit the snowplow but Christian got his foot on the bottom rope. Christian hits the unprettier for the pin. Winner: Christian

Match 2: William Regal vs. Tajiri Regal's nose and/or lip got busted open early in the match from Tajiri's kicks. Regal took the pin with a double underhook powerbomb. After the match Regal gave him another double underhook powerbomb. Torrie Wilson runs down to check on Tajiri as Regal was leaving. Regal re-enters the ring and gives her a double underhook powerbomb. Winner: William Regal

Match 3: WWF Intercontinental/WCW United States Championships Unification Match Edge (IC champion) vs. Test (US champion) Finisher~ Edge counters a full nelson slam with a rollup for the pin. Winner and New Unified IC/US Champion: Edge

Match 4: WWF Tag Team/WCW Tag Team Championships Unification Cage Match Hardy Boyz (WWF Tag champions) vs. Dudley Boyz (WCW Tag champions) w/ Stacy Keibler Stacy pick-pocketed the cage key from Nick Patrick. Stacy opened the door and tables were put in. Matt and Bubba fight at the top of the cage. Bubba falls back into the ring and Matt makes it to the floor. Jeff goes to the top of the cage and instead of crawling down to the outside, he misses a swanton bomb on Dvon and goes through the table inside the ring. Bubba gets the easy pin on Jeff for the win. EMT's check on Jeff after the match and is stretchered away. Winners and New Unified Tag Team Champions: Dudley Boyz

Match 5: Immunity Battle Royal Winner Keeps His Job Crash vs. Perry Saturn vs. Bradshaw vs. Faarooq vs. Spike Dudley vs. Albert vs. Test vs. The Hurricane vs. Hugh Morrus vs. Billy Gunn vs. Tommy Dreamer vs. Chuck Palumbo vs. Lance Storm vs. Diamond Dallas Page vs. Steven Richards vs. Tazz vs. Raven vs. Billy Kidman vs. Shawn Stasiak vs. Justin Credible vs. Funaki The last four men left are Billy Gunn, Lance Storm, Bradshaw, and Test. Test eliminates Bradshaw and Storm at the same time. Test eliminates Gunn with the big boot for the win. Winner: Test

Match 6: WWF Women's Championship Six-Person Match Lita vs. Trish Stratus vs. Ivory vs. Mighty Molly vs. Jacqueline vs. Mystery Opponent The mystery opponent turned out to be Jazz, from the old ECW. Trish got the pin on Ivory with a springboard Stratusfaction bulldog. Winner and New WWF Women's Champion: Trish Stratus

Match 7: 10-Man "Winner Take All" Elimination Match Team WWF: The Rock, Chris Jericho, The Undertaker, Kane & The Big Show vs Team Alliance: Steve Austin, Kurt Angle, Booker T, Rob Van Dam & Shane McMahon Booker hit Show with the spinaroonie. RVD hit Show with the 5 star frog splash. Shane follows up with a top rope elbow on Show for the elimination. Kane chokeslams Shane. Undertaker piledrives Shane. Jericho hits Shane with the lionsault for the elimination. As everyone fought on the outside, RVD eliminates Kane with a missile dropkick. Austin hit Undertaker with the stunner and placed Angle on top of him for the pin elimination. Rock rolls up Booker T for the pin elimination. Jericho eliminates RVD with the front face slam. Rock eliminates Angle in the middle of the ring with the sharpshooter. Austin eliminates Jericho with a rollup. Jericho puts Rock in the front face slam. Austin gets a two count out of it. Undertaker comes back and argues with Jericho up the ramp and to the back. Austin puts Rock in the sharpshooter in the middle of the ring. Rock makes it to the ropes. Austin brings the WWF title in the ring. Rock ducks and hits a spinebuster followed up by the sharpshooter. Austin makes it to the ropes but Rock pulls him off. Austin makes it to the ropes again and the referee breaks the hold. Austin low blows Rock. Rock counters Austin's stunner with a stunner of his own. Nick Patrick pulls Earl Henber out of the ring. Austin rock bottoms Rock for a two count. Austin knocks Patrick out of the ring and brings Hebner back in. Rock shoves Austin into Hebner. Austin counters the rock bottom with the stunner. No ref. Angle comes down and nails Austin with the title belt as he was getting Hebner back up. Rock capitalizes with the rock bottom on Austin for the pin. Winner: The Rock

Pritty Good PPV, This one deserves a B

This PPV was ok. Not one of their best PPV's. It was the 10 Man elimination match to see who wins the WWF. Between Vince McMahon with the WWF. Stephanie McMahon with ECW and Shane McMahon with WCW. Well WWF won. Which was good, it was just a storyline. I think that the Survivor Series before this one was good, it was when Stone Cold Returned. This is one of my favorite PPVs. I like Royal Rumble, Survivor Series, SummerSlam and Wrestlemania. I would give this video 5/10. But its not the worst PPV I have seen, there has been worse.

As was the case with the previous SummerSlam event, this WWE/WCW "invasion" angle did nothing for me here--besides lead to a bunch of un-interesting matches and bland or unsure performances.

A few further thoughts...

-Christian vs. Al Snow & Edge vs. Test. Can one thing of two more white-bread, boring matches between four essentially indistinguishable wrestlers at that time?

-The Immunity Battle Royal features a whole bunch of guys no one really cares about. Not a great formula.

-The big elimination tag match is essentially a mish-mash of superstars arbitrarily separated to facilitate the "winner survives" tagline (WWF vs. WCW). Kind of a mess--and a long mess at that.

-As per the usual, only a Dudleyz/Hardyz cage match provides any juice at all to this card.

After the brilliance of WrestleMania 17, I really thought that the WWE was heading upward. That proved to be an erroneous supposition. Though extracting itself from the messy end of the Attitude Era, WWE is now at the point where the WCW angle is really bogging the company down.

Only one survivor series style match this year. With battle royals cage matches and lots of titles on the line. This is a good show. The survivor match is for the future of wrestling as the McMahons send out there teams for the right to survivor. This is an enjoyable match filled with Hall of fame stars but only one federation can survive the night.

WWF Survivor Series 2001

This was among the worst events of 2001. Perhaps its biggest flaw was the fact that it didn't follow suit to most of the previous Survivor Series'. There was only ONE survivor series match. And that Survivor Series match went on for 45 minutes. What's more, anyone with a working brain would know that it would end with The Rock versus Austin and The Rock prevailing for his team. And don't get me started on the preview before the event. No matter who won it was obvious that no one was going to f***ing die. There was no need for all of that pointless hype. Whatever the storyline, it was just a wrestling event.

And as for the rest of the matches: the first match was Christian defending his European title against Al Snow. It was a good fast paced match and its good to see a heel winning a match fairly. William Regal versus Tajiri was boring and we've seen it 2 or 3 times before. Edge versus Test was good but nothing great. The tag titles steel cage match was the best match of the evening. The battle Royal went on for 10 minutes and no one really cared who'd win in the first place. The Women's title match wasn't great. No, not in the slightest. The main event must have been the most hypocritical match in history. The Alliance lost but guess what, after 5 months every single Alliance superstar returned. The match itself was poor. The Rock eliminated 3 of them and Jericho eliminated 2. The Rock was too caught up with his acting to be there when the invasion began. Jericho was the one that jeopardised the whole match. If I wanted any 2 to be eliminated in the early going it would be them. Everyone knew that Kane, Big Show and Undertaker were just fall guys. 7 matches isn't enough for a Survivor Series. If there's ever a Survivor Series as bad as this again I'll