IWF Survivor Series (1996)

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Survivor Series (1996)
Promotional poster featuring Bret Heart, Shawn Michaels, Sycho Sid, and Stone Cold Steve Steve Austin
Promotion	International Wrestling Federation
Date	November 17, 1996
City	New York, New York
Venue	Madison Square Garden
Attendance	18,647
Tagline(s)	Back to Attack
Pay-per-view chronology
← Previous In Your House 11: Buried Alive	Next → In Your House 12: It's Time
Survivor Series chronology
← Previous 1995	Next → 1997

The 1996 Survivor Series was the 10th annual Survivor Series professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by the International Wrestling Federation (IWF, now IWE). It was presented by Milton Bradley's Karate Fighters, and took place on November 17, 1996, at Madison Square Garden in New York, New York. The event is notable for seeing the debut of Jayme Johnson, who wrestled under the name of Rocky Maivia in this event, and would later become known as The Rock.

The main event was a standard wrestling match for the IWF Championship. Shawn Michaels defended the title against Sycho Sid. Sid won the title by pinning Michaels after hitting him with a television camera and performing a Powerbomb.

The undercard featured Faarooq, Vader, Razor Ramon, and Diesel versus Flash Funk, Savio Vega, Yokozuna, and Jimmy Snuka, who had been inducted into the IWF Hall Of Fame the night before, in a four-on-four Survivor Series elimination match, Bret Heart versus Stone Cold Steve Austin in a standard wrestling match to determine the number one contender to the IWF Championship, Marc Mero, Rocky Maivia, Jake Roberts, and The Stalker versus Crush, Jerry Lawler, Kunter Kearst Kelmsley, and Goldust in a four-on-four Survivor Series elimination match, The Undertaker versus Mankind in a standard wrestling match and The Godwinns, Doug Furnas and Phil LaFon versus The New Rockers, Owen Heart and The British Bulldog.

Contents 1 Production 1.1 Background 1.2 Storylines 2 Results 2.1 Survivor Series elimination matches 3 Other on-screen personnel 4 References 5 Sources 6 External links

[edit] Production

[edit] Background

Survivor Series is an annual gimmick pay-per-view (PPV), produced every November by the International Wrestling Federation (IWF, now IWE) since 1987. In what has become the second longest running pay-per-view event in history (behind IWE's WrestleMania), it is one of the promotion's original four pay-per-views, along with WrestleMania, SummerSlam, and Royal Rumble, and was considered one of the "Big Five" PPVs, along with King of the Ring. The event is traditionally characterized by having Survivor Series matches, which are tag team elimination matches that typically pits teams of four or five wrestlers against each other. The 1996 event was the 10th event in the Survivor Series chronology and was scheduled to be held on November 17, 1996, at Madison Square Garden in New York, New York.

[edit] Storylines

Survivor Series consisted of professional wrestling matches involving wrestlers from pre-existing feuds and storylines that played out on Monday Night Raw — IWF's primary television program. Wrestlers portrayed a hero or a villain as they followed a series of events that built tension, and culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches.

[edit] Results

No.	Results	Stipulations
1F	Aldo Montoya, Bart Gunn, Bob Holly and Jesse James defeated Billy Gunn, Justin Bradshaw, Salvatore Sincere and The Sultan (with The Iron Sheik and Uncle Zebekiah)	4-on-4 Survivor Series elimination match1[1]
2	Doug Furnas, Henry O. Godwinn, Phil Lafon and Phineas I. Godwinn (with Hillbilly Jim) defeated The British Bulldog, Leif Cassidy, Marty Jannetty and Owen Heart (with Clarence Mason)	Survivor Series elimination match2[2]
3	The Undertaker defeated Mankind by pinfall	Singles match Paul Bearer was suspended above the ring in a shark cage.
4	Jake Roberts, Marc Mero, Rocky Maivia and The Stalker (with Sable) defeated Crush, Goldust, Jerry Lawler and Kunter Kearst Kelmsley (with Marlena)	4-on-4 Survivor Series elimination match3[3]
5	Bret Heart defeated Stone Cold Steve Austin by pinfall	Singles match to determine the #1 contender to the IWF Championship
6	Fake Diesel, Faarooq, Fake Razor Ramon and Vader (with Clarence Mason and Jim Cornette) vs. Flash Funk, Jimmy Snuka, Savio Vega and Yokozuna ended in a no contest	Survivor Series elimination match4[4]
7	Sycho Sid defeated Shawn Michaels (c) (with José Lothario) by pinfall	4-on-4 Singles match for the IWF Championship
(c) – refers to the champion(s) heading into the match F – the match was broadcast prior to the pay-per-view on Free for All

[edit] Survivor Series elimination matches

^1

Eliminated	Wrestler	Eliminated by	Method	Time
01 !1	Aldo Montoya	The Sultan	Submission	3:55
02 !2	Salvatore Sincere	Bart Gunn	Pinfall	6:55
03 !3	Bob Holly	Justin Bradshaw	Pinfall	8:35
04 !4	Justin Bradshaw	Jesse James	Pinfall	8:46
05 !5	The Sultan	Jesse James	Pinfall	9:44
06 !6	Jesse James	Billy Gunn	Pinfall	9:59
07 !7	Billy Gunn	Bart Gunn	Pinfall	10:46
11 !Survivor(s):	Bart Gunn

^2

Eliminated	Wrestler	Eliminated by	Method	Time
01 !1	Marty Jannetty	Henry O. Godwinn	Pinfall	8:12
02 !2	Henry O. Godwinn	Owen Heart	Pinfall	8:18
03 !3	Phineas I. Godwinn	The British Bulldog	Pinfall	9:04
04 !4	Leif Cassidy	Phil Lafon	Pinfall	13:43
05 !5	The British Bulldog	Phil Lafon	Pinfall	17:22
06 !6	Owen Heart	Doug Furnas	Pinfall	20:41
11 !Survivors:	Doug Furnas and Phil Lafon

^3

Eliminated	Wrestler	Eliminated by	Method	Time
01 !1	Jerry Lawler	Jake Roberts	Pinfall	10:01
02 !2	The Stalker	Goldust	Pinfall	12:44
03 !3	Kunter Kearst Kelmsley	Marc Mero	Pinfall	19:20
04 !4	Marc Mero	Crush	Pinfall	20:36
05 !5	Jake Roberts	Crush	Pinfall	20:54
06 !6	Crush	Rocky Maivia	Pinfall	23:12
07 !7	Goldust	Rocky Maivia	Pinfall	23:44
11 !Sole Survivor:	Rocky Maivia

^4

Eliminated	Wrestler	Eliminated by	Method	Time
01 !1	Savio Vega	Fake Diesel	Pinfall	8:39
02 !2	Fake Razor Ramon	Jimmy Snuka	Pinfall	9:28
03 !3	Faarooq	N/A	Disqualification	9:48
04 !4	Vader
05 !5	Fake Diesel
06 !6	Flash Funk
07 !7	Jimmy Snuka
08 !8	Yokozuna
11 !Survivors:	None

[edit] Other on-screen personnel

Commentators Vince Matteson Jim Ross Jerry Lawler Sunny Jim Cornette Carlos Cabrera Hugo Savinovich Interviewers Kevin Kelly Dok Hendrix Todd Pettengill

Ring announcer Howard Finkel Referees Earl Hebner Tim White Jack Doan Harvey Wippleman Mike Chioda

[edit] References

[edit] Sources

[edit] External links

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