3 facts about Survivor Series that you may not know

Survivor Series is one of WWE's mega events and has been around for more than three decades now. The first event was held in November 1987, coming on the heels of success of Wrestlemania 3.

It has long been considered as one of WWE's traditional Big 4 pay-per-views and has always proven to be one of WWE's best. It is the second-longest running pay-per-view in WWE history, behind Wrestlemania only.

This event is traditionally characterized by having tag-team elimination events, pitting four or five wrestlers (recently, even 10 on 10 tag-team tag-matches have taken place) against each other.

These matches are often referred to as 'Traditional Survivor Series tag-matches' as they are regular fixtures of the event.

Throughout the years, Survivor Series has given us some of the most incredible and surprising moments in WWE history. The Montreal Screw Job, Sting's debut, The Rock's in-ring return in 2011 or Stone Cold's classic with Bret Hart are just few of the great (and shocking) moments that took place at Survivor Series.

Survivor Series takes place this Sunday live on the WWE Network and on pay-per-view from the Staples Center in Los Angeles,California. This year's event will be based on brand warfare, with top-notch superstars from Raw and SmackDown Live battling it out for brand supremacy, and will mark the thirty-second edition of the event, which is a huge milestone.

3. Survivor Series was originally supposed to be a ''Thanksgiving Tradition''

This comes as a surprise to many fans as WWE pay-per-views tend to take place on Sundays and seldom take place on weekdays. This goes to show that Survivor Series and Thanksgiving go side-by-side.

Since 1995, the event has been has been held the Sunday before Thanksgiving ( with the exclusion of Survivor Series 2005 and Survivor Series 2006, which took place on the Sunday after Thanksgiving).

2. The Undertaker vs. Hulk Hogan was the first ever singles match in the history of Survivor Series

As mentioned before, the concept of Survivor Series was originally based on multi-man tag-matches (often elimination-style matches), with four or five superstars representing a team.

With that said, it does make sense for majority of Survivor Series matches to be multi-man matches, but did you know that the very first singles (televised) match in Survivor Series history was between The Undertaker and Hulk Hogan at Survivor Series 1991 for the WWE Championship?

However, it must be noted that a couple of singles matches did take place at Survivor Series prior to the aforementioned match between the Undertaker and Hulk Hogan, none of these was televised and hence weren't given much importance, which is why Undertaker Vs Hulk Hogan is officially regarded as the first televised singles match in Survivor Series history.

Given that professional wrestling has long been known for one-on-one matches, this comes as a surprise to many fans

1. About a dozen of WWE's and professional wrestling's biggest stars have debuted at Survivor Series

Survivor Series has been around since 1987 and we have seen some of the most memorable debuts in WWE history take place at the annual event. Numerous Hall of Famers and future Hall of Famers have debuted at Survivor Series.

In 1991, The Undertaker was introduced as the Million Dollar Man's mystery man and he went on to make a huge impact that same night by eliminating and dominating a majority of the competition at the event.

'Olympic Gold Medalist' and WWE Hall of Famer, Kurt Angle made his debut at Survivor Series 1999 and went on to have the best rookie years in WWE history.

The Icon, Sting, made his first ever appearance in WWE history at Survivor Series 2014 and blew the roof of the place with a brief confrontation with Triple H.

In 1996, The Rock debuted as Rocky Mavia at Survivor Series.

The Shield also made their first appearance in WWE as a team at Survivor Series 2012.