5 most shocking Survivor Series eliminations

#3 Team Rated-RKO (Survivor Series 2006)

Team DX with the clean sweep over Team Rated-RKO

In October 2006, Edge and Randy Orton (the Rated-R Superstar and the master of the RKO) formed a tag team that was aptly named Rated-RKO. They immediately went to war with Triple H and Shawn Michaels, who had reformed DX earlier in the same year. Rated RKO had success against DX and even won the Tag Team Championship about a month into their time as a duo. Their feud with DX led to an obvious elimination match at Survivor Series, which came a few weeks after Edge and Orton became tag champions.

The deck was stacked pretty high against the champs, though, as the 5-on-5 match saw their team consist of them, Gregory Helms, Mike Knox and Johnny Nitro. It was not quite a whos-who of talent in WWE, and it put them in a serious hole. You would think, at least, that even with a weak team, the strong link between Edge and Orton would allow them to put up a fight, but that did not happen. Their opponents for the evening far outclassed them. DX put together the team of Triple H, Shawn Michaels, The Hardy Boyz and CM Punk.

Yeah, Team Rated-RKO didn’t stand a chance. It took Team DX less than 12 minutes to dispose of all five members of their opposing team in one of the few clean sweeps in Survivor Series history, where one complete team survived. Not exactly a shining moment for Edge and Orton, but the two would go on to main event WrestleMania in 2008 and 2009 respectively, so I think they did okay for themselves.