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The Survivor Series is the second longest running annual pay-per-view event put on by the WWE. One of the main elements that have contributed to its popularity and longevity is the tag-team style elimination match pitting one team of 4-5 wrestlers against another. The winner is declared when the entire opposing team has been eliminated.
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Over the years WWE fans have seen a variety of teams put together to compete in the elimination event. Some teams have been made up of obvious allies while others have showcased very unlikely partners. Part of the event's appeal is anticipating which wrestlers might get paired together. Discussion and rumors of who might be get paired together for the 2018 Survivor Series are already starting to circulate, with one of the bigger rumors being that the WWE is planning on pitting faction vs faction at this year’s event.
Factions are a group of wrestlers, sometimes referred to as a stable or even a family. “Who would win if this faction met that faction in the ring?” is another popular speculative topic within the wrestling community.
#1 n.W.o. versus DX
Wrestling fans would have lost their minds during the Monday Night Wars if there was a Survivor Series style match between WCW’s n.W.o. and WWE’s D-Generation X. We finally got to see both factions square off at Wrestlemania 31, but that was more of an anecdotal nostalgic moment added to a match, rather than two of the most popular factions in wrestling history going toe to toe, until one team had been completely eliminated by the other.
Both groups played major roles in the battle for Monday Night rating supremacy. Wrestling fans did get to see the n.W.o versus DX at Wrestlemania 31 during the match between Triple H and Sting when both factions shocked everyone and interfered. But this was just a tease with most wrestlers being way past their prime and the confrontation only lasting a couple minutes. A match between the n.W.o. and DX would’ve been much better during the Monday Night Wars.
The Teams:
n.W.o. - Hollywood Hogan, Kevin Nash, Scott Hall, Scott Steiner (with other n.W.o. members surrounding the ring)
DX - Triple H, Shawn Michaels, X-Pac, Billy Gunn, Road Dogg
The winners: DX will be outnumbered and the match would end with an old fashion n.W.o. beat down and DX getting n.W.o. spray painted on their backs. X-Pac will also likely turn on DX, being more loyal to his Kliq friends, Hall and Nash.
#2 The Four Horsemen versus Evolution
The Four Horsemen are arguably the greatest wrestling faction of all time. Evolution literally represented the evolution of pro wrestling. Some would argue that Evolution was simply the evolution of The Four Horsemen, another incarnation of the legendary stable. Which faction was better? As Ric Flair always said, if you want to be the man, you gotta beat the man and what better way for these two factions to determine who is “the man” than at Survivor Series.
The Teams:
Four Horsemen - Ric Flair, Arn Anderson, Ole Anderson, Tully Blanchard
Evolution - Triple H, Ric Flair, Batista, Randy Orton
The Winners: The Four Horsemen. To be the man you’ve got to beat the man and the Evolution’s Ric Flair couldn’t beat The Four Horsemen’s Ric Flair simply because Ric Flair in the Four Horsemen will always be the man.
#3 Four Horsewomen (WWE) vs Four Horsewomen (MMA)
This is something fans may actually get to see. Ever since their confrontation at the 2017 Mae Young Classic rumors of a match featuring both groups have started to become fact and we are likely to see The Four Horsewomen of the WWE versus The Four Horsewomen from the UFC. A match of this caliber will likely occur at Wrestlemania but some would argue that this match would be much better as a tag-team elimination match at Survivor Series.
The Teams:
The Four Horsewomen (MMA) - Ronda Rousey, Shayna Baszler, Jessamyn Duke, Marina Shafir
The Four Horsewomen (WWE) - Charlotte Flair, Becky Lynch, Sasha Banks, Bayley
The Winners: The Four Horsewomen (MMA). Even though The Four Horsewomen of the WWE are credited for ushering in the new era of Women's Wrestling in the WWE, The Four Horsewomen from MMA will be the next Evolution in Women's Wrestling in the WWE and it will start with them beating The Four Horsewomen from the WWE.
#4 The Hart Foundation vs The Von Erichs
Two of wrestling’s most prestigious families, the Harts and Von Erichs had very similar backgrounds. Both families were led by a wrestling patriarch, who ran a successful wrestling territory, prior to Vince McMahon’s national expansion.
Both families produced a number of sons (and son in laws) who would go on to be known as some of the best technical wrestlers in history. Sadly both families were also plagued by tragedy leading to most of those sons no longer being with us. If the possibility of having these two families meet in a Survivor Series style match, it would be an exhibition of traditional old school technical wrestling.
The Teams:
The Hart Foundation - Bret “The Hitman” Hart, Owen Hart, Jim “The Anvil” Neihart, “The British Bulldog” Davey Boy Smith, Brian Pillman
The Von Erichs - Kevin, David, Kerry, Mike and Chris Von Erich
The Winners: The Hart Foundation. Bret “The Hitman” Hart would once again prove why he is “The best there is, the best there was and the best ever will be”
#5 Bullet Club (Elite) vs Bullet Club (OG) vs Bullet Club (WWE)
Bullet Club is the most popular faction in wrestling today. Over the past year a lot has changed for the group, with ongoing infighting leading to a recent split into two separate Bullet Clubs. The Elite and The Firing Squad (also known as Bullet Club OG). The future of The Elite has been a big topic of discussion in the past months, with a majority of its members’ contracts up in January. Will we get to see the two Bullet Club groups face each other before the New Year?
As much as fans want to see the two groups square off, if one of the current rumors surrounding The Elite are true, we may see Bullet Club Elite in WWE in the New Year? If this rumor is true, will they continue to be called Bullet Club? How will original founder Finn Balor and former Bullet Club leader AJ Styles feel about The Elite in WWE? The former Bullet Club members currently in WWE seem to be missing their old faction, with attempts to form new groups under the moniker Balor Club, The Club, and Karl Anderson and Luke Gallows have gone as far as to release Bullet Club style t-shirts and also promoted the hash-tag #OGBC.
There can only be one Bullet Club and what better way to decide which group that should be than in a tag-team elimination Survivor Series style match were the sole survivors retain the name Bullet Club.
The Teams
Bullet Club Elite - Kenny Omega, Cody Rhodes, Marty Scurll, The Young Bucks, Hangman Page
Bullet Club OG - Tama Tonga, Tanga Loa, Bad Luck Fale, Taiji Ishimori (Bone Soldier), Jay White (with Gedo and King Haku ring side)
Bullet Club WWE - Finn Balor, AJ Styles, Karl Anderson, Luke Gallows, Adam Cole
The Winners: The fans
