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WWF Survivor Series 1998 took place in St Louis, Missouri on November 15th. The show featured a one night tournament (the Deadly Game Tournament) to crown a new WWF champion.
The WWF championship has been vacant since WWF Breakdown all the way back in September of 1998. Vince McMahon wanted the championship removed from Stone Cold Steve Austin and, in doing so, McMahon has made himself a bunch of new enemies while also gaining some new allies. His “Corporation” recently grew with the addition of The Big Boss Man and an affiliation with Mankind, however McMahon’s new faction gets it’s crown jewel at the end of this PPV.
Entrants in the Deadly Game tournament include Jeff Jarrett, Mankind, Stone Cold Steve Austin, The Rock, The Undertaker and Kane. Survivor Series 1998 features every match of the tournament, meaning no qualifying or first round matches happened on Raw is War. We also see a Sable vs Jacqueline match for the Women’s Championship, and the New Age Outlaws defend their tag team championships against The Headbangers and D’lo & Henry.
This video is part of the Wrestling Bios “Reliving The War” series.
00:00 – Intro
01:12 – Mankind vs ??? / Jarrett vs Al Snow
03:36 – Steve Austin vs Boss Man / X-Pac vs Regal
07:14 – Shamrock vs Goldust / Rock vs Boss Man
10:26 – Undertaker vs Kane
12:08 – Remaining Quarter Final Matches
15:30 – Sable vs Jacqueline
16:26 – Semi Final Matches
20:58 – Outlaws vs Headbangers vs D’Lo & Henry
23:20 – Deadly Game Tournament Final
28:18 – Final Thoughts / Credits
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41 Comments
I feel like I just watched this yesterday… mostly because I had to rewatch the PPV before seeing your episode. It was one of my favorite WWF PPVs from the 90s. Not necessarily from a wrestling standpoint, but the storytelling was superb.
That nightstick catch by Rock is so smooth
Thus kicks off the most famous wrestling rivalry of modern times
I remember Deadly Games as it was just before my 18th birthday but I don't remember Kane vs Undertaker…. The Rock really come of age at this show
26:32 I've always loved Shanes laugh
Never got it as a kid. Why not just give it to the rock hahaha
Vince Russo's Magnum Opus of booking 💯
Main event chinlock should be a thing from now on
This was so well done. Sometimes wrestling can beat you over the head with its lack of subtlety when it comes to swerves but this was brilliant.
The Brisco chairshot was explained on Pritchards podcast. Apparently Bossman missed a run in so Brisco had to improvise however he was worried about hurting Austin so the chair shot was really..really weak 😂
One of my earliest ppvs and it made me fall in love with the idea of one night tournaments (although I'm not sure they ever pulled one off like this again.) Corporate Rock was also possibly my favorite version of the Rock. "What is this? Sing along with the champ?" Good times.
The world's most dangerous man, who's not really the world's most dangerous man, because Steve MuFuggin Blackman is the real world's most dangerous man 😂
Debra’s hairline did not advance
One of two Survivors Series events to not feature a Tag Team Elimination Match.
The night Shane turned on Stone Cold
You know people bash Russo and rightfully so but this ppv is one of his best works
Comrade Rock has joined the capitalist pigs. 🤣
It's a good swerve, but the rehash of the 1997 finish was lazy garbage.
The belt shot of Rock at 27:00 is amazing. The big eagle belt really was something man. I’m so glad I lived through all this.
Cant wait till we get to Royal Rumble 99 and that Rock vs Mankind I Quit match
Best survivor series ever
I’m surprised there aren’t more wrestlers that get special clips or nicknames like 2 Cold Scorpio, Bret Hart saying “Shut up”, Alex Wright, Disco Inferno & Steve Muhfuggin’ Blackman do
I pulled this PPV up to do a watch along and I just realized they billed X-Pac as the "Eurpoean champion"
The music you're using during Austin vs Bossman. Is that from WWF War Zone the Game?
This is one of your best bits of work and one of the greatest PPVs of the Attitude Era.
Haa! 21:28
Splendid 😄👍
I was so hurt when Rock joined the corporation lol
My favorite ppv during this era
Shamrock was misused
i dont like wrestling matches with tme limit except for an iron man match
I don't get the Bret telling Road Dogg to shut up thing but… I laugh at every single one.
Why did Bossman stop Rock from doing the people's elbow if he wanted him to win?
I loved watching this when it happened!! Amazing memories & a pretty solid PPV! Great job on the video!!
This was the best era of wrestling when Vince McMahon turns hill and WCW was kicking butt
Shawn Michaels wanted to be part of this tournament. However: His back was injured.
I remember watching this back in the day and being very impressed of how slick the night stick catch from the rock was….. All these years later and I sit here still impressed
18:26 there is a backstory to this. Austin talked about this on his podcast years ago. Big Boss Man was supposed to go in the ring and hit Austin with a chair. Boss Man forgot about it and was late. I think he was running down to the ring right at the end. you can see him. they had to improvise so Brisco was the one to hit Austin with a chair but because Brisco never used a chair before, he didnt know how to hit somebody safely, so he hit Austin with a weak chair shot to protect him.
Amazing I never watched this SS! Thank you.
Not sure if I’m recalling this correctly, I was only 7 at the time, but I’m pretty sure this is the first PPV I ever watched, it was free on sky sports I believe.
1:36 who do you think Vince was theoretically taking about ther
My opinion: mr perfect
Why's is the WCW vs NWO Revenge bash at the beach song playing in this video?
This was right around the time WCW/nWo Revenge on the N64 was released, and this PPV (or, as we call it today, the “Premium Live Event,” or, “PLE” for short) occurred just two years before the infamous Vince Russo shoot promo at Bash at the Beach 2000. BTW, the 40th Daytona 500, WrestleMania XIV, VH1 Divas Live ‘98, Super Bowl XXXII, the 1998 World Series, the 1998 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, SummerSlam 1998: Highway to Hell, the 1998 King of the Ring, the 1998 NBA Finals, the 1998 Stanley Cup Final, the 1998 Royal Rumble and the 1998 Survivor Series are the best special events of 1998; 1998 was full of them!