WWE Survivor Series 1992 (1992)

Very well executed

Good movie, but best of all time? Hardly . . .

To all those who have watched it: I hope you enjoyed it as much as I do.

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

Clearly, the WWF was still sorting itself out of the post-Hogan era at the time of this event, and despite a few hints at things moving in the right direction, Survivor Series '92 is kind of a mess and ultimately very skippable in the PPV canon.Most of the matches in this event are subpar and featuring uneven talent. For example...-Tag team match between High Energy (Owen Hart and Koko B. Ware) vs. The Headshrinkers. Talk about starting off with a whimper. Decent wrestling, but little "push" for either team makes it ultimately expendable. -Big Boss Man vs. Nailz in a Nightstick Match. Dumb concept, even worse wrestling. -Virgil vs. Yokozuna. The big man would prove to have some staying power in the WWF (he moves well for such a fat guy), but having him in the ring with Virgil is so comical as to be ridiculous. -A similar thing happens with the ever-popular Undertaker against the completely embarrassing Kamala.Probably the only two decent matches of this event were:-Tatanka (a fan favorite!) vs. Rick "Model" Martel. -Bret Hart vs. Shawn Michaels for the WWF title. A decent match even if both men have had (and will have) better.One final note: Good to see Razor Ramon making his first PPV appearance (I believe) here. He knows what he is doing and how to put on a good show.Overall, Survivor Series '92 is a disappointment pretty much any way you slice it. A few hints at the company turning itself around, but it certainly doesn't make that leap this go-round.

1. Owen Hart/Koko B.Ware Vs. Headshrinkers - Average match 6/10 2. Big Stiff Man Vs. Nailz - Terrible match, however. 4/10 3. Rick Martel Vs. Tatanka (Lol inc.) - 1 uninteresting match. 5/10 4. Ric Flair/Razor Ramon Vs. Randy Savage/Mr. Perfect - Great booked match, but stupid ending. 6/10 5. Yokozuna Vs. Virgil -Yokozuna's PPV debut 6/10 6. The Beverly Brothers/I.R.S./Ted Dibiase Vs. Natural Disasters/Nasty Boys 5.5/10 7. Kamala Vs. The Undertaker - Kamala is one ridiculous and very bad wrestler. Match suffers by his wrestling skills...8. WWF Championship: Shawn Michaels (IC Champ) Vs. Champ-Bret Hart - Finally some watchable Main Event Instead Hulk Vs Rest of the World or Macho or at worst Piper or Warrior. This was solid match. 7/10 SANTA? Oh no....

Survivor Series 1992 was an entertaining night for fans in attendance, who finally got to see Savage defeat Flair once and for all, winning their feud that had raged through most of 1992. It also saw the first singles meeting between future professional rivals Bret Hart and Shawn Michaels in a nice WWE Championship match that lacked a big fight atmosphere.Unlike the first five Survivor Series, the 1992 version was light on elimination tag matches and had some one on one action and started with a tag match in which the Headshrinkers (Samu and Fatu) defeated High Energy (Owen Hart and Koko B Ware) in a decent opener. Samu and Fatu worked over Koko for most of the match, with help form their manager Afa. Owen eventually gets tagged in, does some drop kicks, but then gets caught by Samu going fro a cross body. Fall away Slam. 1,2,3! Next up is one of those awful weapon on a poll gimmick matches. In this case the weapon is a nightstick and the two men trying to get their hands on it are Big Bossman and Nailz. Bossman gets the stick. Nailz gets it off him. Stuff happens. Bossman wins with a power slam. Nothing match, as most weapon on a pole matches are.Doink the Clown, who's PPV debut this was, stole the show in the next match as Tatanka and Rick Martel had a decent match in the ring. Doink was blowing up balloons and popping them to annoy the children. Tatanka picked up the win to remain undefeated.Next up came the long awaited conclusion to the Ric Flair vs Rabndy Savage feud. This had been good stuff all year. It had started with Flair wining the title at the Royal Rumble. Savage became No.1 contender and Flair bragged about sleeping with Savage's wife Miss Elizabeth before she'd met Savage. Savage kicked Flair's butt in a classic match at Wrestlemania to win the title. Flair and his off-sider Mr Perfect interfered in Savage's match against the Ultimate Warrior at Summerslam. A few weeks later, Flair won the title back from Savage after Flair's cronies Mr Perfect and Razor Ramon (making his first appearance on WWE Television) interfered in the match. But Perfect had now turned on Flair and joined forces with Savage to take on Flair and Ramon in an entertaining feud blow-off extravaganza! After a good back and forth tag match, Flair and Ramon beat down Savage and were disqualified. Not the most satisfying end to the feud, but a good match all the same.Next up was the only Survivor Series match of the evening, and it was a four on four tag team elimination match. The Nasty Boys and the Natural Disasters (Earthquake and Typhoon) defeated Money Inc (Irwin R Shyster and Ted DiBiase) and the Beverley Brothers.Next up Yokozuna, making his PPV debut, defeated Virgil. Virgil got some offence in, but never seriously threatened Yokozuna, who won with a Banzai drop.Now we get to see another gimmick match as the Undertaker ends his long feud with Kamala by winning a coffin match after knocking out the big African with his urn.Brings us to the main event, in which Bret Hart, who'd been the WWE Champion a little over a month after beating Ric Flair, putting his title on the line against Intercontinental Champion Shawn Michaels, who himself had only recently won the title from the British Bulldog. The two guys have a very good match, which lacks the main event atmosphere because neither man was really established in that role at this stage. Hart wins with the sharpshooter, but both guys come out of the match looking strong.A nice event, with some disappointing finishes and a rushed build after some title changes, injuries and the Ultimate Warrior leaving again. Basically, British Bulldog was the IC Champion but got fired, so had to drop the title to Michaels. Flair was thought to be seriously injured and so had to drop the WWE Title to Hart in a match that was not televised at the time. So they were really re-loading from square one. Not an essential entry by any means, but not terrible.

Firstly, let me say that the 1992 Survivor Series broke with tradition. Survivor Series made it's debut in 1987 and up until 1991 it was an event which featured teams of four (or five) against each other. The 1992 Survivor Series had one match of that description but the rest were regular tag and singles matches which was a bit disappointing. After all, I think most fans enjoyed seeing teams of four against each other. Anyway, that's ancient history now because the following year the Survivor Series reverted to it's four VS four formula but I thought I'd mention that above.The whole card was pretty unspectacular. Don't get me wrong-the wrestlers all tried but at the end of the card I felt unfulfilled.The only great match on this card was the main event between WWF Champion Bret Hart and Shawn Michaels. For over twenty minutes the two greatest wrestlers of 1992 put on a great show for the fans. This match was brilliant but one match doesn't make a good event.