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It's all about surviving.

The Survivor Series.

It's the annual extravaganza

where you must simply strive to survive.

You all have one goal, and that's to win.

And in the unpredictable decade

of the 2000s, anything can and did happen.

The Game's in that car.

Today we look back at the very best

of the WWE's Fall Classic, the Survivor Series.

Oh, Sweet Chin Music.

What in the world?

Shawn Michaels.

This is WWE's Greatest Moments.

It's all about surviving.

Acknowledge me.

My God.

Stone Cold with a beer bath.

Ah.

This is surreal.

Look at this.

He slammed him.

Welcome, everyone, to WWE's Greatest Moments.

I'm Michael Cole, and on this edition,

the name of the game is survival.

One team must eliminate all the opposition

to win this elimination match.

Since its inception in 1987, the Survivor Series

has been one of the premier events on the WWE calendar.

A featured attraction at this event has always been the

traditional elimination match,

where two teams collide until one side has been defeated.

At Survivor Series, we are gonna kick your ass.

In 2006, one of the most dominant teams of all time

was led by Triple H and Shawn Michaels.

The always controversial D-Generation X.

Viewer discretion is advised.

DX made Hall of Fame careers out of their hijinks,

their latest targets the team of Randy Orton and Edge.

Rated RKO.

This takes some audacity from Randy Orton and Edge.

The feuding teams each captain their side of five to go

at it, and one of the most memorable traditional

elimination matches of all time.

This is a five on five elimination tag team match.

Just stacked star studded-

CM Punk, The Hardys. Triple H, Shawn.

Legends.

This is chemistry on top of characters

that are the absolute perfect fit.

Oh, God almighty.

Mike Knox.

Wait a minute.

Oh no wait.

Thanks for coming.

Team DX,

now with a five on four advantage.

That all star team was-was pretty mind blowing.

To be in a match with them was just an honor.

And Swanton Bomb.

Oh, this is going to be sweet for Matt Hardy.

Five versus two.

Where are these two yahoos going?

Team extreme forced team Rated RKO to reconsider.

Sweet Chin Music.

Look out.

Pedigree.

You talk about dominating.

In one of the very rare occurrences

in Survivor Series history,

everybody on Team DX survived.

My God, it was a shutout.

In 2002, Trish Stratus was not only

ruling the women's division,

she was quickly becoming one of the most

popular superstars in WWE history.

Enter Victoria with jealousy consuming her,

Victoria got under the skin of the women's champion

and things got very physical, very quickly.

Oh my God, get her.

This came to a head inside the famed halls of

Madison Square Garden, where, in a rare occurrence for

the women, things would be settled in a hardcore match.

Survivor series is coming to you live

from the sold out Madison Square Garden

in New York City.

It was the first time I had

ever seen women fight like that.

Victoria off that top turnbuckle

right down to the canvas.

We had amazing chemistry.

Amazing.

We worked so well together.

Oh, no.

Oh, man.

Trish head first.

I think we started to know we were making

a difference and leaving an impact.

It was like the way the fans were reacting-

They were vested into what we were doing there.

Oh.

Oh gosh.

Nice.

Very nice.

Broke my nose.

Chipped my tooth.

I was like, "Oh my gosh.

They're seeing the women as more than just-

eye candy."

Right in the eyes.

That's the main thing.

Snap suplex by Victoria.

The hook of the leg.

Did she get it?

She got it.

You gotta be kidding me.

Winning the title there in New York, in Madison Square Garden.

Oh, man, I'm gonna cry.

Very emotional.

A huge moment like that.

We were not just pillow fights and bathing suits and-and

lingerie matches and stuff like that.

We could throw down too.

Victoria is the new women's champion.

There was no bigger sensation in 2002

than the "Beast Incarnate" Brock Lesnar.

The indestructible Brock Lesnar.

Lesnar F-5'd his way through the entire roster

en route to capturing the WWE Championship

from The Great One, The Rock.

Brock Lesnar has become the youngest champion in history.

But standing in front of The Beast

was his biggest challenge yet.

The 500 pound Big Show.

When I first came to WWE,

I needed somebody to pull me

by the reins and that guy was Paul Heyman.

You have to have faith in your manager.

That's why we're such a good team.

Big Show-

Oh.

-and the referee knocked down Paul Heyman,

tossing a steel chair to his client.

The task at hand at Survivor Series

was to leave them wanting more.

F-5.

Every time I get in the ring with him,

it's like wrestling a ball peen hammer.

You know, he's so strong and just so athletic.

No way.

F5.

Lesnar has F5'd 500 pounds.

And here comes the new referee into the ring.

New ref, new ref.

He retains, he retains.

Wait a minute.

What the hell's going on?

Who would have thought that Paul Heyman would switch sides

in the middle of a match?

Big Show.

Chokeslam.

Chokeslam to the steel chair.

And the evidence has been tossed out of the ring

as Heyman throws the referee back in.

Not like this.

Kick out Brock.

Damn it.

Paul Heyman has screwed Brock Lesnar.

Son of a-

He's got courage and passion more than common sense.

Without a doubt, yes, I'm a Paul Heyman guy.

The Big Show is the champion.

Survivor series has always been the event where you not

only settle your scores, but, as the name suggests,

become a survivor.

2003 that's exactly what the goal of Shane McMahon was

when he was engrossed in a rivalry

with The Big Red monster, Kane.

Kane, I'm going to make your life a living hell.

No, no, no.

Kane.

Shane, there is nothing that can stop me.

Have a nice ride.

This feud became so violent

that at Survivor Series, the two would battle it out

in one of the most unorthodox matches ever,

where the loser would be the one that was locked inside

of an ambulance.

The following contest is the ambulance match.

Yeah, when you see an ambulance match,

you know you're going to get hurt.

Look at this.

Oh my God.

You got this big monster

and you got this crazy daredevil.

That's a good matchup.

I had so much on my mind.

I know I'm going into battle.

He'll try anything.

On the table.

And the elbow to the Blackheart.

This Kane-

He is a psychological monster.

Sadistic and twisted and mean.

Oh my God.

Oh my God.

That's just sick.

When you have a match with that much physicality,

that much violence,

it really necessitates that someone is indeed going

to the hospital right after this.

He may destroy himself in the process of trying

to destroy Kane- oh.

Shane McMahon going border to border.

He's a big, big man.

He's double tough.

Adding fuel to the fire for Kane

Oh, you got to be kiddin' me.

Oh my God, the tombstone.

Shane's neck and his head.

And it's over.

In 2003, Monday Night Raw had its own share of sitcom

drama with Co-general managers Eric Bischoff

and "Stone Cold" Steve Austin.

We're going to be partners.

Partners.

Wait.

No.

Stunner.

It was obvious the two were never

going to see eye to eye.

With the annual Survivor Series

approaching, a unique stipulation was added

to the traditional elimination match-

Both GMs picked their teams of five.

If your team loses, you're out of here.

You're done.

Business is about to pick up.

Kind of not wrestling at the time.

It always rang a little hollow with me doing anything

in the ring other than wrestling.

But just the fact that people bought into the angle

and we were entertaining them

that was really cool.

It is a must win for Stone Cold,

and Booker T just got drilled,

and there's a 3D.

Van Dam with a five star.

Mark Henry eliminated.

I get ganged up on.

Where's that fair?

Advantage back to Team Bischoff,

and it doesn't look good for the Rattlesnake right now.

So it comes down to Shawn Michaels

versus three members of Team Bischoff.

The odds are stacked way against Shawn Michaels.

JR, you got to face the facts.

You got to be realistic.

It's- this is looking real bad.

Oh.

Be realistic about that kick.

No he got him.

Yes indeed.

One down and two to go.

Oh.

The counter the counter the counter.

You get Shawn Michaels running through superstar after

superstar at the end

looking like he's going to do it for Austin...

No.

Orton tried to crossbody Michaels.

Everybody in this arena is on their feet, JR.

Hey.

Hey, wait a minute.

Hey.

Wait a minute.

Batista.

And thanks to Batista of Evolution,

"Stone Cold" Steve Austin's career is over.

Couldn't believe that I got fired,

but it was what it was.

We have just seen the end of the most popular superstar

in WWE history.

The WWE Women's Championship is the top prize

in the women's division.

Many of the all time great female competitors

have held on to that title,

and brought women's wrestling to new heights.

At Survivor Series 2001, the women's Championship was vacant.

The six pack challenge, featuring the top women's

wrestlers of the era was set.

Which of these women would survive

and call herself champion?

The first person to score a pinfall or submission

wins this match.

In 2001, they put together a match called

Six Pack Challenge.

It was Jazz, Jacqueline, Ivory,

Molly Holly, Lita and myself.

It's every girl for herself.

I was the underdog coming in.

I wasn't the most experienced.

All five were way better in the ring.

But I was ready for the challenge.

Oh man.

We got to fight for this title and make it mean something.

I had this desire to just want to prove myself in the ring

and say that, "Yeah, I belong here."

And Trish-

Oh, with a Stratusfaction.

Oh, don't tell me.

And Trish has done it.

Trish Stratus has won this match.

Holding the title for the first time was really special.

Trish Stratus is the new women's champion.

Trish winning that championship just helped start

this whole new era of women's wrestling.

In 2001 had the highest stakes possible

when rival companies

ECW and WCW both closed their doors.

The stars of both defunct companies aligned

in an attempt to take over WWE.

Nothing can stop the WCW and ECW.

A winner take all match was set between

the two sides, where the losing team would be forced

to close its doors forever.

Winner take all.

One company will be out of business

at the conclusion of this next main event.

That match at Survivor Series 2001 was huge, you know,

it had the top superstars in the industry.

Fighting for their professional lives.

This could boil down to five on one.

Oh my God.

Almighty.

We just lost another one.

The Alliance has a clear advantage.

The stakes couldn't be higher.

They really couldn't be bigger.

And I grew up a huge WCW guy, so it was hard not to root

for The Alliance, but it was a fight for survival.

It has come down to Rock and Austin.

And Stone Cold will lead The Alliance to victory.

Anytime you step in a ring with The Rock,

he's going to give you everything he's got.

Not this way.

Oh God.

Oh, yes, The Rock kicked out.

The Rock Bottom.

The count.

It's over.

The WWE has won it.

What made that match so special is that business wise,

I knew that we did something that was very, very cool.

The Alliance dies.

Perhaps no superstar saw more success in 2005

than "The Viper" Randy Orton.

He had done the unthinkable and taken out The Undertaker,

seemingly for good.

The Undertaker is in the casket.

And at the Survivor Series, Orton celebrated a

career milestone, becoming the first superstar to be the sole

survivor on his team for an unprecedented

third year in a row.

The Legend Killer was certainly riding high

until the Dead Man rose again.

The SmackDown camaraderie-

Get in there.

-here to congratulate Randy Orton as SmackDown

dominates Raw again.

I was the sole survivor.

I was being hoisted up on everybody's shoulders,

and you know,

"All right, we did it."

And then I heard it.

Randy Orton looks as if he's seen a ghost.

When they placed that casket out there

that place, you could feel it shaking.

Oh

My God.

There's a layer of ominous foreplay

to what you're about to see.

Oh my God.

The dead has risen.

I'm standing there.

People are going nuts.

Boom.

Then I start that march.

The Undertaker is back for vengeance.

The Undertaker is clearing the ring of every SmackDown

superstar who's out here.

Oh, man.

Orton running like a scalded dog out of here.

Yeah, it was- it was just magical, man.

Randy Orton is next on the hit list.

In 2001, WWE famously purchased rival promotion WCW.

With it came the WCW Tag Team Championship.

It didn't take long for the Dudley Boyz to capture those

titles and rekindle an old rivalry.

I'm talking about the WWE Tag Team Champions, The Hardy Boyz.

And now at Survivor Series,

they were about to do it one more time,

but with huge implications.

It will be the Dudleys taking on the Hardys

in a title unification match.

And what better way for these risk takers to get

extreme than inside the confines of a 15 foot high steel cage?

This match can be won by pinfall

or by both members of one team,

escaping over the top of the cage

all the way to the floor.

You would think it's difficult to put a tag team match together

in a steel cage, but for us and the Hardys, it wasn't.

In a bad place with a hellacious landing.

I really feel like this was the last big meeting.

It was a bit of a grand finale to the Hardys

and Dudleys rivalry, no doubt about it.

The human anatomy is going to hurt and it's going

to hurt for a long time.

We all had such good chemistry.

We wanted to raise the bar like we always did back then.

Matt Hardy is out of the cage.

We need one more.

How's this going to end man?

Is Jeff Hardy going to do something crazy off the top?

I felt like that's what everybody kind of wanted to see.

Jeff climbing to the top.

Jeff to get out of here.

And both feet touch.

The Hardys have done it.

Matt is encouraging his brother to come on down.

Oh, no.

Look at this.

Jeff Hardy can't resist.

I've always kind of gravitated towards that, uh,

not knowing what's going to happen,

but taking the risk to see if it may happen.

Jeff, don't do this.

No.

Damn it.

Oh my God.

I took the risk versus the reward and it didn't pay off.

And Matt's on the outside trying to climb back in-

One, two, three.

-but it is too late.

The Dudleys have made history.

Winning this match meant a lot to myself and my brother D-Von.

Only team to hold the ECW, WWE and WCW

World Tag Team Championship.

This establishes The Dudley Boyz

as the greatest tag team in history.

It is now time for our number one moment.

In 2002, champion Triple H had a huge target on his back.

Wth five of WWE's biggest superstars

all gunning for the title.

Raw General Manager Eric Bischoff made an announcement

that would change the landscape of professional wrestling.

At Survivor Series, you will bear witness

to the Elimination Chamber.

For the first time ever, we would see one of the

most Satanic structures ever created,

the Elimination Chamber.

Two men will start.

One of the internal chambers

will be opened every three minutes.

The last man remaining is the World's Heavyweight Champion.

Yeah you'd hear

"Now we're building it, the whole thing."

And the next time I saw it was Madison Square Garden,

where I walked out and was like, "Holy [bleep]."

These men, their fate being sealed,

locked inside this unique structure.

We were like the crash test dummies

actually going out there.

This is a steel grid that we're getting body slammed on.

Oh.

Time's up again, JR.

Now who?

Uh oh.

It's Kane.

With the Elimination Chamber,

it was completely different than-

really, I think anything the company had done before that

and a lot more complex as far as the actual match.

Michaels catapulted

his body has been broken

perhaps in half here.

This is brutal.

I mean, the thing is fricking solid steel.

Sweet Chin Music.

What?

Michaels eliminates Jericho, and we're down to two.

It feels a bit contrived, but at the same time,

no, it's a nice story that everybody likes,

and sometimes that's okay to do.

Sweet Chin Music.

He got him.

Sweet Chin Music.

The cover.

He's got- yes.

What?

Shawn Michaels is the world's champion.

Michaels believed in his ability to win this match,

and he has survived it.

They have something fresh, something new,

something different.

The Elimination Chamber was awesome.

"The Heartbreak Kid" Shawn Michaels makes history

in one of the most brutal matches we had ever seen.

Over the last four decades, the Survivor Series has proven to be

a can't miss attraction,

and in the wild decade of the 2000s,

the action was nonstop.

Well, that'll do it for this edition

of WWE's Greatest Moments.

I hope you've enjoyed this

look back at some of the greatest matches

to ever take place at WWE's Fall Classic.

The Survivor series.