WWE Survivor Series 1995 (1995)

To me, this movie is perfection.

As somebody who had not heard any of this before, it became a curious phenomenon to sit and watch a film and slowly have the realities begin to click into place.

The biggest problem with this movie is it’s a little better than you think it might be, which somehow makes it worse. As in, it takes itself a bit too seriously, which makes most of the movie feel kind of dull.

One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

1st Match: The Underdogs vs The BodyDonnas, 4-on-4 Elimination match. A solid match to start the show. No real star power, because most of these guys were jobbers, but there's some good action in it. Waltman winning I thought was a good idea for getting him over as a heel. Rating: 3.5/5 2nd Match: Bertha Faye, Aja Kong, Tomoko Watanabe, and Lioness Asuka vs Alundra Blayze, Kyoko Inoue, Sakie Hasegawa and Chaparita Asari, 4-on-4 Elimination match. Nothing important here. Blayze is cool, but the rest are just there to take up space. A lot of the talent here would disappear in the next few months, pretty much leaving the women's division struggling for several years. Rating: 2/53rd Match: Bam Bam Bigelow vs Goldust. It's a better match than the one Goldust had last month, but still nothing special. Bigelow would go on to ECW and have more success there after this. Rating: 3/5 4th Match: The Darkside vs The Royals, 4-on-4 Elimination match. A glorified squash with Taker demolishing everyone. Despite that though, the match is pretty entertaining. It's also interesting to see Kane, HHH, Rikishi, and Taker facing each other here, knowing now what they went on to do in the company. Rating: 3.5/5 5th Match: Shawn Michaels, Ahmed Johnson, The British Bulldog, and Sid Vicious vs Yokozuna, Owen Hart, Razor Ramon and Dean Douglas, 4-on-4 Elimination match. The longest match of the night, and it sure feels like it. The match feels like they stretched it out to fill time. The match is good though, just a little too long. Rating: 3/5 6th Match: Bret Hart vs Diesel, No DQ match for the WWF Championship. This match is awesome. Brutal for the time, great storytelling, and great chemistry between the 2. It might seem pretty basic compared to the Attitude Era, but I think it holds up phenomenally well. I'm also glad Bret won because now we can have someone else defend the title instead of Nash. A serious contender for Match of the Year. Rating: 5/5 Final Rating: 7 out of 10. They definitely saved their best for last here. This is way better than last year's show, with a great main event to boot.

Welcome back Mr. Perfect! 1. Marty Jannetty/Bob Holly/Hakushi/Barry Horrowitz Vs. Rad RadfordTom Prichard/1-2-3 Kid/Skip - Great to watch. Jannetty give heart into the match. 8/10 2. Alundra Blayze/Kyoko Inoue/Sakie Hasegawa/Chaparita Asari Vs. - Bertha Faye/Aja Kong/Tomoko Watanabe/Lioness Asuka - There were some bright moments, but Blayze seemed to be unsure in her moves. And the most macho woman ever won that match. Points for Japanese women 7/10 3. Bam Bam Bigelow Vs. Goldust - Another push for Goldust, this time over BBB in a normal match 6.5/10 4. Savio Vega/Henry O. Godwinn/Fatu/The Undertaker Vs. Hunter Hearst Helmsley/Mabel/Jerry Lawler/Isaac Yankem - Return of the Taker, he destroy all of 4 opponents. 2 Tombstones and 2 chokeslams. 6/10 5. Yokozuna/Owen Hart/Dean Douglas/Razor Ramon Vs. The British Bulldog/Sid/Ahmed Johnson/Shawn Michaels - Good match. I really like Ahmed's finishing move Pearl River Plunge. 7/10 6. WWF Heavyweight Title Match: Bret Hart Vs. Champ-Diesel - The most boring guy in wrestling world ever- Diesel in the most boring match of the night - title match. Up! Only for Bret's win (and that dumbas* finally lost the belt) I gave 5/10

The WWE Championship scene came full circle in 1995 with Bret Hart and Diesel, the same men who contested the title at the Royal Rumble, meeting for the title at Survivor Series. This night returned to the traditional Survivor Series format with 4 four on four elimination matches and only two singles matches.The night started off with the Body Donnas (Skip, Rad Radford, Ton Prichard and the recently heel turned 1-2-3 Kid accompanied by Sunny and Ted DiBiase) defeated the UNderdogs (Marty Janetty, Bob Holly, Barry Horowitz and the recently face turned Hakushi). Prichard was the first man eliminated following a flying cross body from Bob Holly, who was himself eliminated seconds later when he was rolled up by Skip. Hakushi was pinned by Rad Radford following a spinning heel kick from The Kid. Radford was eliminated a fair while later, rolled up by Horowitz. Horowitz then fell to a a snap leg drop from The Kid. Leaving Janetty against the Kid and Skip. Janetty was able to superbomb Skip form the top rope to even the match up, and looked the likely winner until a returning Psycho Sid interfered, taking out Janetty and leaving The 1-2-3 Kid as the sole survivor of a good opening match.The next match was the first all women's match at Survivor Series since 1987 and was not a great spectacle. The heel team of Bertha Faye, Aja Kong, Tomoko Watanabe, and Lioness Asuka (with Harvey Wippleman) defeated the Face team of Alundra Blayze, Kyoko Inoue, Sakie Hasegawa, and Chaparita Asari. It came down to Blayze and Aja Kong, with Kong proving too strong and getting the win.The next match saw Goldust defeat Bam Bam Bigelow. A face turn earlier in the year really hadn't done much to help the career of Bigelow and was beaten by the usual homo erotic tricks from "The Bizarre one." Not a very good match.Well the next match proved to be very one sided as The Darkside (The Undertaker, Savio Vega, Fatu and Henry Godwinn) defeated The Royals (Jerry Lawler, Isaac Yankem, Hunter Hearst Helmsley and Mabel) without losing single man. Mabel was the last man left for his team, and he had the good sense to run to the back and get counted out instead of getting slaughtered by four men. Bad match.The next match wasn't much less decisive as Team Michaels (Shawn Micheals, Psycho Sid, the British Bulldog and Ahmed Johnson {in his first WWE PPV}) defeated Team Razor (Dean Douglas, Owen Hart, Razor Ramon and Yokozuna) with Sid their only casualty. Johnson took care of Yokozuna who was the last man standing for Team Razor. Strange mix of faces and heels here, with Cornette actually in both team's corner as he managed the British Bulldog and Owen Hart/ Yokozuna. Average match.Finally it was time for the Main Event where rank under dog Bret Hart had agreed to a no DQ match to try and win WWE the title from Diesel who'd been champion for almost a full year. The match was a classic, following the template of a big man vs little man match. Hart was thrown through announce tables and all over the place. Diesel was tied to the ring post at one stage as Hart dished out some punishment. Eventually Hart won it, playing possum and then beating Diesel with an inside cradle to win the WWE Title for a third time. It was now that Diesel, never far from the dark side in the later months of his reign, finally snapped and destroyed Hart, officially turning heel.So there you have Survivor Series 1995 an event with a lot of filler, but an outstanding main event.

This was a rather average Survivor Series card; none of the matches really stood out and there was nothing, at least in my opinion, that could be remembered for years to come.It seemed to me that the WWF probably booked this event in a rush. Usually, the Survivor Series consisted of sworn enemies facing each other in teams of four. Most of the elimination matches were sub standard.There was one match of interest-the wild card match in which friends teamed up with foes. Good guys Shawn Michaels and Ahmed Johnson teamed up with bad guys Psycho Sid and the late Davey Boy Smith to face good guy Razor Ramon and bad guys the late Owen Hart, Yokosuna and Dean Douglas. This made for an intriguing match and was the only real good thing about this card.