Ep. 51: 1998 WWE Survivor Series
Your deep dive into the 1998 WWF Survivor Series “Deadly Game” scrutinizes all angles of the WWF title tournament that sharply turned The Rock heel just as he was beginning to catch babyface fire, and the lessons that can be applied to a certain Roman Reigns.
Immerse yourself in attitudinal booking with a study on the elements that helped the WWF, by this point in 1998, decisively pull ahead in the Monday night ratings wars, and never look back.
The show includes:
- SO MANY signs in the crowd. Just a sea of neon cardboard.
- The Rock breaks through a bonafide top guy
- Vince makes each and every bout of manipulation sing from his wheelchair in a vintage performance
- The confounding first WWF run of William Regal as the “Real Man’s Man”
- The Big Bossman invades every nook and cranny of the show, except the run-in he was supposed to do in Austin v. Mankind, killing the match’s heat
- The name of the football squad Duane Gill coached to glory
- JR on X-Pac’s “suddenness”
- Ken Shamrock huracanranas
- The crowd is asked to react to an Undertaker who just admitted he set the fire that destroyed his family and was blamed on Kane
- JR actually says this: “Mankind has opened up offensively now after realizing that the tube sock was around the mannequin head.” #AttitudeEra
All that and so much more, as TLF dissects the qualities that make the 1998 Survivor Series a true harbinger for a WWF product re-imagining that sent the company to new heights (and occasionally new lows).
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