Survivor Series

Original Concept
The original concept for Survivor Series was to have an event that focused only on tag team wrestling. Another contributing factor to the birth of Survivor Series was to capitalize on the big time feud between Hulk Hogan and Andre the Giant, who wrestled each other at WrestleMania 3. The WWE had several Tag Team Elimination Matches earlier in 1987, albeit with three man teams and the feuds being loosely related.

The Survivor Series was originally considered to be a "Thanksgiving Tradition" as the first four Survivor Series events took place on Thanksgiving Day in November. After four years of taking place on Thanksgiving Day, it'll take place the next four years on Thanksgiving Eve. After four years of being on Thanksgiving Eve, it would become a traditional Pay Per View taking place the Sunday closest to Thanksgiving.

Survivor Series, along with WrestleMania, Royal Rumble, and Summerslam are known as the "Big 4" Pay Per Views. In 1993, the "Big 4" would be known as the "Classic 5" with the addition of King of the Ring until King of the Ring was no longer a Pay Per View after the 2002 event. Starting in 2003, it would return to being the "Big 4" with the announcement of the cancellation of the King of the Ring Pay Per View event.

Theme
The Survivor Series theme has always been "surviving". In the early stages of the event, all the matches were matches to "survive". The traditional Survivor Series Tag Team Elimination Matches pitted superstars versus superstars they are currently rivaling with. The match continues till one team was entirely eliminated by either pinfall, submission, disqualification, or count out. The survivor (or survivors) would be considered the "sole survivors" of their team, however, the entire team would be the winners. Most recently at Survivor Series Pay Per Views, there are title matches, regular matches, with at least one (sometimes more) traditional Survivor Series Tag Team Elimination Matches on the card.

Legacies
There were plenty of history made at Survivor Series with superstars debuting at the event and becoming legendary superstars worthy of a Hall of Fame induction. In 1990, Brother Love introduced the debut of Undertaker, whom would later be represented and managed by Paul Bearer, whom became one of the WWE's greatest, most legendary and iconic superstars in history, undefeated at WrestleMania until his first loss at WrestleMania 30 to Brock Lesnar bringing his streak to 21 and 1. In 1995, the world witnessed the debut of Rocky Maivia, later to be known as The Rock, whom became one of professional wrestling's most entertaining, charismatic, and electrifying superstars in history and would later find success in Hollywood as an actor.