Recently on WWE.com, a question was poised to ten different Superstars (9 men, 1 woman) on what four Superstars would they recruit to partner up with at the annual fall classic, that has been a WWE PPV staple since 1987.
So gas up your DeLorean or a certain phone booth from Sam Dimas and brace yourself for a blast of wrestling history.
The Miz waxes nostalgia with his picks by choosing his favorite in-ring performers as a kid as well as his favorite star of the Attitude Era.
“The Rockers were my favorite tag team of all time,” The Awesome One said of the high flying tandem of Shawn Michaels and Marty Jannety. “Ultimate Warrior was my favorite childhood guy. And The Rock was my favorite Superstar of the ‘Attitude Era.'”
Booker T’s team would include two performers that wrestled in arguably the greatest match in WrestleMania history, and he’s made sure that his team have some added muscle and a diabolical madman.
“First would be “Macho Man” Randy Savage,” the six-time world champ told WWE Classics. “He could do it all. He could go up top, he had a hell of a ground game and, most importantly, he could just get into a fight.
“The second guy would be one of [Savage’s] all-time rivals, Ricky “The Dragon” Steamboat,” Booker continued. “I would pick Ricky, because he’s a guy that had a never say die spirit. He’s always going to be in the fight.”
“From a diabolical standpoint, I would have to go with Jake “The Snake” Roberts, because no one ever got up from the DDT,” SmackDown’s General Manager said. “And the last man on my team would be for muscle purposes only — One Man Gang. He was a guy that could take care of business.”
If you want a real thinking man’s team, look no further than Damien Sandow.
“If I was to captain a Survivor Series team, it would hold the likes of none other than Harley Race, Nick Bockwinkel, Bobby “The Brain” Heenan and Lou Thesz,” Sandow said with all of his expected pomp and circumstance.
“All thinking men, all technicians, all have a proven track record of outsmarting their opponents.”
Reading through all the picks some might be surprised at the number of times Randy Savage, Andre the Giant and the Ultimate Warrior appear, but it seems other Superstars have a greater fondness for midcarders and jobbers by picking the likes of Gillberg, Spike Dudley and Tugboat.
But if there’s one team I would have paid to see compete together it may just be that of our current United States Champion, Antonio Cesaro. Check out his “All World Team.”
“My Survivor Series team would have The Steiner Brothers, because there’s no better team,” Cesaro said of Rick and Scott Steiner, the powerful siblings who won tag titles in WWE, WCW and beyond.
“I would have Karl Gotch,” the Swiss Superstar continued, picking the legendary grappler who innovated his Neutralizer finishing maneuver. “He was a pure wrestler and he would help my team tremendously.”
Finally, Cesaro concluded with an unsurprising answer: “Ludvig Borga, for obvious reasons,” Cesaro said of the dangerous Superstar from Helsinki, Finland who competed in WWE in 1993. “He was amazingly European.”
To see the rest of Superstars and their picks, click here.
Bonus: If you could pick Superstars from different generations and had your own traditional Survivor Series tag team match, which Superstars would you pick?
