Survivor Series 1996
WrestlingFeuds documents three storylines that ran through Survivor Series 1996, held on November 17, 1996.
Storylines that built through here
The Undertaker vs. Mankind (Apr 1996 – Jun 1998)
Mick Foley debuted as Mankind by ambushing The Undertaker the night after WrestleMania XII, took Paul Bearer away from him inside a boiler room, and two years later took two falls off and through a sixteen-foot cage in Pittsburgh that reset what a WWF main event was allowed to look like.
The Undertaker · Mankind · Paul Bearer · Terry Funk · Kane
The Heartbreak Kid Shawn Michaels vs. Sycho Sid (Jul 1996 – Jan 1997)
Shawn Michaels spent his 1996 WWF Championship reign defending it against the same handful of opponents, until his one-time bodyguard turned attacker turned ally, Sycho Sid, chased off a rival at ringside and earned a title shot of his own. Sid beat Michaels for the belt in front of a Madison Square Garden crowd that booed the champion out of the building, and Michaels won it back two months later in San Antonio while running a fever, only to forfeit the title three weeks after that over a knee injury Bret Hart never believed was real.
Shawn Michaels · Sycho Sid · Vader · Ahmed Johnson · Jim Cornette · Owen Hart · British Bulldog · Bret Hart · Steve Austin
Stone Cold Steve Austin vs. Bret The Hitman Hart (Sep 1996 – Jul 1997)
A loudmouth who had just found Austin 3:16 called out a champion on sabbatical. Bret Hart came back, and over eight months the two built a program that ran through a Royal Rumble elimination nobody saw, a title lost to a chair shot, and a WrestleMania submission match where Austin bled, passed out, and left the bigger star.
Bret Hart · Steve Austin · Ken Shamrock · Sycho Sid