Survivor Series (1998)

Survivor Series
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PromotionWorld Wrestling Federation
DateNovember 15, 1998
CitySt. Louis, Missouri
VenueKiel Center
Attendance21,179[1]
Buy rate400,780[2]
Tagline(s)Deadly Game
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The 1998 Survivor Series (marketed as Survivor Series: Deadly Game) was the 12th annual Survivor Series professional wrestling pay-per-view event produced by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF; WWE as of 2002). It took place on November 15, 1998, at the Kiel Center in St. Louis, Missouri.

Fourteen professional wrestling matches were scheduled on the event's card, a noticeably higher number than most pay-per-view events because the main focus of the card was a tournament for the vacant WWF Championship. It was the first tournament held with the WWF Championship on the line in ten years, the last being at WrestleMania IV. Both tournaments were 14-man tournaments instead of the regular 8 or 16-man tournaments. Aside from the tournament, two other championship matches occurred: the first defense of the WWF Women's Championship since it had been reactivated and a triple threat tag team match for the WWF Tag Team Championship.

This event was also the first Survivor Series not to include any Survivor Series elimination matches, although the notion of survival is apparent in the knockout tournament.

The event was the first ever Survivor Series which did not feature Bret Hart as he left in controversial fashion following the previous year's event.

  1. ^ "WWE Survivor Series: Key facts and figures from event's history". Sky Sports. Retrieved November 7, 2016.
  2. ^ "WWF PPV Statistics 1998". OSW Review. Archived from the original on December 31, 2019. Retrieved February 23, 2021.

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