November 22, 1990 was the day the fourth annual WWF Survivor Series event took place at. This event was notable for two noteworthy events; the hatching of the Survivor Series egg that introduced the world to the short-lived Gobbledy Gooker and the rather unassuming debut of the Undertaker. I will let you decide which of those two went on to become something of a big deal, but given the two choices, it’s obvious which one is the correct one.
So on this day, twenty-five years to the day since that event took place, I give it something of a quick lookie at this event that would give us perhaps one of the most enduring Superstars of all time… the Gobbledy Gooker.
Oh yeah, and that other guy too.
Now, for those who have no clue what Survivor Series entails, here’s the brief scoop. The event mostly comprises eight-man tag-team elimination matches where two teams of four men compete against each other. When a man is pinned, submits, gets counted out, or disqualified, he is eliminated from the match, leaving his teammates to fend for themselves. The winner of the match is the team that outlasts the other team; the “survivors” if you will. This edition featured an additional caveat where the various survivors of the match would compete in a “grand finale” match of the sorts, which is your main event for the evening.
As you can probably imagine, this doesn’t seem all that interesting in hindsight. I can’t say if it was interesting back in the day, but I could probably imagine not.
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