4. Wild Card Match – 1995
Another great Survivor Series variation was 1995’s Wild Card Match. President Gorilla Monsoon announced that the eight wrestlers in this match would be drawn at random to determine the teams. So babyface Razor Ramon got stuck with heels Owen Hart, Yokozuna, and rival Dean Douglas, against faces Shawn Michaels and Ahmed Johnson, and their heel partners the British Bulldog and Sid.
This made for an extremely exciting, unpredictable dynamic, and the match ran 27 action-packed minutes. This is still one of the best elimination matches I’ve ever seen. Michaels, Bulldog and Ahmed were the survivors, and this match cemented Ahmed as an intended future headliner (which I believe he would’ve been had he not been so injury-prone). I was sad not to see the Wild Card concept brought back in subsequent years.
