Two main event matches were held; in the first, Bret Hart defended the WWF Championship against Bob Backlund in a special submission match where the only way for a wrestler to win was to have the opponent’s second throw a towel into the ring; Owen Hart, Bret's brother and Backlund's second, tricked his mother Helen Hart into throwing in the towel for Bret, which won the match and the championship for Backlund.

In the other main event, The Undertaker defeated Yokozuna in a casket match with Chuck Norris as the special guest ring enforcer.

Lex Luger led Guts and Glory against the Million Dollar Corporation team, which was managed by Ted DiBiase.

Survivor Series is an annual gimmick pay-per-view (PPV), produced every November by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE) since 1987.

[3] Several storylines formed the background for the opening match, which saw the fan favorite team of The Bad Guys (Razor Ramon, the 1-2-3 Kid, Davey Boy Smith, and The Headshrinkers) square off against the villainous team of The Teamsters (Shawn Michaels, Diesel, Jeff Jarrett, Owen Hart and Jim Neidhart).

WWF President Jack Tunney scheduled a battle royal, in which Ramon and Rick Martel were the final participants remaining.

[6][7] In the months leading up to Survivor Series, Ramon had also developed a feud with Jeff Jarrett, and the two faced each other several times with the Intercontinental Championship on the line.

[14] An elimination match was booked for Survivor Series, with Lawler, Queasy, Sleazy and Cheesy facing Doink, Dink, Wink and Pink.

He claimed that he had never truly been beaten for the WWF World Heavyweight Championship on December 26, 1983, as the match ended when his manager, Arnold Skaaland, threw a towel into the ring rather than allowing Backlund to submit to The Iron Sheik's camel clutch; he also demanded that everyone start referring to him as "Mr. Backlund" and that if anyone was able to break out of the crossface chickenwing, he would retire.

At the time, they were involved in a feud with The Smoking Gunns as a result of a match on the September 3 episode of Superstars of Wrestling.

After the match, The Undertaker appeared on the video screen and vowed to return to the World Wrestling Federation one day.

[24] The first match of the event saw The Bad Guys, which consisted of Razor Ramon, the 1-2-3 Kid, the British Bulldog, and The Headshrinkers (Sione and Fatu) versus The Teamsters, composed of Diesel, Shawn Michaels, Jeff Jarrett, Owen Hart, and Jim Neidhart.

The opening minutes of the match featured brothers-in-law Hart and Smith trading moves as well as Jarrett and Ramon brawling.

[11] Queasy rolled the wrestlers over so that Sleazy was on top, however, and the referee made the three count and awarded the match to The Royal Family.

[17] Owen, watching on and feigning concern for his brother, went to talk to their parents, Stu and Helen Hart, who were sitting at ringside.

However, after seeing Bret locked for over nine minutes in the crossface chickenwing, Helen had seen enough; she grabbed the towel from her husband and threw it into the ring.

After the match, Owen claimed he would have the best Thanksgiving ever after finally costing Bret the world championship, while Backlund said the win made him “feel like God”.

Guts and Glory took the early lead when Mabel pinned Prichard after performing a crossbody from the second rope.

[25] The main event was next, featuring The Undertaker versus Yokozuna in a casket match with Chuck Norris as the special outside referee.

Undertaker then snatched the Japanese flag from Fuji's hand, and snapped in two, and slammed the lid to gain the victory.

Backlund's first defense of his title was made at a Madison Square Garden live show three days after Survivor Series, where Diesel defeated him with the Jackknife Powerbomb in eight seconds.

[34] With the victory, Diesel joined Hart and Pedro Morales as the only wrestlers to that point to be Triple Crown Champion and became the quickest to do so having won all three components within the span of seven months.

[35] To fill the vacancy created when Diesel and Michaels broke up, an eight team tournament was announced with the finals scheduled for the Royal Rumble.

Michaels then became the top contender for the WWF World Heavyweight Championship by winning the 1995 Royal Rumble match.

[41] This attack caused Michaels to turn face, and he and Diesel resumed their friendship and won the WWF Tag Team Championship later in 1995.

The Undertaker spent most of the following year feuding with the Corporation, as he faced IRS at the 1995 Royal Rumble, King Kong Bundy at WrestleMania XI, and Kama at SummerSlam 1995.

The team was dissolved in the summer of 1995 after Smith turned heel and Luger left the company following SummerSlam to return to World Championship Wrestling.

[45] After taking some time off, he made a surprise return at WrestleMania XI as Owen Hart's partner in a tag team title match against the Smoking Gunns.

[46] Yokozuna and Hart won the WWF Tag Team Championship,[46] and Owen's feud with Bret was dropped.

The brothers eventually reunited in 1997 to form The Hart Foundation, a stable that also included Davey Boy Smith and Jim Neidhart.