The main event was a standard wrestling match for the WWF Championship, in which Bret Hart defended the title against Shawn Michaels.

A video package aired immediately before the Hart vs. Michaels match, featuring the first use of the "WWF Attitude" scratch logo.

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

[4] Survivor Series consisted of professional wrestling matches involving wrestlers from pre-existing feuds and storylines that played out on Raw is War — WWF's primary television program.

[6] Even though Hart had not submitted, Michaels was declared the winner, as Earl Hebner, on direct orders from McMahon, called for the bell.

[7] In 2015, Kevin Pantoja of 411Mania gave the event a rating of 6.0 [Average], stating, "Shortly after the WWE Network launched, I watched this show, and disliked it.

Michaels lost the WWF Championship to Stone Cold Steve Austin at WrestleMania XIV; before going on a four-year hiatus after a back injury during a casket match against The Undertaker at the 1998 Royal Rumble.

The events of the Montreal Screwjob repeated itself at the following year's Survivor Series, albeit worked, when The Rock locked Mankind in the Sharpshooter before Mr. McMahon ordered the referee to call for the bell, "screwing" Mankind and awarding the then-vacant WWF Championship to The Rock.