 In 1987, the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE) debuted the pay-per-view Survivor Series.The event was characterized by featuring only tag team elimination matches that were dubbed Survivor Series matches.Of the four matches at the inaugural event, three pitted teams of five wrestlers against each other, while the other featured five tag teams against each other (totaling 10 wrestlers per team), but with the stipulation being that if one member of a tag team was eliminated, both members of that particular tag team were eliminated.