John Cena’s retirement run will take centre stage at Survivor Series on Saturday.

Cena’s penultimate WWE match and appearance takes place at the marquee event at Petco in San Diego, California as he meets Dominik Mysterio for his Intercontinental title.

As one of WWE’s biggest annual shows, however, it’s perhaps little surprise the event itself arrives with more history, controversy and baggage than almost any other WWE show on the calendar, long predating Cena and the current cohort.

Survivor Series has always carried a certain weight, not least because some of the company’s most infamous real life moments unfolded under its banner.

Is Survivor Series WWE's most controversial event?

The most notorious of all came in 1997 with the Montreal Screwjob , when Bret Hart ’s WWE career

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