On Sunday, November 18, WWE held it’s major fall PPV, Survivor Series. There were a few memorable moments and quite a few cringe-worthy moments as well. This was an evening where wrestlers from WWE’s premiere shows, Raw and Smackdown, would face each other in numerous matches to determine who is the dominant brand.
There were three Survivor Series elimination matches: men’s, women’s, and tag team. Additionally, there were three champion vs. champion matches–four if you count Ronda Rousey vs. Charlotte. According to commentator Michael Cole, Raw swept the evening, with Smackdown losing all its matches. However, Smackdown’s tag team match on the Kickoff Show beat Raw’s, so Cole’s ability to count is subpar at best.
The evening delivered some thrills, chills, and yawns. That may not rhyme, but that’s all I’ve got after watching an almost 6 hour long PPV. Like every human on the internet, I have opinions about how everything went down at the Staples Center in Los Angeles during Survivor Series. Here are the rankings of all the Survivor Series matches, presented in the order they aired on the PPV.
Match Card:
Tag Team Survivor Series Match [Kickoff Match]
Women’s Survivor Series Match
Intercontinental Champion Seth Rollins vs. United States Champion Shinsuke Nakamura
Raw Tag Team Champions AOP vs. SmackDown Tag Team Champions The Bar
Buddy Murphy (c) vs. Mustafa Ali (Cruiserweight Championship)
Men’s Survivor Series Match
Raw Women’s Champion Ronda Rousey vs. Charlotte
Universal Champion Brock Lesnar vs. WWE Champion Daniel Bryan
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Survivor Series has come to a close, and it was a bit better than expected, especially the Ronda Rousey vs. Charlotte Flair match. Raw dominated Smackdown over the course of the November 18 evening, for one of WWE’s biggest PPVs of the year.
The Survivor Series PPV aired live from the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California. The rosters of Raw and Smackdown battled each other to see which show was the dominant one. Below you’ll find the results for every match and the order of elimination for every Survivor Series bout.
The Kickoff Show for Survivor Series beings 2 PM PT / 5 PM ET / 10 PM GMT on the WWE Network. There are plenty of ways to watch the show before the main card starts at 4 PM PT / 7 PM ET / 12 AM GMT (November 19).
While the Kickoff Show is two hours long, there has only been one confirmed match for the event, and that’s the Tag Team Survivor Series Match which features two teams of 10 battling each other in an elimination bout. For the main card, there will only be one title defense during the evening, and that’s Cruiserweight Champion Buddy Murphy taking on Mustafa Ali.
The rest of the evening will feature plenty of Raw vs. Smackdown matches. It will have title holders from one brand facing champions from the other, except for the women’s champs. Ronda Rousey was originally going to face Becky Lynch, but the Smackdown Women’s Champion got injured, so Lynch picked Charlotte Flair as her replacement. Additionally, Brock Lesnar was going to take on AJ Styles, but days before the event, Daniel Bryan beat Styles for the WWE Championship, so Bryan is off to Survivor Series to fight Lesnar.
Survivor Series Match Card:
Universal Champion Brock Lesnar vs. WWE Champion Daniel Bryan
Raw Women’s Champion Ronda Rousey vs. Charlotte
Intercontinental Champion Seth Rollins vs. United States Champion Shinsuke Nakamura
Women’s Survivor Series Match
Men’s Survivor Series Match
Raw Tag Team Champions AOP vs. SmackDown Tag Team Champions The Bar
Buddy Murphy (c) vs. Mustafa Ali (Cruiserweight Championship)
Tag Team Survivor Series Match [Kickoff Match]
Check out the live updates, as they happen, below. In case you’re not caught up, don’t worry; we put the final results in spoiler blocks, and this includes eliminations during the match as well.
Kickoff Show
Team Raw vs. Team Smackdown: 10-Man Tag Team Survivor Series Match
Match in progress
Colons eliminated (Smackdown)
B-Team eliminated (Raw)
Sanity eliminated (Smackdown)
The Ascension eliminated (Raw)
The Good Brothers eliminated (Smackdown)
Lucha House Party eliminated (Raw)
Gable and Roode eliminated (Raw)
New Day eliminated (Smackdown)
Revival eliminated (Raw)
The Usos win by pin at 23:17
Note: Sasha Banks and Bayley were added to the women’s elimination match after Ruby Riott and Natalya had an altercation and were removed from the team.
Main Card
Team Raw vs. Team Smackdown: 5-on-5 Survivor Series Match
NOTE: Natalya and Ruby Rose were replaced by Sasha Banks and Bayley
Naomi eliminated (Smackdown)
Tamina eliminated (Raw)
Mickie James eliminated (Raw)
Carmella eliminated (Smackdown)
Mandy Rose eliminated (Smackdown)
Sonya DeVille (Smackdown) and Bayley (Raw) counted out
Sasha Banks eliminated (Raw)
Asuka eliminated (Smackdown)
Nia Jax wins by pin at 20:!5
Seth Rollins vs. Shinsuke Nakamura
Rollins pins Nakamura at 21:26
AOP vs. The Bar
AOP wins by pin at 9:00
Buddy Murphy (c) vs. Mustafa Ali (Cruiserweight Championship)
Murphy wins by pin at 12:22
Team Raw vs. Team Smackdown: 5-on-5 Survivor Series Match
Samoa Joe eliminated (Smackdown)
Finn Balor eliminated (Raw)
Dolph Ziggler eliminated (Raw)
Jeff Hardy eliminated (Smackdown)
Rey Mysterio eliminated (Smackdown)
The Miz eliminated (Smackdown)
Shane McMahon eliminated (Smackdown)
Braun Strowman wins by pin at 24:00
Ronda Rousey vs. Charlotte Flair
Ronda Rousey wins by DQ at 14:10
Brock Lesnar vs. Daniel Bryan
Brock Lesnar wins by pin at 18:40
That’s the end of the show. Stay tuned for our review.
Walking Dead star Michael Cudlitz returned to the fold this week to direct his former castmates in “Stradivarius,” a decent-enough bridging episode that kept the new information flowing while also setting the story up for a big confrontation out in the woods for next week’s midseason finale.
“Stradivarius” suffered from the same small struggles that “The Obliged” faced back before Rick got near-fatally wounded by his panicked rearing horse. It was sort of half an episode. Meaning, it was the cocking of the gun but not the pulling of the trigger. And because the story had to end before things got good, a bunch of chit chat was added to fill the time. Fortunately, due to the huge time jump, there was a lot to talk about. We still had more to learn about the newbies (and how much they loved them some “Bernie” – hoo, boy) and we had all the Hilltop goings-on to catch up on.
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At WWE events, you can always expect to see famous people sitting in the front rows, especially at major PPVs. However, at this year’s Survivor Series, the audience got to see former wrestler Enzo Amore, and those sitting by him got a whole show before he was booted from the arena.
Sitting in the second row, in full view of the hard cameras, Eric Arndt, known by WWE fans as Enzo Amore, arrived to this year’s Survivor Series during the Seth Rollins/Shinsuke Nakamura match. He was wearing a hoodie and keeping his head low throughout the match, as first noticed by comic book writer Mario Candelaria, who was sitting two rows behind him.
During the AOP vs. The Bar match, Arndt got up and starting making a scene, but the cameras quickly cut away. Those watching the PPV at home missed out on what many have described as Enzo being Enzo.
Photo by Mario Candelaria
Arndt stood up, spung around, and did was sounded like a typical Enzo promo, all while holding a custom championship belt, according to Candelaria who sent GameSpot an image from the moment. Security forcefully threw Arndt from the chair he was sitting in, and Arndt ran out of the area. Apparently, people were hurt when this went down and the LAPD is currently taking statements from the audience.
Many who noticed Amore in the crowd prior to his hijacking of the show thought Amore was going to get involved in the ring somehow. Back in January, Arndt was released from WWE after the company found out about an ongoing sexual assault case, which turned out to be false. However, many insiders say that this was the last straw for WWE as Arndt caused numerous problems backstage.
The former WWE star is no stranger to getting kicked out of things after making a scene. Earlier this week, Arndt was booted from a Delta flight after refusing to stop vaping on an airplane before takeoff, according to Pro Wrestling Sheet. As he was being escorted off the place, some hero yelled, “How you doin’?”
However, Survivor Series continues, so make sure to check out our live coverage of the event.
