Survivor Series is getting a facelift. The conventional team-based premium reside occasion is evolving with two WarGames matches. The new iteration of WWE’s second longest-running PLE takes place at TD Garden in Boston, Massachusetts on Nov. 26.
WarGames is a team-based match that includes two rings contained inside a big cell. One member of every crew begins the match with an extra celebrity getting into one after the other in timed intervals. The match can not conclude till all individuals have entered the fray. At that time, the primary crew to attain a victory by pinfall, submission, give up or knockout is said the winner. Survivor Series was historically contested with conventional multi-person elimination crew matches. 2022 marks the debut of WarGames on WWE’s fundamental roster following appearances in NXT, WCW and National Wrestling Alliance (NWA).
On the lads’s aspect, The Bloodline, comprised of Roman Reigns, Jimmy Uso, Jey Uso, Solo Sikoa and Sami Zayn, will battle Team Brawling Brutes, which consists of Sheamus, Ridge Holland, Butch, Drew McIntyre and Kevin Owens. On the ladies’s aspect, it is going to be Team Damage CTRL, which options Bayley IYO SKY, Dakota Kai, Rhea Ripley and Nikki Cross, taking up the crew of Bianca Belair, Asuka, Alexa Bliss, Mia Yim and Becky Lynch. Plus, two extra title matches tip the invoice when the motion kicks off.
Take a glance beneath on the confirmed and predicted matches.
2022 WWE Survivor Series WarGames matches
The Bloodline (Roman Reigns, Jey Uso, Jimmy Uso, Sami Zayn and Solo Sikoa) vs. Brawling Brutes (Sheamus, Butch and Ridge Holland), Drew McIntyre and Kevin Owens (WarGames match): The constructing blocks for the lads’s WarGames match had been set on the SmackDown after Crown Jewel. Sheamus, returning from a storyline harm suffered by the hands of The Bloodline, and his fellow Brawling Brutes took the struggle to Reigns’ tribe. A five-on-five WarGames match was confirmed the next week. Sheamus and McIntyre teased a fifth member had been acquired on the penultimate SmackDown earlier than Survivor Series. Owens was revealed as the ultimate participant later that night, laying out Reigns and staring down his greatest good friend Zayn.
Bianca Belair, Alexa Bliss, Asuka, Mia Yim and Becky Lynch vs. Damage CTRL (Bayley, Dakota Kai and Iyo Sky), Nikki Cross and Rhea Ripley (WarGames match): Belair, Bliss and Asuka challenged Damage CTRL to WarGames on the Raw following Crown Jewel. Belair efficiently defended her Raw ladies’s championship in opposition to Bayley in Saudi Arabia; in the meantime, Kai and Sky took the ladies’s tag crew titles off Bliss and Asuka. Damage CTRL stays a thorn within the aspect of Belair and her allies. The trio is now boosted by their alliance with an unhinged Nikki Cross. Yim introduced on Raw that she was becoming a member of up with Belair’s squad, which shortly drew her rival Ripley to be the fifth lady on Bayley’s aspect. Then on the go-home episode of SmackDown, Becky Lynch made her return after a number of months away and introduced she would even be becoming a member of forces with Belair’s squad, placing apart their rivalry that got here to a head at SummerSlam.
SmackDown ladies’s championship — Ronda Rousey (c) vs. Shotzi: Shotzi received a Six-Pack Challenge on the SmackDown after Crown Jewel to earn a title shot in opposition to Rousey at Survivor Series. Shotzi pinned Lacey Evans in a match that additionally featured Liv Morgan, Sonya Deville, Liv Morgan and Xia Li. Following the match, Rousey’s ally Shayna Bazler choked out Shotzi whereas Rousey taunted her.
AJ Styles vs. Finn Balor: The points with Styles and Balor have been ongoing since Balor joined up with The Judgement Day. Balor tried to recruit Styles, which failed repeatedly. Styles ultimately introduced The O.C. again collectively and the 2 factions have engaged in a sequence of matches and assaults. Styles lastly laid out a direct problem for a pay-per-view match between himself and Balor, which Balor accepted and the 2 males now will meet at Survivor Series.
United States championship — Seth Rollins (c) vs. Bobby Lashley vs. Austin Theory: Rollins took benefit of a severely compromised Lashley, who had been assaulted by Brock Lesnar moments earlier, in a U.S. title match on Oct. 10 with Rollins rising victorious. Theory cashed in his Money within the Bank contract on Rollins following an assault by Lashley on the Nov. 7 episode of Raw. Much to Theory’s disappointment, Lashley interfered and price Theory his title match. Things have solely escalated between the trio, resulting in the announcement {that a} triple menace match would go down at Survivor Series.
