Survivor Series (2022)

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Survivor Series
PromotionWWE
Brand(s)Raw
SmackDown
DateNovember 26, 2022
CityBoston, Massachusetts
VenueTD Garden
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The 2022 Survivor Series is the upcoming 36th annual Survivor Series professional wrestling live event produced by WWE. It will be held for wrestlers from the promotion's Raw and SmackDown brand divisions. The event will air on pay-per-view (PPV) worldwide and will be available to stream through Peacock in the United States and the WWE Network internationally. It is scheduled to take place on November 26, 2022, at the TD Garden in Boston, Massachusetts. The theme of the event is brand supremacy and will pit wrestlers from the two brands against each other.

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Background[]

Survivor Series is an annual gimmick event, produced every November by WWE since 1987. The second longest running pay-per-view (PPV) event in history (behind WWE's WrestleMania), it is one of the promotion's five biggest events of the year, along with WrestleMania, SummerSlam, Royal Rumble, and Money in the Bank, referred to as the "Big Five".[1][2] The event is traditionally characterized by having Survivor Series matches, which are tag team elimination matches that typically features teams of four or five wrestlers against each other.[3] The 2022 event will be the 36th event under the Survivor Series chronology and is scheduled to occur on November 26, 2022, at the TD Garden in Boston, Massachusetts. In addition to airing on traditional PPV, it will air on Peacock in the United States and the WWE Network in international markets.[4][5]

Since WWE reintroduced the brand split in July 2016, Survivor Series has centered around competition between wrestlers from Raw and SmackDown for brand supremacy.[3] In addition to traditional Survivor Series matches between the brands, the champions of Raw face their SmackDown counterparts in non-title matches, which began at the 2017 event.[6] The 2022 Survivor Series is expected to feature Raw's WWE Champion against SmackDown's Universal Champion, the Raw Women's Champion against the SmackDown Women's Champion, Raw's United States Champion against SmackDown's Intercontinental Champion, and the Raw Tag Team Champions against the SmackDown Tag Team Champions.[5] The 2019 event had also featured the NXT brand involved in the competition,[7] but NXT was removed from the 2020 event due to COVID-19-related issues,[8] before the brand reverted to its developmental roots in 2021.[9]

Storylines[]

The event will include matches that result from scripted storylines, where wrestlers portray heroes, villains, or less distinguishable characters in scripted events that build tension and culminate in a wrestling match or series of matches. Results are predetermined by WWE's writers on the Raw and SmackDown brands,[10][11] while storylines are produced on WWE's weekly television shows, Monday Night Raw and Friday Night SmackDown.[12]

References[]

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  5. ^ a b Doherty, Matt (October 25, 2021). "WWE's Survivor Series will return to TD Garden in 2022". The Boston Globe. Retrieved October 30, 2021.
  6. ^ Powell, Jason. "Powell's WWE Survivor Series 2017 live review: Brock Lesnar vs. AJ Styles, "Team Raw" Kurt Angle, Braun Strowman, Triple H, Finn Balor, and Samoa Joe vs. "Team Smackdown" Shane McMahon, John Cena, Shinsuke Nakamura, Randy Orton, and Bobby Roode, The Shield vs. New Day, Charlotte vs. Alexa Bliss". Pro Wrestling Dot Net. Retrieved November 19, 2017.
  7. ^ Satin, Ryan (October 31, 2019). "NXT Will Be Part of Survivor Series This Year". Pro Wrestling Sheet. Retrieved November 2, 2019.
  8. ^ Ounpraseuth, Jason (December 3, 2020). "Triple H Confirms NXT Was Not Involved With WWE Survivor Series Due To COVID-19 Concern". Wrestling Inc. Archived from the original on December 10, 2020. Retrieved December 9, 2020.
  9. ^ Wrestlenomics Staff (October 4, 2021). "The future of WWE NXT 2.0 on the USA Network". Wrestlenomics. Archived from the original on November 10, 2021. Retrieved November 10, 2021.
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  12. ^ Steinberg, Brian (May 25, 2016). "WWE's 'Smackdown' Will Move To Live Broadcast On USA (EXCLUSIVE)". Variety. Archived from the original on May 26, 2016. Retrieved May 25, 2016.

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