Survivor Series WarGames

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Survivor Series WarGames
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PromotionWWE
Brand(s)Raw
SmackDown
DateNovember 26, 2022
CityBoston, Massachusetts
VenueTD Garden
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Survivor Series WarGames is the upcoming 36th annual Survivor Series professional wrestling pay-per-view and livestreaming event produced by WWE. It will be held for wrestlers from the promotion's Raw and SmackDown brand divisions. The event is scheduled to take place on Saturday, November 26, 2022, at the TD Garden in Boston, Massachusetts. It will be the fourth Survivor Series to be held in Boston after the 1993 (at the original Boston Garden), 2008, and 2013 events. It will also be the first Survivor Series to take place on a Saturday and the first since the 1994 event to not take place on a Sunday. Unlike previous Survivor Series events, the 2022 event will be themed around the WarGames match, a gimmick match first used in Jim Crockett Promotions, then later World Championship Wrestling, and most recently with WWE's developmental brand, NXT. The event was in turn branded as Survivor Series WarGames, marking WWE's first main roster event to feature the match.

Production[]

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] Announced on October 25, 2021, the 2022 event will be the 36th event under the Survivor Series chronology and is scheduled to occur on Saturday, November 26, 2022, at the TD Garden in Boston, Massachusetts, marking the first Survivor Series to be held on a Saturday. In addition to airing on traditional PPV, it will be available to livestream on Peacock in the United States and the WWE Network in international markets.[4][5] Tickets went on sale on August 26, 2022, with premium hospitality packages also available.[6]

Since WWE reintroduced the brand split in July 2016, Survivor Series has centered around competition between wrestlers from Raw and SmackDown for brand supremacy (NXT was also involved in 2019 but removed in 2020).[3] In addition to traditional Survivor Series matches between the brands, the champions of each brand have faced off in non-title matches, which began at the 2017 event.[7]

On September 19, 2022, WWE executive Triple H announced that the 2022 event would feature two WarGames matches, one each for the men and women, that would not be based on the “Brand versus Brand” concept. This marks the first time for a main roster WWE event to feature the WarGames match. The 2022 event was in turn renamed as Survivor Series WarGames.[8] In an interview with The Ringer, Triple H stated:

The tradition of the Survivor Series has ebbed and flowed and changed slightly over time, but this will be similar to that. This will not be Raw versus SmackDown. It will be much more story-line driven. I still look at it as a traditional component to Survivor Series in there because it's large teams of people competing. We just upped the ante a little bit with WarGames and made it evolve. Survivor Series has been an amazing event for 36 years. And it needs to evolve a little bit and this year seemed like the right time to do it.[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]

Matches[]

No. Matches* Stipulations
1 Unknown Men's Team #1 vs. Unknown Men's Team #2 Men's WarGames match[13]
2 Unknown Women's Team #1 vs. Unknown Women's Team #2 Women's WarGames match[13]
  • (c) – refers to the champion(s) heading into the match
  • *Card subject to change

References[]

  1. ^ Hamilton, Ian. Wrestling's Sinking Ship: What Happens to an Industry Without Competition. p. 160.
  2. ^ News 3 Staff (August 22, 2021). "Las Vegas to host WWE's Money in the Bank in 2022". KSNV. Retrieved May 31, 2022.
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b Brookhouse, Brent (November 5, 2021). "2021 WWE Survivor Series card, matches, date, rumors, predictions, match card, start time, location". CBSSports. Retrieved November 8, 2021.
  4. ^ WWE.com Staff (October 25, 2021). "WWE unveils 2022 pay-per-view schedule". WWE. Retrieved October 27, 2021.
  5. ^ Doherty, Matt (October 25, 2021). "WWE's Survivor Series will return to TD Garden in 2022". The Boston Globe. Retrieved October 30, 2021.
  6. ^ WWE.com Staff (June 29, 2022). "Get your Survivor Series tickets this Friday at 10 a.m. ET". WWE. Retrieved September 20, 2022.
  7. ^ 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.
  8. ^ Lambert, Jeremy (September 19, 2022). "WWE Survivor Series 2022 Will Feature Two WarGames Matches". Fightful. Retrieved September 19, 2022.
  9. ^ Shoemaker, David (September 19, 2022). "Exclusive: WWE 'Survivor Series' 2022 Will Feature Two WarGames Matches". The Ringer. Retrieved September 19, 2022.
  10. ^ Grabianowski, Ed (13 January 2006). "How Pro Wrestling Works". HowStuffWorks. Discovery Communications. Archived from the original on November 29, 2013. Retrieved March 5, 2012.
  11. ^ "Live & Televised Entertainment". WWE. Archived from the original on February 18, 2009. Retrieved March 21, 2012.
  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.
  13. ^ Jump up to: a b "WarGames Matches to headline Survivor Series for first time in WWE history". WWE. September 19, 2022. Retrieved September 19, 2022.

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