Survivor Series (2019) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) and WWE Network event, produced by WWE for their Raw, SmackDown, and NXT brands. It took place on November 24, 2019 at the Allstate Arena in the Chicago suburb of Rosemont, Illinois. It was the 33rd event under the Survivor Series chronology, the first to feature the NXT brand (including NXT's sister brand NXT UK, which was grouped under the NXT umbrella), the first to feature Survivor Series matches with wrestlers from three brands since 2009, and the first to feature triple threat Survivor Series elimination matches. Like previous years, the theme of the event was brand supremacy and featured matches involving wrestlers from the brands against each other.
Kick-Off Pre-Show Quick Results:
10-team Interbrand Tag Team Battle Royal
Dolph Ziggler and Robert Roode (SmackDown) won by last eliminating The Street Profits (Angelo Dawkins and Montez Ford) (Raw)
Interbrand Triple Threat match for the NXT Cruiserweight Championship
Lio Rush (c) (NXT) defeated Akira Tozawa (Raw) and Kalisto (SmackDown)
Champions Triple Threat Tag team match
The Viking Raiders (Erik and Ivar) (Raw Tag Team Champions) defeated The New Day (Big E and Kofi Kingston) (SmackDown Tag Team Champions) and The Undisputed Era (Bobby Fish and Kyle O'Reilly) (NXT Tag Team Champions)
Main Card Results:
5-on-5-on-5 Women's Survivor Series Triple Threat elimination match
Team NXT (Rhea Ripley, Bianca Belair, Candice LeRae, Io Shirai, and Toni Storm) defeated Team Raw (Charlotte Flair, Natalya, Asuka, Kairi Sane, and Sarah Logan) and Team SmackDown (Sasha Banks, Carmella, Dana Brooke, Lacey Evans, and Nikki Cross)
| Eliminated | Wrestler | Eliminated by | Method | Time |
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| 1 | Nikki Cross | Bianca Belair | Pinfall | |
| 2 | Sarah Logan | Bianca Belair | Pinfall | |
| 3 | Carmella | Charlotte Flair | Pinfall | |
| 4 | Kairi Sane | Sasha Banks | Pinfall | |
| 5 | Dana Brooke | Asuka | Pinfall | |
| 6 | Charlotte Flair | Lacey Evans | Pinfall | |
| 7 | Asuka | N/A | Forfeit | |
| 8 | Lacey Evans | Natalya | Pinfall | |
| 9 | Toni Storm | Natalya and Sasha Banks | Submission | |
| 10 | Bianca Belair | Sasha Banks | Pinfall | |
| 11 | Natalya | Sasha Banks | Pinfall | |
| 12 | Sasha Banks | Rhea Ripley | Pinfall | 28:00 |
| Survivor(s): | Candice LeRae, Io Shirai, and Rhea Ripley (Team NXT) | |||
Just looking at the teams for this match, one would assume that RAW has this in the bag - especially with the fact that Rhea Ripley went to war with half of her teammates in this match the night prior. You knew Team SmackDown didn't have a snowball's chance in hell of winning this when they announced that Carmella and Dana Brooke of all people were on the team. I get they have to balance our heels and faces, but Mandy Rose and Sonya Deville would've been better choices than those two.
I was a little annoyed that we get one of the first post-Mae Young Classic and Evolution appearances of Toni Storm on the main roster and the commentary team doesn't treat it like a big deal at all. I did mark the hell out for the brief exchange between Io Shirai and Kairi Sane. Kairi's heel turn is such a wonderful new direction for her in this company. I can't praise that enough. She doesn't come off as a preteen in there with grown women like how Riho does on AEW. The change in demeanor helps convey that she's just as much of a lethal force as Asuka. If Vince isn't going to do anything full-time with the Kabuki Warriors on the main roster, then I vote for Triple H to take them back to NXT and get a heel faction going of Asuka, Kairi, and Io. (Shrugs) I dunno, maybe they could do their own version of Lucha Underground's Black Lotus Triad faction. Those three clearly have history together and it would be smart to make bank on it before they lose all three back to Stardom when their contracts are up.
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| A nice tease worth revisiting down the road in a few more years. |
I was shocked as all hell that they let Lacey Evans pin Charlotte - mist or no mist. That's one hell of a badge of honor to give her for that elimination. I did like that Natalya was Team RAW's MVP, even though it's not going to amount to nothing from how Natalya's been mismanaged and poorly booked over the years.
I honestly thought the injury spot with Io Shirai and Candice LeRae was legit, especially from what those women went through during WarGames, but they came back to assist Rhea Ripley in the closing moments of the match. It just irks me in these "brand supremacy" angles that the heels and babyfaces have to act like best friends when in reality, most people would be stabbing each other in the back across the board instead of on one team here and there. We would see more of that in the men's elimination match later in the night though.
Champions Triple Threat Match
Roderick Strong (NXT's North American Champion) defeated AJ Styles (Raw's United States Champion) and Shinsuke Nakamura (SmackDown's Intercontinental Champion) (with Sami Zayn)
I honestly can't remember if all three of these men have faced off in a triple threat when they shared together in Ring of Honor before migrating over to WWE, but this was the match was most invested in seeing over anything else when this card was announced. They didn't go "all out" as expected by WWE standards, but this was a good match nonetheless. I was guessing they were saving something on the table if they were to pick this up down the road whenever the Undisputed Era was called up the main roster proper - or whenever Styles and Nakamura are brought back into NXT full-time.
NXT Championship Match
Adam Cole (c) def. Pete Dunne
I don't see how Adam Cole was able to come out here and kill it with another stellar performance after nearly dying in WarGames the night prior. This was easily the best match of the evening without a shadow of a doubt. If you don't watch anything else on this show, do yourself a favor and watch this match.
WWE Universal Championship Match
"The Fiend" Bray Wyatt (c) def. Daniel Bryan
Between the red lights and Bryan throwing everything at this guy when we've seen Rollins attempt murder on the Fiend multiple times and he still kicks out, I don't see how WWE expects people to stay interested. Besides, WWE would have to be crazy to take the belt off Bray one month after winning it, so I didn't see this match going anywhere. It wasn't bad - it was just there.
5-on-5-on-5 Men's Survivor Series Triple Threat elimination match
Team SmackDown (Roman Reigns, Braun Strowman, King Corbin, Mustafa Ali, and Shorty G) defeated Team Raw (Seth Rollins, Drew McIntyre, Kevin Owens, Randy Orton, and Ricochet) and Team NXT (Tommaso Ciampa, Damian Priest, Matt Riddle, Keith Lee, and Walter)
| Eliminated | Wrestler | Eliminated by | Method | Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Walter | Drew McIntyre | Pinfall | |
| 2 | Shorty G | Kevin Owens | Pinfall | |
| 3 | Kevin Owens | Tommaso Ciampa | Pinfall | |
| 4 | Damian Priest | Randy Orton | Pinfall | |
| 5 | Randy Orton | Matt Riddle | Pinfall | |
| 6 | Matt Riddle | King Corbin | Pinfall | |
| 7 | Braun Strowman | N/A | Countout | |
| 8 | Ricochet | King Corbin | Pinfall | |
| 9 | Mustafa Ali | Seth Rollins | Pinfall | |
| 10 | Drew McIntyre | Roman Reigns | Pinfall | |
| 11 | King Corbin | Tommaso Ciampa | Pinfall | |
| 12 | Tommaso Ciampa | Seth Rollins | Pinfall | |
| 13 | Seth Rollins | Keith Lee | Pinfall | |
| 14 | Keith Lee | Roman Reigns | Pinfall | 29:25 |
| Survivor(s): | Roman Reigns (Team SmackDown) | |||
Without even doing a damn thing, WALTER was the most over person in this match before the bell even rung. Then they eliminated him right off the bat without even getting a goddamn move in. That's up there with that time William Regal got eliminated so fast in one of these Survivor Series matches that Layla (who was managing him at the time) stood up on the ring apron and threw her shoe at CM Punk in protest.
Why book him in the match when they were going to do that to him? Seems like a massive waste to fly him all the way in from the UK just to do that. Shorty G got the same treatment as he was getting over, only to be promptly eliminated by Kevin Owens. After Randy Orton quickly eliminated Damian Priest, only to be taken out by Matt Riddle - who was taken out by Baron Corbin, it became crystal clear that a lot of these eliminations were done to generate heat and not any good heel heat either. It's not like WWE needs anymore "OMG this is stupid, I'm changing the channel" or "Fuck this, I'm not watching anymore..." heat on their programming. It turned out that Baron Corbin was sabotaging the match to attempt to take credit for every elimination for his own merit until he was laid out by Roman Reigns and allowed to be eliminated by Tommaso Ciampa.
I didn't understand why Team RAW were so welcoming for Kevin Owens when he helped NXT out the night prior. He should've thrown his own team under the bus and defected over to the black and gold brand.
While Rhea Ripley had a star making performance during WarGames and during the opener in the Women's 5 v 5 v 5 match, Keith Lee was the breakout star from NXT for the men. He looked right at home hanging with Seth Rollins and Roman Reigns. My jaw was hanging open when he actually eliminated Seth Rollins clean here. You know Vince has to foaming at the mouth with anticipation to use that big guy on the main roster. He's big, can move around like a cruiserweight, AND has charisma and a presence like The Rock? Even though they had me fooled a few times that Keith Lee was actually going to get a pinfall over Roman Reigns too, but that ended on a fun note. To say that this match started off with some groan-inducing spots with the first half of the eliminations, the match finally came together by the end though.
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| I don't know about anyone else, but I wouldn't mind seeing this match-up again down the road in a few years. |
No Holds Barred Match for the WWE Championship
Brock Lesnar (c) w/ Paul Heyman def. Rey Mysterio
After all of these matches and repeated Low Blows, you would think that Brock Lesnar would learn - or at least get some council from Paul Heyman - to start wearing a goddamn athletic cup to protect himself from the nut shots. When resorting to weapons went out of the window, this match pretty much turned into exactly what I expected - Brock tossing Rey around like a ragdoll. I have to admit that I was in tears from laughing so hard that both Dominick and Rey got their asses kicked in the end, despite a VERY close near-fall that had me fooled for a moment there that they were putting the belt on Rey. Seriously though, how fucked up is that where your dad is out there to defend your honor and you come out there to help your dad, only to BOTH get laid out to pasture?
Rey and Dominick should've learned from Friday with Red and his dad dealing with Deebo.
As of this posting, Rey Mysterio has managed to capture the United States Championship the following night on Monday Night RAW, so I guess it wasn't all for nothing, even though he still hasn't gotten even with Brock Lesnar.
Triple Threat Match
NXT Women's Champion Shayna Baszler def. SmackDown! Women's Champion Bayley and RAW Women's Champion Becky Lynch
On paper, this should have been easily the best thing going on this show, but sadly, it wasn't. One would think that this would have the makes to be an instant classic, but it seemed like these women didn't have any sort of synergy/in-ring chemistry at all. That was coupled with the fact that this show was dragging on at this point. No offense to the ladies, but this shouldn't have been the main event for the evening. Brock Lesnar defending the Universal Championship against Rey Mysterio would have been the more appropriate note to end on, but WWE insists on shoehorning the women in the main event slot here. I didn't have a problem with it at WrestleMania this year, but just giving Shayna Baszler her first WWE main event because they can seemed pretty lame. When it came to the build to WrestleMania, the feud between Ronda Rousey, Becky Lynch, and Charlotte Flair was the best thing going in the company at the time. This feud between Becky, Bayley, and Shayna was treated mostly as an afterthought for majority of this battle between the brands.
Closing Thoughts
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| Without a shadow of a doubt, NXT confirmed what most people who regularly watched NXT on Wednesday nights knew already - NXT is the A++ show. SmackDown is the B show while RAW is down there in D and F territory. |
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