WIW Soul Survivor: WarGames (2024)

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The 2024 Soul Survivor: WarGames is a professional wrestling event produced by the American promotion WIW. It will be the 26th annual Soul Survivor, the third annual specifically as "WarGames", and it will take place on Saturday, November 30, 2024, at the Denman Arena in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The event will air via pay-per-view (PPV) and will feature wrestlers from the promotion's Rage and ShowDown brand divisions. The event will be based around the WarGames match, a team-based steel cage match where the roofless cage surrounds two rings placed side by side.

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Soul Survivor is an annual professional wrestling event produced every November by the American promotion WIW since 1999, generally held the week of Thanksgiving. The second longest running pay-per-view (PPV) event in history (behind WIW's SuperBrawl), it is one of the promotion's five biggest events of the year, along with WrestleMania, SummerBash, World War, and Money in the Bank, referred to as the "Big Five". The event was previously characterized by having Soul Survivor matches, which were tag team elimination matches that typically featured teams of four or five wrestlers against each other. In 2022, the event was rebranded as "Soul Survivor: WarGames" and instead of Survivor Series matches, the annual event became based around the WarGames Prison match, a type of steel cage match where teams face each other in a roofless cage that surrounds two rings placed side by side. WIW's developmental brand NGW previously held an annual WarGames event from 2017 to 2021 before the match became a part of Survivor Series.

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The event will include matches that result from scripted storylines. Results are predetermined by WIW's writers on the Raw and SmackDown brands, while storylines are produced on IWE's weekly television shows, Wednesday Night Raw and Friday Night ShowDown (when the PPVs air on Saturday, ShowDown shows move to Friday's).

At All Hail, Martin McAlmond was scheduled to reunite The McAlmonds (TJ McAlmond and Brad McAlmond) to team up against the new iteration of The McBloodline (Dylan McAlmond, Clayton McAlmond and Brandin McAlmond). However due to the health of Martin McAlmond, he was forced to pull out of the match and announced his replacement another member of the McAlmond family and World Heavyweight Champion Kevin McAlmond, but lost after interference from Justin McAlmond, with Dylan pinning Kevin. After the match, Dylan's Bloodline outnumbered Kevin and The McAlmonds, as well as almost attacking Martin until the latter's former ally, Jared Hunt, came out, but during the brawl, Hunt accidentally kicked Kevin. On the following Rage, Hunt was confronted by The McAlmonds, with Brad claiming Hunt kicked Kevin on purpose. TJ then urged Hunt to appear on that week's ShowDown to make amends with Martin McAlmond and apologize to Kevin for kicking him at All Hail. On ShowDown, Hunt told Martin the kick to Kevin was an accident and said it felt good to be with Martin and The McALmond again, however it felt a litle off with Kevin being apart of it after all the times he turned them down in joing the group, but it did feel good to have Kevin finally apart of the group and with Martin's recent health, Hunt accepted Kevin as part of the group, but he would only reunite with them against Dylan's Bloodline if Martin apologized to TJ for his past mistreatment of him, but Martin refused. Later that night, Kevin defeated Dlyan to retain the World Heavyweight Championship, even with interference from Dylan's McBloodline, after the match Kevin confronted Dylan and his McBloodline with Dylan challenging Kevin and a team of his choice to a WarGames Prison match at Soul Survivor: WarGames. Dylan then introduced Hunt as the fifth member of their team, but Hunt attacked Dylan with Martin acknowledging Hunt and Kevin, officially reuniting the original iteration of The McBloodline (Martin, The McAlmonds and Hunt) with addition of Kevin. It was then announced that the original McBloodline (with Kevin taking Martin's place) would face the new McBloodline in a WarGames Prison match at the event, but with a fifth member of each team to be determined. On the November 16 episode of ShowDown, Dylan's McBloodline recruited James Alexander from Rage, while the following week, Monte McAlmond returned and revealed, Matt Borske from Rage, as the original McBloodline's fifth member.

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[edit] See also

• WIW in Canada
• Professional wrestling in Canada

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