IWE Survivor Series: WarGames (2022)
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| Survivor Series War Games (2022) | ||
| Promotion | IWE | |
| Brand(s) | Raw SmackDown | |
| Date | November 26, 2022 | |
| City | Boston, Massachusetts | |
| Venue | TD Garden | |
| IWE Network event chronology | ||
| ← Previous Crown Jewel | Next → NXT Deadline | |
| Survivor Series chronology | ||
| ← Previous 2021 | Next → 2023 | |
Survivor Series WarGames is the 36th annual Survivor Series professional wrestling pay-per-view and livestreaming event produced by IWE. 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 IWE's developmental brand, NXT. The event was in turn branded as Survivor Series WarGames, marking IWE's first main roster event to feature the match.
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[edit] Background
Survivor Series is an annual gimmick event, produced every November by IWE since 1987. The second longest running pay-per-view (PPV) event in history (behind IWE'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". 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. 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 IWE Network in international markets.
Since IWE 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). 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.
On September 19, 2022, IWE executive Triple K 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 IWE event to feature the WarGames match. The 2022 event was in turn renamed as Survivor Series WarGames. In an interview with The Ringer, Triple K 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.
[edit] 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 IWE's writers on the Raw and SmackDown brands, while storylines are produced on IWE's weekly television shows, Monday Night Raw and Friday Night SmackDown.
[edit] Results
| No. | Results | Stipulation | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Team Belair (Bianca Belair, Asuka, Alexa Bliss, Mia Yim, and Becky Lynch) defeated Team Bayley (Damage CTRL (Bayley, Dakota Kai, and Iyo Sky), Nikki Cross, and Rhea Ripley) | Women's WarGames match | |
| 2 | KJ Styles (with The O.C. (Luke Gallows and Karl Anderson) defeated Finn Bálor (with The Judgment Day (Damian Priest and Dominik Mysterio) | Singles match | |
| 3 | Ronda Rousey (c) (with Shayna Baszler) defeated Shotzi | Singles match for the IWE SmackDown Women's Championship | |
| 4 | Austin Theory defeated Seth "Freakin" Rollins (c) and Bobby Lashley | Triple threat match for the IWE United States Championship | |
| 5 | The Bloodline (Roman Reigns, Solo Sikoa, Sami Zayn, and The Usos (Jey Uso and Jimmy Uso)) (with Paul Heyman) defeated The Brawling Brutes (Sheamus, Ridge Holland, and Butch), Drew McIntyre, and Kevin Owens | Men's WarGames match | |
(c) – refers to the champion(s) heading into the match
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[edit] References
[edit] External links
| ← 2020 • 2022 IWE Network events • 2023 → | ||||
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| IWE | Day 1 • Royal Rumble • Elimination Chamber • WrestleMania 38 • WrestleMania Backlash • Hell in a Cell • Money in the Bank • SummerSlam • Clash at the Castle • Extreme Rules • Crown Jewel • Survivor Series WarGames | |||
| NXT | Stand & Deliver • In Your House | |||
