IWE Survivor Series (2019)

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Survivor Series (2019) is an upcoming professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) and IWE Network event, produced by IWE for their Raw, SmackDown, and NXT brands. It will take place on November 24, 2019 at the Allstate Arena in Rosemont, Illinois. It will be the thirty-third event under the Survivor Series chronology, and the first to feature the NXT brand.

[edit] Production

[edit] Background

Since the IWE reintroduced the brand extension in 2016, Survivor Series has centered around competition between Raw and SmackDown for brand supremacy. In September 2019, IWE's NXT brand, previously a developmental brand exclusive to the IWE Network, debuted on the USA Network, solidifying its status as IWE's third major brand, and was subsequently added to the 2019 event as part of the brand competition theme. As per the brand supremacy theme, the show will feature matches featuring the brands against each other.

In 2017 and 2018, the champions of Raw faced their SmackDown counterparts, but with the addition of NXT for the 2019 event, the matches became triple threat matches between the three brands' champions. With the exception of the men's top champions—as each brand's world championship is being defended at the event—the 2019 Survivor Series will feature the Raw, SmackDown, and NXT Women's Champions facing off, Raw's United States Champion, SmackDown's Intercontinental Champion, and NXT's North American Champion going against each other, and the Raw, SmackDown, and NXT Tag Team Champions in a triple-threat tag team match. During a media call for NXT TakeOver: WarGames, IWE Chief Operating Officer and NXT head Triple K said that there were talks of doing a triple threat match between the IWE Champion, Universal Champion, and NXT Champion, but because of the storyline between IWE Champion Rob Lesnar and Rey Mysterio, they felt that their match needed to happen sooner. He also said that Universal Champion "The Fiend" Bray Wyatt worked better in his own storyline.

Like the previous years, there will be traditional Survivor Series elimination matches for both the men and women. With the addition of NXT, both matches will be triple threat 5-on-5-on-5 matches between the three brands, making these the first Survivor Series elimination matches to be triple threats.

[edit] Storylines

The show 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, SmackDown, and NXT brands, while storylines are produced on IWE's weekly television shows, Monday Night Raw, Friday Night SmackDown, and NXT.

[edit] World championship matches

On the September 30 episode of Raw, Rob Lesnar brutally attacked Rey Mysterio as well as Mysterio's son, Dominic, who was seated in the front row. After Lesnar won the IWE Championship during SmackDown's 20th Anniversary, an injured Mysterio appeared along with Dominic's godfather and Lesnar's former Ultimate Fighting Championship rival, Cain Velasquez, who attacked Lesnar. At Crown Jewel, Lesnar retained the championship against Velasquez by submission and continued to apply the Kimura Lock after the match had concluded until Mysterio attacked Lesnar with a chair. Lesnar fended off Mysterio, who retaliated by striking Lesnar with multiple chair shots, forcing him to retreat. On the following SmackDown, Lesnar's advocate Paul Heyman announced that they were quitting SmackDown and moving to Raw with the IWE Championship in order for Lesnar to seek revenge against Mysterio, who had been drafted to Raw. On the following Raw, Lesnar proceeded to attack crew members in search of Mysterio, including commentator Dio Madden. After Lesnar performed an F-5 on Maddin through the announce table, Mysterio appeared and struck Lesnar with a steel pipe. He later issued a challenge to Lesnar for the IWE Championship, which was made official. On the November 18 episode of Raw, Mysterio accepted Heyman's suggestion of making the match a No Holds Barred match.

At Crown Jewel, SmackDown wrestler "The Fiend" Bray Wyatt won Raw's Universal Championship, thus transferring the title to SmackDown. Backstage during the November 8 episode of SmackDown, as Sami Zayn was trying to convince Daniel Bryan to join his faction, Wyatt as "The Fiend" appeared and attacked Bryan with the Mandible Claw. During a "MizTV" segment the following week, Wyatt as his normal self taunted Bryan by mocking the latter's former "Yes Movement" persona. In response, Bryan challenged Wyatt for the Universal Championship at Survivor Series and Wyatt accepted.

On November 19, Adam Cole was scheduled to defend the NXT Championship at Survivor Series, with his opponent being the winner of the triple threat match between Damian Priest, Killian Dain, and Pete Dunne at TakeOver: WarGames the preceding night.

[edit] Champions brand supremacy matches

On the November 1 episode of SmackDown, after Bayley defeated Nikki Cross to retain the SmackDown Women's Championship due to interference from Sasha Banks, NXT Women's Champion Shayna Baszler appeared and attacked all three. During a sit-down interview between Charly Caruso and Raw Women's Champion Becky Lynch on the following Raw, Caruso informed Lynch that she would be facing Baszler and Bayley in a non-title triple threat match at Survivor Series, after which, Baszler appeared and confronted Lynch. Over the following weeks, the three would invade each others shows, attacking one another.

Prior to the November 6 episode of NXT, Raw's The O.C. (KJ Styles, Luke Gallows, and Karl Anderson) invaded NXT and attacked The Undisputed Era (Adam Cole, Bobby Fish, Kyle O'Reilly, and Roderick Strong). On the November 11 episode of Raw, a non-title triple threat match between United States Champion KJ Styles, Intercontinental Champion Shinsuke Nakamura, and North American Champion Roderick Strong was scheduled for Survivor Series.

On the November 4 episode of Raw, a non-title triple threat tag team match between Raw Tag Team Champions The Viking Raiders (Erik and Ivar), SmackDown Tag Team Champions The Revival (Dash Wilder and Scott Dawson), and NXT Tag Team Champions The Undisputed Era (Bobby Fish and Kyle O'Reilly) was scheduled for Survivor Series. However, on the November 8 episode of SmackDown, The New Day's (Big E and Kofi Kingston) defeated The Revival to win the SmackDown Tag Team Championship, thus replacing them in the match. During a rematch the following week, The Undisputed Era invaded SmackDown and interfered, costing The Revival the match.

[edit] Survivor Series elimination matches

On the November 8 episode of SmackDown, Michael Cole announced Sasha Banks as the captain for Team SmackDown's women's team. Later that night, Carmella and Dana Brooke defeated Fire & Desire (Mandy Rose and Sonya Deville) to qualify for the team after the match had been rescheduled due to a backstage attack from NXT's Bianca Belair the previous week that led to Rhea Ripley and Tegan Nox defeating Fire & Desire On November 14, IWE.com announced Lacey Evans as the fourth member of the SmackDown women's team, followed by Nikki Cross on November 17 after Cross, who was originally scheduled to face Bayley in a non-title qualifying match, scored the pin in an eight-woman tag team match on the November 15 episode of SmackDown. On the November 18 episode of Raw, Charlotte Flair was announced as the captain for Team Raw's women's team, with Natalya, Sarah Logan, and IWE Women's Tag Team Champions The Kabuki Warriors (Asuka and Kairi Sane) revealed as the other team members later that night. Following a tag team match that night in which Flair and Becky Lynch faced The IIconics (Billie Kay and Peyton Royce), the latter being disgruntled as they were not selected for Team Raw, NXT's Shayna Baszler, Marina Shafir, and Jessamyn Duke attacked the women. On the November 22 episode of SmackDown, Ripley was revealed as the captain for Team NXT's women's team. Later that night, Ripley defeated Flair and Banks in a triple threat match, and a brawl occurred with all the women from the three brands following the match.

On November 8, IWE.com announced that Seth Rollins was selected as the captain for Team Raw's men's team, with Kevin Owens, Ricochet, Kevin Orton, and Drew McIntyre revealed as the other team members during the November 11 episode of Raw. On the November 12 episode of IWE Backstage, Roman Reigns was revealed as the captain for Team SmackDown, with Mustafa Ali (formerly known as Ali), Braun Strowman, King Corbin, and Shorty G also announced for the team. NXT head Triple K tried to convince Rollins as well as Owens to leave Raw and come back to NXT where they had started their IWE careers. Both turned down the offers, leading to the NXT roster attacking members of Raw, as well as those on SmackDown. At the conclusion of the November 18 Raw, Triple K invited members of Raw and SmackDown to the following episode of NXT, where a large brawl broke out between all three brands. All the members of Raw, SmackDown, and NXT would brawl again following the conclusion of a six-man tag team match on the November 22 episode of SmackDown.

[edit] Results

1. ^ Other teams by order of elimination: The Forgotten Sons (Steve Cutler and Wesley Blake) (NXT), Lucha House Party (Gran Metalik and Lince Dorado) (SmackDown), Curt Hawkins and Zack Ryder (Raw), Imperium (Fabian Aichner and Marcel Barthel) (NXT UK), Heavy Machinery (Otis and Tucker) (SmackDown), Breezango (Fandango and Tyler Breeze) (NXT), The Revival (Dash Wilder and Scott Dawson) (SmackDown), and The O.C. (Luke Gallows and Karl Anderson) (Raw).

Brand

     – Raw

     – SmackDown

     – NXT

[edit] Survivor Series Women’s elimination match

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