Tag: Survivor Series 2021

Big E vs. Reigns, Lynch vs. Charlotte official for WWE Survivor Series

Posted on by Joseph Currier

WWE has announced its first two non-title champion vs. champion matches for Survivor Series.

WWE Champion Big E vs. Universal Champion Roman Reigns and Raw Women’s Champion Becky Lynch vs. SmackDown Women’s Champion Charlotte Flair were both made official for Survivor Series on tonight’s episode of Raw. The pay-per-view, which pits Raw and SmackDown against each other in “brand warfare,” is being held at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York on Sunday, November 21.

Big E won the WWE Championship by cashing in his Money in the Bank briefcase on Bobby Lashley this September. Reigns has held the Universal Championship since August 2020.

Reigns and The Usos are currently feuding with Big E’s New Day stablemates Xavier Woods and Kofi Kingston on SmackDown. Big E stayed on Raw in the WWE Draft last month, while Woods and Kingston moved to SmackDown.

Lynch and Charlotte both changed brands in the draft. To resolve the situation with their titles, Lynch and Charlotte exchanged Women’s Championship belts on the October 22 episode of SmackDown. Lynch became Raw Women’s Champion, while Charlotte became SmackDown Women’s Champion.

Lynch and Charlotte had a legitimate backstage confrontation following the awkward title exchange.

Here’s the updated announced card for Survivor Series:

  • Non-title match: WWE Champion Big E vs. Universal Champion Roman Reigns
  • Non-title match: Raw Women’s Champion Becky Lynch vs. SmackDown Women’s Champion Charlotte Flair
  • Women’s five-on-five elimination match: Team Raw (Bianca Belair, Rhea Ripley, Liv Morgan, Carmella & Zelina Vega) vs. Team SmackDown (Sasha Banks, Shayna Baszler, Shotzi, Natalya & Aliyah)
  • Men’s five-on-five elimination match: Team Raw (Seth Rollins, Finn Balor, Kevin Owens, Rey Mysterio & Bobby Lashley) vs. Team SmackDown (Drew McIntyre, Jeff Hardy, Xavier Woods, Sami Zayn & Baron Corbin)

Bobby Lashley replacing Dominik on Raw’s WWE Survivor Series team

Posted on by Joseph Currier

WWE has made a change to one of the teams for Survivor Series.

Bobby Lashley will now be part of Team Raw for the men’s five-on-five traditional Survivor Series elimination match against SmackDown. Lashley took Dominik Mysterio’s spot on Team Raw by defeating Dominik on Raw tonight.

WWE authority figure Adam Pearce appeared on Raw tonight and said he felt like he might have made a mistake by giving Dominik a spot on the team. Pearce noted that every other member of the team was a former World Champion. He gave Dominik a chance to keep his spot — in a match against Lashley.

Lashley dominated Dominik throughout their match and submitted him with the Hurt Lock.

The men’s Survivor Series elimination match will see Raw’s Seth Rollins, Finn Balor, Kevin Owens, Rey Mysterio & Lashley face SmackDown’s Drew McIntyre, Jeff Hardy, Xavier Woods, Sami Zayn & Baron Corbin. The women’s elimination match will pit Raw’s Bianca Belair, Rhea Ripley, Liv Morgan, Carmella & Zelina Vega against SmackDown’s Sasha Banks, Shayna Baszler, Shotzi, Natalya & Aliyah.

Survivor Series is taking place at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York on Sunday, November 21.

Tonight’s Raw was Lashley’s first appearance since losing a no holds barred, falls count anywhere match against Goldberg at Crown Jewel on October 21.

WWE reveals Raw and SmackDown’s Survivor Series teams

Posted on by Joseph Currier

WWE has revealed Raw and SmackDown’s teams for this year’s traditional Survivor Series five-on-five elimination matches.

The announcement of the teams was made via WWE’s Twitter account this afternoon. The men’s elimination match will pit Raw’s Seth Rollins, Finn Balor, Kevin Owens, Rey Mysterio & Dominik Mysterio against SmackDown’s Drew McIntyre, Jeff Hardy, Xavier Woods, Sami Zayn & Baron Corbin.

In the women’s elimination match, Raw’s Bianca Belair, Rhea Ripley, Liv Morgan, Carmella & Zelina Vega will face SmackDown’s Sasha Banks, Shayna Baszler, Shotzi, Natalya & Aliyah.

Raw’s entire men’s team just moved to the brand in the WWE Draft last month. McIntyre, Hardy, Woods, Belair, Morgan, Carmella, Vega, and Baszler also switched brands in the draft, while Aliyah was called up from NXT.

Survivor Series is taking place at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York on Sunday, November 21. These are the first two matches that have been officially announced for the pay-per-view, which will pit Raw and SmackDown against each other in “brand warfare.”

WWE Survivor Series set for Brooklyn, New York

Posted on by Joseph Currier

WWE has revealed the date and location for this year’s Survivor Series pay-per-view.

Survivor Series 2021 will take place at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York on Sunday, November 21. It will be the first time the event has been held in New York City since Survivor Series 2011 took place at Madison Square Garden.

The Barclays Center will also host the post-Survivor Series episode of Raw on Monday, November 22. These will be the first WWE events to take place at the Barclays Center since the COVID-19 pandemic began.

It was also announced today that WWE’s December PPV will take place at the Allstate Arena in Rosemont, Illinois on Sunday, December 12. The name of the PPV has yet to be revealed.

The full list of new tour dates announced by WWE today is available below. WWE wrote that tickets for their house show in San Juan, Puerto Rico on Saturday, October 2 and Raw episode in Houston, Texas on Monday, October 25 are already on sale. Tickets for all other events through October 22 will go on sale this Friday at 10 a.m. local time.

  • Friday, October 1: SmackDown — Smoothie King Center in New Orleans, Louisiana
  • Saturday, October 2: Supershow — Coliseo de Puerto Rico in San Juan, Puerto Rico
  • Sunday, October 3: Supershow — Rupp Arena in Lexington, Kentucky
  • Monday, October 4: Raw — Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tennessee
  • Friday, October 15: SmackDown — Toyota Arena in Ontario, California
  • Saturday, October 16: Supershow — Rio Rancho Events Center in Rio Rancho, New Mexico
  • Sunday, October 17: Supershow — Don Haskins Center in El Paso, Texas
  • Monday, October 18: Raw — Golden 1 Center in Sacramento, California
  • Friday, October 22: SmackDown — INTRUST Bank Arena in Wichita, Kansas
  • Monday, October 25: Raw — Toyota Center in Houston, Texas
  • Friday, October 29: SmackDown — Mohegan Sun Arena at Casey Plaza in Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania
  • Monday, November 1: Raw — Dunkin Donuts Center in Providence, Rhode Island
  • Monday, November 8: Raw — KFC Yum! Center in Louisville, Kentucky
  • Friday, November 12: SmackDown — Scope Arena in Norfolk, Virginia
  • Monday, November 15: Raw — Bankers Life Fieldhouse in Indianapolis, Indiana
  • Friday, November 19: SmackDown — XL Center in Hartford, Connecticut
  • Saturday, November 20: Supershow — War Memorial Arena in Syracuse, New York
  • Sunday, November 21: Survivor Series — Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York
  • Monday, November 22: Raw — Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York
  • Saturday, November 27: Supershow — Berglund Center Coliseum in Roanoke, Virginia
  • Sunday, November 28: Supershow — Charleston Coliseum in Charleston, West Virginia
  • Monday, November 29: Raw — Brand New UBS Arena at Belmont Park (Long Island, New York)
  • Saturday, December 4: Supershow — Bert Ogden Arena in Edinburg, Texas
  • Sunday, December 5: Supershow — American Bank Center in Corpus Christi, Texas
  • Monday, December 6: Raw — FedExForum in Memphis, Tennessee
  • Friday, December 10: SmackDown — Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse in Cleveland, Ohio
  • Saturday, December 11: Supershow — Dow Events Center in Saginaw, Michigan
  • Sunday, December 12:  WWE PPV — Allstate Arena in Rosemont, Illinois
  • Monday, December 13: Raw — Resch Center in Green Bay, Wisconsin
  • Friday, December 17: SmackDown — Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul, Minnesota
  • Saturday, December 18: Supershow — BMO Harris Bank Center in Rockford, Illinois
  • Sunday, December 19: Supershow — Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines, Iowa
  • Friday, December 31: SmackDown — Spectrum Center in Charlotte, North Carolina

WWE noted that additional tour stops and on-sale dates will be announced in the coming weeks.

WWE hoping for Rock appearance at Brooklyn-hosted Survivor Series

Posted on by Josh Nason

WWE is hoping to have The Rock be a part of this year’s Survivor Series which could be in Brooklyn, New York.

Mat Men’s Andrew Zarian first reported that one of WWE’s “Big Four” shows would be heading to Brooklyn with Dave Meltzer adding in this week’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter that WWE hopes to bring in the 49-year-old pop culture megastar for an appearance that would lead to something bigger.

“If he’s involved, that would make it a huge show and it would lend credence to (Roman) Reigns vs. (Dwayne) Johnson for WrestleMania as Johnson is getting older each year,” Meltzer wrote.

A Reigns-Rock match has been rumored for quite some time and Meltzer said that if Rock does come back, he will want to set a box office record with Dallas’ AT&T Stadium (2022) and Los Angeles’ SoFi Stadium (2022) as the two venues where that could happen.

“Last year, when there was talk of Reigns vs. Johnson, we were told that it wouldn’t happen at the 2021 WrestleMania but that it was something they were shooting for in 2022, but that’s also 1,500 plans ago,” he wrote.