Date: 11/20	4:05 PM
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Pre-show Note from Arya: 6 hours?!?!?! Really?

a.) TJ Perkins, Noam Dar & Rich Swann defeated Ariya Daivari, Tony Nese & Drew Gulak in a Kickoff Match

Due to a production snafu we momentarily got Renee Young talking to her producer, saying that this match had 9 more minutes. (EDIT: It only took me 2 hours to realize that I wrote "Do to a production snafu" instead of Due)

The match itself was fine. Nothing monumental, but a solid match between 6 people who wrestle each other a lot. I know Noam Dar just came over, but you know what I mean. The crowd was into the babyfaces and popped for Swann when he pinned Daivari with the standing 450 Splash.

Shockingly the match went 9 minutes more after the afore-mentioned snafu.

b.) Kane pinned Luke Harper in a Kickoff Match

This match was better received than the opener, but not as good as a match. Kane won with a Chokeslam after kicking out of a Black Hole Slam that Mauro Ranallo had trouble calling.

Match #1
Survivor Series Elimination Match
Team Raw: Charlotte, Bayley, Sasha Banks, Alicia Fox & Nia Jax (w/Dana Brooke)
vs
Team SmackDown: Natalya (replacing Nikki Bella), Becky Lynch, Carmella, Naomi & Alexa Bliss

Order of Elimination:

1.) Alicia pinned Carmella
2.) Alexa pinned Alicia
3.) Naomi was counted out
4.) Natalya pinned Sasha Banks
5.) Charlotte pinned Natalya
6.) Becky Lynch tapped out Nia Jax
7.) Charlotte pinned Alexa Bliss
8.) Bayley pinned Becky Lynch

Nikki Bella didn't come out for the match and was shown injured backstage. She said someone attacked her from behind. It was obviously Natalya but Daniel Bryan needed a 5th girl and put Nattie in the match instead.

Alicia was called a "10 year veteran", which is technically true, but almost had me crying from laughing so hard. Raw's team couldn't get along from the start with Charlotte, Sasha and Becky arguing over tagging in. That somehow broke down into a 9-woman brawl that Nia Jax, for some reason, broke up.

We had a spot where Nia destroyed every SmackDown woman one at a time and then finished by laying out both Carmella and Natalya at the same time. Alicia pinned Carmella and then Alexa pinned Alicia with Twisted Bliss.

Naomi did a dive to the outside onto Nia, but then Nia threw her into the ring post and Naomi was counted out. Sasha went for the Back Stabber, but Alexa broke it up and in the ensuing confusion Nattie pinned Sasha with a schoolboy. Natalya got the Sharpshooter on Charlotte, but Dana pushed the bottom rope into Charlotte's hand. When they stood up, Charlotte booted Nattie right in the face for the pin. Becky and Alexa began arguing, so Nia Jax ran in and attacked both women. The two SmackDown women dropped Nia with a double DDT and Becky submitted Nia with the Disarmer.

Nia was so mad that she dragged Becky out of the ring and threw her into the barricade. Alexa got in the ring and immediately got pinned by Charlotte with a big boot. Becky and Charlotte had a good one on one match. Becky seemed to have her pinned with a top rope legdrop, but Bayley (almost reluctantly) broke it up. After two or three minutes of Becky vs Bayley, Becky was going for the Disarmer, but Bayley reversed it and pinned Becky with a Belly to Bayley!

After the match, Charlotte immediately attacked Bayley and threw her out of the ring and into the dasher boards all around the ring

Winners: Team Raw (Charlotte & Bayley)

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James Ellsworth is wandering around backstage when Gallows & Anderson confronted him, calling him "Chinderella". Gallows called him a nerd while they made more chin puns.

Mick Foley walked up and told them to knock it off. The Club left and Ellsworth marked out over Foley. Mick offered James a Raw contract and Ellsworth said he is true to Team Blue. Isn't that contract tampering?

Anyway Mick walked away and Ellsworth walked into Braun Strowman, who referenced their match a few months ago, causing Ellsworth to run away.

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Match #2
Intercontinental Championship
The Miz vs Sami Zayn

The announcers pushed that Zayn is 3-0 vs Miz. Zayn had the advantage until Maryse distracted him and Miz clipped his knee. I should point out that Zayn sold his knee longer than Nakamura did last night. Zayn even sold his knee while doing his running dive over the top rope. Miz kept going for the Figure Four, which led to him getting kicked in the face a lot and almost pinned with a small package.

Miz began doing Daniel Bryan corner kicks, while mockingly chanting "Yes!", which got him dropped with a Blue Thunder Bomb, but Miz kicked out. Zayn went for the Helluva Kick, but he couldn't run. Miz went for the Skull Cushing Finale, but Zayn got out of it. Finally Zayn was able to run for the Helluva Kick, but Miz moved and Zayn hurt his knee further. Finally Miz got on the Figure Four, which Zayn was able to fight to reverse.

Miz hit more "Daniel Bryan kicks" but Zayn ducked when Miz went for the Knockout kick. Zayn locked on his own Figure Four, but just then it looked like Miz was about to tap, Maryse began ringing the bell, which distracted everyone. Zayn thought he had won, so Miz school boyed him to retain the title.

Winner and STILL Intercontinental Champion: The Miz

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Dean Ambrose and AJ Styles were standing backstage. AJ told Dean that if they listen to him then Team Blue will win. Then they plugged the TLC Match in 2 weeks.

Shane McMahon walked in and told them they can kill each other at TLC, but they have to focus and work together tonight.

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Match #3
Traditional Survivor Series Elimination Match
Team Raw: The New Day, Cesaro & Sheamus, The Club, Los Matadores and Enzo & Big Cass
vs
Team SmackDown: Heath Slater & Rhyno, American Alpha, The Uso's, Breezango & Hype Bros

Order of Elimination:
1.) Kofi Kingston pinned Fandango (eliminating Breezango)
2.) Jimmy Uso pinned Kofi (eliminating New Day)
3.) Luke Gallows pinned Zack Ryder (eliminating Hype Bros)
4.) Jason Jordan pinned Primo (eliminating The Shining Stars)
5.) Karl Anderson pinned Jason Jordan (eliminating American Alpha)
6.) Rhyno pinned Gallows (eliminating The Club)
7.) Enzo pinned Heath Slater (eliminating Slater & Rhyno)
8.) An Uso pinned Enzo (eliminating Enzo & Cass)
9.) Cesaro tapped out Jey Uso (eliminating The Uso's)

Fandango started the match by giving out tickets for fashion violations to every member of both teams, so no one stopped New Day from pinning Fandango with a Midnight Hour. Kofi then stood up and got pinned by an Uso with a Superkick to the legit surprise of everyone. This match was exactly what you wanted from the middle of this match. Everyone was able to get in and do their moves. The match had a lot of action because why would you need a rest hold when you have 20 people you can tag in and out. The problem is neither side seemed interested in saving anyone, as seen when Gallows & Anderson pinned Ryder with the Magic Killer.

Of course as I mentioned not needed a rest hold, Primo used a chinlock on Chad Gable. I guess you can't always win. Epico looked good in his chance, but Jordan pinned Primo with a Top Rope Bulldog. That led to the match breaking down into a 12-way brawl, culminating with Slater & Rhyno in the ring brawling with Enzo & Cass until Cass heaved Enzo over the top onto everyone. Slater did a giant stage dive onto 8 people. Cesaro did the Giant Swing to Jordan until Gable broke it up and threw Cesaro out and then did his own dive. But while everyone was distracted, Anderson pinned Jordan with the Magic Killer.

Raw beat down on Heath until Gallows accidentally hit Enzo and in the ensuing distraction Rhyno Gored Gallows for the pin. Seconds later Enzo pinned Heath Slater with the Boomshakalaka. After a brief battle, one of the Uso's pinned Enzo with the Superfly Splash.

This brought it down to Sheamus & Cesaro vs The Uso's, which was a really fun match for the amount of time they had. Sheamus shoved Cesaro out of the way to give Jimmy a Brogue Kick, but Jey broke it up. Jey had Sheamus pinned with a Top Rope Splash, but Cesaro returned and broke it up. Cesaro hit the World's Slowest 619 and a Diving Crossbody for a near fall. Cesaro put on a real long Swing and when he stopped Jimmy Uso superkicked his knee. Jey locked on the Tequilla Sunrise, which no one thought would be the finish and it wasn't, as Cesaro rolled through and slapped on the Sharpshooter.

Jimmy tried to break it up with a Superkick, but Sheamus took his head off with a Brogue Kick as Jey tapped out and Team Raw wins again.

Winners: Team Raw (Sheamus & Cesaro)

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Mick Foley & Stephanie McMahon celebrated before booking New Day vs Cesaro & Sheamus for the tag team title tomorrow night on Raw.

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Match #4
Cruiserweight Championship
The Brian Kendrick vs Kalisto

Why do the individual wrestlers in the division care who wins? It's not like if Kalisto wins they are all out of jobs. Kalisto ran wild from the start, getting several near falls. They blocked each others finishes and led into a series of roll ups and near falls. Kendrick took over by using a school boy into the turnbuckles and then put Kalisto's body between the ring steps and post before dropkicking the steps, smashing Kalisto's body into the post.

The crowd, which wasn't much into it, came alive when Kalisto gave Kendrick a Spanish Fly off the ring apron. Kalisto went for a Salida Del Sol off the top rope, but Kendrick fish hooked him, yanked him off the top and slapped on the Captain's Hook. I was about to celebrate being right on my prediction, but Kalisto didn't tap and instead got the ropes.

Kalisto made his comeback, hitting a Cartwheel DVD and finally hit the Salida Del Sol, but Kendrick got his feet on the ropes. Kalisto went for a top rope move when Baron Corbin stormed into the ring, attacking Kendrick, which disqualified Kalisto, before laying out Kalisto!

Corbin has cost not only Kalisto the Cruiserweight Title, but SmackDown the entire Cruiserweight division!

Winner and STILL Cruiserweight Champion: The Brian Kendrick

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Daniel Bryan yelled at Baron Corbin. Corbin called Kalisto a pest and the last thing SmackDown needs is more little pests. Bryan vowed to deal with him on Tuesday.

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Match #5
Traditional Survivor Series Elimination Match
Team Raw: Kevin Owens, Chris Jericho, Seth Rollins, Roman Reigns & Braun Strowman
vs
Team SmackDown: AJ Styles, Dean Ambrose, Randy Orton, Bray Wyatt & Shane McMahon (w/James Ellsworth)

Order of Elimination:

1.) Braun Strowman pinned Dean Ambrose
2.) Braun was counted out.
3.) Kevin Owens was disqualified
4.) Randy Orton pinned Chris Jericho
5.) Shane McMahon was eliminated due to injury
6.) Seth Rollins pinned AJ Styles
7.) Bray Wyatt pinned Seth Rollins
8.) Bray Wyatt pinned Roman Reigns

Before starting this match, I would like to point out that Randy Orton, Hulk Hogan and Ultimate Warrior are tied for the most number of times surviving Survivor Series matches, with 4 each. Styles and Owens started the match and worked so well together that it made you want to see a full match between the two. Styles got the better of Jericho, which led to Rollins laughing at Jericho and Y2J roughly tagging Seth in.

Jericho was still mad at Ambrose ripping up his light up jacket back in April, which the announcers ignored. Shane tagged in and potato'd Jericho, so Jericho replied with a middle rope dropkick that hit Shane right in the face. The announcers were so into this match that they were arguing about ratings and the Gobbeldy Gooker. Rollins and Reigns continued the Shane beat down, which Shane kept kicking out of.

We got the giant face off and brawl that happened halfway through every elimination match. The fans popped the first time and the second time. The third time, they just sat there and watched. Strowman caught Ambrose on a dive and then just carried him around the ring until AJ dove out with a Phenomenal Forearm. Owens then did a cannonball dive onto everyone. Shane went to do the same, but Strowman cut him off. AJ and Ambrose saved their boss as the out of control aspect continued.

The fans chanted for AJ, which Styles pointed out to Ambrose, which led to Styles and Ambrose fighting each other. Strowman pinned Ambrose with a Running Powerslam and Styles just watched. Strowman dragged Shane into the ring and squashed the Commissioner. AJ made the save, but got laid out. Orton ran in and got laid out too. Bray came in and played mind games with Braun. Just when you thought Strowman may lay down for Bray, Braun turned on Bray, which they expected a giant pop and instead no one cared. Strowman prepared the French announce table for destruction, but Orton ran in with an RKO on the table (which didn't break). Bray and Orton laid Braun on the English announce table so Shane could deliver a diving elbow from the top rope.

After everyone was fighting outside the ring for 5 minutes without a countout the referee began his count. Shane got in and Braun was about to until James Ellsworth, who was hiding under the ring, held onto Braun's leg, causing him to be counted out. Ellsworth tried running, but Braun caught him on the stage and heaved him off the stage through a table. The giant brawl broke down into a tag team match at this point. Jericho gave both Shane and Orton a Codebreaker...and Shane kicked out of the Codebreaker. AJ got a near fall on Jericho with the Tye Breaker. AJ had on the Calf Crusher, but Jericho slammed his head on the mat and went for the Walls, but AJ used a small package for a near fall. Styles hit Owens, who was on the apron, so Owens hit AJ with the List of Jericho, which disqualified Owens. Owens gave AJ the Pop Up Power Bomb before leaving. The fans did not like that, chanting "Bullshit" while Jericho was sad and putting together his papers on The List. While he was worried Orton pinned Jericho with an RKO.

The fans were mad that the Canadians were gone, especially when Roman tagged in, since he was the most hated person on either team. Roman got a close nearfall with a Sit Out Power Bomb on AJ. Shane tagged in and punched Roman in the face. Rollins tried to run in, but Shane punched him in the face too. Shane then blocked a Roman spear and sent him shoulder-first into the ring post.

Shane went for a Coast to Coast dropkick, but Roman got up and Speared Shane to death. The referee counted two because Shane's shoulder popped up. However Shane was injured so he was eliminated due to injury. He may have popped his shoulder or at least smashed his head very hard on the floor. So technically Shane kicked out of the Spear, but was eliminated due to injury. Bray got laid out with a Rollins Suicide Dive, which led to several minutes of AJ vs Rollins and I don't want to shock you, but that was good as well. Rollins and Reigns finally began working together, but first argued over which announce table to destroy, because that's the important part. Since they were too busy arguing, by the time they were ready, AJ broke it up.

Dean Ambrose decided to return to the match and attack AJ Styles. The fans chanted "Stupid Idiot" as Ambrose continued to assault his teammate. Finally a dozen security tried to get Ambrose out. It would have worked except Rollins & Reigns decided to beat up all the security. This led to a Shield reunion and a Triple Power Bomb through the announce table on AJ. Shouldn't that have been some sort of DQ? Anyway Rollins rolled AJ in and pinned him. So with it down to The Shield vs The Wyatt's, Luke Harper randomly showed up to run distraction. Behind the referee's back Harper laid out Reigns with a Superkick outside the ring, so Rollins took out Harper with a dive. Rollins held his own against two men and he came off the top with a Frog Splash...BUT ORTON HIT AN RKO ON ROLLINS! Bray pinned Rollins after that, leaving it 2 on 1.

Roman fought from underneath, hitting his moves on everyone, including a Spear on Harper. He blocked Sister Abigail and gave Bray a Superman Punch. Roman went for the Spear, but Orton shoved Bray out of the way and took the Spear. As Roman got up Bray laid him out with Sister Abigail for the pin!

The match itself went 54 minutes and was really really good. Plus with this win Randy Orton becomes the record holder of surviving the most number of Survivor Series matches ever.

Winners: Team SmackDown (Bray Wyatt & Randy Orton)

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Match #6
Brock Lesnar vs Goldberg

Goldberg got the WCW entrance, with his WCW theme music and security guards. The only thing missing was Doug Dillinger coming in to lead the group.

Brock tried to overpower Goldberg at the start, but Goldberg got out and hit two Spears and a Jackhammer and pinned Brock in less than a minute.

No. Seriously.

No, that really happened.

Winner: Goldberg

To be fair that match was better than their first match. The show ended with Goldberg celebrating with his family.

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