Universal Champion “The Fiend” Bray Wyatt defends the title against Daniel Bryan at Survivor Series 2019. Photo: WWE.com
WWE Survivor Series 2019: Results and recap – 25 November
No Championships changed hands at Survivor Series but NXT announced their arrival at the battle for brand supremacy with four wins.
Universal Champion “The Fiend” Bray Wyatt defends the title against Daniel Bryan at Survivor Series 2019. Photo: WWE.com
It was a good night for NXT as they marked their inclusion in the battle for brand supremacy with four WWE Survivor Series match wins.
Dolph Ziggler & Robert Roode win a cross-brand Tag Team Battle Royal (Kickoff Match).
Dolph Ziggler reminded the WWE Universe on Twitter that five years ago he went an hour in the ring and ended the night as the sole survivor. He didn’t have to go that long during Survivor Series Kickoff 2019 to achieve something similar, as he and Robert Roode survived an unannounced, cross-brand Tag Team Battle Royal that handed SmackDown the first victory in the battle for brand supremacy.
The eliminations came thick and fast and soon it was down to down to Ziggler, Roode and Raw’s Street Profits. An accidental Super Kick from Ziggler left Roode dazed and nearly allowed Montez Ford to pick up the victory but the Glorious One recovered in time to catch Ford off-guard and score the final elimination over the top rope.
NXT Cruiserweight Champion Lio Rush def. Kalisto & Akira Tozawa (Kickoff Match).
NXT Cruiserweight Champion Lio Rush put his gold on the line against rivals from Smackdown and Raw and came up with the goods to prevent the black and yellow brand giving up a championship.
Kalisto and Tozawa teamed up against the champion in the early going after the champ but that alliance was shortlived. As expected with three high-flyers in the ring the match proceeded at breakneck speed with momentum continually shifting. The highlight of the match was perhaps when The Man of the Hour executed a jaw-dropping double Spanish Fly off the top, taking out both his opponents.
In the end Lio Rush capitalized on Kalisto taking down Tozawa with a Salida del Sol and executed The Final Hour before pinning Kalisto, retaining his NXT Cruiserweight Championship and picking up a victory for WWE NXT.
Raw Tag Team Champions The Vikings Raiders def. NXT Tag Team Champions Undisputed ERA & SmackDown Tag Team Champions The New Day (Kickoff Match).
Big E and Kofi Kingston started strongest teaming up for a powerbomb–double stomp combination but that seemed to paint a target of the New Day’s backs.
After Undisputed Era and the Viking Raiders had cleared the New Day from the ring, Ivar showed great athleticism to avoid a finisher from the NXT champs and hit O’Reilly & Fish with a back handspring double clothesline. Erik then tagged in, setting up the Raw champions for their Viking Experience to give Raw its first victory of the night.
Survivor Series Elimination match: Team NXT (Bianca Belair, Rhea Ripley, Io Shirai, Toni Storm and Candace LeRae) def. Team Raw (Charlotte Flair, Asuka, Kairi Sane, Natalya and Sarah Logan) vs. Team SmackDown (Sasha Banks, Dana Brooke, Nikki Cross, Lacey Evans and Carmella).
Team NXT had an early handicap as Candice LeRae and Io Shirai were injured in a flurry of action and taken to the back soon after the bell rung.
Bianca Belair ousted SmackDown’s Nikki Cross and Raw’s Sarah Logan in the first eliminations which helped NXT make their mark and even things up a little.
Raw team captain Charlotte Flair hit Carmella with Natural Selection on to eliminate the Smackdown Diva. Later Kairi Sane’s InSane Elbow stopped short of notching an elimination when SmackDown team captain Sasha Banks swooped in and hit Sane with a meteora, resulting in The Kabuki Warrior’s removal.
Asuka walked out on her Raw teammates spewing green mist in the eyes of Flair who was elimiated by Lacey Evans after she collected a Woman’s Right.
Natalya pinned The Lady of WWE with a roll-up and Sasha and The Queen of Harts forced Belair to submit to a combination Sharpshooter/Bank Statement, the playing field was once again even, with Natayla, Sasha and Ripley remaining. Banks suckered Natalya with a feigned partnership to leave herself one on one with Ripley.
As Ripley and Banks brawled for the right to be the sole survivor, LeRae and Shirai returned from the locker room. Since they were never officially eliminated, the duo provided a timely save, helping The Nightmare escape Sasha’s Bank Statement submission attempt. Candice then distracted the referee, allowing The Genius of the Sky to take flight with a picturesque springboard dropkick to Banks that preceded a match-winning Riptide by Ripley.
Roderick Strong def. AJ Styles vs. Shinsuke Nakamura.
Roderick Strong showcased his remarkable cardio throughout this Triple Threat Match, sprinting to prevent a Styles Clash and surviving a Doomsday Device, an homage to Chicago’s Legion of Doom.
The NXT North American Champion seemed out of the match after the Nakumura put him on dream street with a Kinshasa, but as he recovered on the outside, Styles laid out the Intercontinental Champion with a Phenomenal Forearm, creating an opening. Strong recovered and intercepted the pin to steal the win and give NXT a 3-1-1 lead at Survivor Series.
Adam Cole def. Pete Dunne—WWE NXT Championship.
Both men entered the match with conspicuous injuries that gave each warrior a clear vulnerability to attack after a gruelling Saturday night WarGames event. Dunne targeted Cole’s wrist, stomping it onto the steel rings steps, while The Panama City Playboy repeatedly went after The BruiserWeight’s bad leg.
Cole would hit Dunne with a Panama Sunrise on the unforgiving ring apron, but despite the dreadful impact, The BruiserWeight beat the referee’s count of 10 and returned to the ring, only to be greeted by a superkick.
Somehow Dunne stayed in the fight but when The BruiserWeight attempted to hit Cole with a second the Bitter End, the NXT Champion somehow wriggled into another Panama Sunrise. Cole then swiftly plastered Dunne in the back of the head with the Last Shot to claim the pinfall.
“The Fiend” Bray Wyatt def. Daniel Bryan—WWE Universal Championship.
Daniel Bryan showed resilience to survive an early onslaught ffrom the fiend and eventually build momentum by tapping int the YES! movement once again.
Bryan built on an armbar over the top rope and eventually blasted Wyatt with the “Yes!” kicks and Running Knee but it wasn’t enough to put the Fiend down.
When he attempted to land the knee a second time, Wyatt darted out with the Mandible Claw, ensnared Bryan in its clutches, and pinned him to the mat after he had passed out.
Brock Lesnar def. Rey Mysterio—WWE Championship.
With the help of his son Dominik and a steal pipe Mysterio looked to finally gain the upper hand over Brock Lesnar but his rally was short lived.
Rey and Dominik both administered stereo 619s and consecutive Frog Splashes but even both of them stacking on top of Lesnar simultaneously wasn’t enough to keep The Beast down.
The champion kicked out at two and, even visibly down a step after a string of uppercuts including a few to his groin, Lesnar still had the strength to German Suplex Dominik off the top turnbuckle when the Mysterios went for stereo splashes on either side of the ring.
Mysterio launched anyway, only for Lesnar to snatch him out of the air and F-5 him for the victory.
Survivor Series Elimination Match: Team SmackDown (Roman Reigns, Braun Strowman, King Corbin, Mustafa Ali, and Shorty G) [Reigns sole survivor] def. Team NXT (Tommaso Ciampa, Damian Priest, Matt Riddle, Keith Lee, and Walter) and Team Raw (Seth Rollins, Drew McIntyre, Kevin Owens, Randy Orton, and Ricochet).
Braun Strowman set the tone for Smackdown in this traditional Survivor Series elimination match, shrugging off a double-team attack from Raw’s Seth Rollins and NXT’s Tommaso Ciampa.
Drew McIntyre scored the first elimination by hitting WALTER with a Claymore.
Kevin Owens gave Raw a bigger advantage when he landed a Frog Splash to pin Shorty G before going on a rampage on the outside that ended with Ciampa planting him with a DDT.
“The eliminations then came fast,” reports Jeff Laboon on WWE.com.
“Randy Orton got his 16th all-time by RKO’ing Damian Priest from NXT, but he was then rolled up by Matt Riddle. The Viper then attacked The Bro to help SmackDown’s captain, King Corbin, vulture the elimination.
“Strowman was out next thanks to a count-out caused by McIntyre’s Claymore and Ricochet joined him after Corbin’s End of Days. Mustafa Ali tagged in, but Corbin didn’t appreciate his boldness, and yelled at Ali until Rollins Stomped the distracted Chicago-native.
“With only two members remaining for each squad, Reigns intercepted a Claymore to eliminate McIntyre, then responded to Corbin’s complaints of “not pulling his weight” by helping Ciampa eliminate his own captain. Former Shield brother Rollins and Reigns briefly united to eliminate Ciampa, bringing the action to only one member for each squad.
“Keith Lee from NXT put on a masterful performance, kicking out of Rollins’ Frog Splash and hitting a Jackhammer to pin the Raw captain. He continued his roll by kicking out of two Superman Punches, but Lee’s moonsault attempt came up empty, leaving him exposed for a decisive Spear from Reigns.”
Shayna Baszler def. Becky Lynch and Bayley.
Shayna Baszler gave us all a taste of what a duel between the WWE’s four Horsewomen and their MMA counterparts could be like.
Baszler’s was made to work for her win in theevery-woman-for-herself nature of the Triple Threat Match.
Sustaining momentum proved difficult for all three competitors as every time a Superstar was on the brink of victory, the third participant intervened to play spoiler.
The match eventually disintegrated into a brawl outside the ring, and that’s where Baszler caused major damage to The Man. The malicious Baszler sent Lynch into the barricade, the ring post and the steel steps before slamming her onto the announce desk.
“With Lynch effectively taken out of the running, Bayley and Baszler returned the fight to the ring. Baszler locked in another Kirifuda Clutch, but Bayley suplexed her way out of it before taking to the air with an elbow drop.
“The Submission Magician, however, still had a trick left up her sleeve.
“As Bayley descended from the skies, Baszler caught her with one more Kirifuda Clutch. Bayley desperately tried to escape, but eventually succumbed, opting for the “tap” in Shayna’s “Tap, Nap or Snap” menu of options.”
Baszler’s win underlined the dominance of NXT at Survivor Series.
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