The 2024 Survivor Series: WarGames is an upcoming professional wrestling event produced by the American promotion WWE. It will be the 38th annual Survivor Series, the third subtitled as "WarGames", and will take place on Saturday, November 30, 2024, at the Rogers Arena in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The event will air via pay-per-view (PPV) and livestreaming and will feature wrestlers from the promotion's Raw and SmackDown brand divisions. The event will be based around the WarGames match, a team-based steel cage match where the roofless cage surrounds two rings placed side by side.
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| Promotion | WWE | ||
| Brand(s) | Raw SmackDown | ||
| Date | November 30, 2024 | ||
| City | Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada | ||
| Venue | Rogers Arena | ||
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This will be the first Survivor Series to take place in Vancouver and first WWE PPV and livestreaming event held in the city and venue since Rock Bottom: In Your House in 1998. It will be the third Survivor Series event held in Canada, after 1997 in Montreal and 2016 in Toronto. It will be WWE's second PPV to be hosted in Canada in 2024, after Money in the Bank in July, which was held in Toronto. It will be WWE's final main roster PPV and livestreaming event to air on the WWE Network in international markets and Binge in Australia, with future events to be livestreamed on Netflix from January 2025.
Production
Background
Survivor Series is an annual professional wrestling event produced every November by the American promotion WWE since 1987, generally held the week of Thanksgiving. The second longest running pay-per-view (PPV) event in history (behind WWE'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".[1][2] The event was previously characterized by having Survivor Series matches, which were tag team elimination matches that typically featured teams of four or five wrestlers against each other.[3] In 2022, the event was rebranded as "Survivor Series: WarGames" and instead of Survivor Series matches, the annual event became based around the WarGames match, a type of steel cage match where teams face each other in a roofless cage that surrounds two rings placed side by side. WWE's developmental brand NXT previously held an annual WarGames event from 2017 to 2021 before the match became a part of Survivor Series.[4]
On August 1, 2024, WWE Chief Content Officer Paul "Triple H" Levesque announced that the 38th annual Survivor Series, and third annual as WarGames, would be held on Saturday, November 30, 2024, at the Rogers Arena in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada and feature wrestlers from the Raw and SmackDown brand divisions. This will be the third Survivor Series to take place in Canada, after 1997 and 2016, but the first to be held in Vancouver.[5] It will thus be the first WWE PPV event in the city since Rock Bottom: In Your House in 1998, which was held at the same venue when it was still known as General Motors Place.[6]
Broadcast outlets
Survivor Series: WarGames will be broadcast live on traditional pay-per-view worldwide and was also available to livestream on Peacock in the United States, Disney+ Hotstar in Indonesia, Disney+ in the Philippines, Binge in Australia, Abema in Japan, SonyLIV in India, and the WWE Network in most international markets—including the Canadian version which is distributed by venue sponsor Rogers Communications.[7][8] This will therefore be the final Survivor Series, and WWE's final main roster PPV and livestreaming event, to air on the WWE Network alongside with Binge as its content will move to Netflix in international markets in January 2025.[9]
Storylines
The event will include matches that result from scripted storylines. Results are predetermined by WWE's writers on the Raw and SmackDown brands,[10][11] while storylines are produced on WWE's weekly television shows, Monday Night Raw and Friday Night SmackDown.[12]
At Crown Jewel, Roman Reigns and The Usos (Jey Uso and Jimmy Uso) reunited to team up against the new iteration of The Bloodline (Solo Sikoa, Jacob Fatu, and Tama Tonga), but lost after interference from Tonga Loa, with Sikoa pinning Reigns. After the match, Sikoa's Bloodline outnumbered Reigns and The Usos until the latter's former ally, Sami Zayn, came out, but during the brawl, Zayn accidentally kicked Reigns.[13] On the following Raw, Zayn was confronted by The Usos, with Jimmy claiming Zayn kicked Reigns on purpose. Jey then urged Zayn to appear on that week's SmackDown to make amends with Reigns.[14] On SmackDown, Zayn told Reigns the kick was an accident and said it felt good to be with Reigns and The Usos again, but he would only reunite with them against Sikoa's Bloodline if Reigns apologized to Jey for his past mistreatment of him, but Reigns refused. Later that night, Reigns confronted Sikoa and his Bloodline with Sikoa challenging Reigns and a team of his choice to a WarGames match at Survivor Series: WarGames. Sikoa then introduced Zayn as the fifth member of their team, but Zayn attacked Sikoa with Reigns acknowledging Zayn, officially reuniting the original iteration of The Bloodline (Reigns, The Usos, and Zayn). It was then announced that the original Bloodline would face the new Bloodline in a WarGames match at the event, but with a fifth member of each team to be determined.[15]
At SummerSlam, Gunther defeated Damian Priest to win the World Heavyweight Championship.[16] Three months later on the November 4 episode of Raw, Priest won a fatal four-way match to earn a rematch for the title,[14] which was confirmed for Survivor Series: WarGames.[17]
Matches
| No. | Matches* | Stipulations | ||||
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| 1 | Roman Reigns, The Usos (Jey Uso and Jimmy Uso), Sami Zayn, and TBA vs. The Bloodline (Solo Sikoa, Jacob Fatu, Tama Tonga, and Tonga Loa) and TBA | Men's WarGames match[18] | ||||
| 2 | Gunther (c) vs. Damian Priest | Singles match for the World Heavyweight Championship[19] | ||||
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See also
References
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- ^ Powell, Jason (November 2, 2024). "WWE Crown Jewel results: Powell's review of Gunther vs. Cody Rhodes for the Crown Jewel Championship, Nia Jax vs. Liv Morgan for the Women's Crown Jewel Championship". Pro Wrestling Dot Net. Retrieved November 2, 2024.
- ^ a b Powell, Jason (November 4, 2024). "WWE Raw results (11/4): Powell's live review of Seth Rollins vs. Damian Priest vs. Sheamus vs. Dominik Mysterio for a shot at the World Heavyweight Championship, Battle Royal for a shot at the Women's World Championship". Pro Wrestling Dot Net. Retrieved November 11, 2024.
- ^ Barnett, Jake (November 8, 2024). "WWE Smackdown results (11/8): Barnett's review of Solo Sikoa's Undisputed Tribal Chief Acknowledgement Ceremony, Motor City Machine Guns vs. Grayson Waller and Austin Theory". Pro Wrestling Dot Net. Retrieved November 11, 2024.
- ^ Powell, Jason (August 3, 2024). "WWE SummerSlam results: Powell's review of Cody Rhodes vs. Solo Sikoa in a Bloodline Rules match for the WWE Championship, Damian Priest vs. Gunther for the World Heavyweight Championship". Pro Wrestling Dot Net. Retrieved August 3, 2024.
- ^ Powell, Jason (November 11, 2024). "WWE Raw results (11/11): Powell's live review of Bianca Belair and Jade Cargill vs. Liv Morgan and Raquel Rodriguez for the WWE Women's Tag Team Titles, Gunther addressing Damian Priest". Pro Wrestling Dot Net. Retrieved November 11, 2024.
- ^ WWE.com Staff (November 12, 2024). "Roman Reigns, Sami Zayn, The Usos & a fifth member vs. Solo Sikoa, Jacob Fatu, Tama Tonga, Tonga Loa & a fifth member (WarGames Match)". WWE. Retrieved November 12, 2024.
- ^ WWE.com Staff (November 11, 2024). "World Heavyweight Champion Gunther vs. Damian Priest". WWE. Retrieved November 11, 2024.