WWE Survivor Series 2022 preview: Triple H is fixing another Vince McMahon mistake - Cageside Seats

WWE Survivor Series 2022 takes spot contiguous (Sat., Nov. 26) from TD Garden Arena successful Boston, Massachusetts. The amusement begins astatine 8:00 p.m. ET connected pay-per-view (PPV), Peacock, and the WWE Network.

Triple H is fixing different Vince McMahon mistake

WWE’s yearly Survivor Series lawsuit has been dulled down to a soulless conflict implicit marque supremacy for the past respective years, with WWE commentators blatantly lying astir however it’s the 1 nighttime a twelvemonth where Raw and SmackDown superstars spell head-to-head.

Thankfully that nonsense is gone present that Vince McMahon is nary longer moving WWE. Triple H has alternatively turned this year’s Survivor Series into the long-awaited main roster debut of the WarGames match. Many WWE fans person been hoping to spot this gimmick connected WWE pay-per-view ever since WCW folded much than 20 years ago, but for immoderate crushed McMahon was ne'er funny successful booking it.

There are 2 WarGames matches connected tonight’s card, 1 for the men and 1 for the women. Each lucifer is contested betwixt 2 teams of 5 members, and is fought successful 2 wrestling rings surrounded by a cage. The rules are arsenic follows:

• Two teams volition beryllium contained successful abstracted cages with 1 subordinate of each squad starting the match.

• After 5 minutes, a subordinate from the advantaged squad volition beryllium released to participate the match.

• After a three-minute period, alternating members from each squad volition participate the lucifer until each competitors are wrong the cage.

• Once each competitors person entered, WarGames officially begins.

• The lone mode to triumph the lucifer is by pinfall oregon submission.

One different regularisation from the NXT iteration of the lucifer volition apt transportation implicit arsenic well; if immoderate subordinate of a squad chooses to flight the lucifer by climbing retired of the roofless structure, their full squad is disqualified.

Unlike the accepted Survivor Series tag squad matches (which are wholly absent from this year’s card), WarGames is not an elimination match. All it takes is 1 wrestler to beryllium pinned oregon submitted for the lucifer to end.

The afloat lineup for Survivor Series

These 5 matches are presently advertised for Survivor Series:

WarGames: Sheamus, Butch, Drew McIntyre, Ridge Holland, Kevin Owens vs. Roman Reigns, The Usos, Sami Zayn, Solo Sikoa

Kevin Owens and Drew McIntyre some would person ended Roman Reigns’ tally arsenic Universal champion by present if it wasn’t for the endless interference from the remainder of The Bloodline. That’s wherefore Drew and KO didn’t hesitate to articulation up with The Brawling Brutes to effort to extremity The Bloodline’s dominance successful this WarGames match. The Brutes person the astir caller beef with Roman’s household aft the heels broke Sheamus’ arm past month.

The large absorption present is connected the narration betwixt longtime champion friends Owens and Zayn, who are connected other sides of this war. Kevin has warned Sami that The Bloodline has nary loyalty towards him and volition chew him up and spit him retired erstwhile helium is nary longer utile to them. Owens advised Sami to onslaught them down archetypal earlier they crook connected him. Jey Uso overheard the speech unbeknownst to Sami, who past lied to Jey astir it.

The decorativeness of this lucifer could precise good travel down to whether Sami follows Owens’ advice, oregon if Jey volition pre-emptively undermine Sami for proving helium can’t beryllium trusted.

One added wrinkle is that the babyface squad won the WarGames vantage for this match. Will The Bloodline effort to lick that occupation by taking retired 1 of the babyfaces earlier successful the night?

WarGames: Bianca Belair, Becky Lynch, Asuka, Mia Yim, Alexa Bliss vs. Bayley, IYO SKY, Rhea Ripley, Nikki Cross, Dakota Kai

This WarGames lucifer is the culmination of the feud betwixt Belair and Damage CTRL that began connected July 30 astatine SummerSlam.

Becky Lynch was an aboriginal casualty of that feud and was instantly enactment connected the injured list, but she conscionable made her astonishment instrumentality to WWE past nighttime connected SmackDown.

Bayley did pin Bianca successful a squad lucifer astatine Clash astatine the Castle successful September, but Belair has successfully defended the Raw women’s title against her aggregate times since then. Meanwhile, Alexa Bliss and Asuka person traded the WWE women’s tag squad titles backmost and distant with IYO SKY and Dakota Kai.

This 1 looks similar an uphill conflict for Bayley’s radical fixed the mode Bianca has already dominated them without Becky Lynch by her side. The EST moving unneurotic with The Man sounds similar it volition beryllium excessively overmuch for Damage CTRL to woody with.

Then again, Bayley’s squad did triumph the War Games vantage for this bout, and each it takes is 1 betrayal among the ranks for the lucifer to rapidly end. Alexa Bliss whitethorn precise good determine to crook her backmost connected Bianca if she is sick of playing 2nd fiddle and wants the adjacent changeable astatine Belair’s title gold.

Mia Yim and Rhea Ripley are besides portion of this war, carrying implicit their issues from the ongoing feud betwixt The Judgment Day and The O.C.

Finally determination is Nikki Cross, who is nary longer a delusional superhero wannabe. She is temporarily warring alongside Damage CTRL for this war, but she is wholly unhinged and could precise good spell disconnected connected anyone successful the ringing astatine immoderate point.

Seth Rollins (c) vs. Bobby Lashley vs. Austin Theory for the United States championship

Seth Rollins fundamentally stole the US title from Lashley aft Brock Lesnar ambushed Bob past month. Austin Theory past tried to bargain the rubric from Seth utilizing his Money successful the Bank contract, but helium failed erstwhile Lashley got progressive and kicked some of their asses.

Theory was derided arsenic a moron for flushing his MITB declaration down the toilet, and he’s go much aggravated and motivated successful the aftermath of that humiliation. Lashley lone cares astir hurting radical until helium gets his rubric back, and he’s precise bully astatine doing conscionable that. Seth is gaining momentum arsenic a babyface and volition bash immoderate it takes to support the rubric here.

There’s a decent lawsuit to beryllium made that immoderate of these 3 men tin locomotion distant arsenic the victor of this match.

AJ Styles vs. Finn Balor

AJ Styles amazed The Judgment Day erstwhile helium brought Luke Gallows and Karl Anderson backmost to WWE and took the combat to Finn Balor’s gang. It hasn’t worked retired precise good for The O.C., though, due to the fact that Rhea Ripley is ever determination to screw them over.

The dynamic precocious changed erstwhile Mia Yim returned to WWE and joined Styles’ club. She is determination to neutralize Ripley. Yim and Ripley are some progressive successful the women’s WarGames lucifer truthful it’s not harmless to presume they’ll adjacent beryllium ringside for this fight.

Styles and Balor are the de facto leaders of their respective factions, truthful the result of this combat could find which radical goes connected to predominate Monday nights from here.

Ronda Rousey (c) vs. Shotzi for the SmackDown women’s championship

This filler lucifer feels similar it’s lone present due to the fact that Rousey is simply a prima who needs thing to bash connected pay-per-view. Shotzi has been rushed into this spot owed to the deficiency of extent connected the SmackDown women’s roster.

She got present by pinning Lacey Evans to triumph a six-pack challenge. Meanwhile, Rousey has aligned with Shayna Baszler and viciously broke the limb of Raquel Rodriguez, who was sticking up for her person Shotzi.

Shotzi says it’s idiosyncratic present and she is going to daze the satellite erstwhile she beats Rousey for the title. She mightiness request to tally implicit Rousey with her vessel for that to travel to fruition.

Summary

It has been a agelong clip coming, but WarGames has yet made it to WWE, and Survivor Series is simply a large acceptable for this concept. The 2 WarGames matches are the large attractions here, and arsenic agelong arsenic they deliver, this lawsuit volition beryllium a wide success. The remainder of the paper doesn’t adjacent truly substance each that much.

What volition you beryllium looking for astatine Survivor Series?