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WWE Survivor Series WarGames 2022 Results: Winners, Grades, Reaction and Highlights
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Welcome to Bleacher Report's sum and recap of WWE Survivor Series WarGames.
This is the archetypal clip WWE has brought the double-cage setup to the main roster, truthful 2 large matches were acceptable up to instrumentality spot wrong the unsafe structure.
Here is simply a look astatine the card:
- The Bloodline vs. The Brawling Brutes, Kevin Owens and Drew McIntyre
- Damage CTRL, Nikki Cross and Rhea Ripley vs. Bianca Belair, Asuka, Alexa Bliss, Mia Yim and Becky Lynch
- Ronda Rousey vs. Shotzi (SmackDown Women's Championship)
- AJ Styles vs. Finn Bálor
- Seth Rollins vs. Bobby Lashley vs. Austin Theory (United States Championship)
Let's instrumentality a look astatine everything that went down during Saturday's show.
Women's WarGames Match
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The archetypal lucifer of the nighttime was the women's WarGames lucifer with Bianca Belair, Becky Lynch, Asuka, Alexa Bliss and Mia Yim vs. Bayley, Dakota Kai, Iyo Sky, Nikki Cross and Rhea Ripley.
Belair and Kai started the lucifer for their teams. The heels had the advantage, truthful aft the archetypal five-minute play was up, Sky joined her tag squad spouse successful the ring.
When it was clip for Cross to participate the match, she brought a ton of weapons with her from nether the ring. When Bayley joined a fewer minutes later, she brought immoderate ladders and a array into the ring.
Ripley and Lynch were the last members of their respective teams to participate the match. Once The Man entered the ring, the lucifer officially began and could beryllium won astatine immoderate point.
There's nary different mode to accidental this: The lucifer was implicit mayhem. They utilized each limb aggregate times, had respective large spots and adjacent included immoderate callbacks to past encounters betwixt immoderate of the women successful the ring.
Some of the spots successful this lucifer did not spell arsenic planned, truthful determination were respective adjacent calls that could person led to injuries. It helped the competitory quality of the bout, but it besides slowed the lucifer down successful spots.
Lynch ended up scoring the pin for her squad by hitting a immense limb driblet from the apical of the cage to enactment Kai done a table.
This was a amusive mode to footwear disconnected the show.
Winners: Belair, Bliss, Yim, Asuka and Lynch
Grade: B-
Notable Moments and Observations
- Everybody's cogwheel successful this lucifer looked awesome. They went all-out connected the designs.
- Belair deed a unsmooth backbreaker astatine 1 point. Kai astir landed connected her head.
- Sky's hurricanrana to Belair did not spell arsenic planned. She hardly had her feet implicit Belair's shoulders.
- The dropkick Sky deed by jumping from 1 enactment to different earlier hitting Belair was awesome.
- They support teasing Sky vs. Asuka. Just springiness america the lucifer already.
- Cross deed a large dive from the apical of the cage onto everyone who was successful the ringing astatine the time.
- Cross breaking up a nine-person Tower of Doom spot was hilarious.
- The limb driblet Lynch deed from the apical of the cage was a bully mode to extremity the match.
Finn Bálor vs. AJ Styles
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The 2nd lucifer of the nighttime saw AJ Styles conflict Finn Bálor to spot which erstwhile Bullet Club person was superior.
The Phenomenal One had power early, but The Prince wasn't astir to marque it casual connected him. Whenever it looked similar Styles had him cornered, Bálor would travel up with a mode to antagonistic him.
About 10 minutes into the match, each hellhole broke escaped astatine ringside. The O.C. and the remainder of The Judgment Day began to brawl and fought into the crowd, leaving Bálor and Styles alone.
As expected, these 2 veterans enactment connected a large show. When you get to the level of acquisition these men have, it's astir intolerable for them to enactment connected a atrocious match. When you enactment 2 guys similar this together, it volition astir ever pb to a classical encounter.
After failing to get the triumph with the Calf Crusher, Styles was capable to unafraid the triumph with the Phenomenal Forearm. It was bully that they got everyone other distant from the ringing truthful these 2 could radiance connected their own.
Winner: AJ Styles
Grade: A-
Notable Moments and Observations
- Bálor wore a unusual achromatic disguise during his entrance. It was someway weirder than the spiked 1 helium wore for his past PPV.
- Styles besides wore a mask, but his was made to look similar a state mask.
- The suplex Styles utilized to nonstop Bálor into the country was picture-perfect.
- The Phenomenal One makes the 450 look easy.
- Styles' thorax was beet-red aft this was over. Bálor was laying into him.
Ronda Rousey vs. Shotzi (SmackDown Women's Title)
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Shayna Baszler accompanied Ronda Rousey to the ringing for her SmackDown rubric defence against Shotzi.
The Ballsy Badass went close astatine the champ, but the erstwhile UFC prima was acceptable for her and had her down successful an ankle fastener wrong the archetypal minute.
This lucifer was built up with Rousey arsenic the ascendant champion and Shotzi playing the valiant underdog. It worked erstwhile the erstwhile NXT prima was trying to marque a comeback, but whenever the titleholder took over, things slowed down.
They ended up warring successful the assemblage astatine 1 point. Shotzi took retired Rousey, Baszler and respective planted fans successful the beforehand enactment with a dive disconnected the barricade.
After they got backmost into the ring, The Baddest Woman connected the Planet scored the triumph to clasp her title.
This lucifer had immoderate amusive moments, but arsenic a whole, it was not great. Rousey gets a batch of things astir this business, but erstwhile it comes to putting unneurotic a competitory match, she inactive has a batch of enactment to do.
Winner: Ronda Rousey
Grade: C
Notable Moments and Observations
- Shotzi's vessel looked similar it had further pyro shooters connected the back, but they went unused.
- Rousey countering a dive into a belly-to-belly suplex was a chill spot.
- They tried to bash a DDT spot connected the apron, but Rousey held onto the apical rope, and it ended up looking sloppy.
Seth Rollins vs. Bobby Lashley vs. Austin Theory (United States Title)
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Right aft the doorbell rang for the U.S. rubric Triple Threat match, Bobby Lashley clotheslined Austin Theory retired of the ring. He tried to get backmost in, but Seth Rollins knocked him close backmost out.
This near The Visionary and The All Mighty to combat by themselves until the erstwhile Mr. Money successful the Bank got progressive again.
They did a large occupation balancing this lucifer truthful each 3 had sequences erstwhile they were successful control, and they besides acceptable it up truthful each idiosyncratic took a small clip extracurricular the ringing truthful the different 2 could work.
Lashley tried to enactment Rollins successful the Hurt Lock, but Theory jumped connected his backmost with a sleeper to interruption it up. Rollins deed Theory with a superplex, but erstwhile helium tried to deed the falcon arrow, The All Mighty speared him.
However, Theory made the screen and got the pin to triumph the title.
This lucifer was decent, but a fewer spots looked mode excessively planned. The assemblage was truthful huffy astatine the result, which made it benignant of funny.
Winner: Austin Theory
Grade: B-
Notable Moments and Observations
- Theory's tron video was conscionable an advertisement for a toy. It was truly weird.
- Rollins hits each dive perfectly. He conscionable knows however to marque definite helium hits them flush each time. Even if it doesn't look perfect, helium lands precisely wherever helium should.
- The flip Rollins did implicit the apical enactment to instrumentality retired some opponents was an awesome spot. The assemblage popped for it.
- The spot erstwhile The Visionary broke up a pin with a frog splash was great. He came from off-screen, truthful it was unexpected.
- The Stomp that Rollins deed by jumping disconnected Theory's backmost onto Lashley was great.
Men's WarGames Match
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The main lawsuit of the nighttime was the men's WarGames lucifer with Roman Reigns, The Usos, Solo Sikoa and Sami Zayn taking connected Kevin Owens, Drew McIntyre, Sheamus, Butch and Ridge Holland.
Butch and Jey Uso started for their teams and traded insults from other rings earlier really engaging each other. The babyfaces had the vantage successful this match, truthful the adjacent idiosyncratic to participate the cage was Holland.
When it was clip for the 2nd subordinate of The Bloodline to participate the match, Reigns stopped Jimmy Uso and told Zayn to spell instead. He took his clip getting to the ringing due to the fact that Holland and Butch were successful control.
Once Jimmy got to the ring, helium brought immoderate tables into the cage. Jey and Zayn astir got into a fight, but Jimmy got betwixt them until the babyfaces got involved.
As expected, Reigns was the past antheral to participate the cage. Both teams stood successful other rings for a showdown earlier everyone engaged.
Jey deed Zayn with a superkick by accident, but helium did not look atrocious astir it. When helium recovered, helium ended up turning the tide for his squad by taking retired Owens. This allowed Jey to deed a large splash to people the triumph for his team.
While the women's lucifer was much astir large spots, this was much astir storytelling. Several feuds were addressed successful absorbing ways, but Zayn and Owens were the astir absorbing competitors.
Winners: The Bloodline
Grade: B+
Notable Moments and Observations
- Owens wore a Dusty Rhodes garment to wage homage to the antheral who created the WarGames match.
- Does anyone else's elbow wounded erstwhile Butch stomps connected his opponent's arm?
- Jey is 1 of the large underrated sellers successful WWE today.
- The mode McIntyre was throwing Zayn astir was hilarious.
- Reigns sitting successful a seat wrong the small cage until helium was acceptable to travel retired was truthful overmuch funnier than it should person been.
- The spot erstwhile the full babyface squad deed The Bloodline with the Beats of the Bodhran felt a small excessive.
- Zayn stopping the ref from counting the pin for KO was a large moment. It was timed perfectly.
- Jey and Zayn hugging was the cleanable mode to extremity this.
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