The event is traditionally characterized by having Survivor Series matches, which are tag team elimination matches that typically pits teams of four or five wrestlers against each other. The second longest running pay-per-view event in history (behind WWE's WrestleMania), it is one of the promotion's original four pay-per-views, along with WrestleMania, Royal Rumble, and SummerSlam, referred to as the "Big Four". Survivor Series is an annual gimmick pay-per-view (PPV) and WWE Network event, produced every November by WWE since 1987.
4.1 Survivor Series elimination matches.The 2016 event also had both the longest and the (tied) shortest matches in the event's history. Had Kalisto won the Cruiserweight Championship, the entire cruiserweight division would have been transferred to SmackDown. Furthermore, SmackDown's Intercontinental Champion The Miz and Raw's Cruiserweight Champion The Brian Kendrick retained their titles against challengers from the opposing brand, Raw's Sami Zayn and SmackDown's Kalisto, respectively. Three of those matches were Survivor Series elimination matches Raw's women and tag teams defeated SmackDown's, but SmackDown's men defeated Raw in the penultimate match. The other five matches on the main card were interbrand matches, pitting wrestlers from the Raw brand against wrestlers from the SmackDown brand. The main event featured the in-ring return of Goldberg (his last match was in March 2004 at WrestleMania XX), where he defeated Brock Lesnar in 1 minute and 26 seconds. It was also the first Survivor Series held following the reintroduction of the brand split.Įight matches were contested at the event, including two on the Kickoff pre-show. It was the first to be four hours in length.
The event aired on pay-per-view (PPV) and the WWE Network and took place on November 20, 2016, at the Air Canada Centre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It was held for wrestlers from the promotion's Raw and SmackDown brand divisions.
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The 2016 Survivor Series was the 30th annual Survivor Series professional wrestling event produced by WWE. Promotional poster featuring Brock Lesnar and Goldberg