Survivor Series (2016)

**Survivor Series (2016)** was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) and livestreaming show made by WWE. It took place on November 20, 2016 at the Air Canada Centre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It was the 30th Survivor Series event held by WWE and the first to be held in Canada since the 1997 edition, which featured the Montreal Screwjob.

Eight matches were performed at the event. In the most important match, Goldberg competed in his first match in 12 years, beating Brock Lesnar in one minute and 26 seconds. In addition, there were three Survivor Series matches between the wrestlers of the Raw and SmackDown brands.

## Background

At WrestleMania XX, Goldberg beat Lesnar and the next day, both men left WWE. Brock wrestled in New Japan Pro Wrestling, fought in Ultimate Fighting Championship and returned to WWE in April 2012 but Goldberg hardly wrestled again. In 2016, the covers and commercials for the WWE 2K17 video game were shown for the first time, and Goldberg was revealed as the pre-order bonus for the game. This made many people think that he would return to WWE and maybe get a rematch with Lesnar. The two started talking about the match they could have at conventions like the ones for the video game. In October 2016, Lesnar's manager Paul Heyman said Brock was challenging Goldberg because he was the one wrestler Brock could never beat. On the October 17 episode of _Raw_, Goldberg returned and agreed to fight Brock.

To start the match, Brock pushed Goldberg into the corner and rammed him between the ropes but Goldberg pushed him back hard and Brock fell back. When Brock got up, he took a spear from Goldberg. This happened again and then Goldberg picked Brock up and performed a Jackhammer and won the match.

## Matches

|style="border-style: none none solid solid; background: #e3e3e3"|**No.**|style="border-style: none none solid solid; background: #e3e3e3"|**Results**|style="border-style: none none solid solid; background: #e3e3e3"|**Stipulations**|style="border-style: none none solid solid; background: #e3e3e3"|**Times**|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|TJ Perkins, Rich Swann and Noam Dar beat Tony Nese, Drew Gulak and Ariya Daivari|Six-man tag team match|11:50||||||
|Kane beat Luke Harper|Singles match|9:10||||||
|Team Raw (Charlotte Flair, Bayley, Sasha Banks, Alicia Fox and Nia Jax) (with Dana Brooke) beat Team SmackDown (Natalya, Becky Lynch, Alexa Bliss, Naomi and Carmella)|5-on-5 Survivor Series elimination match|17:30||||||
|The Miz (c) (with Maryse) beat Sami Zayn|Singles match for the WWE Intercontinental Championship.|14:05||||||
|Team Raw (The New Day (Big E and Kofi Kingston), Cesaro, Sheamus, Enzo Amore, Big Cass, The Shining Stars (Primo and Epico), Luke Gallows, and Karl Anderson) (with Xavier Woods) defeated Team SmackDown (Heath Slater, Rhyno, American Alpha (Jason Jordan and Chad Gable), The Usos (Jimmy and Jey Uso), The Hype Bros (Zack Ryder and Mojo Rawley), and Breezango (Tyler Breeze and Fandango))|10-on-10 Survivor Series tag team elimination match|18:55||||||
|The Brian Kendrick (c) defeated Kalisto by disqualification|Singles match for the WWE Cruiserweight Championship|12:25||||||
|Team SmackDown (AJ Styles, Dean Ambrose, Bray Wyatt, Randy Orton and Shane McMahon) (with James Ellsworth) beat Team Raw (Kevin Owens, Chris Jericho, Roman Reigns, Seth Rollins and Braun Strowman)|5-on-5 Survivor Series elimination match|52:55||||||
|Goldberg beat Brock Lesnar (with Paul Heyman)|Singles match|1:26||||||
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 Natalya replaced Nikki Bella, who was attacked backstage before the match.

### Survivor Series elimination matches

|Elimination|Wrestler|Team|Eliminated by|Elimination move|Time|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1|Carmella|SmackDown|Alicia Fox|Scissors kick|6:23|
|2|Alicia Fox|Raw|Alexa Bliss|_Twisted Bliss_|6:46|
|3|Naomi|SmackDown|N/A|Countout|8:21|
|4|Sasha Banks|Raw|Natalya|Roll-up|10:18|
|5|Natalya|SmackDown|Charlotte Flair|Big boot|11:59|
|6|Nia Jax|Raw|Becky Lynch|_Dis-arm-her_|13:33|
|7|Alexa Bliss|SmackDown|Charlotte Flair|Big boot|14:06|
|8|Becky Lynch|SmackDown|Bayley|_Bayley-to-Belly Suplex_|17:30|
|bgcolor="#ffcccc" colspan="5"|Charlotte Flair and Bayley (Team Raw)|||||

|Elimination|Wrestlers|Team|Eliminated by|Elimination move|Time|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1|Breezango|SmackDown|The New Day|_Midnight Hour_|0:41|
|2|The New Day|Raw|The Usos|Superkick|1:06|
|3|The Hype Bros|SmackDown|Luke Gallows and Karl Anderson|_Magic Killer_|5:07|
|4|The Shining Stars|Raw|American Alpha|Elevated diving bulldog|8:08|
|5|American Alpha|SmackDown|Luke Gallows and Karl Anderson|_Magic Killer_|10:37|
|6|Luke Gallows and Karl Anderson|Raw|Heath Slater and Rhyno|_Gore_|12:27|
|7|Heath Slater and Rhyno|SmackDown|Enzo Amore and Big Cass|_Bada Boom Shakalaka_|12:45|
|8|Enzo Amore and Big Cass|Raw|The Usos|_Samoan Splash_|13:24|
|9|The Usos|SmackDown|Cesaro and Sheamus|Sharpshooter|18:55|
|bgcolor="#ffcccc" colspan="5"|Cesaro and Sheamus (Team Raw)|||||

|Elimination|Wrestler|Team|Eliminated by|Elimination move|Time|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1|Dean Ambrose|SmackDown|Braun Strowman|Running powerslam|16:00|
|2|Braun Strowman|Raw|N/A|Countout|21:30|
|3|Kevin Owens|Raw|N/A|Disqualification|29:30|
|4|Chris Jericho|Raw|Randy Orton|_RKO_|30:15|
|5|Shane McMahon|SmackDown|N/A|Spear by Reigns; the referee decided that McMahon was knocked out and unable to continue|40:00|
|6|AJ Styles|SmackDown|Seth Rollins|Triple powerbomb through the announce table, helped by Ambrose and Reigns|42:30|
|7|Seth Rollins|Raw|Bray Wyatt|_RKO_ from Orton|46:00|
|8|Roman Reigns|Raw|Bray Wyatt|_Sister Abigail_|52:55|
|bgcolor="#ccccff" colspan="5"|Bray Wyatt and Randy Orton (Team SmackDown)|||||

## Other websites

- Official website for the Survivor Series (2016)

## Infobox (wrestling event)

- **name**: Survivor Series (2016)
- **tagline**: Fantasy Warfare Just Got Real
- **theme**: "False Alarm" by The Weeknd
- **promotion**: WWE
- **brand**: WWE Raw, Raw
WWE SmackDown, SmackDown
- **sponsor**: Hulu
Mattel
- **date**: November 20, 2016
- **attendance**: 17,143
- **venue**: Air Canada Centre
- **city**: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- **lastevent**: NXT TakeOver: Toronto
- **nextevent**: TLC: Tables, Ladders & Chairs (2016)
- **event**: Survivor Series
- **lastevent2**: Survivor Series (2015)
- **nextevent2**: Survivor Series (2017)