Survivor Series (2012)

**Survivor Series (2012)** was a professional wrestling pay-per-view show made by WWE. It took place on November 18, 2012 at the Bankers Life Fieldhouse in Indianapolis, Indiana. It was the 26th Survivor Series event held by WWE.

In the main event, CM Punk defeated John Cena and Ryback in a Triple Threat match to keep his WWE Championship. It is also famous for the main roster debut of The Shield (Dean Ambrose, Roman Reigns, and Seth Rollins), who beat up Ryback and helped Punk win the match. Other title matches saw Big Show keep his World Heavyweight Championship against Sheamus via disualification, Eve Torres keep her Divas Championship against Kaitlyn, and Antonio Cesaro keep his United States Championship against R-Truth.

## 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**|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|3MB (Heath Slater and Jinder Mahal) (with Drew McIntyre) defeated Team Co-Bro (Santino Marella and Zack Ryder)|Tag team match|6:11||||||
|Team Clay (Brodus Clay, Justin Gabriel, Tyson Kidd, Sin Cara and Rey Mysterio) (with Cameron and Naomi) defeated Team Tensai (Tensai, Primo, Epico and The Prime Time Players (Darren Young and Titus O'Neil)) (with Rosa Mendes)|Five-on-five Survivor Series elimination tag team match|18:27||||||
|Eve Torres (c) defeated Kaitlyn|Singles match for the WWE Divas Championship|7:01||||||
|Antonio Cesaro (c) defeated R-Truth|Singles match for the WWE United States Championship|6:57||||||
|Sheamus defeated Big Show (c) by disqualification|Singles match for the World Heavyweight Championship|14:44||||||
|Team Ziggler (Dolph Ziggler, Damien Sandow, David Otunga, Wade Barrett, and Alberto Del Rio) (with Ricardo Rodriguez) defeated Team Foley (The Miz, Kofi Kingston, Team Hell No (Kane and Daniel Bryan), and Randy Orton) (with Mick Foley)|Five-on-five Survivor Series elimination tag team match|13:43||||||
|CM Punk (c) (with Paul Heyman) defeated Ryback and John Cena|Triple threat match for the WWE Championship|17:58||||||
|colspan="4" align=center|(c) – is the champion(s) going into the match **P** – This match took place on the pre-show|||||||

### Survivor Series elimination matches

|Eliminated|Wrestler|Eliminated by|Method|Times|||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
||Brodus Clay|Tensai|rowspan="3"|Pinfall|8:25||
||Tensai|Justin Gabriel|10:23||||
||Titus O'Neil|rowspan="2"|Tyson Kidd|13:51|||
||Epico|Submission|15:02||||
||Primo|rowspan="2"|Rey Mysterio|rowspan="2"|Pinfall|17:32|
||Darren Young|rowspan="2"|18:27||||
||colspan="3"|Rey Mysterio, Sin Cara, Justin Gabriel, and Tyson Kidd|||||

|Eliminated|Wrestler|Eliminated by|Method|Time||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
||Damien Sandow|Kane|rowspan="2"|Pinfall|03:08|
||Kane|Dolph Ziggler|03:47|||
||David Otunga|Daniel Bryan|Submission|07:11||
||Kofi Kingston|Wade Barrett|Pinfall|09:43||
||Daniel Bryan|Alberto Del Rio|Submission|12:40||
||Wade Barrett|The Miz|rowspan="4"|Pinfall|16:05|
||The Miz|Alberto Del Rio|17:14|||
||Alberto Del Rio|Randy Orton|21:00|||
||Randy Orton|Dolph Ziggler|rowspan="2"|23:43||
||colspan="3"|Dolph Ziggler (Team Ziggler)||||

## Other websites

- Official Survivor Series 2012 website

## Infobox (wrestling event)

- **name**: Survivor Series (2012)
- **promotion**: WWE
- **date**: November 18, 2012
- **venue**: Bankers Life Fieldhouse
- **city**: Indianapolis, Indiana
- **lastevent**: Hell in a Cell (2012)
- **nextevent**: TLC: Tables, Ladders & Chairs (2012)
- **event**: Survivor Series
- **lastevent2**: Survivor Series (2011)
- **nextevent2**: Survivor Series (2013)