Survivor Series 2005 Survivor Series 2005 was the 19th annual Survivor Series professional wrestling pay - per - view ( PPV ) event produced by World Wrestling Entertainment ( WWE ) . It was presented by NovaLogic ' s " Delta Force : Black Hawk Down " and took place on November 27 , 2005 at the Joe Louis Arena in Detroit , Michigan and featured wrestlers from the Raw and SmackDown ! brands . Six professional wrestling matches were scheduled on the event ' s card , which featured a supercard , a scheduling of more than one main event . The first of the main events was an interpromotional 5 - on - 5 Survivor Series match , a type of elimination match , between Team SmackDown ! ( Batista , Rey Mysterio , John " Bradshaw " Layfield ( JBL ) , Bobby Lashley , and Randy Orton ) and Team Raw ( Shawn Michaels , Kane , The Big Show , Carlito , and Chris Masters ) ; which Team SmackDown won after Orton last eliminated Michaels , and become the sole survivor in his Survivor Series match for the third straight year . The other main event was a standard wrestling match between wrestlers from the Raw brand , in which WWE Champion John Cena defeated Kurt Angle to retain his title . Another match was a Last Man Standing match — a match where the first person unable to respond to a ten count by the referee lost — between Triple H and Ric Flair . Triple H won the match after Flair failed to get to his feet before the referee counted to ten . Background . Six professional wrestling matches were featured on the event ' s card . Matches were planned with predetermined outcomes by WWE ' s creative staff and featured wrestlers playing characters for the entertainment of the audience . All wrestlers were from either Raw or SmackDown — the two brand divisions to which WWE assigned its employees . The main leading rivalry scripted into the event was between the Raw and SmackDown ! brands as a whole , rather than individual wrestlers . Eric Bischoff and Theodore Long , the authority figures of Raw and SmackDown ! respectively , began an angle on the October 3 episode of " Raw " , a special episode billed as " " WWE Homecoming " . " A special match featuring SmackDown ! superstars was scheduled for the show ; but as it began , Bischoff came out and ended the match by turning the lights off . Later in the show , Long came out and interrupted a Raw match in return , and as a result , the two brands started a brawl . The two brands interfered in the other ' s show before facing each other in a tag team match at Taboo Tuesday , a month earlier . The two teams consisted of Rey Mysterio and Matt Hardy ( from SmackDown ! ) and Chris Masters and Snitsky . Team SmackDown won the match . After Taboo Tuesday , Bischoff and Long decided on a 5 - on - 5 Survivor Series match , a type of elimination match , and a singles match ( also known as a standard wrestling match ) between the two at Survivor Series . The teams feuded on both shows , and Batista ( Dave Bautista ) , the captain of the SmackDown ! team , suffered an injury after being attacked several times . Eddie Guerrero was originally scheduled to be on Team SmackDown ! , but due to his death on November 13 , 2005 , he was replaced by Randy Orton . Another rivalry heading into the event was between John Cena and Kurt Angle , over the WWE Championship . Their feud began in August , when Bischoff chose Angle as the number one contender to the WWE Championship . Angle failed to win the title at Unforgiven , due to Cena disqualifying himself . At Taboo Tuesday , Shawn Michaels was chosen by the fans as the third participant in their Triple Threat match , a standard wrestling match involving three wrestlers , however , Cena retained the title . On the November 7 edition of " Raw " , Angle refused to compete due to the " you suck " chants from the audience . Angle finally agreed to compete when Bischoff censored the crowd and let him have a special guest referee , whom Angle chose to be Daivari . Daivari ' s officiating was unfair and biased towards Angle ' s opponents . Another staged rivalry was between Triple H and Ric Flair . It began at " WWE Homecoming " , when Triple H returned to WWE television after three months . The two had been aligned since 2002 , as members of Evolution , and were partners in a tag team match on the show . After they won the match , Triple H turned on Flair , and attacked him with a sledgehammer . The week after , Triple H explained his actions , saying that he realized Flair was no longer the legend he was , and he needed to stop Flair . Flair and Triple H met in a steel cage match at Taboo Tuesday , a match where two wrestlers fight in a cage with four sheets of mesh metal which Flair won . A Last Man Standing match was made between the two for Survivor Series . The rivalry in the Divas Division was an interpromotional feud pitting Raw ' s Trish Stratus and SmackDown ! ' s Melina over the WWE Women ' s Championship . On the Eddie Guerrero tribute edition of " Raw " on November 14 , Melina won an interpromtional Divas battle royal by lastly eliminating Trish Stratus , and then signaled that she wants Stratus ' Women ' s Championship . On the following edition of " Raw " in the UK , WWE Tag Team Champions Johnny Nitro and Joey Mercury kidnapped Stratus and had her gagged and tied to a chair in an undisclosed location . In a later segment , Melina challenged Stratus to a match for the Women ' s Championship at Survivor Series .