WWE Survivor Series 2019: Full card preview and predictions
Women’s Elimination Match – Team Raw vs. Team SmackDown vs. Team NXT
It feels only appropriate to kick this preview off with the Women’s Five-on-Five-on-Five Elimination Match, seeing as, really, this whole NXT invasion began with the women’s division. The first NXT Superstar to strike the first blow on behalf of her brand was their Women’s Champion, Shayna Baszler. She did so by dropping SmackDown Women’s Champion Bayley, but we’ll get to their match a little later.
Regarding the women’s division, after weeks of attacks from NXT’s women on both shows, Raw and SmackDown assembled their own Avengers to comeback the Infinity Gauntlet that is the NXT women’s division. Team Captain Sasha Banks recruited Lacey Evans; Dana Brooke; and Carmella; then begrudgingly added rival Nikki Cross to the team after she earned her spot by getting the pinfall win for her team in an impromptu Team SmackDown vs. Team NXT match two weeks ago.
Team Raw is captained by Charlotte Flair with Asuka, Kairi Sane and Sarah Logan by her side. Meanwhile, as Rhea Ripley revealed after NXT TakeOver: WarGames went off the air, she will captain Team NXT and picks Toni Storm, Io Shirai, Candice LeRae and Bianca Belair to join her.
Given that four members of Team NXT nearly destroyed each other in WarGames the night before, I suspect in-fighting might cost them the match. Although, there’s potential Rhea Ripley could be a sole survivor, given she’s received a huge push lately (pinned Charlotte Flair and Baszler in back to back nights this weekend). If not, expect her to be well protected in defeated (eliminated via countout, or something like that).
Between the two remaining teams, I think Team Raw wins. Only because they seem to be prepping Asuka for a title match against
Winners: Team Raw
Men’s Elimination – Team Raw vs. Team SmackDown vs. Team NXT
It feels odd to even try to predict this one without knowing exactly who is going to be on Team NXT, seeing as it was revealed during Triple H’s post-TakeOver Q&A last night that Shawn Michaels won’t announce the team’s members until the Kickoff Show, but it doesn’t matter, because I don’t expect Team NXT to win this.
Instead, I think Raw wins again, with Seth Rollins as the sole survivor. Judging from the pep talk and enticing offer he received from Triple H on the Nov. 4 Raw, this feels like another step in Rollins’ redemption arc and crawl back to prominence after losing the Universal Championship. What better way to redeem himself than to play locker room leader in saving his show from the big, bad folks at Full Sail?
Winners: Team Raw