Survivor Series Predictions

Survivor Series Predictions

It’s that time of year again where Survivor series rolls around and there is a lot of anticipation surrounding the event. The battle for brand supremacy is back, as the Raw and Smackdown LIVE teams go head to head to determine the winner between Monday and Tuesday nights. We have a second Intercontinental title match in a matter of days and the Cruiserweight division hanging in the balance. There is also the small matter of Goldberg’s in ring return as he faces off against the Beast Incarnate Brock Lesnar, in a Wrestlemania 20 rematch.

The event will also mark the first time Survivor Series has been held in Canada since 1997, where the infamous Montreal Screwjob took place.

Without further ado here are my predictions for Survivor Series

Match 1- Brian Kendrick (c) vs Kalisto- Cruiserweight Championship

The newly resurrected Cruiserweight division has been a bit underwhelming since making its jump to the main roster. TJ Perkins was the right man to hold the new title, as he has paid his dues wrestling all over the world most notably as Suicide in TNA. I personally don’t think the video game character has done wonders for him though. To the match in hand, this match was made by RAW GM Mick Foley who was willing to put the whole division on the line for the sake of supremacy. I think in the long run, the cruiserweights need to be on Smackdown. It seems like the thing Smackdown was made for and since the show is seen as the “Wrestling show” the Cruiserweights will be better off on the blue brand.

Winner- Kalisto

Match 2- The MIZ (c) vs Sami Zayn – Intercontinental Championship

Sami Zayn is caught in a cross roads I feel at the minute, there are no real feuds for him currently on RAW and if Ziggler had kept hold of the title, I would have liked to see Zayn win it and transfer on to Smackdown. On Tuesday we saw The MIZ win back the title (through shenanigans) so to have the title change hands again so soon would be ridiculous. The Miz has to win for me, whilst on Smackdown he has made the title respectable once again and has brought some much needed prestige to the belt. In doing so, he is currently in the midst of producing some his best work in his WWE career. I expect the usual Miz title defence, expect Maryse or even maybe the Spirit Squad to intervene and eventually The Miz hits Skull Crushing Finale to win. Hopefully after this, Miz keeps the title until Wrestlemania season, having already helped elevate the title in the process.

Winner - The Miz

Match 3- The Traditional Survivor Series match- Tag Teams

There are many reasons why there are 3 traditional Survivor Series matches. One of the main reasons, is so there is an outright winner between the brands and so they can use all the talent available. It’s natural to assume, that both brands will get one over one another before the main traditional match. The tag match has the potential (if done right) to be a very good match but knowing WWE it will be a mess at times and will probably be used as the toilet break match. In regards to the match, I think Raw will win it. If you look at the Raw team, the only weakness is the Shining Stars and collectively they have more star power to beat the SD Live teams. However, in this match although I said Raw will win it, the stand out team will come from Smackdown Live and that is American Alpha. I think this is the match where American Alpha really announce themselves on the main stage, so I am going to say that American Alpha go through a process of eliminating a couple of tag teams on their own until it’s them and The New Day left but eventually New Day will win and continue to be the most over team in the WWE right now.

Winner - Raw

Match 4- The Women’s Survivor Series Match

Now as I said earlier, each brand will get a win over one another to set the last match traditional match up as the match that settles it. Both teams fought one another on SD LIVE, when the Raw Women invaded in the middle of a match between Nikki Bella and Carmella and eventually the SD Live team got the better of them and I think that will happen come Sunday. The Women on Raw have been getting a lot of the spotlight recently, especially with Charlotte and Sasha main eventing Raw and headlining the Raw exclusive PPV Hell in a Cell. This was historic for the world of women’s wrestling but it was the Raw women not the Smackdown women who made it.  On paper, Raw look stronger with Charlotte, Bayley and Sasha but I think it will boil down to champion vs champion. Becky will lock in the Disarmer and make Charlotte submit. However afterwards Charlotte will claim her team and not her that had lost, so therefore she will maintain that her PPV record will stay intact.

Winner- SD Live Womens

Match 5- Mens Traditional Survivor Series Match

Before this week, I had my money on Smackdown to win this one due to Owens and Jericho eventually having their break up but after Tuesday I am not so sure. The Undertaker made his return on the 900^th episode of Smackdown and told the WWE Universe in no certain terms that he was back for one last run. The Deadman also claimed that there will be severe consequences if SD Live do not beat Raw. During the match you will see many things, The Shield alone in the ring all at the same time before Reigns and Rollins gang up on Ambrose. Braun Strowman will be booked strong as recently the WWE officials have started to give him a push on Raw and to be fair he is getting better slowly mind you. He and Bray will have a standoff at one point, which would be good to see. The final two I think will end up being AJ Styles and I would like to see them go 10-15 minutes until inevitably Rollins will get the pinfall. Now I don’t know whether The Undertaker will make an appearance but if things play out as I said, expect Taker to target AJ Styles.

Winner- Team RAW

Match 6- Goldberg vs Brock Lesnar

This match is intriguing, Brock Lesnar has been booked like an absolute beast ever since the ending of the streak. He mauled John Cena at Summerslam 14, beat The Undertaker at Hell in a Cell, and beat Ambrose at Wrestlemania, the list goes on. His advocate Paul Heyman, promotes Brock as an unbeatable beast but Lesnar now faces a man who he has never beaten and in fact has one victory over him, Goldberg. Goldberg faced Brock at Wrestlemania 20 in a match that was booed out of Madison Square Garden. Both men left the company and then Goldberg returned as part of the WWE 2K17 video game earlier this year and coincidentally Lesnar was on the cover. On October 3, Goldberg appeared on ESPN's SportsCenter with Jonathan Coachman to promote his appearance in WWE 2K17. He teased a possible return to WWE, and stated that he would want to face Lesnar if he were to return because he owed Lesnar a rematch. On the October 10 episode of Raw, Paul Heyman on behalf of Lesnar issued a challenge to Goldberg, stating that Goldberg was the one blemish on Lesnar's WWE career. On October 17, Goldberg accepted the challenge. This past RAW, we were teased to what we could see on Sunday, as Heyman used Goldberg’s wife and kids saying Goldberg’s son is going to call Brock “Daddy”.

Now who do you put over? On one side, you can’t see someone like Goldberg comeback just to lose to someone like Lesnar, especially since it took 12 years for Bill and the company to rekindle their business relationship. Then again, you can’t see Lesnar lose to a guy who has already beaten him because that will take away his whole mystique of the unbeatable beast.

I am going to stick my neck out and say that Lesnar goes over because I have a funny feeling in my head that WWE could get another match out of the pair or I may be wrong. Having both of them get a win over one another will set up a potential rubber match between the two. To have Goldberg win at Survivor Series and just end it there will be a bit of a disappointment end I feel.

Winner- Brock Lesnar