3 Interesting Facts Ahead of Survivor Series 2018

#1 Third Survivor Series as a Champion

The Phenomenal One will fight The Beast Incarnate

This will be the third time the face of SmackDown Live will walk into Survivor Series as a champion. The superstar in the spotlight is none other than AJ Styles.

AJ Styles will be competing in his third Survivor Series pay-per-view as the WWE Champion from the SmackDown Brand.

On the Survivor Series 2016 edition, Styles was the captain of Team SmackDown for the tradition 5-on-5 elimination tag team match. Team SmackDown also consisted of Bray Wyatt, Dean Ambrose, Randy Orton, and Shane McMahon.

Styles was eliminated sixth in the match by Seth Rollins from Team Raw. The match saw Team SmackDown win the bout as Randy Orton and Bray Wyatt were the last two remaining men who stood tall.

Survivor Series 2017 saw AJ Styles take on Brock Lesnar in a rather competitive match. The match was the traditional Champion vs Champion bout which had AJ Styles as the WWE Champion from SmackDown while Brock Lesnar was the Universal Champion from Raw.

The match lasted over fifteen minutes and was one of the longest matches we’ve seen Brock Lesnar compete in since a while, and this showed that Styles was somewhat a match for The Beast.

This year again Survivor Series will have a rematch of the 2017 match, as AJ Styles has remained the WWE Champion since that match while Brock Lesnar lost his title at SummerSlam 2018 but won it once again at Crown Jewel.