Survivor Series 2019: 4 Biggest reasons why Seth Rollins' Team RAW will lose  

Survivor Series is just down the road and fans couldn’t be more excited for this pay-per-view. WWE has already done a lot to hype this show up, including NXT’s participation. Fans are going to witness some of their dream matches at the event in Becky Lynch vs Bayley vs Shayna Baszler and AJ Styles vs Shinsuke Nakamura vs Roderick Strong.

One of the biggest matches heading to the show is the traditional Team RAW vs Team SmackDown match, which will also feature Team NXT and thus, making it a 5-on-5-on-5 Survivor Series Elimination Match.

RAW and SmackDown have already announced their team members and only NXT is left to announce the same. All three brands are expected to produce a show that’ll be remembered for the time to come. Fans are wondering who will win in this bout. Our theory is that it won't be RAW this year, and here are the 4 reasons why.

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#4 Miscommunication could cost Team RAW the match

This year’s Team RAW contains Superstars that have a history together. For instance, Seth Rollins and Drew McIntyre are rivals in WWE. Similarly, Randy Orton and Ricochet are far from seeing eye-to-eye. Now remains Kevin Owens, who is a babyface in WWE, who may not play as big of a role as the other participants, but does have a history with Rollins going back to when Owens was Universal Champion in 2016.

McIntyre is likely to have a confrontation with Rollins in the match at some point, and the same could be said for Orton and Ricochet as well. If any of these Superstars turn against each other, Team RAW will easily plunge down and will become vulnerable to losing the match. There's a significant possibility that something of this sort is going to happen at the pay-per-view. After all, in this hostile environment, things aren’t likely to go smoothly for Team RAW.

#3 FOX will want WWE to have SmackDown take the victory

Team #SmackDown has an Olympian ready for a fight, a Monster, among men, an athlete with a message, and #TheBigDog ready to break this 2-year loss streak for The Blue Brand. ...yeah and we have Corbin too🤮. He can get eliminated. #SurvivorSeries https://t.co/CCGJuVb3yF

— Roman Reigns (@WWERomanReigns) November 13, 2019

WWE has signed a 5-year long contract with FOX Network for SmackDown. They have paid over a billion dollars to the company and since their deal came into effect, WWE has booked SmackDown as the flagship show.

Roman Reigns will lead Team SmackDown at Survivor Series and he has promised to break the Blue Brand’s 2-year losing streak at the pay-per-view. His team also consists Mustafa Ali, Braun Strowman, Shorty G and King Corbin.

Since FOX has paid a massive amount of money to WWE, they’ll want the SmackDown Team to walk out victorious as it’ll make the brand look strong. The fact that they are indeed on a 2-year losing streak could also play ingo this. These could be moer reasona as to why Team RAW may not win this year’s Survivor Series Elimination Match.

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#2 NXT benefits the most from a victory

NXT Superstars have seemingly taken over RAW and SmackDown. In the past few weeks, the Yellow Brand’s wrestlers have invaded on the other two brands and have dominated. Triple H has worked his soul to make NXT a resounding success and he, too, will want his team to look strong.

In the previous slide, we mentioned how FOX could influence WWE to make Team RAW the losing team, but in this one, we have taken another aspect. NXT airs on the USA Network on Wednesday nights and they have been struggling to gain a stronghold on viewership numbers for a while now.

If the brand wins the match at Survivor Series, it’ll send a huge message to fans watching the show and this could lead to them tuning in to NXT every single week. And if this is the case, then WWE as a whole would be best servied by having RAW take the loss, since both SmackDown and NXT would benefit most from looking strong.

#1 Seth Rollins could betray his team

One of the biggest conspiracy theories surrounding Survivor Series, and we have mentioned it before as well, is whether or not Team RAW’s Captain Seth Rollins will turn heel at the pay-per-view. Apparently, Triple H offered Rollins to switch sides but the former Universal Champion hasn’t accepted his offer as of yet.

However, he could do so at Survivor Series and in an unpredicatble night, this could indeed be the biggest surprise of the show. Rollins has not worked a heel wrestler in the past 3 years, and now, it appears that a large amount of WWE fans think that WWE needs to refresh his character. A heel turn would not only allow Rollins to do things he didn’t the last time, and will also benefit NXT a lot. His presence of the Yellow Brand could be extremely beneficial to the show. And also, if his betrayal goes as planned, it’ll cost Team RAW their match at the pay-per-view.

Doing it this way, all of the brands (NXT, RAW and SmackDown) will look strong. If that's the case, it wouldn’t matter as much who wins the bout, as the real winners will be the fans. Seth Rollins’ heel turn would be huge and this could lead to some unexpected things in WWE.