Top 5 traditional Survivor Series matches

#2 Survivor Series 2016 – Team Smackdown Vs. Team Raw

Shane McMahon lands an elbow drop in order to incapacitate the Monster among Men.

With the ever-expanding roster of the main shows and NXT going from strength to strength, the WWE draft in July 2016 that made superstars exclusive to Raw or Smackdown was inevitable.

After the draft, there was only going to be a limited amount of interaction between these two sides and only had one brief confrontation on the go home show of Raw before they slugged it out for bragging rights on Survivor Series.

However, this didn’t stop them pulling off an absolutely spectacular main event on the night. What took place was a fifty plus minute classic (which also holds the record of the longest ever match that has ever taken place at Survivor Series), between the two brands.

SmackDown’s team consisted of AJ Styles, Randy Orton, Dean Ambrose, Bray Wyatt and Shane McMahon, whilst Team Raw had Roman Reigns, Seth Rollins, Braun Strowman, Chris Jericho and Kevin Owens.

Despite neither team gaining a clear advantage in the first fifteen minutes, the first breakdown came when AJ Styles and Dean Ambrose imploded on each other causing Strowman to take control and eliminate Ambrose.

However, Ambrose would eventually seek revenge later by coming back into the match and aligning with his former Shield brothers to deliver a triple powerbomb on the announce table to AJ Styles.

This match showed us that gold is more personal then bragging rights, a brotherhood is more important than a match and how no referee in the world would have been able to control this turbulent classic match.