Traditional Survivor Series 5-on-5 Elim. Tag Match: Team Gabriel v. Team Slater
This match disintegrated into bedlam quickly. Jey Uso and Jinder Mahal start. Mahal attempts to lock in a full nelson slam, but Uso counters out and connects with a thrust kick to the midsection and a Superkick. Jey tags to Jimmy and both hit top rope splashes to dispatch of Jinder Mahal.
Michael McGillicutty rushes in and floors Jimmy Uso with a McGillicutter for a quick three. With the count now even, Jey Uso connects with an Alley-Us Samoan Drop but two men in streets jump the barricade and begin beating down Jey Uso, drawing a disqualification of McGillicutty.
A closer look reveals it to be the returning Skip Sheffield and Husky Harris. Sheffield clobbers Jey Uso with a Lariat while Harris follows up with his Senton Splash. With McGillicutty disqualified, JTG enters the battle and logs a three count on Jey Uso.
JTG goes to celebrate the victory with Slater, McGillicutty and Otunga, only to realize that all three have stepped down off of the apron. JTG looks to the other corner and sees that Justin Gabriel, Mason Ryan, Ezekiel Jackson and the two intruders have stepped off the apron and slid out of the ring. Slowly but surely, all eight men mark their positions and surround the ring. All at once, they slide into the ring and form a circle around JTG and it’s all too obvious what has transpired. This match was a set up from the beginning to make a statement. And so, the savage 8-on-1 beatdown begins.
Result: No Contest
Slater hits Sweetness, Otunga drops JTG with a spinebuster, McGillicutty hits his Rolling Cutter, Sheffield nearly decapitates JTG with another Lariat while Harris crushes his sternum with another Senton Splash. Mason Ryan and Ezekiel Jackson stun the former member of Cryme Tyme with a Double Chokeslam. Moments later, Wade Barrett enters the ring, all but solidifying what he was saying earlier. Jackson helps a limp JTG back to his feet and hoists him onto Barrett’s shoulders with a Military Press. Barrett plants JTG with Wasteland and Justin Gabriel leaps to the top rope, contemplates life for two to three minutes and executes a flawless 450 Splash.
Barrett grabs the mic and reintroduces himself as a partner in leadership of the newly re-formed NEXUS. Barrett warns that indeed someone in the main event is planning on betraying his teammates tonight, and aligning himself as co-leader of the Nexus. Barrett promises that under this new form of leadership, Nexus will be more militant, more destructive and more dangerous than ever before. The group of nine stand in the ring, defiantly raising one fist in solidarity.
A knock at Triple H’s dressing room door. Triple H invites them in and its Shawn Michaels with Sean Waltman. After exchanging pleasantries, Michaels and Waltman get down to business and Michaels tells Hunter that he knows him too well to not know what he’s planning tonight and begs him not to go through with it. Waltman tells The Game not to throw away a fifteen year friendship over a business matter. Triple H hesitates, then tells both that in seventeen years working for this company, he’s come to find out that nothing’s for certain; injuries, titles even friendships. He says he can damn well guarantee one thing though--Kevin Nash will not walk away from Survivor Series under his own power.
Elimination Tag Match: Team Phoenix (Beth Phoenix, Natalya, Tamina) v. Team Kelly (Kelly Kelly, Eve Torres, Alicia Fox)
Match gets underway as Natalya locks in a side headlock, eventually drifting into a Rear Naked Choke. Eve fights back out and executes a float over suplex for a two count. Natalya returns to her feet and walks directly into a single-leg drop kick. Eve lifts Natalya and drops her with a snap neckbreaker for two. Eve sets up for a Samoan Drop, unaware that Tamina has made a blind tag in the process. Eve prepares to execute a top rope Moonsault, but Phoenix drags Natalya out of the ring at the last minute, sending Eve crashing to the canvas. Capitalizing on a downed Eve, Tamina scales to the top and executes a crushing Superfly Splash and records the three count, eliminating Eve.
Immediately after the pinfall, Alicia Fox springboards over the top rope and leg drops Tamina across the neck. Waiting for Tamina to return to her feet, Alicia Fox connects with a nasty Scissors Kick and picks up the three count.
Alicia turns around and walks directly into a discus clothesline. Natalya drills Alicia into the mat with a Running Powerslam and locks in a sharpshooter. Alicia struggles valiantly for several moments before Natalya bridges and places an incredible amount of torque on the hold. Natalya drops directly to the mat, placing as much torque on the sharpshooter as possible. Unaware that her shoulders are on the mat, Natalya inadvertently pins herself in unison with Alicia Fox’ furious tapping and both are simultaneously eliminated.
Beth Phoenix and Kelly Kelly glare at each other from across the ring and charge from opposite corners. Kelly wins the initial showdown, taking down Phoenix with a Lou Thesz Press and reverting into “Psycho Bitch” mode with a flurry of fists.
Phoenix attempts a retreat, but Kelly hits a one-handed bulldog and repeatedly slams Beth’s face into the canvas. Kelly forces Phoenix back to her feet and slams her back to the mat with a sitout facebuster, but still only gets a two count. Beth finally regains her bearings and Irish whips Kelly into the ropes, but Kelly counters with a headscissors takedown for two. Kelly tries to keep momentum, but her kick is blocked and countered into an attempted Glam Slam. Kelly counters on the descent, however and gets another two count on a victory roll.
Phoenix gets back to her feet and swings wildly for a clothesline, but Kelly dodges, finally connecting with K2 and logs a three count.
Sole Survivor: Kelly Kelly
Kelly celebrates her victory over the Diva’s Champion, but the celebration is short-lived as senior referee Mike Chioda comes down the entrance ramp to consult with Chad Patton, replaying the tape and concluding that the pinfall is null and void as Beth Phoenix had her foot underneath the bottom rope. Chioda orders the match be restarted.
Kelly tries to reason with the referee staff, but the bell has already rung. Disappointed but determined, Kelly whips Beth with all of her strength into the corner. Kelly follows up with a Handspring Back Elbow, but gets captured in the corner. Beth Phoenix ascends the turnbuckle with Kelly in tow, until standing atop the top turnbuckle, and delivers the most devastating Glam Slam possible from the top to the mat. Beth Phoenix picks up the three count and the win.
Sole Survivor: Beth Phoenix
Natalya and Tamina return to the ring to congratulate Beth Phoenix, but they’re not through just yet. Taking the unconscious Kelly, Phoenix applies Pin-Up Strong and has to be stopped by WWE officials and road agents. Kelly does a stretcher job and the Divas of Doom stand victorious.
Backstage and CM Punk is being interrogated by his teammates as it concerns his loyalties to the team effort tonight. Punk tells Cena, Sheamus and The Rock that he has far better, far more entertaining things to do than sabotage the team’s efforts for the fun of it. Punk reminds them that he already commandeered the Nexus and moved on to bigger and better things. Despite his insistence, Cena, the Rock and Sheamus all walk away skeptical of whom they suspect to be the sketchiest member of their team.
Backstage with Scott Stanford and Awesome Truth. Stanford asks if they have any thoughts regarding tonight’s main event or the rumors of new management of the Nexus that Wade Barrett is circulating. Miz and Truth both glare at Stanford and storm off without a word.
A video package runs recapping the highlights of the Mark Henry-Big Show feud and turns focus to tonight’s World Heavyweight Championship Match.
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