And now for something completely different...a wrestling dictator with his head up his heavily-kissed ass. Survivor Series 2001 was, in equal parts, one of the most important landmark events in wrestling history, while at the same time being a depressing example of how WWE shot its own immensely successful business in not just the foot, but the hands, elbows, groin and head as well. After years of competition, the WWF saw its only two real competitors go out of business within weeks of each other and, after buying the assets of WCW, found itself as the sole remaining superpower in the wrestling business.
You would think that events unfolding in such a way would amount to the WWF literally being handed the biggest moneymaking storyline in wrestling history EVER, but instead we saw Vince McMahon fail to resist the urge to completely and utterly bury his former competitor now that he controlled their name, talent pool (with some pretty glaring exceptions), and future. This storyline, which could have carried the WWF through the next several years, was instead blown through in six months, foregoing the interest and money that could have been generated from the #1 fantasy angle children of the 80s and 90s could imagine in what amounted to one long, continuous ego-stroke for the victorious Vince McMahon.
This PPV was the culmination of that angle, and the night where Vince McMahon would bury the WCW name once and for all, at least until last year when he dragged it out of cobwebs so he could do a three disc set just to bury them all over again and remind anyone who wasn't around at the time about how he ran them out of business. Oh, and by the way, this show was held at the Greensboro Coliseum in Greensboro, North Carolina, one of the strongest of the old NWA/WCW strongholds. I guess if you're Vince McMahon and you want to throw one last little spritz of urine on the legacy of WCW, what better way to do it that by finally snuffing WCW out in front of its hometown fans?
Our announcers for the evening are Jim Ross as the babyface WWF announcer, and Paul Heyman as the heel announcer representing the Alliance. Ross introduces this as the last time we're going to see them announcing together because either the WWF or the Alliance goes bye-bye tonight, and Heyman proudly proclaims this to be the final PPV broadcast ever put on by the WWF.
This leads us into our opening match as WWF European Champion Christian of the Alliance defends his title against the WWF's Al Snow. I say that Christian was in the Alliance, but the truth is that the link was minimal because Christian had turned heel on Edge, and at the time there was really no such thing as a heel that wasn't in the Alliance. The other reason for this was that Vince McMahon had zero confidence in any but a very small handful of WCW guys to be worth anything to him, so most of the WCW/ECW Alliance was actually WWF guys who got transplanted there ahead of the WCW guys that Vince refused to push. As this show progresses, you'll see that other than people who had already jumped to the WWF before WCW and ECW went out of business, there is almost nobody on this show who was with those companies when they went down. So anyway, the WWF's Christian, representing the Alliance, defended the European Title against Al Snow here, and Snow was nothing more than the head trainer on Tough Enough at this point, with his glory days doing the Head gimmick and being Mick Foley's sidekick well behind him. Solid opener and Snow hit the Snowplow, but was too close to the edge of the ring and Christian got his foot on the bottom rope, then came back to hit the Unprettier and get the win.
We go backstage to the Alliance locker room, where Shane and Stephanie confront Steve Austin about why he hasn't been in touch with them and whether he's going to turn on the Alliance tonight. Oh yeah, that's another great booking decision here: so they didn't think that Booker T or Diamond Dallas Page, the only two main eventers to jump to the WWF after the buyout, made good centerpieces for the group, so they took the WWF's own top star Steve Austin and had him turn heel and join the Alliance. Forget that WCW tossed him out the door without a second thought and he never would have gone back no matter how much money they offered him, WCW needed a REAL leader, and that meant a WWF guy. This promo was all Austin, Kurt Angle, and Shane & Stephanie talking, with Booker T and Rob Van Dam just standing in the background watching. Austin assured them that he wasn't turning on the Alliance, and then kicked him out of their locker room.
Somewhere else backstage, Michael Cole catches Vince and Linda McMahon backstage and asks him about the possibility of the WWF losing tonight and the WWF closing its doors. Vince says that he's built an empire by taking calculated risks, and he doesn't play these games without an ace in the hole. He assures Cole that tonight, his six WWF guys will defeat the four Alliance guys. He turns around and comes face to face with William Regal, who says that he doesn't buy into McMahon's hogwash and says that Austin is as loyal to the Alliance as he is to the Queen. See, Regal is assuming that Austin's the mole in the Alliance, and as we'll see later, that would prove to be a dangerous assumption.
Speaking of Regal, he's in our next match taking on WCW Cruiserweight Champion Tajiri. There's actually a bit of background to this one, as Regal used to be the WWF Commissioner and brought in Tajiri as his butler and personal bodyguard, but found himself at odds with Tajiri when Regal jumped ship to become the WCW Commissioner. The Cruiserweight Title is obviously not on the line in this match. Short but really good match, at one point Tajiri got his head caught in between the ropes Mick Foley-style and Regal went to the floor and pulled Tajiri's body off the apron so he was completely hanging by his neck. Tajiri tried to make a comeback but Regal hit the Tiger Driver to get the win and then gave him a second one. Regal started to head to the back when Torrie Wilson, who was with Tajiri at the time, came out to check on her man. Regal, being the gentleman he is, came back and gave Torrie a Tiger Driver of her very own.
Up next was the first of two unification matches as WCW US Champion Edge (WWF) takes on WWF Intercontinental Champion Test (Alliance). Test had defeated Edge for the IC Title, but then Edge beat Kurt Angle to win the US Title to set up the rematch when WWF Commissioner Mick Foley ordered the unification matches of the US/IC Titles as well as the two tag titles later in the show. Before the match, we see Test backstage getting oil sprayed on him by the makeup artist backstage, and then telling Stacy Keibler that after he unifies the titles tonight, the two of them can go out and unite. Oh, the double entendres we got back then. This was back when Edge's entrance music told us how he would drive his Durango down I-95. So I guess that after the unification matches, whichever team won the main event would have their titles survive, but since we all knew the WWF was winning, I don't think anyone thought about it all that much. Heyman talked about the origins of each title during entrances, mentioning that the US Title originated here in Greensboro while the IC Title was won in 1979 by Pat Patterson in Rio De Janeiro. Test never really amounted to anything and turned into a really lazy slug as the years went on, but I can see why people saw something in him at the time because he really did seem to have the total package: he was a big, muscular dude who was also young and really athletic. He also looked a lot more motivated in 2001 than he was by the end. If you had asked me back then which of these guys would turn out to be the bigger star, I would have said definitely Test. Unfortunately, that potential never turned into results and he just kind of stagnated. Edge, on the other hand, obviously went on to become amazingly successful, winning multiple World Titles and main eventing Wrestlemania. This was a great match with a good big man/little man dichotomy, Test physically dominated Edge, just tossing him around like a ragdoll and killing him with hard clotheslines and elbows while Edge used his speed to try and get around Test and get his shots in when he saw an opening. This was basically all Test until he tried to come off the top rope and Edge dropkicked him on the way down. Edge started a comeback but Test hit Edge with his own spear for a 2 count and then went for the big boot and Edge dodged it, but Test hit the pump handle powerslam for 2. Edge reversed a powerbomb to a Frankensteiner and hit the spear but still only got 2, so he went for the Edge-o-matic, Test reversed that to a Dragon Suplex attempt, but Edge reversed that to a victory roll for the win to claim both titles. This was an excellent match!
Kurt Angle catches up with Stephanie backstage, and she's stressing about the possibility of losing tonight and losing all her investments and having to become a regular person and do her own grocery shopping, wash her own clothes, and clean her own house and bathroom. Angle assures her that she's not a regular person, she's special and Angle believes that Austin is really with the Alliance, but even if he's not, Angle will make sure he doesn't screw them. You know, for all the crap Stephanie caught for the position she wound up in behind the scenes, you can look back at her at
We go backstage to Lita and Jeff Hardy, and Lita asks Jeff if he knows why Matt's been acting strange. Matt Hardy comes out and, in a paranoid rant, asks them if they were talking about him behind his back and says that they have to win tonight because they don't know what's going to happen in the main event and they need those titles to keep his dream alive. So funny looking back at this stuff in light of everything that's happened since. The Hardys head out to the ring while Lita heads into the locker room and bumps into Trish Stratus, who wishes her luck tonight in the Women's Title match.
This leads us into our second unification match of the evening, as WWF Tag Team Champions Bubba Ray & D-Von Dudley (accompanied by Stacy Keibler, then known as the Dutchess Of Dudleyville) take on WCW World Tag Team Champions Matt & Jeff Hardy in a cage. These two teams had been battling one another for the better part of two years going back to the Ladder Match (which I like to call TLC 0) at Wrestlemania 2000 that also included Edge & Christian, and leading into this final confrontation here. Jeff Hardy was wearing a baseball cap in this match, and if there's one thing that drove me nuts about the Monday Night Wars era, it's the way so many people started wearing hats, necklaces, earrings, and all kinds of other accesories that are completely unsuited to being worn during what's supposed to be an athletic competition. Even if you go back to when IRS would wear the tie to the ring, Gorilla Monsoon would always wonder out loud on commentary why nobody grabbed his tie and choked him out with it. Gorilla would have been tearing out whatever hair he had left watching the ridiculous stuff people would wear into the ring after his passing. This match was insane, both teams were kicking major ass at this point and just destroyed one another in this match. The Hardys tries to escape so Bubba went up and hit a Bubba Bomb off the top rope on Jeff and then the Dudleyz double flapjacked Matt into the cage. They tried to do the same thing to Jeff but he hit the cage and held on and then tried to climb out, but Bubba got him and carried Jeff out to the middle of the ring on his shoulders and D-Von hit the clothesline off the top rope, which Heyman acknowledged by saying, "What a rush!" The Hardyz started coming back and Matt tried to climb out of the cage, but D-Von nailed him and Matt got his leg cuaght and ended up hanging upside down while the Dudleyz hit the Whazzup on Jeff, and then Bubba went over and slammed the helpless Matt's head into the cage just for good measure. Stacy got a table into the ring for the Dudleyz and they went for 3D on Jeff, but Matt tackled Bubba and Jeff hit a DDT on D-Von, and the Hardyz were back in the driver's seat. Matt climbed to the top of the cage and Bubba tried to stop him, but Matt fought him off and Bubba fell into the ring as Matt dropped to the floor. Now Jeff has to get out to the floor to get the win, but he's also 2-on-1 against the Dudleyz, a fact Heyman makes sure to drive home as a major mistake on the Hardyz' part. Jeff makes it to the top of the cage and Matt yells at him to get to the floor, but Jeff looks down and sees D-Von laying on the table and chooses instead to try and hit a Swanton off the top of the cage. Jeff does it and D-Von moves, and Jeff goes through the table and Bubba crawls over and covers Jeff for the win. The Dudleyz became the team to finally unify the WWF and WCW Titles, and Matt was left looking frustrated and angry with his brother for putting his own stupid stunts ahead of winning the match for the team. This would eventually lead to them splitting and facing each other in a very poorly received match the following month at Armageddon. A slew of officials (and Lita) come out and attend to Jeff Hardy, who does a stretcher job. Another terrific match in what's turning into a really strong night of wrestling.
We go to WWF New York where Mick Foley is hosting the show for the fans in attendance. Jim Ross asks Foley why he's at WWF New York instead of in Greensboro, and Foley says he wanted to be in Greensboro, but Vince McMahon told him to go to Times Square and because the Commisioner has to answer to the owner, Foley considers the Commisioner job a joke. He says that he's spent years in both companies, but he still considers himself a WWF guy and is pulling for the WWF to win, and if the Alliance wins he's out of a job, but if the WWF wins then he has a flight scheduled to Charlotte tomorrow and he'll have some choice words for Vince McMahon.
Back to Greensboro, as Test catches up with Scotty 2 Hotty and asks him if he's in the Immunity Battle Royal. Scotty says he is and then blows Test off and walks away, but Test attacks him from behind and beats him senseless and then says "Not anymore, you're not!"
This leads us to the aforementioned Immunity Battle Royal the winner of which would be guaranteed a job for one year no matter which team won the main event. You may recall earlier that I talked about how there weren't many WCW or ECW guys on the show even though it was supposed to be a WWF vs WCW/ECW show. We're nearly halfway through the PPV and this is the first appearance of any wrestlers who legitimately were WCW or ECW wrestlers at the time those companies closed. Among the WCW and ECW talent which wasn't considered good enough to be in any spot on this PPV other than a meaningless battle royal that was obviously going to be won by an Alliance guy were former ECW World Champions Raven, Tommy Dreamer, and Justin Credible, former simultaneous WCW US/Cruiserweight/Hardcore Champion Lance Storm, and FORMER WCW WORLD CHAMPION Diamond Dallas Page. Test, having taken out Scotty 2 Hotty, comes out and takes his place in the battle royal, pretty much telegraphing the outcome of this match right from the beginning. Oh, and all the WWF guys in the battle royal were jobbers, which just tells you exactly where they saw all those Alliance guys on the ladder, especially DDP, who was like the third or fourth guy eliminated. Predictibly, it came down to Test and Billy Gunn, another guy the WWF saw a lot in at the time who also never panned out, and Test hit the big boot to eliminate Billy Gunn and earn immunity for the next year. Unfortunately, they never really did anything with Test that the immunity would have come into play for. You could have had him do anything from laying everyone out en route to challenging for the WWF Title to going to Vince McMahon's house and burning it down and Test would have gotten away with it because he had the immunity, and then you could have gotten to Survivor Series 2002 when his immunity ran out and they could finally get rid of him, and then he could win some title or something like that so he could have stayed around, and you could have turned him into a HUGE heel based on all that...but they didn't. Granted, he didn't do much after Survivor Series 2001 to warrant that kind of a push, but that's the kind of thing you could have done with the winner of this battle royal and it got totally wasted on a guy who, regardless of how little he ended up amounting to, they could have at least TRIED to do something with.
We see a video package building to the main event, and then we go backstage to Shane McMahon and Booker T, and Booker is expressing his reluctance to trust Steve Austin going into tonight's main event. Shane assures Booker that Austin is on board and they will be victorious tonight.
Next up is the six way match to crown the new WWF Women's Champion, with the first woman to score a fall winning the title. The title had been vacated earlier in the year when then-champion Chyna's contract expired and she was not renewed. Whatever theories you might have about why Chyna may have found herself on the outside looking in, the title had remained vacant and they had chosen to crown a new champion at this PPV. The six participants included Lita, Trish Stratus, Mighty Molly (aka Molly Holly), Jacqueline, Ivory, and the Alliance's mystery entrant Jazz, making her debut with the company and also becoming the first true WCW/ECW wrestler on this PPV other than the folks in the Immunity Battle Royal. This was so interesting to watch because while Trish would go on to become arguably the greatest women's wrestler of the modern era, she had NEVER been portrayed as a wrestler in any way at this point, usually just hanging out at ringside and managing male wrestlers. This was really her debut as a full time wrestler and while everyone was probably thinking Lita or Jazz was going to get the win, Trish ended up hitting the Stratusfaction on Ivory to win the first of many WWF/WWE Women's Titles. HUGE upset at the time and my thought at the time was "Great, we've got Debra McMichael version 2.0 as the Women's Champion", but of course she surprised the hell out of me and a lot of other people by becoming the greatest women's wrestler since the Fabulous Moolah over the next several years.
And now, it's finally time to turn our attention to the final match and main event of the evening, as it was the WWF vs the Alliance in the Winner Take All elimination tag match. The entire final hour of the 2 hour 40 minute PPV was dedicated to this match, and we kicked it off with Vince McMahon backstage giving his final pep talk to his team. He tells them that he is confident that Team WWF will be victorious tonight, but he also realizes that he could be looking at a group of losers. If they lose this match, Vince wants them to realize that there isn't one WWF fan that would ever forgive them, each of them would be personally and professionally disgraced, and all of them would justifiably be ridiculed by their peers and family members. He asks what this would mean for those who have proceeded them, and have passed on but still live in the history of the WWF, names like Buddy Rogers, Dr Jerry Graham, Gorilla Monsoon, Andre The Giant, (he gets right in Rock's face for the next one) High Chief Peter Maivia? He knows they've heard him talk about Steve Austin jumping to the WWF tonight, but Vince wants them to consider it total BS because tonight, they fight for the highest stakes they've ever fallen for because they're fighting for survival, and each of them will fight for survival and will lay it all on the line. He's chosen each of them to participate in this elimination match and by joining this team, they will honor the World Wrestling Federation, and he wants them to go out there and do it.
We cut over to the hallway where the Alliance team make their way to the ring for our main event, and then we go to a video package recapping the build to the match we're about to see, as Vince McMahon said that the feud has gone far enough and it's time for it to end, and challenges Shane & Stephanie to one final match at Survivor Series, and the Winner Take All. We see Kurt Angle wiping out all the member of Team WWF with a chair and joining Team Alliance, Chris Jericho fighting with the Rock over the WCW Title, and the controversy where Vince McMahon claimed that Steve Austin was defecting back to the WWF. The Undertaker took charge and said that he's not ready for his career to be over and tells Team WWF that they need to start acting like a team, while Shane and Stephanie tell the Alliance that they've put everything into the Alliance, and then the prematch hype ends with a video packge of the various members of Team WWF and the Alliance fighting it out.
All this brings us to the main event Survivor Series elimination match as Team Alliance (WWF Champion Steve Austin, Booker T, Rob Van Dam, Kurt Angle, and Shane McMahon) takes on Team WWF (WCW World Champion The Rock, The Undertaker, Kane, Chris Jericho, and Big Show). The WWF team was originally supposed to include Vince McMahon himself, but at some point he was replaced by the Big Show, though I don't remember the exact circumstances. It didn't seem like a great move at the time, since the Big Show basically amounted to a 7'2", 400 pound jobber for most of his WWF run up to that point. There were points, usually around Wrestlemania time, where he was portrayed as a monster, but for the most part was just a big jobber. Rob Van Dam and Booker T join the guys in the meaningless Immunity Battle Royal and Jazz as the only true WCW/ECW wrestlers on the PPV, and the other members of the Alliance team are the WWF's top star Steve Austin, a guy the WWF brought into pro wrestling and built from the ground up in Kurt Angle, and Vince McMahon's son, and they were certainly the upper three guys on this team. The whole thing was such a farce by this point that it wasn't WWF vs WCW anymore, it was WWF vs WWF guys representing a company the WWF was burying as badly as it could possibly manage.
The match begins and Rock and Austin start it out right from the beginning and go back and forth until the WWF team took advantage and started beating up Booker T. RVD tagged in and got a huge reaction from the crowd, something Jim Ross acknowledged by calling Van Dam the most popular member of the Alliance. The two teams went back and forth with Shane staying out of the ring and coming in to get cheapshots whenever the opportunity presents itself. Undertaker wound up playing babyface-in-peril for several minutes until tagging in the Big Show, who started rolling over Kurt Angle and Rob Van Dam, but Angle got the Angle Slam and tagged out to Booker T, who hit the Axe Kick and the Spinarooni, then tagged Rob Van Dam who hit the Five Star Notebook Splash, and then he tagged Shane who hit a top rope elbowdrop and pinned Big Show to eliminate him. That's why I thought Big Show made a poor addition to the team. Rock came in and absolutely beat Shane senseless, and then the babyfaces all took turns beating Shane up, with Undertaker hitting the Tombstone and Jericho hitting the Lionsault to eliminate Shane, and we're back to 4-on-4.
Angle and Jericho have a good sequence with Angle coming out on top, and then Jericho ends up taking a beating from the heels until making the hot tag to Kane, who came in and started cleaning house. Kane was beating up Rob Van Dam but made the mistake of going after Booker T instead of going for the win. RVD came at him with a spinkick and the Five Star Frog Splash and the fall got broken up, but a bunch of people ended up fighting it out in the ring and when the smoke cleared, RVD hit a springboard jumpkick to Kane and got the fall to eliminate him. Undertaker went nuts destroying the entire Alliance team by himself and hit the Last Ride on Angle, but got distracted by Booker coming in with a chair. Undertaker took Booker out, but turned and fell victim to the Stunner from Austin, and Austin dragged Angle on top of Undertaker and Angle got the three count to eliminate Undertaker. The WWF is now in big trouble with a 4-on-2 deficit, and also with the two guys remaining on the WWF side being two guys who have had a pretty personal feud over the WCW World Title. Rock got a rollup out of nowhere to eliminate Booker T, and then Jericho and Van Dam had a good sequence where they exchanged high impact moves until Jericho hit a full nelson facebuster to eliminate Van Dam.
We're down to 2-on-2 with Rock and Jericho against Austin and Angle, and Austin smashed Rock into the ringpost as Angle shut Jericho down inside the ring. Jericho and Angle continued their exchange with Jericho getting the anklelock on Angle, but Angle escaped and wiped Jericho out with a clothesline and then he and Austin started to work Jericho over. Jericho made the hot tag and Rock came in and cleaned house on both Austin and Angle, locking Angle into the Sharpshooter and Angle tapped out, leaving Austin 2-on-1 against both Rock and Jericho. Austin nailed Rock just after Angle tapped, but Rock tagged in Jericho and they went at it. Jericho went for the Walls Of Jericho, but Austin blocked and tried for a Walls Of Jericho of his own, and Jericho escaped that. Jericho went for the Lionsault but Austin got the knees up and reversed a Jericho rollup to a rollup of his own and eliminated Jericho, and we're down to Rock vs Austin for the future of both companies. Rock took control of Austin and put him down, but Jericho came up behind Rock and hit the full nelson facebuster on Rock and headed up the rampway where Undertaker came out and grabbed Jericho and herded him to the back.
So we're down to Rock and Austin with everything on the line and Rock came off the ropes and Austin tossed Rock over the top rope with so much momentum that he nearly sailed onto the broadcast tables. Austin went out to the floor and continued beating Rock down, but Rock turned the tables, so to speak, by tossing Austin onto the broadcast tables and drilling punches into him on the floor. Rock sent Austin back into the ring and got a huge Rocky chant as he worked Austin over with chops, but Austin hit a spinebuster and caught Rock in the Sharpshooter. Rock held on and got to the ropes to force the break, then Austin went to the floor and grabbed the WWF Title belt and went to swing it at the Rock but Rock ducked and picked Austin's legs, locking him into the Sharpshooter and Austin made the ropes, but Rock dragged Austin off the ropes into the middle of the ring. That crap drives me nuts, the guy made the ropes and dragging him back out shouldn't invalidate that. Austin makes the ropes again though, and then hits a low blow and goes for the Stunner, but Rock blocks and hits a Stunner of his own and goes for the cover, but WCW referee Nick Patrick dragged WWF referee Earl Hebner out of the ring at 2 and as Rock started yelling at Patrick, Austin grabbed him and hit the Rock Bottom but only got 2. Austin gets in Patrick's face and nails him, then drags Hebner back into the ring and goes for the Stunner on Rock, but Rock shoves Austin off and into Hebner, who goes down in a heap. Rock goes for the Rock Bottom but Austin escapes and hits the Stunner and goes for the cover, but no referee. Suddenly Kurt Angle runs down to ringside and grabs the WWF Title belt, he slides into the ring and nails Austin with it and bails out of the ring. Angle revealed himself to be the mole on the Alliance team, and Rock crawls over and covers Austin and Hebner counts 3 to give the win to Team WWF. In an interesting bit of trivia, this is one of the only two times EVER that Rock would beat Austin, the other being Austin's final match at Wrestlemania 19. We see Shane and Stephanie in shock in the Alliance locker room, and then go to the WWF locker room where everyone is celebrating the win we just saw. Vince McMahon comes out to the top of the rampway and raises his fists in victory as the Alliance, WCW, and ECW have been put out of commission once and for all.
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And with that, the WWF vs WCW/ECW war came to an end. I don't think any of us expected Vince McMahon to truly portray the Alliance as the WWF's equals, but I don't think anyone predicted that by the time the feud ended, we would see a grand total of three non-WWF wrestlers on the show (with the exception of the Immunity Battle Royal), with the entire remainder of the Alliance side filled out with WWF stars who had "jumped ship" to the opposition. If nothing else, this show served as a mercy killing because, even though the InVasion period had given us some fabulous matches, it really amounted to a six month victory party for Vince McMahon and the WWF, and the common sentiment after this show was that the InVasion had completely failed to live up to what we hoped for, but at least now we'd be able to move on and get back to business as usual.
Unfortunately, that train of thought was completely wrong, as the decline in interest and TV ratings that began during this period would continue their downward slide and, as of this writing in early 2011, had yet to recover. But in the short term, the Alliance still had not been completely erased, as the Dudleys (who were really WWF guys) had managed to keep their jobs by becoming the unified WWF/WCW World Tag Team Champions, as had Steve Austin (who undeniably was a WWF guy) by hanging onto the WWF World Title, and Test (who...you guessed it, was a WWF guy) had by winning the Immunity Battle Royal. But there was still the matter of the WCW World Title that the Rock held, and to truly erase the legacy of WCW, that title would have to be unified with the WWF Title. The WWF would accomplish this the following month's PPV, but we still had a couple of other orders of business before we get there.
Coming up next in Part 9: The November 19th Raw, featuring two important returns and the debut of a very exclusive club!
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