WWE continues to fill out its premium live event schedule for the rest of 2023.
On Friday, WWE announced that Survivor Series will return Saturday, Nov. 25 at Allstate Arena in Chicago, which will also host the Nov. 24 episode of Friday Night SmackDown. The “Windy City” last hosted WWE’s annual November premium live event in 2019, which was headlined by Bayley vs. Becky Lynch vs. Shayna Baszler.
AEW has made Chicago its home for the last four years, hosting several episodes of Dynamite and pay-per-views, including Revolution and Forbidden Door. AEW will be presenting All Out at Chicago’s United Center in just over two months, too, so WWE won’t be far behind.
The 2022 Survivor Series event focused on WarGames, which the 2023 announcement did not include. That show, highlighted by the Bloodline vs. Team Brawling Brutes, brought the match gimmick used by NXT for the previous years to the main roster to spice up a show that usually focused on “brand rivalry.”
The 2023 press release does not include anything about Raw vs. SmackDown, however, so even with Vince McMahon back, perhaps the artificial dueling of shows stays away.
Survivor Series usually has been dominated by a gimmick, so another year of WarGames could work. If the Judgment Day remains a faction by the fall, a team of faces from Raw could face them, and others, in a hypothetical main event. If the Bloodline feud continues well after SummerSlam, they can slot into this, too.
Otherwise, it will be intriguing to see which route WWE takes. Survivor Series has not been a generic premium live event in the past, so one can assume that there is a plan for how this show will be presented later this year.
Survivor Series has been host to some of the most memorable moments in WWE history. Will the Allstate Arena produce something special this fall?
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