As the NXT Cruiserweight Championship was the only title of its kind in WWE, it was defended in a triple threat match against challengers of the opposing brands.
#WWE RAW CHICAGO SERIES#
With the exception of the men's top champions-as each brand's top championship was defended at the event-the 2019 Survivor Series featured the Raw, SmackDown, and NXT Women's Champions facing off, Raw's United States Champion, SmackDown's Intercontinental Champion, and NXT's North American Champion going against each other, and the Raw, SmackDown, and NXT Tag Team Champions in a triple threat tag team match. Due to NXT's addition, it was the first Survivor Series to have three-way Survivor Series elimination matches. It was in turn the first Survivor Series to include NXT and the first since the 2009 event to feature a third major brand. In September 2019, NXT, previously WWE's developmental territory, debuted on the USA Network, solidifying its status as WWE's third major brand, and was subsequently added to the 2019 event as part of the brand competition theme (wrestlers from NXT UK also appeared and were grouped under the NXT umbrella). In addition to traditional Survivor Series matches between the brands, the champions of Raw face their SmackDown counterparts in non-title matches, which began at the 2017 event. Since WWE reintroduced the brand split in July 2016, Survivor Series has centered around competition between wrestlers from Raw and SmackDown for brand supremacy. The 2019 event, which was the 33rd event in the Survivor Series chronology, was scheduled to be held on November 24, 2019, at the Allstate Arena in the Chicago suburb of Rosemont, Illinois. The event is traditionally characterized by having Survivor Series matches, which are tag team elimination matches that typically pits teams of four or five wrestlers against each other. The second longest running pay-per-view event in history (behind WWE's WrestleMania), it is one of the promotion's original four pay-per-views, along with WrestleMania, Royal Rumble, and SummerSlam, referred to as the "Big Four". Survivor Series is an annual gimmick pay-per-view (PPV) and WWE Network event, produced every November by WWE since 1987.
NXT won brand supremacy by winning four of the seven interbrand matches SmackDown won two while Raw's sole win was on the pre-show. In the main event, NXT Women's Champion Shayna Baszler defeated Raw Women's Champion Becky Lynch and SmackDown Women's Champion Bayley in a non-title triple threat match.
The card was highlighted by two Survivor Series elimination matches: Team NXT won the women's match in the opening bout, while Team SmackDown won the men's match. Ten matches were contested at the event, including three on the Kickoff pre-show. The theme of the event was brand supremacy and pitted wrestlers from the three brands against each other. It was the first and only to include the NXT brand (along with NXT's sister brand NXT UK, which was grouped under the NXT umbrella), the first Survivor Series since 2009 to feature three major brands, and the first to feature three-way Survivor Series elimination matches. The event aired on pay-per-view (PPV) and the WWE Network and took place on November 24, 2019, at the Allstate Arena in the Chicago suburb of Rosemont, Illinois. It was held for wrestlers from the promotion's Raw, SmackDown, and NXT brand divisions.
#WWE RAW CHICAGO PROFESSIONAL#
The 2019 Survivor Series was the 33rd annual Survivor Series professional wrestling event produced by WWE. Promotional poster featuring Becky Lynch, Shayna Baszler, and Bayley