
Reigns refused, preferring to go through the tournament. Since Reigns was already the number one contender, Triple H offered him to pass directly into the finals if he would join The Authority.

The tournament began on the November 9 episode of Raw, with the semifinals and the final match scheduled for Survivor Series.


However, on November 4, Rollins suffered multiple legitimate knee injuries at a live event in Dublin, Ireland therefore, the title was vacated and a tournament was set up to crown a new champion. Roman Reigns emerged victorious and was named the number one contender. Eight wrestlers that were victorious at Hell in a Cell competed in singles matches, with the winners advancing to a fatal four-way match. Storylines between the characters played out on WWE's primary television programs, Raw and SmackDown.ĭue to a knee injury, Seth Rollins was forced to vacate the WWE World Heavyweight Championship, and a tournament was made to crown a new champion at Survivor Series.Īfter Seth Rollins retained the WWE World Heavyweight Championship at Hell in a Cell, a number one contender was determined the next night on Raw.
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The card consisted of nine matches, including one of the Kickoff pre-show, that resulted from scripted storylines, where wrestlers portrayed heroes, villains, or less distinguishable characters in scripted events that built tension and culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches, with results predetermined by WWE's writers. The 2015 event was the 29th event in the Survivor Series chronology and was scheduled to be held on November 22, 2015, at Philips Arena in Atlanta, Georgia, which was the first time the state hosted the event. 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 PPVs, 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. The Undertaker teamed with Kane, thus reuniting The Brothers of Destruction, and defeated The Wyatt Family (represented by Bray Wyatt and Luke Harper). In the main event, Roman Reigns defeated Dean Ambrose to win the vacant WWE World Heavyweight Championship however, immediately after the match, Sheamus cashed in his Money in the Bank contract and defeated Reigns to win the title. Nine matches were contested at the event, including one match on the Kickoff pre-show. This was also the last Survivor Series event to be held before the reintroduction of the brand extension in July 2016, and the final Survivor Series event until the 2022 event to not carry the brand supremacy theme. The event celebrated The Undertaker's 25th anniversary in WWE, his debut occurring at the 1990 Survivor Series.

It took place on November 22, 2015, at Philips Arena in Atlanta, Georgia, which was the first time the state hosted the event.
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The 2015 Survivor Series was the 29th annual Survivor Series professional wrestling pay-per-view and livestreaming event produced by WWE. Promotional poster featuring The Undertaker
