5 Stipulations WWE should add to Survivor Series 2019: Unify titles, WrestleMania main event
WWE’s annual battle of brand supremacy will take place on November 24 when Superstars from RAW, SmackDown and NXT face each other in multiple matches at Survivor Series.
Five Triple Threat matches have been announced between the three brands, while there will also be one-on-one matches for the WWE Championship (Brock Lesnar vs. Rey Mysterio), Universal Championship (“The Fiend” Bray Wyatt vs. Daniel Bryan) and NXT Championship (Adam Cole vs. TBC).
Last year, RAW defeated SmackDown 6-0 in matches on the main PPV, which prompted Shane McMahon – the SmackDown Commissioner at the time – to promise “big changes” on the blue brand. However, as it turned out, no changes were made, and Team Blue’s horrific Survivor Series performance ended up meaning nothing.
Fast forward to 2019 and, although the addition of NXT to the brand battle has brought extra excitement to this year’s event, it still feels like something needs to be on the line in these matches to make fans cheer for either RAW, SmackDown or NXT.
With that in mind, let’s take a look at five stipulation ideas that WWE should consider using to make the PPV more interesting.
#5 Every winner qualifies for the 2020 Royal Rumble
Including RAW, SmackDown, NXT, NXT UK and 205 Live, there are more brands and more Superstars in WWE now than at any time in the company’s history.
While this is obviously great for certain Superstars’ television time, it also means there is going to be a lot of competition for Royal Rumble places in both the men’s and women’s matches in 2020.
In the past, WWE has forced certain Superstars to compete in Royal Rumble qualifying matches in the weeks leading up to the show, while other Superstars – even people who frequently lose – were randomly allowed to enter.
Perhaps WWE could take advantage of the increasing number of Superstars by announcing that everybody who wins a RAW vs. SmackDown vs. NXT match will be granted a spot in the 2020 Royal Rumble.
The only complication here would be if the winner of the women’s Triple Threat still held their title by the time of the Rumble, but they could still enter with the aim of unifying the women’s titles at WrestleMania 36.