The event will center on the WarGames match, a type of roofless steel cage match that surrounds two rings placed side by side and is contested by teams of multiple wrestlers; the first team to score a pinfall or submission wins while escaping the cage is a forfeit. This will also mark the first time that the event will feature the titular Survivor Series match since 2021; the Survivor Series match is a tag team elimination match that pits teams of multiple wrestlers against each other.
Production
Background
Survivor Series is an annual professional wrestling premium live event (PLE), produced every November by the American company WWE since 1987, generally held around Thanksgiving in the United States. It was originally broadcast exclusively via pay-per-view (PPV) before it began simulcasting on WWE's livestreaming platforms in 2014. In what has become the second longest-running PPV event in history (behind WWE's WrestleMania), it is one of the promotion's original four PPVs, along with WrestleMania, SummerSlam, and Royal Rumble, referred to as the "Big Four", and as of August 2021, it is considered one of the "Big Five", along with Money in the Bank.
From 1987 to 2021, the event was characterized by having Survivor Series matches, which were tag team elimination matches that typically featured teams of four or five wrestlers against each other. Beginning in 2022, the event no longer featured any Survivor Series matches and instead became based around the WarGames match with the event titled "Survivor Series: WarGames". The WarGames match is a type of roofless steel cage match that surrounds two rings placed side by side. It is contested by two or three teams composed of three to six members each. One member from each team starts in the cage, and every couple of minutes, another team member enters in a staggered format until all participants have entered. Once all participants are in the cage, the match officially begins and the first team to score a pinfall or submission wins, while escaping the cage is a forfeit.
Announced on July 13, 2026, the 40th Survivor Series, and fifth annual as WarGames, was scheduled for Saturday, November 28, 2026, at Daikin Park in Houston, Texas, with the event promoted as Survivor Series: WarGames Houston. It will be the second consecutive Survivor Series event to be held in a stadium, and it will be held for wrestlers from the promotion's Raw and SmackDown brand divisions. This will subsequently be the second Survivor Series in Houston, after 2017 at the Toyota Center, while Daikin Park, then known as Minute Maid Park, previously hosted the 2020 Royal Rumble. Tickets went on sale on August 7. As part of Survivor Series: WarGames weekend, WWE will have a merchandise store at Houston's George R. Brown Convention Center, open from Friday, November 27 through Sunday, November 29.
Broadcast outlets
Survivor Series: WarGames will be available on traditional PPV outlets worldwide. It will also be available to livestream on ESPN Unlimited in the United States, SuperSport in Sub-Saharan Africa, and Netflix everywhere else.
Storylines
The event will involve matches that result from scripted storylines. Results are predetermined by WWE's writers on the Raw and SmackDown brands, while storylines are produced on WWE's weekly television shows, Monday Night Raw and Friday Night SmackDown.
On November 6 during an appearance on the What's Your Story? with Stephanie McMahon podcast, Raw wrestler and the General Manager of WWE's Mexican sister promotion Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide (AAA), Rey Mysterio, announced a traditional five-on-five Survivor Series match between Team USA and Team Mexico at Survivor Series: WarGames, marking the first Survivor Series match to be held at a Survivor Series event since 2021. Later that night, Mysterio also announced that he would lead Team Mexico. A day later on the Crown Jewel Post-show, SmackDown's Cody Rhodes proposed to lead Team USA, which was subsequently confirmed two nights later on Raw. Also on that night's episode, SmackDown's CM Punk made a surprise appearance, and proposed to be the second member of Team USA, which Rhodes agreed. Later that night, Mysterio invited one-half of Raw's World Tag Team Champions, Penta, to be the second member of Team Mexico, which he accepted, while Rhodes invited Penta's championship partner Je'Von Evans to join Team USA, to which he accepted. Four days later, on SmackDown, AAA World Cruiserweight Champion Rey Fénix joined Team Mexico.
Since September, The Bloodline (Roman Reigns, Jacob Fatu, Solo Sikoa, Jey Uso, and Jimmy Uso) had been feuding with The 946 (Royce Keys, Bronco Nima, Lucien Price, Carmelo Hayes, and Cruz Montana) after Keys, Nima, and Price attacked and abducted Sikoa on the September 21 episode of Raw, taking him out of his scheduled Money in the Bank qualifying match. At the Money in the Bank event following Reigns's successful World Heavyweight Championship defense, The 946 brawled with Sikoa and The Usos (Jey and Jimmy) until The 946's Jaida Parker took The 946 to safety. On the following Raw, a six-man tag team match took place which ended in a no-contest when Parker attacked the referee. Afterwards, Hayes appeared and struck Sikoa with a crowbar, joining The 946. The following week, another brawl between the teams broke out, with Reigns joining The Bloodline in the process. On the November 2 episode during a match between Sikoa and Keys, Sikoa won via disqualification after being attacked by The 946. Reigns appeared and it seemed as if that The Bloodline would gain the upper hand, however, a masked man turned the tides for The 946 and revealed himself to be Montana, making his main roster debut from NXT. The following week, Reigns and Keys had a conversation while the rest of The Bloodline set The 946's box truck on fire backstage. After the two teams engaged in another brawl with The Bloodline gaining the upper hand, it was made official that they would meet in a WarGames match at Survivor Series: WarGames.
At Money in the Bank, The Judgment Day's Liv Morgan regained the Women's World Championship in a triple threat match involving Becky Lynch, who was not involved in the decision. They faced each other for the title in a singles match on the October 26 episode of Raw, which Lynch won via disqualification after interference from Morgan's stablemates, Raquel Rodriguez and Roxanne Perez. Two weeks later, Lynch's team defeated Rodriguez and Perez in a tag team match. Afterwards, Lynch challenged Morgan to a "fair fight" for the title, and Raw General Manager Adam Pearce scheduled the match for Survivor Series: WarGames.
External links
Survivor Series official website
