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Though he was originally scheduled to referee a match at the show, John Cena will instead be wrestling at Survivor Series.

It was announced today that Cena had been added as the final member of SmackDown's men's division team for their elimination tag match against Raw. Cena will team with Shane McMahon, Randy Orton, Bobby Roode, and Shinsuke Nakamura.

Shane made the announcement about Cena joining the team on Twitter: "Further proving #SDLive is the superior brand, I'm happy to announce @JohnCena will be the 5th member of Team Smackdown at #SurvivorSeries."

Raw's team for the match is currently scheduled to be Kurt Angle, Braun Strowman, Finn Balor, Samoa Joe, and Jason Jordan.

Cena hasn't appeared on WWE television since losing to Roman Reigns at Raw's No Mercy pay-per-view in September. Reigns will return on next week's episode of Raw, possibly setting up his direction for Survivor Series.

In storyline, Cena is currently a "free agent" and can wrestle for both Raw and SmackDown. He was at one point planned to be the special guest referee for the Brock Lesnar vs. Jinder Mahal non-title champion vs. champion match at Survivor Series until plans were changed and it was decided that AJ Styles would win the WWE Championship from Mahal before the PPV.

Wonderful.

So RAW isn’t winning this... because Super Cena is going to come save the day for Smackdown.

...Unless Strowman ruins him.

After they just put over the question of who will fill the last spot on the team and everything last night on SD, no less.

It could have been a big thing about fighting for it, but guy who hasn't been seen In almost two months just gets shoehorned in out of nowhere.

KILLdozer wrote: ↑Nov 8th, '17, 10:38 After they just put over the question of who will fill the last spot on the team and everything last night on SD, no less.

It could have been a big thing about fighting for it, but guy who hasn't been seen In almost two months just gets shoehorned in out of nowhere.

steph adding angle, shane adding himself, angle adding jordan, all this build has been shit

cero2k wrote: ↑Nov 8th, '17, 11:24

KILLdozer wrote: ↑Nov 8th, '17, 10:38 After they just put over the question of who will fill the last spot on the team and everything last night on SD, no less.

It could have been a big thing about fighting for it, but guy who hasn't been seen In almost two months just gets shoehorned in out of nowhere.

steph adding angle, shane adding himself, angle adding jordan, all this build has been shit

You ain't kidding. Strowman is pretty much the only one with a somewhat legitimate reason because he's Strowman, so why wouldn't you want him?

Balor and Joe are just two guys who got into a small fight after the match was counted out. Even the SD dudes that fought for spots just won regular matches with no build.

Come to think of it, a month was definitely too short of an amount of time to build and plot this whole thing out. What can you REALLY do with something like this in that amount of time?

Don't even mention the other Champion matches. Are we at least going to get some kind of meetings between them, to, idk, make people wanna see what happens between them? I'm not even sure if that Jey Uso injure was legitimate but it didn't look good, so If so, now what?

exactly, then you have Kane that is super overpowered right now not in the team, the guys actually leading that stupid catchphrase under sienge, the New Day, not part of the main team, and now we're getting another buildless dream match between the shield and the new day. and i wouldn't be surprised if they take the title off Natalya just to do Charlotte vs Bliss instead

Yeah, they said on SD "The new day picking up more momentum heading towards SS", ... when they're not even currently in a match so what does it matter?

Yeah, they could possibly just do a pointless switch, where the winner of Charlotte and Natalya faces Bliss, and the loser is on the team. Since it's always gotta be about Charlotte. Why couldn't you have Rusev on the team instead of Cena btw?

Hopefully that leads to Rusev V Cena, and English would it make golden, as long as Cena doesn't make him a complete fool every time you turn around.

talking about Rusev

cero2k wrote: ↑Nov 8th, '17, 14:29 talking about Rusev

... pfft...!

Yeah I guess it's begun then lol.

With all of Shane's talk about "brand loyalty" you'd think that the guy who when he became a "free agent" and thus could appear on either show, started to only show up on Raw wouldn't be someone Shane would want on the team, but of course Shane is a hypocrite.

Serujuunin wrote: ↑Nov 8th, '17, 10:08 So RAW isn’t winning this... because Super Cena is going to come save the day for Smackdown.

...Unless Strowman ruins him.

I think Strowman destroying him is definitely possible, but I'm inclined to agree that this is definitely another point for the increasingly large argument in the favor of Smackdown winning. The bigger point, to me, though, was Asuka being added to the Raw women's team. That means that team is definitely winning, and there is no way they'll let the same show win both big elimination matches, and especially not when Raw is clearly going to win the Brock vs. AJ match, too. Throw in the fact that WWE now seems to be okay with Kurt wrestling meaning that being a GM isn't the only way they can keep him on TV now lets Steph fire him as GM without losing him on TV, plus the fact that the way the whole thing has been framed is that Smackdown needs to win this match to prove their equality to Raw or whatever dumb bullsh*t Shane has been spouting, and I don't think Raw is winning the main event. Just about the only point in favor of Raw is the idea of Owens and Zayn (and Bryan?) screwing them over.

cero2k wrote: ↑Nov 8th, '17, 14:02 exactly, then you have Kane that is super overpowered right now not in the team, the guys actually leading that stupid catchphrase under sienge, the New Day, not part of the main team, and now we're getting another buildless dream match between the shield and the new day. and i wouldn't be surprised if they take the title off Natalya just to do Charlotte vs Bliss instead

Well... doing Charlotte vs. Bliss with Bliss winning lets Nattie come back at Charlotte by claiming that she would have beaten Bliss, so it does help move that feud along a bit. And it's not quite fair to call Shield vs. New Day totally buildless at this point.

Yeah, there's no reason for 44 year old Kane, or whatever the number is, to be Killin' people out there, left right front and center lol.

He ran over a good percentage of the card that one week in who knows how long. Balor and 2/3's of The Shield.

Sure, Strowman is gonna eventually stomp Kane out, but you don't have to do it like this. He's Kane and Always will be Kane. Just have him come back and naturally win. He's probably gonna mess up Survivor Series, unless Strowman just runs him down right then and there when he shows up.

Kane is definitely getting strowman eliminated via countout when they brawled to the back

You know there was at one point not days ago that I was thinking Reigns could actually come back and finally turn fully heel. He would just simply turn on those two for feeling like he "was replaced" over and over again when he was injured, "you just think it's that easy to substitute anyone for me?" That type of thing. Simply put, he was out, and they brought in a couple of dudes here and there to fill his spot, and he wouldn't like it.

I've since decided that I don't think it'll happen, if anything I suppose this is supposed to make him finally "A good guy" , as well as "THE guy". Unless he just would go heel to face a somewhat face Strowman, which I was just thinking Strowman could be all they see in Lesnar and more because he's always there and a bit more agile.

KILLdozer wrote: ↑Nov 8th, '17, 21:32 You know there was at one point not days ago that I was thinking Reigns could actually come back and finally turn fully heel. He would just simply turn on those two for feeling like he "was replaced" over and over again when he was injured, "you just think it's that easy to substitute anyone for me?" That type of thing. Simply put, he was out, and they brought in a couple of dudes here and there to fill his spot, and he wouldn't like it.

That would work. It also leads to Angle vs. Roman, which I'm sure is a win Vince would love to give Roman. You could have it play into Roman beating Brock at Mania, too, as beating the unbeatable Brock would be Roman showing that he is the least replaceable person on the roster.

Beat The Undertaker, beats the guy that defeated him first, it could also lead to Triple H vs Reigns as which also would probably be good for things going forward.

About Charlotte and Nattie next week, Dave had the thought that they might do another f*ck finish here and wait to put the belt on Charlotte on the Starccade house show on the 25th.

Big Red Machine wrote: ↑Nov 9th, '17, 11:13 About Charlotte and Nattie next week, Dave had the thought that they might do another f*ck finish here and wait to put the belt on Charlotte on the Starccade house show on the 25th.

Smackdown does have a PPV after SS, so they could do it there too, I just find it weird that they'll do Natalya vs Bliss after they did that for a while this year. Maybe Carmella could cash in on tuesday too, they already wasted Corbin's briefcase, so they probably don't care anyway.