10 SmackDown Vs. Raw Matches WWE Got Right
3. Team Raw Vs. Team SmackDown (Survivor Series 2005)
Sunday's match has its work cut out if it wants to top the original Raw vs SmackDown showdown at Survivor Series 2005.
Despite teams that looked more mid-card than main event, this encounter was the culmination of an intense build-up which managed to involve the entire rosters of both brands. Bischoff's men showed up on SmackDown to interrupt a world title bout, and Batista and co hit back with a parking lot ambush on Raw. Wrestlers were defined by their loyalty to their shows (however tenuous it may have seemed in the case of go-it-alone monsters like Kane and Big Show), rather than their position as faces and heels - and it worked to great effect.