10 Unexpected Betrayals At WWE Survivor Series

This past week on Raw, we saw each member of the brand’s Survivor Series team thrash it out with one another in Fatal 5-Way action. Then on SmackDown, two members of the show’s women’s team went at it one-on-one, before Dean Ambrose competed in tag team action against the new-look Wyatt Family, who he’ll of course be teaming with come Survivor Series.

Are you starting to see a pattern here?

it seems the big theme ahead of this year’s November pay-per-view is that nobody can really get on with each other. Not that this is the first time we’ve seen them play the dysfunctional card though. In fact, over the years these kind of squabbles have become something of a trademark of the Survivor Series pay-per-view.

In the event’s near-three-decade history we’ve seen plenty of allies turning on one another, and this article rounds up some of the most notable instances as we count down ten shocking betrayals in Survivor Series history.

Okay, so I guess it may not be entirely shocking that the Big Show features on this list, but even though he’s seen more character turns than you’ve had hot dinners, his betrayal of Team Cena in 2014 was still a pretty emphatic one.

With the teams level at three men apiece—Big Show, John Cena and Dolph Ziggler remaining against Luke Harper, Kane and Seth Rollins of Team Authority—the match was in the balance. Cue the Big Show’s moment of madness, as he swung for Cena from out of nowhere, laying him out for the count as Rollins swooped to pick up the pieces.

Show then proceeded to shake Triple H’s hand, sealing the deal and walking out on Team Cena. Or rather, walking out on Ziggler; the one remaining member of Cena’s band of merry men.

Fortunately, and with a helping hand from Sting, Dolph Ziggler would pull out the performance of a lifetime to eliminate Harper, Kane and Rollins, thus claiming an unlikely victory and forcing the Authority out of power. A certain degree of thanks go to Sting, but none whatsoever to the turncoat Big Show.