12 Best WWE Pay-Per-Views That Didn't Have A World Title Match
4. Survivor Series 2016
The first Survivor Series after the 2016 Brand Extension pitted the entire rosters of Monday Night Raw and SmackDown Live! against one another in tag team, women's and main event matches.
All three were choice encounters despite confusing builds that forced characters to neglect heel/face divides in the nondescript fight for brand supremacy. Furthermore, the contests all actually managed to progress feuds, particularly amongst eventual winners Cesaro and Sheamus, Bayley and Charlotte and Bray Wyatt and Randy Orton respectively.
Victory for the Orton/Wyatt unit concluded an outstanding 52 minute contest in which the biggest names from both shows let it all hang out in a chaotic encounter.
With well paced eliminations, a series of intriguing twists and some jaw-dropping high spots, the match was one of the best of the year, and gave SmackDown Live! rare bragging rights over the flagship broadcast following the dramatic victory.
It marked quite a rebirth for the elimination format that had risked permanent axe alongside the Survivor Series name as a victim of Vince McMahon's whims during downward trending buyrates for the show in the mid-2000s.