WWE Survivor Series 2017 Announced For Houston's Toyota Center

More than a year before the event is scheduled to take place, WWE has announced that the 2017 Survivor Series show will be held in Houston, Texas's Toyota Center. The show will mark the 30th anniversary of the Survivor Series, which became WWE's second annual Pay-Per-View event in 2017.

This push to drum up interest for the Survivor Series show - which will take place on November 19, 2017 - makes it the fourth of the "Big Four" PPVs to get the destination weekend treatment. For years, WrestleMania weekend has drawn many thousands of fans from around the world, and SummerSlam - in tandem with NXT TakeOver: Brooklyn and Raw in Barclays Center - has become a similar string of shows designed to function as more than a simple PPV event. The 2017 Royal Rumble, held as a stadium show in San Antonio, is clearly meant to attract a global audience, as well.

Survivor Series is traditionally seen as the weakest of the "Big Four," with the team elimination match concept often criticized as antiquated. With the return of the brand split, though, there's an additional element of competition added to this year's Survivor Series-style bouts. Should the show prove successful, the Raw vs. Smackdown theme will presumably become central to Survivor Series going forward.