The goodbye tour of John Cena’s WWE profession hits one other milestone Saturday together with his last premium reside occasion (PLE) look at Survivor Sequence: WarGames at Petco Park in San Diego (7 p.m. ET on ESPN Limitless). The second-longest-running WWE occasion behind WrestleMania (41 straight years) will make its thirty ninth annual look in a metropolis the promotion hasn’t been to for a PLE since One Evening Stand in 2008.
Survivor Sequence has been generally known as a launching pad for a lot of iconic careers, together with the 1990 WWE debut of The Undertaker, who would go on to develop into probably the most profitable Survivor Sequence wrestler ever with 13 wins. Superstars similar to The Rock (1996), Kurt Angle (1999), The Defend (Roman Reigns, Seth Rollins and Dean Ambrose) (2012) and Sting (2014) additionally made their PLE debuts at Survivor Sequence. Even the Elimination Chamber match format debuted on the Survivor Sequence in 2002.
As has been the case since 2022, this 12 months’s present will function girls’s and males’s WarGames matches with star-studded groups of 5 wrestlers apiece. Cody Rhodes, CM Punk, Jey Uso, Jimmy Uso and Roman Reigns will be a part of forces to tackle Bronson Reed, Bron Breakker, Logan Paul, Drew McIntyre and Brock Lesnar on the lads’s aspect, whereas Rhea Ripley, Iyo Sky, Alexa Bliss, Charlotte Aptitude and AJ Lee face Nia Jax, Lash Legend, Kairi Sane, Asuka and Becky Lynch on the ladies’s aspect. Cena’s protection of the Intercontinental Championship towards Dominik Mysterio and a Ladies’s World Championship match between Stephanie Vaquer and Nikki Bella are additionally on the cardboard.
As we strategy the present, let’s make amends for some notes and stats for every match.
Males’s WarGames match
With a win, Roman Reigns would transfer as much as second place on the Survivor Sequence victories checklist, tying Randy Orton with 10. Reigns is on the lookout for his seventh straight Survivor Sequence victory. He hasn’t misplaced on the occasion since 2016. If the lads’s match closes the present, historical past will likely be in favor of Reigns’ staff as a result of Reigns has by no means misplaced a main-event match at Survivor Sequence. He’s 5-0, together with his most up-to-date win coming in final 12 months’s WarGames fundamental occasion.
The one two performers on this bout to have by no means taken half in a WarGames match are Logan Paul and Brock Lesnar. The participant with the most WarGames expertise is Jey Uso, who has taken half in three such matches (2022, 2023 and 2024). He’s undefeated within the WarGames format.
Drew McIntyre is seeking to keep away from his sixth straight Survivor Sequence loss. His final win was in 2018 as a part of Workforce Uncooked, which defeated Workforce SmackDown in an elimination match.
Ladies’s WarGames match
Rhea Ripley and Iyo Sky are the one individuals on this match who took half within the first girls’s WarGames match at NXT TakeOver: WarGames in 2019. Ripley and Sky had been on opposing groups, with Workforce Ripley securing the victory.
Sky has taken half in all seven girls’s WarGames matches, making her the one lady to take action.
Ripley, Charlotte Aptitude and Nia Jax every have 4 Survivor Sequence victories. Whoever will get one other win will tie Mickie James and Bianca Belair for many within the girls’s division.
Becky Lynch is on the lookout for her fourth Survivor Sequence win in a row. Her final two have been in WarGames matches (2022, 2023).
Intercontinental Championship: John Cena vs. Dominik Mysterio
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The Intercontinental Championship hasn’t modified palms at Survivor Sequence since 2001, when Edge defeated Check to unify the US and Intercontinental championships. Since then, the Intercontinental title has been efficiently defended on the occasion six instances, together with final 12 months.
This will likely be Cena’s first Survivor Sequence match in eight years. He final appeared on the occasion in 2017 as a part of Workforce SmackDown in a standard five-on-five elimination match.
Mysterio is on the lookout for his fifth straight PLE win. His most up-to-date PLE win was towards AJ Kinds at SummerSlam in August. Cena’s most up-to-date PLE win additionally got here towards Kinds, at Crown Jewel in October.
Ladies’s World Championship: Stephanie Vaquer vs. Nikki Bella
This will likely be Vaquer’s first Survivor Sequence match. Bella has carried out at two and gained each instances, though it has been 11 years since she appeared at Survivor Sequence. She defeated AJ Lee in 2014 to win the Divas championship.
Bella will likely be on the lookout for her first PLE victory in over seven years. Her most up-to-date occurred at Tremendous Present-Down in 2018 when she, her sister Brie and Ronda Rousey defeated the Riott Squad (Ruby Riott, Liv Morgan and Sarah Logan).