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Survivor Series (2010)

The 2010 Survivor Series was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). It was the 24th annual Survivor Series and took place on November 21, 2010, at the American Airlines Arena in Miami, Florida, held for wrestlers from the promotion's Raw and SmackDown brand divisions. This was the second Survivor Series at the venue, after the 2007 event. It was also the last Survivor Series held under the first brand split, which ended in August 2011, but was reinstated in July 2016.

Eight matches were contested at the event. In the main event, Randy Orton defeated Wade Barrett to retain Raw's WWE Championship with John Cena as the special guest referee. As per the stipulation of the match, since Orton won, Cena was (kayfabe) fired from WWE. Also on the card, Kane defended SmackDown's World Heavyweight Championship against Edge, but the match ended in a draw. The card also included one Survivor Series match, in which Team Mysterio (Rey Mysterio, Big Show, Chris Masters, Kofi Kingston, and Montel Vontavious Porter) defeated Team Del Rio (Alberto Del Rio, Cody Rhodes, Drew McIntyre, Jack Swagger, and Tyler Reks).

Survivor Series is an annual professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event, produced every November by World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) since 1987, generally held around Thanksgiving in the United States. In what has become the second longest-running pay-per-view event in history (behind WWE's WrestleMania), it is one of the promotion's original four pay-per-views, along with WrestleMania, SummerSlam, and Royal Rumble, referred to as the "Big Four". The event is traditionally characterized by having Survivor Series matches, which are tag team elimination matches that typically pits teams of four or five wrestlers against each other. The 24th Survivor Series event was scheduled to be held on November 21, 2010, at the American Airlines Arena in Miami, Florida, and featured wrestlers from the Raw and SmackDown brand divisions. This was the second Survivor Series at the venue, after the 2007 event.

Survivor Series was originally set to end with the 2009 event as during a press conference held on February 11, 2010, WWE Chief Executive Officer and Chairman Vince McMahon announced that WWE would drop the Survivor Series name and rebrand the event. However, following public outcry and several different fan petitions, the event was later reinstated, and in June 2010, WWE started to release tickets for the 2010 event.

Survivor Series featured professional wrestling matches involving different wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds, plots, and storylines that were played out on WWE's television programs, Raw and SmackDown.

The main rivalry from Raw involved The Nexus leader Wade Barrett against Randy Orton for his WWE Championship with Nexus member John Cena as the special guest referee. At Hell in a Cell, two months earlier, Cena lost a match against Barrett, forcing Cena to join Nexus. His main priority as a member of Nexus was to help Barrett secure the WWE Championship from Randy Orton, having Cena help Barrett during a Battle Royal to name a number one contender and forcing Cena to help him during his match against Orton at Bragging Rights. At that match, if Barrett did not win the match, he would have Cena fired for breaking their stipulation from their match at Hell in a Cell. However, Cena attacked Barrett during the match, giving him the win via disqualification, though Orton still retained the title. The next day on Raw, when Cena won a match against Orton via disqualification, Barrett named Cena the special guest referee for their match at Survivor Series. This time, if Barrett did not win the title, then he would have Cena fired, but as an incentive for Cena to perform his duty, if Barrett did win the title, Barrett would relieve Cena from his obligation to Nexus. On the November 8 episode of Raw, the Anonymous Raw General Manager made the stipulation that the match could only be won via pinfall or submission; in addition, the other members of The Nexus would be banned from ringside.

The main rivalry from SmackDown involved Kane against Edge for Kane's World Heavyweight Championship. After defeating his half-brother The Undertaker last month at Bragging Rights after their three-month war, Alberto Del Rio, Rey Mysterio, and Edge all interfered in Kane's "funeral" for the Undertaker. Afterwards, all three competed in a match against each other for a number one contender spot. At the end of the match, Edge came out victorious and thus became the number one contender against Kane at Survivor Series. Over the next weeks, Edge kidnapped and psychologically tormented Kane's storyline father Paul Bearer.

Prior to Survivor Series coming on the air, R-Truth (with Eve Torres) defeated Zack Ryder in a dark match.

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