WWE has only two premium live events slotted in for 2024, with Crown Jewel set to take place in Saudi Arabia on November 4 and Survivor Series scheduled to close the year out in Chicago - where CM Punk may or may not return - on November 25.
While it hasn't been officially announced yet, the event is expected to feature a WarGames match. Triple H is a big fan of the concept and used it in NXT to great success before bringing the match to the main roster as head of WWE Creative in place of Vince McMahon.
Now RAW and SmackDown have separate General Managers in Adam Pearce and Nick Aldis, there's been speculation we're getting a brand vs. brand match. However, that's since been debunked by historian Dave Meltzer.
"On last night's show based on an angle, we talked about the possibility of a Raw vs. Smackdown War Games match at Survivor Series," he noted. "We are told that right now the War Games match is not planned as a Raw vs. Smackdown match."
If we had to hazard a guess, The Bloodline and Judgement Day will likely be involved in some capacity along with babyfaces like Cody Rhodes and Jey Uso.
Survivor Series has already proven to be a success for WWE. Tickets sold out earlier this month after 12,928 were purchased by fans, prompting WWE to expand the setup to accommodate an additional 2700 people.
WarGames usually involves two teams of either four, five, or more wrestlers locked inside a steel cage that encompasses two rings placed side by side. The cage may or may not have a roof, depending on which professional wrestling promotion the match is held in.
Created by Dusty Rhodes in 1987, the WarGames match was originally used in Jim Crockett Promotions of the National Wrestling Alliance, and later, held annually in WCW, usually at the Fall Brawl pay-per-view event. These original WarGames matches had a roof on the cage with no pinfalls as a win situation, although later WCW versions allowed pinfalls to win.
Since 2017, WWE, which purchased the assets of WCW in 2001, has held annual WarGames matches at WarGames branded events. WWE's WarGames matches do not have a roof on the cage and also allow pinfalls as a win situation.
In 2021, All Elite Wrestling (AEW) established its own version of the match called Blood and Guts, but WWE owns the "WarGames" branding after acquiring WCW in the early 2000s.