WWE Survivor Series live coverage from the Verizon Center in Washington, DC

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The Miz & Jack Swagger & Drew McIntyre & Sheamus & Dolph Ziggler vs. Fit Finlay & Matt Hardy & Evan Bourne & Shelton Benjamin & John Morrison opens the show.

Match went almost exactly like you would predict. There was a legit injury as Scott Armstrong, the ref, in the middle of a brawl, saw Sheamus lose his footing and nailed the back of Armstrong's head with a knee and he suffered a concussion. Since Armstrong is no longer in an angle, the announcers were not allowed to mention his name. They had a ref replacement in mid-match and just said the ref suffered a concussion.

Bourne pinned Ziggler with a shooting star press

Seconds later, McIntyre pinned Bourne after a double arm DDT

Sheamus and Finlay squared off and Sheamus nailed Finlay with a high kick for the pin

Morrison pinned Swagger with the Starship pain

Miz pinned Benjamin with the skull crushing finale

McIntyre pinned Hardy with the double arm DDT

This left Morrison against all three, and as he came off the ropes with a springboard move, he got kicked in the knee by Sheamus. Sheamus pinned Morrison with the old Razor's Edge so Sheamus, Miz and McIntyre with the three survivors.

Team Kofi had a backstage talk. Christian noted he was different from the others. We were supposed to think he's the only white boy. Instead, he said he was the only guy from ECW and the only Canadian. Never said he was the only champion. Then he did a rap and talked about being the old white member of the team.

Rey Mysterio vs. Batista

Batista got cheered heavily here. They did what appeared to be a blow-off of the program as Batista destroyed Mysterio in a short match, using three Batista bombs until ref Jack Doan stopped the match ruling Mysterio unable to continue. The crowd was 90% or more for Batista wanting him to finish Mysterio. After the match Batista gave him a spinebuster on a chair and the crowd chanted "One more time." It should be noted Batista is from DC which is why he was such a strong babyface here, but it was surprising how much the crowd cheered for Batista to destroy him. Mysterio is going out on a stretcher here so I guess he's getting surgery earlier than he had planned.

We had a Team Orton team meeting. Orton said when he picked Regal and Punk, he expected them to be champions. Punk came back and said he expected the team leader not to get humiliated by Kofi Kingston in MSG.

Team Orton (C.M. Punk & William Regal & Ted DiBiase & Cody Rhodes & Randy Orton) vs. Team Kofi (Kofi Kingston & Mark Henry & MVP & R-Truth & Christian)

The match story was to get Kingston over as a major player since he pinned Orton at the end. Crowd was pretty dead until the last few minutes

Orton pinned Henry with an RKO in 50 seconds

Punk pinned R-Truth with the GTS

Christian pinned DiBiase with the killswitch

MVP pinned Regal with the kekka kick

Rhodes pinned MVP with Crossroads

Orton pinned Christian with the RKO

This left Kingston with Punk and Orton. Kingston wrestled Punk for 7 minutes with Orton never tagging in. Orton distracted Kingston and Punk got behind for a rolling reverse cradle, but Kingston reversed and got the pin. Orton jumped in for the RKO, but Kingston beat him to the punch with the Trouble in Paradise. They pushed the idea that Kingston pinned two former world champions in six seconds.

Basic stuff so far this show with the idea of elevating a few people.

Undertaker vs. Big Show vs. Chris Jericho for the World title

Good match here. Show & Jericho worked together until Jericho had Undertaker in the Walls of Jericho but Show used a choke slam. Lots of near falls with the third person saving. Show blocked he codebreaker and choke slammed Jericho. He went for a choke slam on Undertaker, but Undertaker reversed it into the gogoplata and Show tapped out. Undertaker's mouth was busted just before the finish when a potato shot by Show.

The Miz, Drew McIntyre & Sheamus together were being interviewed. Miz said the three are going to revolutionizing the industry. Teased Sheamus vs. Jerry Lawler coming soon, probably tomorrow.

Team Mickie James (Mickie James & Melina & Kelly Kelly & Eve Torres & Gail Kim) vs. Team Michelle McCool (Michelle McCool & Jillian Hall & Alicia Fox & Beth Phoenix & Layla

Kind of strange booking because it ended with Michelle McCool with two faces, James and Kim so the psychology was kind of screwy, before Melina (who wasn't in the ring until the last 90 seconds) pinned McCool

Kelly pinned Layla jumping on her back

McCool pinned Kim with the faith breaker

Torres pinned Hall with a sunset flip off he top rope

Phoenix pinned Torres with the Glam Slam

Phoenix pinned Kelly with the Glam Slam

James pinned Phoenix with the crucifix

James pinned Fox with a Thesz press off the top rope

Melina pinned McCool to win the match

John Cena vs. HHH vs. Shawn Michaels for the WWE title ends the show. No video previewing this match.

Good match, the only match on the show that was really anything special. Michaels superkicked HHH at the start of the match so there was never a period they were working together. Crowd was booing Cena throughout the match. A lot of near falls with and near submissions. At one point Michaels superkicked both HHH and Cena but then he collapsed and couldn't get the pin. The finish saw Michaels superkicked HHH as he went to pedigree Cena. Cena then gave Michaels an Attitude Adjustment and Cena pinned HHH to retain the title.