Survivor Series (2012)

Survivor Series (2012) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view show made by WWE. It took place on November 18, 2012 at the Bankers Life Fieldhouse in Indianapolis, Indiana. It was the 26th Survivor Series event held by WWE.

In the main event, CM Punk defeated John Cena and Ryback in a Triple Threat match to keep his WWE Championship. It is also famous for the main roster debut of The Shield (Dean Ambrose, Roman Reigns, and Seth Rollins), who beat up Ryback and helped Punk win the match. Other title matches saw Big Show keep his World Heavyweight Championship against Sheamus via disualification, Eve Torres keep her Divas Championship against Kaitlyn, and Antonio Cesaro keep his United States Championship against R-Truth.

Matches

No.	Results	Stipulations	Times
1^P	3MB (Heath Slater and Jinder Mahal) (with Drew McIntyre) defeated Team Co-Bro (Santino Marella and Zack Ryder)^[1]	Tag team match	6:11
2	Team Clay (Brodus Clay, Justin Gabriel, Tyson Kidd, Sin Cara and Rey Mysterio) (with Cameron and Naomi) defeated Team Tensai (Tensai, Primo, Epico and The Prime Time Players (Darren Young and Titus O'Neil)) (with Rosa Mendes)^[2]	Five-on-five Survivor Series elimination tag team match¹	18:27
3	Eve Torres (c) defeated Kaitlyn^[3]	Singles match for the WWE Divas Championship	7:01
4	Antonio Cesaro (c) defeated R-Truth^[4]	Singles match for the WWE United States Championship	6:57
5	Sheamus defeated Big Show (c) by disqualification^[5]	Singles match for the World Heavyweight Championship	14:44
6	Team Ziggler (Dolph Ziggler, Damien Sandow, David Otunga, Wade Barrett, and Alberto Del Rio) (with Ricardo Rodriguez) defeated Team Foley (The Miz, Kofi Kingston, Team Hell No (Kane and Daniel Bryan), and Randy Orton) (with Mick Foley)^[6]	Five-on-five Survivor Series elimination tag team match²	13:43
7	CM Punk (c) (with Paul Heyman) defeated Ryback and John Cena^[7]	Triple threat match for the WWE Championship	17:58
(c) – is the champion(s) going into the match P – This match took place on the pre-show

Eliminated	Wrestler	Eliminated by	Method	Times
01 1	Brodus Clay	Tensai	Pinfall	8:25
02 2	Tensai	Justin Gabriel		10:23
03 3	Titus O'Neil	Tyson Kidd		13:51
04 4	Epico	Tyson Kidd	Submission	15:02
05 5	Primo	Rey Mysterio	Pinfall	17:32
06 6	Darren Young	Rey Mysterio	Pinfall	18:27
11 Survivors:	Rey Mysterio, Sin Cara, Justin Gabriel, and Tyson Kidd			18:27

Eliminated	Wrestler	Eliminated by	Method	Time
01 1	Damien Sandow	Kane	Pinfall	03:08
02 2	Kane	Dolph Ziggler	Pinfall	03:47
03 3	David Otunga	Daniel Bryan	Submission	07:11
04 4	Kofi Kingston	Wade Barrett	Pinfall	09:43
05 5	Daniel Bryan	Alberto Del Rio	Submission	12:40
06 6	Wade Barrett	The Miz	Pinfall	16:05
07 7	The Miz	Alberto Del Rio		17:14
08 8	Alberto Del Rio	Randy Orton		21:00
09 9	Randy Orton	Dolph Ziggler		23:43
11 Survivor:	Dolph Ziggler (Team Ziggler)			23:43