Survivor Series (2002)

Event
Survivor Series (2002) was the 16th annual Survivor Series professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event co-produced by World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) and New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW). It took place on November 17, 2002, from Madison Square Garden in New York, New York and featured talent from both the Raw and SmackDown brands and NJPW. The official theme song was "Always" by Saliva, who performed the song and Chris Jericho's entrance music live from The World.

The main event from the Raw brand was the Elimination Chamber match for the WWE World Championship involving reigning champion Brock Lesnar, Edge, Chris Jericho, Booker T, Big Show and Kane. Show won the match after last eliminating Lesnar. The predominant match on the SmackDown brand was The Great Muta versus William Regal for the WWE Global Championship. And from NJPW we had Yuji Nigata versus Tadao Yasuda for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship. In the undercard we had Cho-Ten (Hiroyoshi Tenzan and Masahiro Chono) versus Gedo & Jado for the IWGP Tag Team Championship, Team WWE (The Undertaker, Triple H, Rob Van Dam, Bubba Ray and Sean O'Haire) versus Team NJPW (Kazuyuki Fujita, Scott Norton, Kensuke Sasaki, Genichiro Tenryu and Shinya Hashimoto) in a Traditional 5-on-5 Elimination Survivor Series match. The World's Greatest Tag Team (Shelton Benjamin and Charlie Haas) versus Canadian Carnage (Christian and Lance Storm) for the WWE World Tag Team Championship, Victoria versus Trish Stratus for the WWE Women's Championship. Rey Mysterio & Eddie Guerrero versus Kurt Angle and Chris Benoit for the WWE Global Tag Team Championship and Goldust versus Shane McMahon for the WWE Heritage Championship.