Survivor Series (2013)
WWE's 2013 Survivor Series pay-per-view
The 2013 Survivor Series was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by WWE. It was the 27th annual Survivor Series and took place on Sunday, November 24, 2013, at the TD Garden in Boston, Massachusetts. This was the second Survivor Series at the venue, after 2008 when it was known as the TD Banknorth Garden. The event was highlighted by the titular Survivor Series match, a tag team elimination match that pits teams of multiple wrestlers against each other.
Eight matches were contested at the event, including one on the Kickoff pre-show, as well as two Survivor Series matches on the main card. The main event saw Randy Orton defeat Big Show to retain the WWE Championship. In other prominent matches, John Cena defeated Alberto Del Rio to retain the World Heavyweight Championship and CM Punk and Daniel Bryan defeated The Wyatt Family (Luke Harper and Erick Rowan).
The pay-per-view was the worst-selling edition of Survivor Series since the event's inception in 1987; this was attributed to a weak buildup. It received 179,000 PPV buys, down from 212,000 for the previous year's event; and attracted more than 100,000 fewer orders than the 2011 event, which generated 281,000 buys. This was the final Survivor Series to broadcast exclusively via traditional PPV outlets due to the launch of the WWE Network streaming service in February 2014. This was also the final to feature the previous version of the World Heavyweight Championship, which was unified with the WWE Championship at the following month's TLC: Tables, Ladders & Chairs event.
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