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Reigns, Usos, Sami, CM Punk Beat The Bloodline in WarGames at WWE Survivor Series

Mike Chiari

The team of Roman Reigns, Jey Uso, Jimmy Uso, Sami Zayn and CM Punk defeated The Bloodline's Solo Sikoa, Jacob Fatu, Tama Tonga, Tonga Loa and Bronson Reed in a five-on-five WarGames match at WWE Survivor Series: WarGames on Saturday.

In a main event for the ages, bodies soared from the top of the cage, crashed through tables and leaped off the ropes as the two teams unleashed chaos upon each other.

Despite some tension between the two teammates, Punk closed out the match by delivering a GTS to Sikoa, perfectly setting up Reigns for a ring-shattering spear to secure the victory for their team.

Division within The Bloodline began at WrestleMania 40 when Reigns dropped the WWE Championship to Cody Rhodes in the main event. Reigns disappeared from WWE programming in the months that followed, leaving Sikoa to take over as the Tribal Chief.

While Reigns was away, Solo remade The Bloodline in his vision, kicking out Jimmy Uso and Paul Heyman, and bringing in Fatu, Tama Tonga and Tonga Loa.

Sikoa also talked trash about Reigns during his absence, which prompted Reigns to return at SummerSlam and cost Solo in his WWE Championship match against Rhodes. Reigns than began referring to himself as the Original Tribal Chief or OTC.

Once it became clear that he would not be able to take down the new Bloodline on his own, Reigns went to work on assembling a team, and it started with the return of Jimmy at Bad Blood, as he helped Roman and Cody beat Sikoa and Fatu in a tag team match.

Reigns and Jimmy still needed more help, though, which led to them reaching out to Jey. While he was initially resistant, his stance changed when the new Bloodline cost him the Intercontinental Championship in a match against Bron Breakker.

Knowing they were still at a numbers disadvantage, Reigns and The Usos opened up with Zayn, who was the Honorary Uce of The Bloodline once upon a time before he grew tired of Reigns' tyrannical ways.

Sikoa also tried to recruit Zayn, and for a moment, it appeared as though he was poised to join the new Bloodline, but it was all a ruse, and Sami agreed to join forces with Reigns and The Usos once again.

A WarGames match was set for Survivor Series at that point, but both teams still needed to find one more member. The Bloodline struck first by bringing in Reed, who made a statement by decimating Reigns and Co.

Reigns struggled to find a fifth man of his own, but all of that changed when Heyman returned on a recent episode of SmackDown, ending his several-month hiatus.

Heyman took it upon himself to introduce Punk as the final member of the team, giving Reigns' team another heavy hitter to combat The Bloodline.

The squad assembled by Reigns was victorious at Survivor Series, which calls into question the future of the new Bloodline and Sikoa's status as Tribal Chief.

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