5 best performances from Survivor Series 2018
An exciting weekend for wrestling fans all over the world has just gone by with Survivor Series ending on a high note. This year's event featured some great wrestling matches from top to bottom along with some great surprises.
In trying to follow a very good NXT TakeOver: Wargames event, which featured incredible matches like Aleister Black vs. Johnny Gargano and Velveteen Dream vs. the NXT champion Tommaso Ciampa, the pressure was on the main roster to deliver.
Which 5 matches from this year's mega cross-promotional event were able to meet the level that they could be called a great match? Let's take a look.
#5: The Men's Survivor Series Elimination match
Team RAW featured Strowman, McIntyre, Ziggler, Lashley, and Finn Balor while team Smackdown featured Shane McMahon, Rey Mysterio, The Miz, Jeff Hardy, and Samoa Joe.
The RAW was very strong on paper but lacked the chemistry that was needed to put together a team, while SmackDown was definitely lesser on star power but worked well together as a team to overcome RAW.
The first elimination came at the hands of Drew McIntyre when he blasted Samoa Joe with a claymore kick by reversing Joe's submission manoeuvre. Smackdown gained the upper hand a short time later and lead 2-1 but once Braun Strowman bounced back in the match, it was all him as he eliminated the rest of the opposition team to lead team RAW to victory.
As far as the storytelling goes, it was very consistent here. The story of Raw clean sweeping Smackdown shows that the WWE was interested in making Smackdown the inferior brand and anyone that has watched WWE for a long time knows that the company favors RAW over SmackDown, so indeed they would book the flagship show to win here.