Wrestle Review: Survivor Series 2018
There's something oddly endearing about WWE's phenomenal ability to book on the fly. A week from Survivor Series, the PPV's secret weapon in 'The Man' Becky Lynch got taken out by an errant shot from a sloppy Nia Jax.
Even then the company managed to pull a rabbit out of the hat by alternating the card up and down, much the way they had done last year dialed up to ten. Going into Survivor Series the two huge champions versus champion matches saw major changes. On one end we got Charlotte Flair versus Ronda Rousey, a bonafide Wrestlemania main event. On the other side, Daniel Bryan turned heel to set up his long wished bout against Brock Lesnar.
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WWE's roster had a tough task to follow after an unbelievable NXT Takeover War Games and while they really didn't; this has been one of the better pay per views. The stakes of brand warfare are minimal but they provide tantalizing dream collisions as mentioned.
Sure a clean sweep and inconsistency (a staple of 2018's WWE) marred this PPV but how well did it really do, why don't we find out.
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Ten Team Traditional Survivor Series Match: Team RAW (Captains Bobby Roode and Chad Gable, The Revival [Scott Dawson and Dash Wilder], The Ascension [Konnor and Viktor], B Team [Curtis Axel and Bo Dallas] and Lucha House Party [Lince Dorado and Gran Metalik/w Kalisto] vs. Team Smackdown [Captains The Usos [[Jimmy and Jey], The New Day [Xavier Woods and Big E/w Kofi Kingston], Good Brothers [Gallows and Anderson], Primo and Epico Colon and Sanity [Killian Dain and Eric Young/w Alexander Wolfe]
That fact that WWE doesn't care about its tag team division is clear the moment Braun Strowman wrecked the RAW team this past Monday prior to naming their captains through a battle royale. It reflected during a lethargic opening of swift eliminations (huge oxymoron) of wanton teams to set up the exciting finale between the team of Roode/Gable and Revival against New Day and Usos.
Revival had a coming out party, despite using a few too many high-flying moves for characters all about the fists. The Usos won a meaningless contest which got not point standing in the official RAW versus SmackDown chart. Technically RAW did not clean sweep SmackDown, but you know why WWE doesn't want you to know?
Because someone made a huge blunder in booking the end of the match. SmackDown was never meant to win, way to show you care WWE; meanwhile Undisputed ERA tore the house down as a unit on NXT Takeover.
Result: The Usos beat Revival and are sole survivors to give SmackDown the point (just don't tell anyone about it)
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