7 Things WWE Survivor Series 2017 Got Wrong
It's ALL about The Game
Pay-per-views are the most significant timestamps in wrestling. Completists may enjoy sifting through the hours and hours of television WWE have managed to ecru and neatly archive on their own streaming service, but the monthly (or sometimes fortnightly) shows tend to draw in casual and hardcore observers alike. Really big shows featuring megastars even hoover up lapsed fans. Such was the main goal of the Survivor Series, and it probably worked. But they'll likely not come back.
As good as Survivor Series was as a show (and in places, it was absolutely brilliant), the closing salvo was deeply destructive. An effort in empty egotism, the fragility of the fiercely protected few was persevered at the expense of the many.
It was an issue that had tacitly manifested itself upon the card as a whole, but wasn't as readily apparent until a final fifteen minutes that performed perhaps the hardest reset on WWE's status quo in several years.
WWE super-serve on their supercards these days, meaning there'll be more than enough over a mammoth four-to-six hour card to leave you satisfied to keep the $9.99 monthly payments coming. But with such a safe assumption, the company doesn't half push its luck...
7. Stephanie's Revolution
Kudos to the Monday Night Raw women for their fantastic victory in the genuinely impressive five-on-five elimination match. It was a team effort of course, but special praise must go the one woman that stood tall amongst the collection of talented performers and Alicia Fox.
Stephanie McMahon.
In case you'd forgotten how she invented Women's Wrestling in 2015, she was there again to remind you how she'd keep it on the rails for years to come with a speech theoretically inspiring had it not been delivered by a character ordinarily obsessed with reducing talent to dust on an almost weekly basis.
Yet more heinous indulgence from a billionaire's kid that she almost certainly had a hand in scripting, Stephanie barked her aspirational bullsh*t as if to be the one to tip the team over the line. Not Asuka's incredible and unbeatable skill, nor Bayley's bravery or the tenacity of Sasha Banks. 'The Boss' was there alright, but this one was anything but 'Legit'.
Authority season looks to troublingly around the corner, but the sooner she disappears through a table again, the better.