10 Big Concerns Heading Into WWE Survivor Series 2020

10. Lack Of Build

It's hard to get excited for a PPV when very little effort has gone into crafting the matches that take place at it. Survivor Series' legacy as a tag-team series PPV has resulted in it becoming all about brand warfare over the last couple of years - just as it did many times during the original brand split - but never has it felt quite so flat.

We knew that the event would see Raw and SmackDown face off and WWE programming has behaved like it was aware of that, simply relying on our knowledge of what usually happens at Survivor Series to build the upcoming edition. But that's not how you build a PPV.

Infighting among the teams with little-to-no interaction between the superstars of either brand, there has been no build whatsoever. All you have to do is look at the WWE Championship picture, where former champ Randy Orton was more focused on Drew McIntyre and The Fiend than SmackDown's Roman Reigns, and now that McIntyre's won the gold back and swanned into a match last-minute that WWE led us to believe he wasn't going to be part of, what was even the point in him losing the title in the first place?

Survivor Series 2020 stands on ceremony to its detriment. The only matches on the card are there because the event dictates them to be, so no effort was made on the part of the company to build anything meaningful around them.

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