7 Match Star Ratings For WWE Survivor Series 2021

7. KICKOFF: Damian Priest Vs. Shinsuke Nakamura

Here's what happened behind the curtain.

WWE creative at some point realised that they had to book the match. It's Survivor Series. The respective midcard champions always wrestle one another at Survivor Series. At present, the respective midcard champions are Damian Priest and Shinsuke Nakamura. Thus, Damian Priest Vs. Shinsuke Nakamura was set. The issue is that they didn't want to book Damian Priest Vs. Shinsuke Nakamura. The match was an inconvenience. They didn't want to beat either of them. But you had to watch it. Because it's Survivor Series.

So, at Survivor Series, you watched a match that concluded nothing and mattered even less. You watched a thumbnail on a streaming service with a finish settled upon with contempt directed towards you, the mark who watched it.

Behind the curtain, somebody said "How do we get away with this?"

As if promoting a meaningful card of action is a crime.

They arrived at the answer: "Just have Priest get DQ'd, who gives a sh*t."

And so Priest and Nakamura were dispatched to the ring for 10 easy minutes of actually not bad action - Priest defended Nakamura's strikes with a degree of inventive credibility - in what will prove to be a challenging trivia question in about a year's time.

"What match kicked off Survivor Series 2021?"

"Who gives a sh*t?"

Star Rating: ★★¾