8 HUGE WWE Survivor Series Predictions You Need To Know
Can Bryan, Lesnar, Rousey and Flair deliver five star matches on five days' notice?
The only thing that doesn't change about WWE is a WWE fan's love of WWE.
It feels all the joy and pain of true love, but it maintains a relationship of trust despite occasional abuse. When rewarded, the love feels full all over again. And on, and on, and on to the WWE Network it goes.
Just over two weeks ago, the company had their entire male crew and Renee Young in Saudi Arabia for a show so problematic it drew the attention of the worldwide mainstream news media. This, despite it being only three weeks since they'd presented their most progressive (and best) pay-per-view of the year.
The brand was in bits. Who could pull it so quickly back from the brink at such a key time of year? Send for 'The Man'.
Becky Lynch's planned SmackDown Vs Raw match against Ronda Rousey was set to be f*cking huge before an errant Nia Jax punch condemned her to a concussion and an anxious wait for WrestleMania. The Survivor Series main event was lost...until it was replaced entirely.
For all the rumours that have forever persisted about McMahon's indifferent attitude to this show, this rapid reshuffling of the deck made Survivor Series somehow even more special. The long-dormant promoter within him sprung into action, switching out Lynch for next-best-thing Charlotte Flair and inserting a heel-turned Daniel Bryan into a match with Brock Lesnar for added value.
The love within is moving upwards, let's let it consume us for another 'Thanksgiving Classic'...
8. Team Raw Vs Team SmackDown Live Tag Team Elimination
The Usos and The New Day were the best things about a booming tag team division in 2017, but now remain the final remnants of one that's mostly imploded a year later.
Raw's line-up was still trying to heal the wounds from Braun Strowman's pre-WrestleMania destruction of the division before he opened them back up again on the go-home edition of the show as the duos fought for pointless captaincy, but virtually nobody from the red brand carries the credibility to justify scoring a fall over the either of the aforementioned Smackdown Live squads.
Away from Jimmy, Jey, Kofi Kingston, Big E and Xavier Woods, the blue brand is almost as barren. It's why only these two teams can justifiably survive, and why - rather tragically - this once-magnificent tradition (and amazing visual) has been confined to the kickoff show rather than the pay-per-view proper.
Hopefully, it'll get more than the ten minutes usually afforded to the pre-show matches, though watching (some) great work getting cut for commercials won't be particularly pleasing either. Here's to next year.
Winners - Team SmackDown Live