WWE Survivor Series 2018: 7 Things WWE Got Right
1. Using A Low Blow To Spark Daniel Bryan's Comeback
Meanwhile on SmackDown, Shinsuke Nakamura has been supplanted as the in-house ball-booter.
That's Daniel Bryan's act now, and it was the best way to swing things in his favour against Brock Lesnar. As big, bad and beastly as Brock is, even he's not immune to a swift kick in the plums. That's realism, and this momentum-shifting spot was a superb allusion to Bryan's new heel run and the same underdog desperation that's always been there.
If anyone had been doubting WWE's decision to replace AJ Styles with Daniel in the first place (and there can't have been many; a Lesnar vs. Styles rematch from last year didn't exactly get the blood pumping), then the main event's layout would have surely changed minds. It ebbed and flowed how it needed to.
Hopefully, WWE don't treat this as a one-off and never revisit it. There's money in a rematch if they want it, and more so if Bryan's ball-bashing punt is legal and not something he has to do behind the ref's back. Score two for the rematches coming out of Survivor Series, 'cause Rousey vs. Flair II is also up there.
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What else, if anything, do you think WWE got right at Survivor Series? Let us know down in the comments section!