WWE Survivor Series 2018: Star Ratings For All 8 Matches

8. KICKOFF: Traditional Tag Team Survivor Series Match

It is impossible to care about Epico Colon. Confronted with a man not particularly intimidating, Kalisto botched a handstand spot, especially glaring, since he was showing off, and then he seemed to tweak his knee. If this wasn’t a shoot, it was an ugly and confusing work. Brilliantly, Xavier Woods called on Epico to sweep the leg.

We were in so-bad-it’s-good territory mere moments after the opening bell.

Kalisto did marginally better lucha things, injured knee and all, before the Colons and the B-Team were ejected in short order as the fodder they are. Reminder that one of these fodder teams reigned with the Tag Tram Titles earlier this year. Chad Gable attempted to pin Eric Young—genuinely forgot his name, typing that—before realising he wasn’t the legal man.

This was a right bloody mess for a while, but as the field heightened in quality, so did the action. Chad Gable’s Chaos Theory on Big E (!) looked incredible, and we can only really pick out the moves because this was an unapologetic, substance-free spot-fest. Chad Gable German suplexed an Uso from the top turnbuckle to the outside. That was worth a quarter of a star alone.

This was damn entertaining by the finish, but as became clear on the main show, the filler match was literally meaningless: it didn’t even count towards the score!

Star Rating: ***1/4