10 Big Mistakes WWE Can't Afford To Make With Survivor Series 2016
7. Widespread Dysfunction
Survivor Series is going to be chaotic. Each elimination team is comprised of wrestlers who can’t stand each other, and while the Commissioners have tried to encourage cohesion, Raw and SmackDown have been rife with infighting lately. Both teams were able to temporarily set their differences aside earlier in the week, but there’s no way the likes of AJ Styles and Dean Ambrose or Charlotte and Sasha Banks can coexist for a whole match after everything they’ve been through.
This has been a constant theme throughout the build, and Survivor Series’ winners will likely be the teams that are most successful in setting their differences aside. It’ll be a huge issue in all three matches, but WWE should be wary: over-reliance on miscommunication and arguments won’t only devalue the elimination matches, but tire the audience out.
WWE would be wise to employ some variety, and ensure that these matches don’t all finish in the exact same way. On paper, the men’s and women’s elimination matches appear the most combustible, and it’d make sense for one of them to end in complete and utter chaos. Doing this in all three would be entirely too predictable, and after Hell In A Cell was largely spoiled by convoluted finishes, it’s something WWE should think twice about at Survivor Series.