10 Biggest WWE Creative Mistakes Of 2019

6. The Timing Of NXT's Survivor Series Involvement

Shayna Baszler
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Every November, WWE like to pretend that wrestlers give a sh*t about the show they work on and build Survivor Series around phoney "brand warfare". It's dull, but 2019's version was saved slightly by the fact that NXT workers do care about their product. The issue here is that NXT also had something else to worry about other than fighting Raw and SmackDown.

They were in the midst of building towards TakeOver: War Games, and so it made little sense to see rivals like Shayna Baszler and Rhea Ripley pause to watch one another's backs against women on other shows. WWE's timing was crap here, to be blunt. They risked diluting War Games' intensity just so they could shoehorn NXT into Survivor Series as a "first time ever" selling point.

Granted, War Games went off without a hitch. Even so, it felt awkward to see enemies come together on Mondays and Fridays, then continue their own feuds on Wednesday nights when it suited. WWE didn't think this one through.

Or, maybe they did and just didn't care.

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