10 HUGE WWE Survivor Series 2021 Predictions You Need To Know
Who needs to represent a Brand when you're the Baddest Woman On The Planet?
It's no longer even a lukewarm take to say that WWE haven't done much of a job building Survivor Series, but as we enter a full half-decade of Raw Vs SmackDown as the theme of the 'Thanksgiving Classic', perhaps this is the best longterm story Vince McMahon has told since the last boom period?
Think about it - longstanding fans were appalled at the prospect of one of the 'Big Four' being swiped from the pay-per-view schedule by McMahon when he posited it back in the late-2000s. Had this man no soul? No love and respect for the legacy he created? No idea how f*cking weird people's video/DVD shelves would look if it just...stopped?! Well, no, no and no quite obviously, but would that evil genius get the same pushback now?
Unlikely.
It's not just fans that have grown tired of the concept. Becky Lynch and Xavier Woods have openly doubted the validity and worth of the brand warfare bullsh*t, and WWE itself didn't exactly bolt out of the blocks promoting it once they'd gotten Crown Jewel - the one that really mattered to them - out of the way.
Expectations are low. Typically, this is when WWE excels.
10. Women's Survivor Series Match
A build so pitiful that it almost looks advantageous to be left out of the match than actually in it, WWE's women's divisions on both brands have been reduced to squabbling fools as per bloody usual.
WWE as a 52-week-a-year show is not the blessing they advertise it to be. Vince McMahon has forgotten more about wrestling than any of us will ever remember, but that's become a weakness rather than a skill. Since 2016 we've seen this flag-waving rah-rah stuff have so little juice that the company has no choice to resort to booking partners to turn on one another as commentators listlessly bark about co-existing.
It's a f*cking curse, man. AEW's Full Gear wasn't even immune to it - were Cody, PAC, Andrade El Idolo and Malakai Black fondly remembering their days of yore as they grafted their way through an impossible job on Saturday? Luckily for them, that was a rule-proving exception.
No such luck for these unfortunate souls. Shotzi and Sasha Banks will fall out as the last two members of Team SmackDown, opening the door for Bianca Belair to be the sole survivor. Then, thank f*ck, we can start thinking about salvaging things for the bulk of everybody involved.
Winners - Team Raw (1-0)