10 Match Star Ratings For WWE Survivor Series 2019
5. Adam Cole Vs. Pete Dunne - NXT Championship Match
Adam Cole is an exceptional professional wrestler, but not for the reasons they want you to think he's an exceptional professional wrestler.
He isn't an exceptional professional wrestler because he's out there on an absolutely crazy, fatalistic schedule. WWE have hooked up the Kool-Aid to Cole via IV drip. This is very much a test of his company face credentials, which should see him roundly booed as a babyface in two years' time.
He passed a far more meaningful and less ugly test here.
It made no sense that he was even asked in storylines to defend his NXT Championship 24 hours removed from captaining his WarGames team in an ultra-violent gimmick match. To correct this plot hole and excuse the finish, Pete Dunne also wrestled through a worked injury. This was cop-out "this is how we'll get around it" storytelling told in front of a waning crowd, but Cole got it over, because he is an exceptional professional wrestler.
His selling was expert here, and his ability to counter so creative and effective that Dunne never looked inferior for losing clean to a broken man. The desperation and ingenuity he sold in the closing stretch was elite-level stuff, and the crowd were lulled into his spell by the finish.
More impressive than even a super pro wrestling match.
Star Rating: ★★★★¼