10 WWE PPVs That Were Doomed From The Start
5. Survivor Series 2013
Daniel Bryan was never their guy.
When Vince McMahon relented and let him gobble up the WrestleMania XXX spotlight, he did so under duress and never had the 'YES! Man' in mind for leading the company once the bluster around his win had finally died down. His win represented the end of a frustrating war with his own audience, and if the 'Show Of Shows' was the apex, Survivor Series 2013 was the pay-per-view nadir.
After months of screwy finishes in the Bryan/Randy Orton series, the company went from putting the knife in the crowd's back to jamming it in the front. Bryan was unconvincingly shuffled into a story with The Wyatt Family alongside CM Punk, whilst The Big Show was even more unconvincingly wedged in as a Bryan surrogate against 'The Apex Predator'.
The resultant series was absolutely turgid, and helped bulldoze the largely forgotten Survivor Series main event as it limped home as the worst 'Big Four' topliner of the year. The Daniel Bryan-based disdain cast a shadow on the rest of the card. After a spirited opening battle featuring a still-red hot Shield, the card completely collapsed. Other lows before the main event included an instantly forgotten John Cena/Alberto Del Rio match, another underwhelming Ryback and Mark Henry match p*ss weak wastes of the likes of Big E, AJ Lee and the aforementioned Bryan/Punk/Wyatts quartet.