4 Ups & 9 Downs From WWE Raw (Nov 2)

1. Survivor Series Team Turmoil

It wouldn’t be Survivor Series time if we weren’t relying on the ultimate cliché.

Each year, Survivor Series elimination teams for each brand is filled, either via qualifiers or simple appointment. Almost every time, you end up with teams comprised of adversaries and people who don’t see eye to eye.

And that gives way to the annual bickering – and even brawling – that besets these teams, which we have to endure for weeks on end. It’s never, “who truly is the better team between Raw and SmackDown,” it’s more like, “which team can coexist long enough to win”?

On Monday night, we saw dissension between both Raw’s men’s and women’s teams, as all four men named to the team brawled, while all five women were involved in separate matches against each other.

Rather than falling back on this trope, why couldn’t they just have Raw name a bunch of heels, and SmackDown name a group of babyfaces? It wouldn’t be all that hard to figure something like this out rather than the brawling and then possible team unity for the sake of the brand.