Well, that was eventful. The landscape of WWE changed forever Sunday night at the 28th annual Survivor Series. No, not because Triple H and Stephanie McMahon are out of power forever (read: until WWE decides that Raw needs more McMahon to boost ratings). That will have about as much impact as when John Cena was fired during the Nexus feud and showed up the next night. We all know its a temporary move and if theres a desire to get Triple H and Stephanie back on our screens, theyll do it post-haste. The big development was the arrival of the one WCW holdout who had never set foot inside a WWE ring until Sunday night. Think about all the major superstars who competed in World Championship Wrestling. Damn near every one of them spent time in WWF/E: Lex Luger, Steiner Brothers, Road Warriors, Barry Windham, Ric Flair and Goldberg. But there was one guy who never jumped, even when WCW was no more and the only big game in town was based out of Stamford, CT. All of that changed Sunday when Sting walked out at the end of Survivor Series. As a free PPV, Survivor Series certainly delivered, with the Sting debut (how often can you say a 55-year-old debuted?) alone being worthwhile. But how did the rest of the event do? This was free on the WWE Network to try to entice more fans to watch and hopefully subscribe to the Network (for $9.99!), so the idea had to be to put together a blockbuster show to make it a no-brainer. Did WWE deliver? Lets find out.
Scott is a former journalist and longtime wrestling fan who was smart enough to abandon WCW during the Monday Night Wars the same time as the Radicalz. He fondly remembers watching WrestleMania III, IV, V and VI and Saturday Night's Main Event, came back to wrestling during the Attitude Era, and has been a consumer of sports entertainment since then. He's written for WhatCulture for more than a decade, establishing the Ups and Downs articles for WWE Raw and WWE PPVs/PLEs and composing pieces on a variety of topics.
