5 Ups & 7 Downs From WWE Survivor Series 2020
Decent but forgettable show produces good matches, lackluster Taker farewell.
Survivor Series on Sunday was a lot of we expected, which is not exactly saying a lot of positive stuff.
The “brand supremacy” or “brand warfare” theme to this annual series in recent years has resulted in PPVs that produce some really good matches, but ultimately have little emotional connection or significance to them. The truth is that WWE has enough talented wrestlers that they could put just about any combination of wrestlers into a series of matches, throw it on TV and put on a really entertaining in-ring show.
But if no one cares about why wrestlers are fighting in the first place, what does it matter? Sadly, that’s the case with many of these Survivor Series matches, as decent, good and even really good matches are tempered somewhat because there are no real consequences at stake, other than declaring that your brand is superior to the other. (That worked somewhat last year because of young upstart NXT wanting to prove itself.)
Survivor Series gave us pretty good action across most of its matches on Sunday night, and we got to say farewell to the Undertaker in an unusual and underwhelming ceremony, but if anything besides Taker’s goodbye is remembered a week later, it’ll be shocking.
With that said, let’s get to it…