5 Ups & 9 Downs From WWE Survivor Series 2021

2. Solid, But Disappointing

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Roman Reigns and Big E had a lot to live up to with their clash on Sunday night. These are two big athletic champions, so you know they were capable of tearing the house down. Throw in the personal conflict with Roman attacking E’s running buddies and you had the making of a barn-burner of a match.

What we got instead was a pretty solid bout that showed Big E’s ability to absorb punishment and keep coming, but it never really reached a point where you felt like it was a great match. Reigns kept attacking, but he couldn’t keep E down. That’s a fine story in most circumstances, but considering how much Kofi Kingston and King Woods had been made to suffer on SmackDown, you’d have thought we would have gotten a bit more of a slugfest, with both men really trading haymakers at the end, rather than E getting punched and speared a bunch and still recovering.

Don’t get it wrong, this was a good match, but it certainly wasn’t the show-stealer it could have been, and it definitely wasn’t better than the opener.

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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.