5 Ups & 9 Downs From WWE Survivor Series 2021

by Scott Carlson

1. Nonstop Action

Becky Lynch
WWE.com

Whatever you might think about the buildup to Survivor Series and fusing real-life with storylines, the women’s champion versus champion match was nothing short of incredible.

Becky Lynch and Charlotte Flair had a PPV-opening match that was nonstop, bell-to-bell action, with both women tearing into each other with everything in their arsenals. They traded stiff strikes and kicks, applied vicious submissions, and stole each other’s signature moves. It had all the feel of two wrestlers who genuinely didn’t like each other, but it also was highly entertaining.

The finish saw Flair going for a rollup and trying to use the ropes, only for the referee to catch her, then Becky reversing to her own rollup and using the ropes, with the ref missing it. While it was somewhat disappointing to end a really good match like that that way, it still worked fine.

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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.