5 Ups & 9 Downs From WWE Survivor Series 2021

7. Worse Than Pinned Via Clothesline

Kevin Owens
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There’s an old running joke about wrestlers being eliminated from Survivor Series via clothesline because it’s such a lame move, but you need to save the big moves for the finish.

Still, a clothesline at least is a wrestling move. The men’s Survivor Series match saw three of nine eliminations take place via count-out: Kevin Owens walked out to start the bout, and Drew McIntyre and Bobby Lashley both got counted out while brawling. The women’s bout had Sasha being counted out as well because her teammates wouldn’t let her get back in the ring.

Throw in an Austin Theory rollup on Sheamus and two more in the women’s match and nearly half the eliminations for the two matches were lame, uneventful departures.

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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.