5 Ups And 6 Downs From WWE Survivor Series 2016

2. Way To Show Importance Of Division

WWE Survivor Series 2016 Brian Kendrick Kalisto
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Just when it looked like WWE was going to raise the profile of the cruiserweight division by putting it up for grabs in a PPV match, the company went and pulled the rug out from under us.

The WWE Cruiserweight Championship match between Brian Kendrick and Kalisto has more than the title on the line. If SmackDown’s Kalisto won, the entire division would migrate to the blue brand. The two had a solid bout that picked up steam as it went and started pulling the fans into it… only for Baron Corbin to interfere and cause a DQ en route to demolishing Kalisto.

And that was that. The cruiserweight division’s big PPV moment was turned into an angle for a Corbin/Kalisto feud. That just about sums up WWE’s priorities right there.

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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.