This is how the Wyatt Family should have been booked last month at Survivor Series. The foursome ran through the ECW originals with only one blemish against them with Erick Rowan being eliminated. Otherwise, it was presented and sold as the extreme warriors giving it their best shot, but falling far short. Weve seen the Wyatts lose so many feuds through the years that it almost felt weird to see them run through a group like that. Theyve manhandled the Dudleys during the past month, and save for a few moments in the match, it looked like the Wyatts were in charge Sunday night. Normally, this is where you say that a win like this really means something and gives the winners momentum, but you almost have to bite that back given WWEs penchant for 50/50 booking. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drPkOx_jm80 But had WWE been bold and gone this route last month, with the Wyatts (even all four of them to tip the scales) destroying the Brothers of Destruction, it would have gone much further in putting the backwoods faction over. Instead, Sundays match helped re-establish them rather than continuing their ascent. Still, it was the right result.
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.
