7 Match Star Ratings For WWE Survivor Series 2021
2. Team RAW Vs. Team SmackDown (Women's)
Could Sasha Banks and Shotzi co-exist?
No, because they're engaged in a rivalry that they care more about than brand supremacy.
This was weird enough at various points to yield an actual thought, which is something. So much on this show just...happened, in a blur of decent choreography. If you drifted off and jolted upright to watch Sasha Banks and Bianca Belair work the best sequences of a very uneven match, you'd be forgiven for thinking they were the last two women involved. They weren't. The remaining field just crouched by the ring apron for ages, as if they were distractions from one of the few pairings that were expected to receive a reaction. It was a bizarre scene of over-selling.
Attempts were made to tell certain sub-stories, but none that proved worthwhile to the match itself. Sasha and Shotzi furthered their feud when Sasha bettered Shotzi's frog splash in a flex. It was all too effective; Shotzi is struggling badly in an ill-fitting heel role and whiffed the spot completely. This in theory drove interest in a match between the two women. A few problems:
1) The match already happened on Friday.
2) The sequence made it clear who was the better wrestler, as did the match they had already wrestled. On Friday.
3) Sasha and Shotzi were working a match in which they were partners.
The action here wasn't great, and mostly existed to restore Belair's rep after a damaging series opposite Becky Lynch. Rhea Ripley and Shayna Baszler worked some decent exchanges, but another reminder that it is no longer 2019 just felt cruel, if anything. The entire complexion of post-draft WWE is such a mess that it was easy to forget who was on which brand.
Survivor Series 2021 was ultimately too boring to generate headlines resulting from its awfulness. God, what an indictment that is.
Star Rating: ★★½