7 Ups And 3 Downs From WWE NXT TakeOver: Toronto

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Survivor Series weekend provides wrestling fans with an overload of matches and excitement, but it also provides a stark contrast between two different worlds.

The WWE’s fall classic will have six matches (unless more are added last-minute), three of which are the typically lengthy elimination matches. Survivor Series starts at 7 p.m. and probably will include numerous backstage segments and interviews, maybe a couple played up for yuks.

TakeOver: Toronto, by comparison, consisted of five matches ranging from good to great and no filler. No backstage segments, no interviews, no authority figures talking about brand supremacy or threatening wrestlers with their jobs if they lose. It also clocked in at less than 2-1/2 hours that breezed by.

Odds are you won’t be able to say that after a four-hour Survivor Series PPV Sunday night.

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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.