7 Ups And 8 Downs From WWE Survivor Series 2019

6. Screwy Storytelling

Roman Reigns Keith Lee
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Teams overcoming the odds to triumph is a normal story that often works very well in wrestling. In the realm of Survivor Series, a team down in the number of wrestlers coming back to win can be a powerful tale.

But when that team is decimated by its own infighting, it makes the story tougher to swallow.

Team SmackDown in the men’s Survivor Series match saw two of its five members eliminated due to squabbles amongst teammates, with King Corbin distracting Mustafa Ali, leading to him falling to a stomp, and Roman Reigns taking Corbin out with a spear and allowing Tommaso Ciampa to pin him.

This left Reigns by himself, and he managed to pull out the win for his team. That by itself is not a negative. But having the team that couldn’t hold it together still win (see the women’s Team Raw for an example of the right way to have a meltdown) was just screwy.

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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.