7 Ups And 9 Downs From WWE Survivor Series 2018

by Scott Carlson

1. Bryan Coaxes Surprisingly Strong Match

Brock Lesnar Daniel Bryan
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Daniel Bryan sure as hell looked like he was a dead man walking about 3-4 minutes into his match with Brock Lesnar, as Brock hit numerous German and belly-to-belly overhead suplexes on D-Bry.

But one low blow changed everything, and the result was a pretty incredible little match. Sure, Bryan being a heel underdog was a weird dynamic, but it allowed him to stomp and kick Brock with such viciousness that it made it plausible that he could win.

Of course, he didn’t (gotta keep Brock strong for when Roman Reigns returns, PAL), but Brock looked like he was in trouble for much of the second half of the match. That’s more than we could say for the past several Lesnar matches.

It would have been interesting to see this match when we were first supposed to in 2014, but it wasn’t a letdown on Sunday, at least not as bad as you might have initially thought it could be.

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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.