7 Ups And 9 Downs From WWE Survivor Series 2018

7. Nia Rewarded For Sloppiness

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On the one hand, you can half-understand WWE wanting to cash in on the genuine, organic response that Nia Jax is currently eliciting from fans after she sloppily slugged Becky Lynch and broke her nose, knocking her out of the biggest match of her career at a point when she’s never been hotter.

But then again, WWE has never been one to really listen to their fans in a timely fashion. See: Daniel Bryan, circa 2013-14; Braun Strowman, circa 2017-18; Asuka, this spring.

Nia soaked in the jeers and played to the crowd as they booed her every move. That’s all well and good. But then she squashed Asuka with three legdrops and a Samoan Drop, with the Empress of Tomorrow not getting a single move in.

Again, if this is WWE’s way of enraging fans to cash in on the backlash, it’s a hell of an idea. But this was a tad ridiculous, with her demolishing the best wrestler on the SmackDown team.

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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.