7 Ups And 9 Downs From WWE Survivor Series 2018

6. Unseen Matchmaking

Seth Rollins
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When Dean Ambrose turned on Seth Rollins the same night that Roman Reigns announced his leukemia had returned, it was nuclear heat, the kind you couldn’t manufacture if you tried.

Since then, the feud has stalled with Crown Jewel already in place and Survivor Series right behind it. Worse, Dean hasn’t provided much of answers save for one good promo.

Sunday, Charly Caruso simply informed Rollins that he’s been booked in an Intercontinental Championship match at TLC against Ambrose. And that’s that. A white-hot feud where the two principle should be calling each other out and challenging the other, and instead it’s an unknown authority figure booking a title match between the two, because we have a PPV in four weeks.

Seriously, does anyone actually think how dumb that sounds when they write it? Why can’t Ambrose challenge him on Raw Monday night, saying he’s going to take the title he helped Rollins win? Why can’t Seth tell Dean to meet him at TLC so they can settle the score?

It’s just stupid, lazy writing that removes the wrestlers as the people driving the rivalry and instead are just cogs to plug into a PPV slot.

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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.