7 Ups And 9 Downs From WWE Survivor Series 2018

2. SmackDown Chumps

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As a continuation of sorts on the piss-poor booking from the women’s 5-on-5 match, we saw the same thing play out with the men.

Raw had wrestlers who couldn’t stand each other and in fact attacked each other multiple times, and yet they not only won, they destroyed SmackDown, with only two members of their team getting eliminated. It was the kind of annihilation that leaves you to wonder if it was more the Harlem Globetrotters versus the Washington Generals than Raw versus SmackDown.

And while the whole “brand supremacy” thing is stupid, it’s ridiculous to watch one show so completely dominate the other, unless it’s actually going somewhere. Odds are, it isn’t, but we’ll wait and see.

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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.