8 Booking Steps For The Perfect WWE Survivor Series 2017 Card

3. A Rampaging Beast

Survivor Series 2017
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Brock Lesnar vs. Jinder Mahal is almost certainly going to suck. The WWE Champion is one of the company's worst workers, and his Universal counterpart has a long track record of slacking off when unmotivated. Nothing about 'The Maharaja' suggests that Brock's going to be fired up on 19 November, and thus, we're probably getting the worst version of Lesnar.

There are only two ways to send the fans home happy here. The first is an all-out squash, but WWE probably don't want to do that to SmackDown's supposed 'top champion.' The other? A crazy five-minute blitz of a match, similar to Lesnar vs. Goldberg at WrestleMania 33.

Rumour has it that John Cena will be involved as a special guest referee, but this would be a mistake. His presence guarantees shenanigans, and with The Singh Brothers already in the equation, the last thing this card needs is another reason for fans to be wary of the main event. Keep it clean, fair, and frantic, and Mahal vs. Lesnar may succeed, but surround it with unnecessary window dressing and it'll flop.

We still want to see both Singh Brothers get F5'd through the announce table, though. Preferably at the same time.

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