9 WWE Survivor Series 2020 Impulse Reactions

Is it still nice to be nice about WWE being nice to old wrestlers?

The company has luxuriated in its own sh*tty behaviour in 2020, firing loads of wrestlers during an unprecedented period of upheaval for people and profit for the company, and has just recently robbed its existing roster of valuable extra earnings and creative expression with third parties such as Cameo and Twitch.

If it wasn't so bloody sweet seeing the likes of Savio Vega and The Godwinns having such a fun time with their old friends, there'd be no soul left in this organisation at all. Henry will always be the man that threw Triple H into a pile of pig sh*t, no matter how much money or power 'The Game' amasses. Those moments are necessary to cut through the rote company-mandated sense of ceremony attached to stuff like this.

Still, at least it had that. After a train of wrestlers emerged, a video package aired to see them off! Only a weathered Vince McMahon remained. His listless intro triggered a few technical difficulties before The Undertaker himself arrived to say a succinct goodbye, pose with a hologram Paul Bearer, and leave.

This was, even by their 2020 standards, a mesmerisingly under-thought presentation. Your writer is no 'Deadman' fan, but it would at least have been nice to have been given something - anything - to analyse before that lower third trademark graphic came up.

In a company obsessed with legends and moments and all that, this whole thing should be a warning of how little they'll care when the lights go down.