Ranking Every Raw Vs SmackDown WWE Survivor Series Match From Worst To Best

17. AOP Vs The Bar (2018)

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It would be easy to analyse an inconsequential tag team battle between The Bar and the Authors Of Pain instead of focusing the perplexing "comedy" conclusion, but even trying to talk about the heat or work within the match seems futile considering the fact that they were merely props to facilitate the deployment of another inanimate one.

A decent match between two over acts didn't matter a f*cking jot when one of the supporting cast (and in this case, a General Manager) urinated in fear of a fight.

Vince McMahon made Akam and Rezar Raw Tag Team Champions because they were accompanied by the diminutive Drake Maverick during a time the SmackDown doubles titleholders were hanging around with The Big Show. He surely guffawed with glee imaging how silly it would look when the former 'Rockstar' went nose-to-nipple with his massive rival. His sides presumably split clean open at the prospect of a ginormous man battering the smaller one. He likely p*ssed himself when he considered the ide-

And that's how it happened.

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