Ranking Every WWE Survivor Series From Worst To Best

21. 2004

Survivor Series
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The Good: Team Orton Vs Team Triple H is an awesome old fashioned Survivor Series main event. Full of moving parts and intra-match angles, the match lays yet more groundwork in the Batista/Hunter rivalry whilst keeping up the pretense that Randy Orton is still the next great babyface hope.

The Bad: Kurt Angle and his dork mates never stood a change against a team with returning John Cena, Eddie Guerrero and The Big Show on, but WWE had the gaul to try and promote it all the same. The Olympic Gold Medalist was so often entrusted with making the meaningless somehow mean more, but he failed here.

The Ugly: JBL's WWE Championship match against Booker T was an awful, awful bore. Well into the reign at this point, Bradshaw only ever excelled on the microphone. Had his matches been even half as good as his caustic promos, he'd have been one of the best performers in company history. Virtually nothing from the entire 2004-2005 tenure stands up to rewatch.

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