Ranking Every WWE Survivor Series Main Event From Worst To Best

25. Team Raw Vs Team SmackDown (2017)

27 Goldberg Brock Lesnar Survivor Series
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An insanely exciting match on paper, this all-star encounter collapsed under the weight of Triple H's long-dormant insecurities.

'The Game' had Pedigree'd Jason Jordan out of the bout in the run-up to the show, but that opportunism wasn't a patch on the love letter to himself that brought 2017's Raw Vs SmackDown story to a close.

It hadn't been about Red Vs Blue after all; the real story was Hunter Vs The World. He put his NXT "kids" Shinsuke Nakamura, Bobby Roode, Samoa Joe and Finn Bálor in their places, set up potential WrestleMania programmes with Shane McMahon, Braun Strowman and Kurt Angle and went over.

Despite Michael Cole resisting one of his most famous utterances, this was vintage Triple H.

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