WWE Survivor Series 2018: 7 Things WWE Got Right

by Jamie Kennedy

1. Using A Low Blow To Spark Daniel Bryan's Comeback

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Meanwhile on SmackDown, Shinsuke Nakamura has been supplanted as the in-house ball-booter.

That's Daniel Bryan's act now, and it was the best way to swing things in his favour against Brock Lesnar. As big, bad and beastly as Brock is, even he's not immune to a swift kick in the plums. That's realism, and this momentum-shifting spot was a superb allusion to Bryan's new heel run and the same underdog desperation that's always been there.

If anyone had been doubting WWE's decision to replace AJ Styles with Daniel in the first place (and there can't have been many; a Lesnar vs. Styles rematch from last year didn't exactly get the blood pumping), then the main event's layout would have surely changed minds. It ebbed and flowed how it needed to.

Hopefully, WWE don't treat this as a one-off and never revisit it. There's money in a rematch if they want it, and more so if Bryan's ball-bashing punt is legal and not something he has to do behind the ref's back. Score two for the rematches coming out of Survivor Series, 'cause Rousey vs. Flair II is also up there.

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What else, if anything, do you think WWE got right at Survivor Series? Let us know down in the comments section!

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Lifelong wrestling, video game, music and sports obsessive who has been writing about his passions since childhood. Jamie started writing for WhatCulture in 2013, and has contributed thousands of articles and YouTube videos since then. He cut his teeth penning published pieces for top UK and European wrestling read Fighting Spirit Magazine (FSM), and also has extensive experience working within the wrestling biz as a manager and commentator for promotions like ICW on WWE Network and WCPW/Defiant since 2010. Further, Jamie also hosted the old Ministry Of Slam podcast, and has interviewed everyone from Steve Austin and Shawn Michaels to Bret Hart and Trish Stratus.