WWE Survivor Series 2023: 10 Nightmares That Could Come True
The absolute worst of the worst WWE could pull at Survivor Series: WarGames!
The classic Survivor Series tagline said that "teams of five strive to survive". The only "team of five" you might need to worry about is the squad of mates gathering round to watch WWE's next PLE with you. Cover your TV in bubble wrap, because there could be more cracked screens than during the Nintendo Wii's glory days come Saturday night.
WarGames could be a nightmare evening for creative.
Granted, it probably won't be. Everything will likely go off without a hitch, and socials will be packed with glowing praise for Triple H's latest supershow. What if all of these nightmares come true though? That's a hellish thought, and you'll soon see why when poring over all the horrors contained within.
Two WarGames matches, and only a scatter of decent-looking undercard bouts - how could WWE mess this one up?! The answer: Ribs nobody needs, title changes no-one sees coming, the writers getting pretty much every match completely wrong, and...a rebellious crowd.
Oh yes, WWE could be set to revisit the bad old days when certain chants threatened to wreck entire episodes of TV...
10. Fans Snooze Through Rhea Ripley’s Match
Rhea Ripley has defended the Women's World Title exactly five times on TV/PLE since winning the then-SmackDown belt at WrestleMania 39. Since then, WWE has presented Rhea as a power player for Judgment Day. She's 'Mami', and she's more likely to pop up in backstage skits and promos than matches.
Saturday will be Ripley's sixth title defence then, and it could be a sleeper hit. Or, it might just be a sleeper. Y'see, here's the problem: Zoey Stark hasn't actually been doing much of anything since splitting from Trish Stratus, and this mini-feud is criminally under-developed leading into the weekend's PLE.
What if fans in Chicago use it as an excuse to go for a leak?
Hopefully not, because these women deserve better, but then they...deserve better than some half-baked, second-rate program that'll end at Survivor Series with a whimper. Fingers crossed Rhea's obvious star power is enough to keep people interested when the bell rings.