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Overall this wasn't a bad ppv, it was nowhere near as good as NXT Takeover though, and it did get flatter as the night went on.

Viking Raiders def UE and New Day

This was in the kickoff show, it was a solid enough match but more suited to Raw then a PPV. Some pretty good spots, and I get why the Viking Raiders went over

C

Women's Survivor Series -- Rhea Ripley (NXT) def. Sasha Banks (SD) via pinfall as NXT (Ripley, Candice LaRae, Io Shirai) survives

I really liked this match, it had some good spots and some good booking moments, as well we continue to see the heel strength of the Kabuki Warriors. Rhea Ripley has just put it all together, and I was amazed at how good she looked considering the beating that she took last night. The turning of Charlotte against her team mate Asuka was a neat bit, especially since Charlotte has really lost steam lately.

B

Midcard Champions -- Roderick Strong (NXT) def. Shinsuke Nakamura (SD) via pinfall and AJ Styles (Raw)

This was a great match with a lot of strong spots, and Roderick Strong is amazing at what he does, and Sami Zayn is a great manager. This is the start of a really strong push for Strong

A

NXT Championship -- Adam Cole (c) def. Pete Dunne via pinfall to retain the title:

Probably the match of the night for me, it had some brilliant booking concepts with the wrestlers attacking their obviously beat up opponent from last night, and a sequence of near fall exchanges that was really neat to watch. Cole is a legit star now in this industry.

A+

Universal Championship -- "The Fiend" Bray Wyatt (c) def. Daniel Bryan via pinfall to retain the title

I'm not digging the Fiend the Wrestler, the Fiend the Character is good, but there's too much Jason, Michael Myers concepts in there where he takes a beating for a long time and keeps slowly rising. I've said that the reason why the Fiend doesn't work is because he uses Bray Wyatts move set so its just Bray in a mask instead of what I'd hope it would be, a seperate psyche under the mask. Daniel was also pretty lackluster in this match and I'm tired of the red light stuff.

D

Men's Survivor Series Elimination -- Roman Reigns (SD) def. Keith Lee (NXT) via pinfall as the sole survivor for SD:

This match left me wanting more, KO is alimented early on even after they teased that he was disloyal. Baron Corbin of course turns on a team mate, They teased a future fued between Orton and Riddle, and they made Lee look strong. Rollins practically got boo'd out of the building during his entrance.

C

WWE Championship -- Brock Lesnar (c) def. Rey Mysterio via pinfall to retain the title (No Holds Barred):

I'm just not a fan of Rey, I don't know he's talented and does a lot of things right, but whenever he wrestlers I want to see him get crushed, and I want to see his son get crushed. Fortunately Lesnar German Suplexed Junior out of his Keds and finished off Rey, but this match was flat for me.

D

Women's Champions -- Shayna Baszler (NXT) def. Bayley (SD) via submission and Becky Lynch (Raw):

These girls just didn't have much chemistry going and it showed. Shayna brings a touch of real legitimacy to everything that she does. Her reversal of the disarmer was so brilliant, and her joint damaging attack is fun to watch and she's a great heel. Bayley, man I don't know, this heel persona isn't working maybe because it feel so phony, and she was booked as the person that really shouldn't have been in this match so she was the keystone cop, and I worried about her suffering a real hip injury due to a nasty fall outside of the ring.

As an add on, maybe its just me, but Becky is getting boring again. I mean her interviews are the same thing, her matches are the same thing, she's to me stale.

I also hate that WWE couldn't just give Shayna the win, Becky basically pretty much no sold a high spot near the end of the match to attack Shayna as she celebrated. This was probably a good Raw main event , but had no business being a Survivor Series Main Event

C

Stone Cold Podcast with the Undertaker.


If you have the network you need to watch this, its a fabulous hour long session of Stone Cold and Undertaker telling stories. Ut talks about his time ending in WCW when Ole Anderson told him that nobody would ever pay to watch him wrestle. How Mark when he was heading to the WWE thought that he was destined to hatch from the Gobbly ####ers egg as the Egg man.

Its a great interview to watch.