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Survivor Series 2015 Review and Match Ratings

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Listening to Lillian Garcia singing the national anthem will never get old. I had goosebumps after she sang it after 9/11, and she hasn’t lost a touch even now. Great performance. With that said, let us start the review.


Roman Reigns def. Alberto Del Rio – WWE World Title Semi-Finals Match

Well if there’s one thing I can say unequivocally, it’s that the commentary was atrocious. Here’s a lesson kids. If the commentators go off topic, they probably don’t care about the match. Either way, this was a very good match to open the show. I thought they were going to follow a Chris Benoit/Brock Lesnar formula type of match where Del Rio would work over a body part, and his case would be the arm and Roman would try to overcome that with his power. While that didn’t exactly happen, the action was still very good. Del Rio was able to get his kicks and technical style in while Roman overcame with his strength. You couldn’t really buy into any of the false finishes because the finish wasn’t really ever in jeopardy, so all of the previous action really felt like a formality in the grand scheme of things. Despite that, I can’t take away from the action. It was what I expected. I would have liked to have seen more action to build up to the finish, but I can only review what I get. A solid match to open the show. ***1/4

Dean Ambrose def. Kevin Owens – WWE World Title Semi-Finals Match


The important matches are feeling kinda short aren’t they? I thought they could gone much longer and the finishing sequence came too soon. I could have rated this match much higher, but nonetheless, with the time they got, it was still a very good outing between the two. What I didn’t appreciate, though, is how KO lost kind of suddenly. If you watched his match against Neville on RAW, he went on for much longer, but one finisher here finished him. Kind of inconsistent. But I’m nitpicking. Ambrose;s unorthodox style combined with KO’s combination of power and technical style worked here, and it made for a good match and a better finish. But I don’t get why they didn’t go longer. Meh. That ending sequence was great to see, though. ***1/4

Ryback, The Lucha Dragons and The Usos def. The New Day, Sheamus and King Barrett

So what do you do when you forget that a show called Survivor Series is missing a traditional 5 on 5 Survivor Series match? Take five random heels and five random faces not being used at the moment and place them in a match, that’s what you do. Anyways, this match was a chore to watch through. You’re telling me they couldn’t give more time to the previous 2 matches to give time to this match? Arguably the match with the least meaning on the card (ironic because it’s the Survivor Series match). Aside from Kofi twerking, Barrett thrusting (that’s something that I can never unsee) and Xavier’s usual antics, there’s nothing worth watching here. We got Ryback turning into Flyback cameo though. To top it off, Sheamus was in a 3 on 1 situation and went on for about 7 minutes without anyone eliminated. I was led to believe he was going to go Roman Reigns back in 2013 and beat them three on one, but it didn’t happen. I don’t understand. This was just a lot of fluff and not a lot of substance. I am assuming they wanted to burn time because of the lazy booking coming into the show. And this is what you get. Pretty uninspiring to me. *3/4

Charlotte (C) def. Paige – Divas Championship


Well, there was a lot of screaming. If you heard this match without looking at the screen, you’d think that they were doing…..something else. Anyways, this was another brutal thing to watch through. The crowd clearly didn’t care, and it’s not like WWE has given them a reason to anyway, regardless of who won the match. On a side note, for someone who’s the supposed daughter of Ric Flair, Charlotte’s knife edge chops are pretty awful. I mean, she looks like she’s swatting a fly. This match went on for far too long as well to lead to that finish as well. I don’t know what WWE was thinking giving this and the SS match that much time. I mean, the match wasn’t, well, bad, per say, but the crowd was disinterested and I was disinterested after the first five minutes. B+ for effort, but this just didn’t click with me. Longer matches don’t mean a better result. **

Tyler Breeze def. Dolph Ziggler

This felt like two people from Grease fighting. Anyways, the match was good for what we got and the action was pretty good overall. Since we have no reason to take Breeze seriously though, it’s hard to see how much this victory will affect his career. The right person went over, and he did so clean. I really don’t have anything else to say here. **1/4

Kane and Undertaker def. Bray Wyatt and Luke Harper

The combined times of the entrances probably took longer than the Ambrose/Owens match. A subtle method of trying to burn time. Very sneaky. To be frank, this was nothing more than an extended squash. Kane and Undertaker already took care of all four Wyatts in a RAW segment three weeks prior. So this match with only 2 Wyatts was essentially pointless. They took out Rowan before the match, put out Strowman in the middle of the match, making his presence essentially pointless, and barely took any offense from Harper and Wyatt. For all of the vignettes and all of the promos from Wyatt, the fact that they got beat like that kind of ruined the last month of booking. This just felt like it was dragging overall, and while it wasn’t a waste of time, it certainly was an underwhelming pay off. I also question where WWE will go with the Wyatts after this. They can never seem to win a major match on PPV when it matters most. **

Roman Reigns def. Dean Ambrose – WWE World Heavyweight Championship

Uh, yeah. So check it out. From the get-go, something was off about the match. The flow was just too quick and the big spots happened about five minutes into the match. To top it off, we also saw the worst spear in WWE history courtesy of Reigns. Now I get some people are going to say, “Oh they were tired, so they needed to end the match quickly”. Excuse me, Seth Rollins faced John Cena and Sting back to back with no breaks and both matches were very good. You’re telling me Ambrose and Reigns are so out of shape they couldn’t do something better than a 6 minute spot fest? To give you some perspective, the semi-finals had more drama than the final match. It was a very bad payoff to what was a promising tournament. Reigns winning was obvious, and while I didn’t call a heel turn, I was hoping for one. Sadly, we didn’t get it. I also didn’t call a Sheamus MITB cash in, and I was hoping I was wrong. However, the minute Triple H came out, you just knew that it was coming in some way. Roman Reigns was set to be the next big face of WWE, and with his first WWE Title win, it came in a dull, uninspiring 6 minute finisher battle just to lose it not too long after. Brutal. This probably won’t leave fans clammoring for a rematch either. I mean a Sheamus/Roman Reigns feud? Get your barf bags ready. This is going to be a bumpy road to WrestleMania. I feel inclined to give the match a DUD, but I’ll be VERY generous. Just know that I don’t feel strongly about this rating, but I give it out of pity. **1/2

Conclusion:

Worst PPV of the year? Hard to say. Fast Lane was just plain dull but at least it had a great Roman Reigns/Daniel Bryan match. This was just a whole lot of fluff. It’s all subjective, but I think it ranks up there with the Royal Rumble and Battleground. Watching this entire show from start to finish felt like I watched two straight Monday Night RAW’s. That’s how long it felt. To be honest, there really wasn’t anything that was terribly egregious or awful, but everything here was just uninspiring stuff, with the WWE Championship match arguably being the most of that. So I’ll say it was a pretty bad show in that regard. I wouldn’t reccomend it to you, because Roman winning the title was anticlimatic and Sheamus winning will kick start a feud with Reigns. In Roman’s own words: “This isn’t boring, IT’S REAL LIFE!”. The biggest loser from this event? The RAW ratings. Oh boy. Thumbs down here. Until next time.

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