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I still think Taker-Wyatt will end up being a Survivor Tag. It's the only one that really makes sense this close to the show and there will be one on the card no doubt.
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It appears that the Semi Finals will be at the PPV. So that's 5 matches announced. That's it for now.
Awesome, so there will be a 5-on-5 match at Survivor Series, WWE have announced... but they haven't said who the wrestlers are yet. Having seen the Smackdown results, there's nothing on there that I can see leading into one. There just seems like there's been no thought gone into this PPV at all.
PPV is on tomorrow night, and there's still no word on who is in the 5-on-5 traditional Survivor Series match. Less than 48 hours to go and one of their biggest PPV's isn't even finalised. I can't believe how poorly booked this PPV has been so far.
Just lazy booking with them hoping that it will sell on being the Undertakers 25th anniversary and who will win the WWE Title tournament. Apart from that there's nothing to this PPV. Such a disappointment and seriously lazy booking by WWE.
One new match has been added, in Ziggler vs Breeze.
So the 5-on-5 match was just some thrown together match - not a surprise since they couldn't even announce the participants before hand - that would involve some thinking and booking choices.
The end really annoyed me. No problem with Reigns winning, everyone expected it after all. Sheamus cashing in to then win just reeks of bad booking though. Why all this build up with the tournament only to then have the winner lose it a minute later? Just pointless and made the whole tournament seem meaningless. Sheamus has been booked like shit as well ever since he won the MITB, which I know they like to do, but with Sheamus it's like they've dragged him down from someone who could main event, to someone who couldn't even win a mid-card title level... only to them just go "here's the main belt".
Like I said though, just makes the whole tournament seem pointless now - what a waste of time that was.
Wasn't happy going into the PPV as the whole thing was clearly lazily booked. Was hoping at least I'd finish watching it feeling like it was okay, but that ending does ruin it and brings me back to lazy, pointless booking. I don't mind Sheamus at all, but the timing of them booking this is wrong imo.
So Reigns wins, then five minutes later Triple H shows up and the MITB guy wins the belt. Now Reigns goes into a feud with the Authority and will no doubt end up wrestling Triple H at some point, probably even WrestleMania.
You wanted Bryan? Reigns is Bryan now.
I thought Survivor Series was an OK show. Nothing did amazingly well, but nothing was amazingly bad either. The crowd were dead for the Divas match but the actual match wasn't bad. They tried their hardest to tell a story and build heat but the crowd just didn't get into it.
Undertaker/Kane vs Wyatts was a missed opportunity. The whole thing was just confusing. Bray was gonna pick two of his guys, then he ends up picking himself and it was all very vague. Not to mention this match should have been 5-on-5 elimination match or at the very least Taker/Kane vs All of the Wyatts in an Elimination Match where they could tell a real story. For the 25th year of the Deadman it fell flat.
The semi final matches were fine and what were expected. I particularly enjoyed Ambrose vs Owens.
I feel the main event went five minutes too short and didn't feel like a full match - but I was honestly fine with how the finish to the show went. Everyone hates Sheamus. These people tend to hate Ryback too. I hear "boring" thrown around a lot and I get that to a degree.; but used properly, both Sheamus and Ryback can get over in the main event. Ryback needs to not speak at all and just be a face (or heel) monster in the vein of Kane, Mark Henry and Umaga in their better years.
With Sheamus, they just need to start booking him with a serious attitude. The comic heel can work but he's been pulling that shtick for too long now and they need to freshen his character up. Make him brutal, book him strong, no more jokes and I think he should even attack other heels to show he's not a friendly guy anymore and no-one is immune to his brutality. That's how you get Sheamus over as champ. He's not the best on the mic but he's not Ryback either so they should let him speak just make it short and to the point and with as little of an irish accent as he can possibly muster.
So my point is, I don't mind that Sheamus cashed in. We all knew it was inevitable at some point and I'd rather it happen now than WrestleMania season.
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Sheamus now has the same amount of WWE title reigns as Shawn Michaels. That's fucking depressing.
I don't have a problem with Sheamus. I have a problem with how he's been booked since wining the MITB and the timing that they booked for him to cash it in. With how he's been booked since winning the MITB, they're going to have to work bloody hard to make him a believable champ - even if he is a previous WWE Title holder.
So Reigns wins, then five minutes later Triple H shows up and the MITB guy wins the belt. Now Reigns goes into a feud with the Authority and will no doubt end up wrestling Triple H at some point, probably even WrestleMania.
You wanted Bryan? Reigns is Bryan now.
You are exactly right. Sheamus is the best of a bad situation. They booked themselves into a corner by giving him MITB. He had to cash in sometime and the fans are not strong enough behind Reigns. Now The Authority will stack the deck against Reigns. They will probably screw him at TLC to draw it out and have him win the title back at the Rumble. He'll rematch Sheamus at fastlane and defend against Lesnar at Mania. Whether we like it or not, they have hitched the wwe wagon to Roman Reigns and we are just going to have to eat the shit sandwich that this is.
Probably one of the worst ppv shows from wwe in a while... and that's kinda saying something considering they have all been mostly forgettable.... really can't believe Ambrose and Reigns only got like 8 minutes... they probably should have saved that for another time with more build up... now with hindsight.
I don't really see TLC being any better... except for some high spots with ladders and shit.
Am I the only one bothered that we're a week away from one of the bigger PPV's that WWE do, and there's only 3 matches (maybe 5) scheduled?
The Undertaker & Kane vs. Two members of The Wyatt Family
Divas Champion Charlotte vs. Paige
That's it for the official matches that have been announced so far, with one week to go. Hopefully something changes tonight.
The guaranteed third match is the WWE Title match - understandable why that match is announced but with no other information. Hopefully add in 2 semi-final matches instead of doing them on Smackdown. But if they do have the matches on Smackdown, and they could easily do so since the tournament has been split across the two shows so far, that's just 3 matches for the PPV so far.
UPDATE: Semi Finals confirmed
Roman Reigns vs. Alberto Del Rio (WWE World Heavyweight Championship Tournament Semifinals)
Dean Ambrose vs. Kevin Owens (WWE World Heavyweight Championship Tournament Semifinals)
Rumours are as well that Tyler Breeze vs Dolph Ziggler will happen as well, but there's nothing official yet that I can see. Same with the 5-on-5 traditional Survivor Series match which WWE have said will happen, but as there's no confirmed participants, nothing official is up on the Survivor Series WWE page yet.
Dolph Ziggler vs. Tyler Breeze
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