The 27th annual
Survivor Series took place on Sunday 25th November at the
TD Garden in Boston. With not one but two Survivor Series matches
taking place, I'm quite looking forward to this event. Let's take a
look.
The kick-off show match was
between Kofi Kingston and
The Miz. This was
quite an unusual one ot watch, especially since I didn't watch this
til two weeks after the event. I'll get to the reason why in a bit.
It was really fast paced to start with multiple pinning attempts and
high-flying offense by Kofi. However, like last month when he faced
Damien Sandow, his effort was in vain as Miz gets the win when his
attempt to hit the skull crushing finale is reversed into a pin. Miz
reverses that into a pin for the 3 count. Afterwards, Miz offers his
hand and Kofi, forgetting he's the face in this match, slaps him. I
enjoyed the match but I found it unusual because it looked like they
were turning Miz heel, which is what he seriously needs. However,
with an apparently awful TV movie being shown the following week, it
got changed into both he and Kofi being really competitive
hence them being dicks to
each other. Er...ok then.
Winner:
The Miz
Predictions: 1 for 1
The first match of the event
was the first Survior Series elimination match with the team of Rey
Mysterio, The Usos, Cody Rhodes and Goldust
taking on The Shield and The Real Americans.
I always like these matches so I'm looking forward to it. This match
did throw up a lot of surprises, such
as Dean Ambrose getting
eliminated after a couple of minutes when he gets rolled up by Rhodes
when Ambrose is aruging with the referee. Then, Swagger
is eliminated after a splash by Jey Uso. Cesaro does the giant swing
on both the Usos but he's eliminated by Cody with a sunset flip. This
leaves Rollins and Reigns with the difficult task of eliminating 5
guys. Reings makes it easier after eliminating Jimmy Uso with a
spear. Then he spears Cody Rhodes to obivilion after Cody hits the
CrossRhodes on Rollins, making it 3 on 2. A couple of minutes later,
Rollins hits the blackout on Jey Uso to even the odds. Unfortunately,
Rollins gets eliminated by a
roll up by Mysterio, leaving Reigns to face Goldust and Mysterio.
After some back and forth, Reigns eliminates Goldust with another
spear. Mysterio comes in and gets Reigns against the ropes then goes
for the 619. Unfortunately for him, when he bounces off the ropes for
the move, Reigns almost kills him with a spear to win the match and
be the sole survivor. I really enjoyed the match as it was a lot of
fun to watch. I was quite surprised that the heel team prevailed
after going down to 5-on-2. However, it didn't take away from the
match and it made Roman Reigns look great.
Winner:
Roman Reigns
Predictions:
2 for 2
The
next match is for the Intercontinental Championship as Curtis
Axel gets his rematch against
Big E Langston. The
match goes back and forth for a little bit before Axel gains the
momentum. Langston starts his comeback after powering out of a
chinlock and hitting a few clotheslines. Axel comes close to winning
it with a Perfect plex but Langston prevails after getting out of a
hangman's facebuster to hit the big ending. The match was pretty good
tho it was hard to follow the Survivor Series match. I wasn't a big
fan of Langston to begin with but he's growing on me. As for Axel, I
really want to like him, especially as I was a fan of his father.
However, he seems pretty bland and he needs to show some of the
chrisima his father had.
Winner:
Big E Langston
Predictions:
3 for 3
Now
we get the Divas Survivor Series elimination match with The
Bella Twins, Natalya, JoJo, Eva Marie and The Funkadactyls taking
on AJ Lee, Askana, Alicia Fox, Summer Rae, Tamina Snuka,
Rosa Mendes and Kaitlyn. The
match doesn't last anywhere near as long as I thought it would as
most of them get eliminated after one move. Alicia Fox gets
eliminated after a springboard moonsault by Naomi. Cameron gets
eliminated by Rosa bouncing her head off the middle turnbuckle (I'm
serious). Rosa gets eliminated by a facebuster by Brie Bella. After a
brief dance-off between Summer Rae and Brie, Summer gets eliminated
by getting kicked in the face. Eva Marie gets eliminated after
Kaitlyn hits her with a press into a knee to the stomach then
she eliminates Cameron with the same move. Nikki Bella eliminates
Kaitlyn with a missile dropkick but she gets eliminated herself with
a spinebuster by Askana. Askana gets eliminated after a backbreaker
move by Nikki. After Nikki and Tamina have a brief mini-match, Nikki
reluctantly tags in JoJo due to Natalya recovering from a cheap shot
by Tamina earlier. Tamina easily dominates JoJo and hits her with a
Samoan drop. AJ gets tagged in and pins JoJo to eliminate her. Tamina
gets eliminated thanks to a sharpshooter by Natalya and then does the
same move to AJ to win the match. Some bits of it weren't bad but
some of it was terrible. I get it if JoJo and Eva Marie and Rosa
Mendes (to a leeser extent) get eliminated after one move. However, a
couple of eliminations were, especially Rosa's, were fucking
riduculous. It's a prime example of WWE doing something decent with
the Divas division one week then shitting over it the next.
Winners:
Nikki Bella and Natalya
Predictions:
4 for 4
We
now get an impromptu match with Ryback
issuing an open challenge
with Mark Henry accepting.
Henry uses his impressive strength before Ryback chops him down.
Despite Ryback's best efforts, Henry gets the victory after a world's
strongest slam. The match was quite short and wasn't anything special
but it was good to see Mark Henry back. As for Ryback, I don't know
what they're doing with him anymore.
Winner:
Mark Henry
Predictions:
N/A
Next
is the World Heavyweight Championship with Alberto Del Rio
challenging John Cena.
Much like their match at Hell in a Cell, De Rio keeps his focus on
Cena's left elbow, because that worked last time(!) The match goes
back and forth and eventually Del Rio wears Cena down with
a few armbars. Cena does try to get some momentum a couple of times
but Del Rio manages to stop them quite quickly. Del Rio comes close
with a German suplex pin but Cena kicks out at 2. Later on, Cena
almosts win it with a top rope fameasser. Del Rio goes for the cross
armbreaker but cena rolls out of it and applies the STF. Del Rio
manages to get a finger on the rope. Del Rio does apply the cross
armbreaker but Cena, like every time Del Rio does that move, powers
out of it and hits a powerbomb. In the end, Cena hits the AA to
retain the Championship. The
match wasn't too bad but it might be time for Del Rio to stay away
from the title picture for a while.
Winner:
John Cena
Predictions:
5 for 5
The
penultimate match has Daniel Bryan and CM Punk
taking on Erick Rowan and Luke Harper.
Whilst I have slight doubts
about Rowan and Harper, I am looking forward to this match. Bryan and
Punk work on the legs of Rowan but he slows that down when he does a
double suplex on them.
Harper does a brutal big
boot to Punk and this gives him and Rowan the advantage. Punk hits a
tornado DDT on Rowan to give him the opportunity to hot tag Bryan and
he goes for a top rope hurracarrana on Harper. However, Harper stops
that and hits a top rope powerbomb, which would have given him the
victory if Punk didn't save the pin. Punk gets thrown out of the
ring, taking him out temporarily, and the Wyatts wear down Bryan for
a little while. Punk eventually gets tagged in and a few minutes
later, ducks a tornado clothesline by Harper to hit him with the GTS
to get the victory. I really enjoyed it and I was really impressed
with Harper and Rowan throughout the match. If I had a slight gripe,
it would have been nice if it was a 3-on-2 tag team match. Otherwise,
great match.
Winners:
CM Punk and Daniel Bryan
Predictions:
6 for 6
The
main event was for the WWE Championship as Big Show
challenges Randy Orton.
I have to admit, I wasn't
really looking forward to this but I was interested to see how it
went. Orton was reluctant to face Show but eventually, he gets to
wear him down. Show gets
back into it and hits a chokeslam for 2. Orton flees to the outside
and when Show goes after to the outside and throws Orton against the
ropes, he knocks into the referee. The
action continues on the outside and Show hits the KO punch and drags
him back into the ring. Triple H, along with Stephanie McMahon and
Kane, come out. This gives Orton the opportunity to hit the RKO
(outta of nowhere) then a punt to retain the WWE Championship. While
they all celebrate, John Cena comes out and has a stare down with
Orton. The match was ok to watch although Orton totally misses with
the punt to give us a slightly botched ending. As for the end of the
show, it turns out the next night that the Championships will be
unified at TLC. I don't mind that but I wish that it didn't involve
Cena and Orton.
Winner:
Randy Orton
Predictions:
7 for 7
I thought that Survivor Series was fun to watch as I enjoyed a lot of
the matches. 2013 looks like it will end with an Unified World
Champion and I'm looking how that will take us into 2014.
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