Official Survivor Series Thread: 11/20/11

Wow....what a show. It's definitely up there with Money In The Bank 2011 for PPV of the year.

Try my section, they started chanting random names every five minutes. Everything from Ultimo Dragon to Brian Pillman to Eddie to Chavo.

Personally, I thought the main event was pretty dull. Good show overall though, but as someone who liked all four involved in the main event, it just seemed too be going in slow motion most the match.

First of all, the show didn't suck. But it could have been better, sure.

My first point is the crowd. The crowd was hot all night and really advanced the PPV. A little bit too smarky was the Garden, but regardless, I found it enjoyable.

Henry/Show wasn't a great match but that's too be expected. I've loved their angle so I can let that one slide.. maybe the title will be vacated now? It would be silly if Henry no-sells an injury that sidelined Show for months and still has Kane out..

Zack Ryder musta been digging the crowd. He had great pops all night. Ziggler was good but as I say I don't find Morrison entertaining and the lack of Ryder there disappointed me to the extent that I found the match a little, as the crowd put it, 'boring'.

The Rock's backstage promo was good. Psyched us up for the match and reminded us how he has spent his life in a wrestling ring. The Divas match was great for a Divas match, particularly enjoyed the finish.. Eve/Beth executed it perfectly. Well done.

Punk winning was awesome, so happy with that. I perfectly expect him to inaugurate a new WWE Title on RAW tonight, especially with the Howard Finkel nostalgia.. it seems like that's the route they're going down. The match itself was superb, a great bout/performance from both men.

The 5v5 match was enjoyable. SSeries is the one night a year that Creative have 'nothing for' Sheamus and just have him DQ himself or count himself out. It's silly. Feel bad for Sin Cara. Enjoyed the victory for Barrett/Cody and felt the two correct candidates survived.. maybe Cody should have survived on his own.. but it doesn't matter.

As for the main event itself.. what can I say? It was what it was. We didn't see anything 'more' than the Montreal Screwjob like we were promised before hand. We didn't see the debut of a superstar so great they would go down to be a 'Phenom' amongst wrestling greats.

The match was decent. Rock looked like he hadn't missed a beat. Miz/Truth were made to look very weak indeed. Anyone who argues otherwise is deluding themselves.. did they even hit a finisher? They spent like 90% of the match getting owned and their finest moment was Miz taunting Rock. Ending was so predictable it was almost unpredictable, if you get my meaning..

Post-match was the wrong direction. Don't get me wrong, anyone who believes Cena giving Rock an AA would be a 'heel turn' is stupid. Sorry guys. Rock has bitchslapped him every time they've shared a ring (except for the one RAW before Mania). An AA from Cena would be Cena growing a set of balls, not a heel turn.

The Rock Bottom was predictable and boring.. much like the entire main event which relied solely on the presence of The Rock as its selling point, without including, or even attempting to include, anything extra which would be remotely controversial or exciting.

I enjoyed Survivor Series, a pretty good PPV.
Good US Title match, Ziggler and Morrison always have good matches.
The traditional Survivor Series tag match was good, glad Team Barret won and that Rhodes was one of the Survivors.
Disappointing ending to Show and Henry. The top rope elbow from Show was nuts.
Great WWE Title match, Punk rules so hard it's not even funny. Glad he's champ again.
Wish I could've enjoyed the main event more, but anytime The Rock's involved, I have a hard time enjoying myself. A"You still got it" chant?! Are you ing kidding me?! Why wouldn't he still have it? It hasn't been that long since he's wrestled and plus, he's in the best shape he has ever been in. It's not like when Steamboat worked that match at WrestleMania 25 and got that chant (and actually deserved it). A "You still got it" chant... Oh please... It's not like he had that much to begin with...

Not only do those two separate statements seem to contradict each other, but to say The Rock is anything less than one of the 10 greatest superstars in wrestling history would be blasphemy. He's still got "it", he has always had "it", and has "it" in much greater quantities than any other current member of the WWE roster.

I enjoyed the PPV but without the doorway and big titantron, it felt less like MSG... that dissapointed me.

Generally feel Punk/Del Rio was a match of the year candidate, I enjoyed that throughout and the finish was great.

5 on 5 Tag match was awesome and even better for the fact Rhodes and Barrett won. Shame about Sin Cara, he looked so pissed and annoyed when he did it, real sorry for the guy.

Thought the tag match at the end was a bit naff though, it was amazing to watch the Rock again but he didn't really do an awful lot and the match seemed to end really suddenly like they could have added 10 minutes on to that.

I love the crowd, at times I though "why are you chanting that? or please start a new chant" but It's so much better than a dead crowd.

Tony the Tiger says it best, the PPV was Gggggggrrrrreeaat!

I never said anything about Rock not being in the top ten of all time. Show me where I said that and I'll admit to it.
And those two statements do not contradict each other. The Rock does in fact have "it", but, in my opinion, The Rock's "it" isn't that much at all. "It" never was.

To anyone bitching about the crowd..come on..they made the show..you can't tell me you would rather the people there not have any fun and sit on their hands and watch a match...


also...my favorite part was Michael Cole talking about how Sheamus used to get bullied in Ireland for being pale and having red hair....................in Ireland.