Why Survivor Series Failed and the State of the WWE

If you are astute, you will notice Wrestlementary has been quite lately. That is mostly on my shoulders, with no excuses given. There was no review this past week of any WWE show. Instead of a review of RAW or Smackdown, I am going to take a few words and give my comments on the State of the WWE.

Why Survivor Series Failed

Survivor Series was an Epic event wasn’t?

Remember Sting’s first ever WWE appearance? How great was that?!

Remember Team Cena’s win and vanquishing the Authority?! Wait, you don’t?

Why would you, considering that the two big stories coming out of Survivor Series were completly wiped out.

Unfortunately Sting is involved in this mess and his first and long awaited WWE debut was a waste and means nothing. Oh, yes it was cool, he took out Triple H, helped team Cena win, but then what? He doesn’t appear again for two months, and repeated the exact same thing he did the first time, to help Cena overcome the Authority.

When will his next sighting be, the day AFTER Wrestlemania?

There are three major reasons why Survivor Series Failed.

They went out of their way to hype that this was the event to shape the future and change the WWE forever. Then, only a few weeks later, everything that happened was undone and things return to the pre-suvivor series WWE.

No follow up. They failed to follow up on the ouster of the Authority, or the debut of Sting.

We didn’t see Sting again until this past Monday’s RAW, the Go Home Edition for the Royal Rumble.

There was no follow up on the ouster of the Authority. No, there wasn’t. Continuing a story is not a follow up. For weeks after Survivor Series is was still Team Authority versus Team Cena. A story that was promised to END at Survivor Series.

Seth Rollings turned in a petulant little cry baby begging for mommy and daddy. ‘Nuff said.

At Survivor Series, Sting appeared, helped Team Cena win and the Authority was vanquished. Good won, evil lost and all was well in the WWE Universe.

Until the New Year that is, Edge threatened, Cena brings back the Authority and everything returned to how it was.

That is what is called poor writing, or in wrestling parlance, poor booking.
Also called, Bull Shit Epic Fail.

What is the State of the WWE?

It is going pedal to the metal, full throttle, rubber burning, exhaust flaming, 110 mph straight down-hill.

They have been on the down-hill slide since Summerslam. They seem unable to put together any broadcast (RAW, Smackdown or PPV), have lost any sense of direction and lack vision. If they think what they are delivering to the fans is quality, then perhaps they truly are blind.

The problem is not as simple as some make it out to be. Many people have opined that the return of Roman Reigns and Daniel Bryan would stop the bleeding. That hasn’t exactly worked, both are back and RAW and Smackdown are still piss poor broadcasts.

Let’s be honest, the return of Roman Reigns wasn’t going to improve the product. He didn’t improve the product before his injury.

Again, let’s be honest, the return of Daniel Bryan hasn’t improved the project. Many thought Bryan’s return would fix everything. I wonder what wonderland world they live in. Nothing has changed, other than putting his return on the return of Smackdown to Thursdays, they did little to make his return special.

Why not give him the Cena treatment? Have him return at the Rumble and win? All they did was put him straight back into the same place he was in January 2014, rehashing that story again.

What is the single biggest reason for this slide? Easy, Brock Lesnar as WWE Champion. Or, more exactly as the reigning, in absentia World Heavyweight Champion.

We have not had a World Title Match since Night of Champions. Because of that, we have had no ‘Brass Ring’ for anyone to fight for. No feud for the World Title. In fact we have no real feuds going on at all. Follow me for a moment.

What do we get in place of the World Title? The Authority. Everything right now stems from the Authority versus Cena. Instead of a match for the World Title, we get a match against the Authority. Even the Rumble triple threat title match isn’t about the World Title, it’s about the Authority.

How many times can we have screw jobs, four-on-one beat downs, Sting appearances and big time matches (Survivor Series) that mean nothing?

A missing World Title, poor booking and complete mis-management are killing the WWE. Want proof, look at NXT.

NXT is constantly putting out a better product, with a lower budget and only 53 minutes of airtime a week. Also consider the last NXT TAKEOVER event, which was widely considered better than TLC

The WWE is barreling straight down hill and is heading for an ugly crash. The worst part of this is that it seems like all this is planned.

Ace Masters