Torch Feedback WWE Survivor Series Reax #3: "Jeff attacking Edge like nothing happened to him was ridiculous."
Nov 24, 2008 - 11:35:30 AM
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Sam Weiss of San Diego, Calif. (5.0): Best match: the individual efforts of HBK, Jericho, and the Glamazon. Worst match: just about the rest of the PPV. Watching this PPV gave me an insight into the current state of the WWE. Watching the current WWE offerings is like going out in the morning and seeing that a tire on your car is about one-thirds flat. With a sense of dread you realize sooner or later it will end up totally flat, but you trudge along, go to the station and put air in the tire, hoping it won't go totally flat before you have time to take the tire in to get fixed proper. Yes, the WWE is going flat, and it desperately needs to be fixed. While none of the matches in this year's Survivor were really bad, none were really good either. At best, some of the highlights of the show occurred during the HBK-JBL team showdown, and in the skill shown by Jericho in applying his holds and his in-ring talking. Also, I have to give kudos to Beth for putting up with all the sloppy work among several of the divas in which she found herself surrounded. On Edge coming back - yes, he is a good character in and out of the ring, but this was a lousy way to bring him back. I was really looking forward to a quality match for the WWE Title, and thought the potential chemistry between the three intended "entertainers" held great promise, but it was not to be. I preferred Smackdown without Edge, though I believe Raw would benefit from Edge. On the other hand, John Cena is just not a great in-ring wrestler and I fail to see the purpose of making him champion at this time. I am not a Cena basher - he has his positive qualities, but he just is not in the class of Orton, Jericho, or HBK when it comes to wrestling. Oops, my bad, I guess this isn't supposed to be a wrestling show; this is "entertainment". I was not entertained.
Terrie Neilson of Las Vegas, Nev. (3.0): Best: Team Michaels vs. Team JBL (not saying much); Jericho vs. Cena. Worst: Triple vs. Kozlov complete with the trimmings. Normally, I would be watching this PPV at Sam's Town, but due to an off-the-wall work schedule I was stuck at work. After reading the play-by-plays, I think I was the lucky one. One look at the card, and I knew right away that the Michaels-JBL match would open the show. All three Survivor Series matches suffered from the same thing: unrealistic pins. The Michaels-JBL version was the least flawed of the three; the divas one was just plain bad. Khali surviving while MVP loses twice (both himself during and his team overall) is wrong on so many levels. I've been seeing nothing that indicates a storyline plan of action for MVP's now "riches to rags" plight. Taker-Show's casket match: hokey build, hokey match. Last time John Cena was in Boston, the crowd wasn't so kind to him. This time they were cool with him. The real test will be tomorrow going forward. Triple H-Kozlov...where do I start? The whole Jeff Hardy thing turned out to be a work. Would have been fine, but it happened outside of and too close to the PPV to really work properly, especially when any sufficiently savvy person could do a little snooping and know the truth. That started the free-fall. Then came Edge's return. I'm going to guess that Vickie and Edge patched things up, but no explanation of that nor how he got out of hell (yet). Jeff attacking Edge looking like nothing happened to him was ridiculous. Plus if Jeff got ambushed from behind, how would he know it was Edge to know who to come after? Maybe it was Triple H in a setup for a heel turn, or even the title-shot-threatened Kozlov. That whole angle was seriously under-thought. Come to think of it, the entire PPV was under-thought.
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