Survivor Series

This PPV was ok. Not one of their best PPV's. It was the 10 Man elimination match to see who wins the WWF. Between Vince McMahon with the WWF. Stephanie McMahon with ECW and Shane McMahon with WCW. Well WWF won. Which was good, it was just a storyline. I think that the Survivor Series before this one was good, it was when Stone Cold Returned. This is one of my favorite PPVs. I like Royal Rumble, Survivor Series, SummerSlam and Wrestlemania. I would give this video 5/10. But its not the worst PPV I have seen, there has been worse.

As was the case with the previous SummerSlam event, this WWE/WCW "invasion" angle did nothing for me here--besides lead to a bunch of un-interesting matches and bland or unsure performances.

A few further thoughts...

-Christian vs. Al Snow & Edge vs. Test. Can one thing of two more white-bread, boring matches between four essentially indistinguishable wrestlers at that time?

-The Immunity Battle Royal features a whole bunch of guys no one really cares about. Not a great formula.

-The big elimination tag match is essentially a mish-mash of superstars arbitrarily separated to facilitate the "winner survives" tagline (WWF vs. WCW). Kind of a mess--and a long mess at that.

-As per the usual, only a Dudleyz/Hardyz cage match provides any juice at all to this card.

After the brilliance of WrestleMania 17, I really thought that the WWE was heading upward. That proved to be an erroneous supposition. Though extracting itself from the messy end of the Attitude Era, WWE is now at the point where the WCW angle is really bogging the company down.

WWF Survivor Series 2001

This was among the worst events of 2001. Perhaps its biggest flaw was the fact that it didn't follow suit to most of the previous Survivor Series'. There was only ONE survivor series match. And that Survivor Series match went on for 45 minutes. What's more, anyone with a working brain would know that it would end with The Rock versus Austin and The Rock prevailing for his team. And don't get me started on the preview before the event. No matter who won it was obvious that no one was going to f***ing die. There was no need for all of that pointless hype. Whatever the storyline, it was just a wrestling event.

And as for the rest of the matches: the first match was Christian defending his European title against Al Snow. It was a good fast paced match and its good to see a heel winning a match fairly. William Regal versus Tajiri was boring and we've seen it 2 or 3 times before. Edge versus Test was good but nothing great. The tag titles steel cage match was the best match of the evening. The battle Royal went on for 10 minutes and no one really cared who'd win in the first place. The Women's title match wasn't great. No, not in the slightest. The main event must have been the most hypocritical match in history. The Alliance lost but guess what, after 5 months every single Alliance superstar returned. The match itself was poor. The Rock eliminated 3 of them and Jericho eliminated 2. The Rock was too caught up with his acting to be there when the invasion began. Jericho was the one that jeopardised the whole match. If I wanted any 2 to be eliminated in the early going it would be them. Everyone knew that Kane, Big Show and Undertaker were just fall guys. 7 matches isn't enough for a Survivor Series. If there's ever a Survivor Series as bad as this again I'll

Only one survivor series style match this year. With battle royals cage matches and lots of titles on the line. This is a good show. The survivor match is for the future of wrestling as the McMahons send out there teams for the right to survivor. This is an enjoyable match filled with Hall of fame stars but only one federation can survive the night.

This whole PPV was full of great wrestling, aside from the womens match. I loved the Immunity Battle Royal, but Test shouldn't have won, I would have liked to see Tommy Dreamer, Lance Storm, Justin Credible, Hurricane, or DDP win. But anyway, Christian vs Al Snow was a great match, and Al should be on TV much more often. The Winner Take All Match of Survival was great. I think everyone knew WWF would win over WCW/ECW, but thats not the point. I mean, with talent like RVD, Kane, Jericho, Booker T, and Angle in one match, how could WWF even screw it up? Well they didnt, and Undertaker brought back the Tombstone Piledriver and delivered it to Shane McMahon. Poor Shane, he got every finisher from team WWF. Oh well, I still cant wait for Royal Rumble 2001 :)