The WWE Survivor Series has been known as the November Classic, but there's nothing classic about the way this year's Thanksgiving Week tradition has been booked.
The event has always been a Big Four spectacle along with the Royal Rumble, WrestleMania, and SummerSlam, but the creative team has dropped the ball when booking the 2015 version. The Survivor Series has a rich history, dating back to Thanksgiving Night 1987, but this year, the booking has left a lot to be desired.
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Sure, a lot of this is to blame on Seth Rollins' injury necessitating a major re-write of storylines, leading to an impromptu WWE World Heavyweight Championship tournament. While that was a major blow, the way the company structured the brackets -- which were lackluster -- only four Superstars are committed to the tournament come Survivor Series.
That leaves the majority of the roster left at the creative team's disposal, yet the major matches have lacked substance. The WWE generated a lot of buzz about The Undertaker and Kane's struggle with The Wyatt Family only to disappoint.
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That feud led to rumors of the Brothers of Destruction finding two partners to take down The Wyatt Family in a traditional Survivor Series bout, but that ended up not being the case. Instead, the dynamic duo will battle two members of The Wyatt Family, which is a less fun storyline, and a clash that would be better suited for RAW or SmackDown.
If there were any questions over how the WWE's creative team feels about tradition, it's all cleared up by looking at the card. The WWE announced a thrown-together 5-on-5 traditional match via its website Tuesday, without even bothering to put a storyline behind it.
To make matters worse, the company hasn't even announced which Superstars will be competing in the bout, which further displays how little thought was put into it.
The tournament semifinals and finals will be fun to watch, but if the WWE's creative team was that thrown off by Rollins' injury, perhaps the whole tournament should have just taken place on the card.
Since 1987, the fun part about Survivor Series has been the traditional tag team matches. In 2015, with a high amount of pay-per-views and WWE Network specials on the calendar and so many feuds being oversaturated, the WWE could use its Thanksgiving Week tradition to harken back to the golden days of the event by providing fresh matchups via the tag stipulation.
Instead, the WWE has dropped the ball on the booking of the Survivor Series and the November Classic isn't shaping up to be a classic at all.
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