WWE Survivor Series 2014 Review

Match 1: WWE World Tag Team Championships - Gold & Stardust (c) vs. The Usos vs. The Miz & Damien Mizdow vs. Los Matadores
The November tradition that is Survivor Series opens up with a four-way tag match! St. Louis is absolutely rocking for Mizdow. Match starts and he's all that they are chanting for, him reenacting every move of The Miz throughout the match was just gold. An overall good opening match that saw every team get in a good amount of offense with Mizdow basically stealing the spotlight from everyone. Finish came when an Uso hit a splash off the top rope before Miz tagged himself in. However, Mizdow tagged Miz and got the pin for the victory as the crowd exploded. Miz celebrates with both titles as Mizdow celebrates alongside with him. Awesome.
Winners: The Miz & Damien Mizdow
Rating: ***

Match 2: Traditional Survivor Series Elimination - Team Paige (Paige, Cameron, Layla, & Summer Rae) vs. Team Natalya (Natalya, Naomi, Emma, & Alicia Fox)
This match got so much time. And boy, did it ever feel like it. That's not to say the match was bad, it just wasn't good enough to stick around for nearly 15 minutes! Eliminations just didn't feel any special and the crowd had the life sucked out of them. Some cool spots here and there but nothing that will warrant me to believe the WWE actually gives two damns about the Divas division. Team Natalya gets the clean sweep.
Winners: Team Natalya
Rating: *3/4

Match 3: Bray Wyatt vs. Dean Ambrose
After interfering in Ambrose's Hell in a Cell match a month ago, Bray Wyatt faces him tonight in the third contest of the night. Great hard-hitting style of wrestling from top to bottom. Crowd was really behind both guys, they didn't do any pretty submissions or reversals, just punches and tosses. A nice breath of fresh air as their styles meshed well together. Wyatt gets on the microphone and ominously talks to Ambrose before tossing in a couple chairs. However, Ambrose grabs one of them and knocks Wyatt out as the referee calls for disqualification. Afterwards, Ambrose puts Wyatt through a table and buries him in tables and chairs before posing on top of a ladder. Great match to kick off what should be a big payoff for the next PPV.
Winner: Bray Wyatt
Rating: ***

Match 4: Adam Rose & The Bunny vs. Slater Gator
This match was placed on the card to remind us that this is supposed to be a PPV! With that being said, the crowd showed zero interest in this match and rightfully so. This is childish to the max, I find it hard to believe that even the PG audience is interested in this. Bunny gets tagged in and pins Slater for the win as Adam Rose looks in astonishment.
Winners: Adam Rose & The Bunny
Rating: 1/4*

Match 5: Divas Championship - AJ Lee (c) vs. Nikki Bella
The bell rings as Brie Bella steps on the ring apron and plants a huge kiss on AJ. AJ is stunned and as soon as she turns around, Nikki hits her finisher to capture the Divas Championship. Seriously, this is getting ridiculous.
Rating: 1/4*

Match 6: Traditional Survivor Series Elimination - Team Authority (Seth Rollins, Kane, Rusev, Luke Harper & Mark Henry) vs. Team Cena (John Cena, Dolph Ziggler, Ryback, The Big Show, & Erick Rowan)
This is one of the most epic main events in Survivor Series as The Authority will be put out of power if their team loses. However, if The Authority's team wins, John Cena's teammates will be fired. Things didn't start too well when Show knocked out Henry within the first minute of the match for an elimination. Cool way to start off the match, puts the pressure even more against The Authority. And in order to keep Rusev's undefeated streak in tact, he got counted out after missing a splash on Ziggler through the announce table. Authority tried shoving his unconscious body back into the ring but to no avail. It eventually came down to 3 vs. 3 but Big Show landed a huge punch upon Cena which led to his elimination. Show then shook Triple H's hand and walked out to get himself counted out. It's all down to Ziggler. He at least manages to take out Kane first before Harper then inserts himself into the match. Harper almost defeats Ziggler but Ziggler miraculously rolls Harper up and eliminates him by pulling his tights! It's now down to Rollins vs. Ziggler. The St. Louis crowd is on their feet! The two go back and fourth in an awesome exchange before Triple H removes the referee as The Authority look to take out Ziggler who fights back! Ziggler looks to score the victory for his team until Triple H removes the second referee in the match! He plants Ziggler with a Pedigree and calls for Scott Armstrong! Armstrong is about to make the count but out comes Sting! He plants Triple H and places Ziggler's body over Rollins for the win. Team Cena wins, The Authority is removed from power and the only way they may be reinstated is through John Cena. Great main event with a great debut for Sting which likely leads to a WrestleMania match.
Winners: Team Cena
Rating: ****

Overall Thoughts and Rating:
It's almost as if the WWE threw away the entire show in order to put all their stock in the main event. The match was great but not enough to justify the rest of the event which was pretty lackluster. One of the more disappointing Survivor Series shows in recent history.
Rating: 4/10