5 mistakes WWE has made with Survivor Series this year

#2 Saying it is something it isn't

RAW vs Smackdown

One of the main promotional taglines used to hype up to this year’s Survivor Series has been that it is the only time of year that you will see RAW and SmackDown competitors face each other. The same promotional angle was used last year and yes, this is the only event where every match features RAW vs SmackDown matches, but it isn’t the only time of year where we see this ‘rare’ phenomenon.

The Royal Rumble features wrestlers from both RAW and Smackdown competing against each other. The same can be said for The Andre The Giant Battle Royal at WrestleMania. You could argue that those matches are different because in those competitions it is every man for themselves and brands don’t matter, but mere weeks ago at Crown Jewel, we saw wrestlers from each brand competing against each other.

The World Cup Tournament had members of the RAW and SmackDown rosters facing each other. Shane McMahon even made the tournament into a RAW vs SmackDown event when he told the competitors from SmackDown that if one of them didn’t bring the crown back for SmackDown they would be fired.

Does the WWE really think that it’s viewers don’t remember what happens from one event to the next? And as we mentioned earlier, because there is next to no time to promote this year’s Survivor Series, two weeks isn’t enough time for fans to invest in a brand rivalry, especially with the card changing continually. What do WWE fans really have to look forward to?