5 Things NXT did better than RAW and SmackDown this year

#3 Survivor Series

NXT dominated at Survivor Series

There’s no doubt about it – Survivor Series 2019 was NXT’s night.

Though not quite securing a clean sweep of RAW and SmackDown, the Black and Gold brand’s performance on a major WWE pay per view was significant, and quite reflective of their progress throughout the calendar year.

Undoubtedly, many Superstars in NXT are used to a bigger stage and audience than they may get from Full Sail each week so. In that respect, they won't have been fazed by last month’s showdown, but you can’t underplay the significance of them dominating what is traditionally one of WWE’s biggest events of the year.

Lio Rush defended his NXT Cruiserweight title successfully, Team NXT were victorious in the Women’s tag team elimination match, Roderick Strong overcame AJ Styles and Shinsuke Nakamura and, in the main event, Shayna Baszler got the better of Raw and SmackDown’s incumbents, Becky Lynch and Bayley respectively – not bad for a night’s work.

Credit to WWE for giving the NXT guys and girls a chance to shine, as its one they grabbed with both hands.