WWE Survivor Series 2018: The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly 

The Bad - Samoa Joe's Early Exit

Samoa Joe

In a company filled with questionable creative decisions and a roster brimming with under utilized talent, Samoa Joe stands out among the rest. WWE's failure to understand what they have in the Samoan Submission Machine is as dumbfounding as it is confounding. While one may have hoped that Survivor Series would have been an opportunity for Samoa Joe to rebound from bad booking and show off his clearly superb in-ring skills, those hopes were quickly dashed, once again by WWE Creative.

Samoa Joe lasted only seconds into the Team RAW vs Team SmackDown 5 on 5 elimination style tag bout. Drew McIntyre made quick work of his former IMPACT Wrestling running mate. After hitting him with a big boot, McIntyre covered Joe for the pinfall and elimination. Team SmackDown's most compelling member was going home.

The Staples Center crowd loudly and obviously expressed their dissatisfaction with WWE Creative, booing vociferously after Samoa Joe's elimination. Will it make a difference going forward? Probably not and we are all poorer for it. Samoa Joe is one of wrestling's elite talents; but, in the WWE he has been relegated to mid-card status and remains a forgotten component of WWE's clear B-team brand. His painfully quick Survivor Series exit only added insult to injury.