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The Bad - The Tag Team Battle Royal's missed opportunity
The Tag Team Battle Royal is an entertaining concept and a twist on the traditional Battle Royal. If one man is thrown over the top rope with both feet hitting the arena floor, then both members are eliminated.
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Ultimately, SmackDown's Dolph Ziggler and Bobby Roode stood victorious to earn the Blue Brand's first victory of the night, but WWE Creative may have missed an opportunity to build more relevant teams.
The Chicago crowd popped for NXT's Breezango and SmackDown's Heavy Machinery and also voiced their displeasure when each of those teams were eliminated. Crown Jewel World Cup winners, The O.C. (Luke Gallows and Karl Anderson), were a huge part of the Survivor Series build, having fended off an NXT invasion and having in turn invaded NXT, but came up short in the match.
The Street Profits have incredible promise and were the last team eliminated in the Tag Team Battle Royal although it can be argued that they should have won. Both Dolph Ziggler and Bobby Roode have always felt like an oddly paired duo, who were put together because Creative didn't have much going for either Superstar. The pair defeated Seth Rollins and Braun Strowman to capture the RAW Tag Team Championships but quickly dropped the belts to The Viking Raiders with little fanfare. They've been an afterthought since dropping the championships and seem better fit for singles competition.
WWE had an opportunity to give the rub to a young up-and-coming team but instead dropped the ball by booking Ziggler and Roode for the victory with no foreseeable future benefit. It wouldn't be the first time the company booked Ziggler for a huge Survivor Series victory, only to follow it up with no push. Ziggler was the sole survivor for Team Cena in the main event of the 2014 Survivor Series but quickly faded back to the midcard thereafter.
