5 reasons why Survivor Series was the best pay per view of the year

Survivor Series was probably the best pay per view of the year.
Survivor Series was probably the best pay per view of the year.

#3 Overarching storyline

WWE actually made the war for brand supremacy work this time!
WWE actually made the war for brand supremacy work this time!

While WWE hasn't always been very good at keeping score, especially after last year's finish at Survivor Series, they turned all that around at this year's edition of the fall classic. Interestingly enough, they did so in a way that kept the integrity of all three brands intact, which had to be difficult.

It all started off during the preshow of the pay-per-view, where RAW, SmackDown and NXT all notched a victory heading into the main card. WWE followed that up by giving NXT the victory during the Women's traditional Survivor Series match and then again during the Roderick Strong vs Shinsuke Nakamura vs AJ Styles encounter.

Of course, SmackDown did get some of their momentum back with a key win in the men's Survivor Series match, but the victory wasn't without its controversy. In fact, the ending of the match pretty much guarantees that Roman Reigns and Baron Corbin are on a collision course in the future, but that's another story for another time.

Then WWE did the unthinkable and instead of allowing SmackDown to tie up the score, they had NXT win outright when Baszler made Bayley tap out. The victory essentially cemented NXT's dominance over the rest of WWE and was a pretty good ending to a pretty amazing pay per view.

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