5 Surprising Moments From WWE Survivor Series 2021

At WWE Survivor Series, we sure had a lot of references to The Rock. They promoted his Netflix movie, had a Battle Royal in his name, showed multiple highlights of his career and even used one of his finishing moves in the main event.

But did The People's Champion show up? Unfortunately, it was a disappointing and surprising NO.

WWE Survivor Series was certainly an interesting night. We had an excellent match between the two Women’s Champions, a bizarre Battle Royal, a memorable RKO and a very strong main event.

The show is unlikely to be remembered in the years to come, but it was simply a solid night of in-ring action with some more questionable storyline choices that didn’t really seem to benefit WWE going forward.

As we try to figure out why AJ Styles was so obsessed with Pizza Hut, we should try to distract ourselves and present the list of the top five most surprising moments of WWE Survivor Series 2021:

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#5 Raw rules the night at WWE Survivor Series 2021

The stakes at WWE Survivor Series are certainly strange. It's billed as the only time each year when Raw faces Smackdown. That isn’t actually true, but you would assume that WWE would balance out the victories so both rosters would look good. That didn’t happen on Sunday night.

Things started well for Smackdown. They won the Kickoff show match with a disqualification, but then the main show started.

Raw won the Women’s Championship match. They won both Survivor Series Elimination matches. They won the 25 man Battle Royal. They even won the Tag Team Champions match.

If it wasn’t for Roman Reigns? Smackdown would have been swept on the main show. It's very surprising to see one brand dominate WWE Survivor Series in a major way.

If only there were some actual stakes on the line for this pay-per-view, it would make a long-term impact.

#4 Becky Lynch cheats to win at WWE Survivor Series 2021

At WWE Survivor Series, the match that seemed to have the most build and story was the highly anticipated match between Raw Women’s Champion Becky Lynch and Smackdown Women’s Champion Charlotte Flair.

In television interviews and social media, it seemed like there was a lot of bad blood between the former friends. How would that translate into a match at WWE Survivor Series?

The match started fast with a very brawling heavy style. It helped to sell the hate between the two competitors. The contest didn’t slow down at all for 18 wonderful minutes of action between two of the best in the WWE. Both Charlotte Flair and Becky Lynch had multiple near falls throughout the match for an enthusiastic Brooklyn Crowd.

The finish at WWE Survivor Series was surprising and clever. Charlotte attempted to use the rope to cheat her way to victory but the refs saw and stopped the count.

This allowed Lynch to counter the pin attempt and use the ropes herself to pick up the victory. It was a sudden and surprising end but protects both wrestlers going forward after WWE Survivor Series.

#3 A Golden Egg becomes a huge mystery at WWE Survivor Series 2021

At WWE Survivor Series, the show was billed as Raw vs. Smackdown. However, the show was also sponsored by the Netflix movie Red Notice.

You would think that would mean a few ads at WWE Survivor Series. Instead, it was a major angle on the show. Who stole Vince’s $100 million dollar golden egg? It seems the WWE has a lot of money laying around these days to buy golden Egyptian artifacts.

It seems weird that The Rock would give Vince McMahon a $100 million dollar gift. Why is The Rock giving such expensive gifts? It also seems that Cleopatra’s Egg was the artifact they were hunting for in the movie Red Notice.

Does that mean the treasure in the movie was real and The Rock decided to give it to Vince McMahon? And why does Cleopatra, an Egyptian queen, have golden eggs? Let us just say it brings up a lot of questions at WWE Survivor Series.

Unsurprisingly, Vince didn’t have his ridiculously expensive egg for very long. Someone decided to steal it. I mean it is $100 million dollars we're talking about. That is a ridiculous amount of money for a pro wrestling show. It was a strange and surprising choice to focus on a movie MacGuffin during one of your biggest shows of the entire year.

#2 Bianca Belair is the Sole Survivor at WWE Survivor Series 2021

After WWE Survivor Series, Sasha Banks will have a lot of questions that need to be answered. Why does her entire Survivor Series team hate her? Natalya, Shotzi and Shayna Baszler prevented her from making her way back into the ring.

She seemed to be at least halfway in the ring herself but for some reason the referee counted her out anyway. Banks will have a lot to complain about after the events of WWE Survivor Series.

The Women’s Survivor Series Match was surely a unique one. The Raw team was quickly wiped out. Bianca Belair had to take out four Smackdown superstars all by herself. Thankfully. they turned on each other.

Sasha Banks was eliminated by her teammates. Belair was quickly able to get a roll-up on Natalya. Baszler was next taken out with a Glam Slam. Shotzi was then hit by a Kiss of Death shortly thereafter. Belair did it all alone.

It is pretty rare in WWE Survivor Series history to have a lone survivor eliminate so many opponents. Belair has been booked strong in 2021.

This seems to be more proof of how much support Belair has. She remains one of the most popular faces in the company. Will she use the momentum to get back into the Raw title hunt? It seems likely after Sunday night.

#1 Roman Reigns defeats Big E clean at WWE Survivor Series 2021

The main event of WWE Survivor Series was between WWE Universal Champion Roman Reigns and WWE Champion Big E.

The Tribal Chief has disrespected Big E and his New Day allies in recent weeks. Could the power of positivity pull off one of the biggest upsets ever at WWE Survivor Series?

It took some time to get going but Big E and Roman Reigns had a wonderful match at WWE Survivor Series. Big E had a great near fall with his Big Ending during the match but Roman was too close to the ropes.

Big E was able to fight through multiple Superman punches and Spear attempts as well. Big E even came back after multiple attacks on his knee by Roman Reigns. But it was one too many attacks after twenty-two minutes. That was when Roman hit one last spear for a clean, pinfall victory.

It was surprising to see a rare clean victory for Roman Reigns at Survivor Series. He usually has some fluke events or some underhanded tactics to pull out a victory.

But Big E doesn’t lose anything in a competitive match against Roman. The future is bright for the WWE Champion. He looked like a worthy titleholder at Survivor Series.