Worst Women’s WWE Survivor Series Matches

With WWE Survivor Series: Wargames just around the corner, LWOS decided to take a look at the history of Women’s Matches at the events. While many are amazing, a few are okay, and a select handful are just the worst. Today, we’ll take a look at the absolute worst Women’s Survivor Series Matches and tell you why. W

e will be ranking them from best to worst, and all the participants from each match. For this article, I actually had to sit through every one of these matches, so you didn’t have to. I feel like I deserve some compensation for doing so, but nevertheless, here’s the list!

3. Total Divas vs. True Divas

Participants: The Bella Twins, Eva Marie, The Funkadactyls, Natalya, and JoJo vs. Aksana, Alicia Fox, Rosa Mendes, Summer Rae, Tamina Snuka, Kaitlyn, and AJ Lee.

The Match:

This match is LOADED with competitors, with each team having seven participants. Which is already too many, and makes it lose points almost immediately. The match could’ve easily been a traditional 5-on-5, with two women from each team being valets. Naomi starts things off against Alicia Fox, and almost immediately,

Fox is eliminated, despite an early offense. Naomi tags in Cameron to double team Rosa Mendes, who quickly evens the odds by eliminating Cameron off a trip into the turnbuckle. Mendes immediately gets eliminated by a Bella Buster from Nikki Bella. Bella also eliminates Summer Rae after a mid-match dance battle with one kick, which didn’t look very impactful.

Do you see a pattern here? Almost every elimination happens after a participant takes one move, which is botched half the time. This match is definitely more for filling time in the show and to showcase the visual appeal of the women involved.

Many of the participants in this match are limited, including Mendes, Rae, Marie, Aksana, and Jojo, who wasn’t even a wrestler! She was a ring announcer! Brie Bella and Kaitlyn had one of the very, very few highlights of the match. Having a surprisingly decent back-and-forth off of Kaitlyn’s momentum after she eliminated two members of Team Total Divas.

However, that momentum was almost immediately killed after Bella eliminated her with a missile dropkick. Brie is then eliminated by Aksana, who, in turn, pays the price at the hands of Nikki. It’s not until a little over halfway through the match that this contest has anything positive at all.

The Very Little Highlights:

Another very small highlight of this match was the in-ring storytelling told between Nikki Bella, Jojo, and Tamina Snuka. I actually appreciate how WWE played into her lack of experience, and Nikki’s hesitance to even tag her in, despite her being the only member available, was great. Jojo actually manages to pull off a near-fall by rolling Tamina up, which was the only part of her section that wasn’t botched or screwy.

Another small highlight was the character work of AJ Lee and Tamina Snuka. After a Samoan Drop on Jojo, Snuka doesn’t go for the pin and instead tags in AJ, who skips around her and pins her. This small bit of character work really does go to great lengths, as it shows just how devoted Snuka was to AJ at this time in her career.

Natalya, who Michael Cole miscalls as the “sole survivor of her team” (she’s not; Nikki Bella is on the floor outside), has a decent showing against Snuka and Lee. Natalya and Snuka square off in nothing of note, until Snuka goes high for a splash but then misses.

She then uses this to lock in the Sharpshooter. Snuka then taps out just before AJ can break it up, which is hard to catch if you’re not watching carefully. Natalya then also submits AJ after Bella prevented Snuka from causing a distraction. Another slight positive was Brie Bella’s gear; it was so cute.

Rating:

Although this match had far too many people, not enough time, and more than half of the participants being just horrible, it was okay-ish towards the end, and had some good storytelling.

Overall, I give it a 2.5/5, because this match was also just a product of its time, and it doesn’t deserve to have points knocked off for that. You can watch the match here!