Zachary FenellRIP Survivor Series (1987-2009)
February 13th 2010 19:33
Vince McMahon recently announced the WWE will be dropping the Survivor Series event from their PPV schedule because McMahon feels the Survivor Series concept has become obsolete. As a lifelong wrestling fan this announcement disappoints me greatly. Survivor Series has always been considered one of the WWE’s big four pay-per-views, along with the Royal Rumble, Wrestlemania, and Summerslam. These four pay-per-views are special because they were on PPV before the WWE started doing monthly pay-per-views.
Survivor Series represented wrestling tradition, and now that is gone. The WWE eliminating Survivor Series would be like if the Church eliminated the Lent season. I’m not trying to say wrestling should be compared to religion, but rather I’m illustrating a point about the traditional significance of Survivor Series.
Now, I understand that the Survivor Series buyrates have been declining in recent years, but buyrates as a whole have not been too great for wrestling the past nine years. More time should’ve been spent trying to revamp Survivor Series, instead of eliminating the PPV in its entirety. From viewing online forums I can tell many lifelong wrestling fans are not happy about this move. I can only hope these fans will boycott whatever the new November PPV will be so maybe, just maybe, the WWE will be motivated to bring back Survivor Series.
Survivor Series represented wrestling tradition, and now that is gone. The WWE eliminating Survivor Series would be like if the Church eliminated the Lent season. I’m not trying to say wrestling should be compared to religion, but rather I’m illustrating a point about the traditional significance of Survivor Series.
Now, I understand that the Survivor Series buyrates have been declining in recent years, but buyrates as a whole have not been too great for wrestling the past nine years. More time should’ve been spent trying to revamp Survivor Series, instead of eliminating the PPV in its entirety. From viewing online forums I can tell many lifelong wrestling fans are not happy about this move. I can only hope these fans will boycott whatever the new November PPV will be so maybe, just maybe, the WWE will be motivated to bring back Survivor Series.
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