By Shane McKinley, Torch specialist

-The three-headed announcing team of Michael Cole, Jerry Lawler, and Matt Striker was not good. Striker is too smart for his own good. He's better when he paints in big strokes (The "Where else are you going to get this feeling? Everybody in the arena is standing!" type of thing). When he's going into lengthy syllable sentences that have really nothing to do with the match (Yes, I was sick of Cole "correcting" him during the night), it's bad. When he says the classic Striker line of "did you see that? He would have hooked the leg while going for the pinfall but his arm was injured," I groan. Dumb it down, Professor Striker. Trust me, it will work better.

I have never thought three-man announce teams were ever a good idea. It didn't work with Ross-Lawler-Coach, or Lawler-Coach-Styles.

-Why are you paying more for WWE PPVs? It's so that John Cena can change his colors from a John Deere farm product to a Miami Dolphins jersey. Hooray!

-Sheamus injured poor ref Scott Armstrong. WWE took advantage and added it to the evilness of Sheamus. Nice work under pressure by the video crew. Not nice work done by Jack Swagger in this match. It's getting hard to watch.

-Team Miz gets the win over Team Morrison. Your standard Survivor Series match. Not bad.

-Batista vs. Rey Mysterio was a backfire. WWE doesn't care about the pro-Batista crowd because it all looks good in their video. But they better give people a darn good reason to boo Batista if he faces old and boring Undertaker, who picked up another soulless PPV victory.

-I felt a bit sick during Mysterio's "Eddie" shake. I'm pretty sure Eddie would say, "You shouldn't milk that cow, ese."

-In case you didn't know, C.M. Punk is the man.

-Kofi pinning two former World Heavyweight champions in six seconds is scary. Scary in the sense that Kofi better not blow this. And WWE has to keep in mind that while it's all nice and good about Kofi's push, they can already see the signs of anti-Kofi resentment. It's about time Kofi to have a three-star match to hang his hat on, ala John Morrison.

-There was really no reason for the Undertaker-Big Show-Chris Jericho triple threat match to take place, other than for Jericho to do his best teenager facial expression during this feud. ("I'm not scared of the Undertaker. Not even a little bit.")

-Waking me out of my slumber was Josh Matthews interviewing three hungry young heels (McIntyre, Miz, Sheamus) looking to form a faction. I'm so used to old guys groups like DX and Main Event Mafia (Legacy are as violent as fat-free milk) that it was a bit of a shock.

-The three-way main event of Cena-DX was nicely handled, but they did push their luck. Some of the sequences were a bit too cute, and the Cena vs. Triple H segment merely went through the motions.

Survivor Series is what we thought it would be. It was a good but not great PPV. WWE wants fans to buy the TLC PPV, but I'm starting to find myself thinking, "Maybe I should only just order WrestleMania."

Email is mckinley.torch@gmail.com

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