Written by: Kevin Berge (All Images Courtesy of: WWE.com)

I'll admit it. I like Survivor Series as a brand rivalry show. The concept has never been great on its own, but adding this focus has set up unique matches with potential to overachieve. The storytelling is all about being better than the opponent across from you.

This year, the addition of NXT has been a big boost to the company. They feel like an invading force with so much to prove. I have my reservations about booking this many triple threat matches including elimination tag triple threat, but WWE has time to figure it out.

It's all been good storytelling couple with smart booking. WWE finally found a way to make NXT relevant enough to make it a real competitor to AEW. We'll see if it lasts past Survivor Series because, if it does, WWE got the job done no matter how good the show is.

Written by: Kevin Berge (All Images Courtesy of: WWE.com)

I watched WWE Crown Jewel 2019, but I'm not even going to give it the opportunity to stand in the title of this article. I'm not going to talk about it beyond the fact that it was bad. It was really bad.

I am so genuinely frustrated with it that I barely want to even mention that Cesaro vs. Mansoor was really good. It almost cracked my best matches list. Everything else was so bad that it dragged that match into the muck.

I have no idea how WWE can put so much time and energy into hyping these events than so little into actually executing. It's almost like most of these guys don't want to be there.

Written by: Kevin Berge (All Images Courtesy of: WWE.com)

Did you know there's a pay-per-view next week? Okay, it's not a real big WWE show. It's only a show "as big as WrestleMania" called Crown Jewel. It's as big only in the fact that WWE is making more money for it than Mania. The blood money is plentiful.

I won't be covering the show in my weekly recap in more than a passing word next week, which is fine WWE is hardly going to put much effort into it. There has not been a single relevant thing to happen at any of these Saudi Arabia events to date.

Most of the interesting stars aren't even featured on the show anyway.

Written by: Kevin Berge (All Images Courtesy of: WWE.com)

This is a WWE article. I get that, but it needs to be said that the first A+ wrestling show aired this week. It wasn't one of WWE's many shows but rather AEW Dynamite's killer third week. It was an excellent event top to bottom.

I miss when I could enjoy wrestling at this type of universal level. It had great wrestling including multiple matches above anything WWE put on this week, and it was actually the storytelling that stood more strongly.

Everything built up to make this week's Dynamite so much better than WWE's awkward and overdone shows. I guess back to WWE now...

Written by: Kevin Berge (All Images Courtesy of: WWE.com)

How do you follow the biggest week on the wrestling year? The answer from WWE is convince people the next week is just important. That was entirely unsuccessful, but at least the company still seems to be trying.

The problem with WWE when it tries is that sometimes they go over the top. There was a lot to not like about this week. WWE has a tendency to ruin its best characters in time. It's just a matter of how much time it takes.

A few moments along the way did stand out. Even as WWE continues to build up the always missable Crown Jewel, certain stars like Becky Lynch are still knocking it out of the park to keep WWE relevant.