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

It's the end of 2019, and WWE has now put on its final major show of the year. The company is already starting to look forward to WWE Royal Rumble 2020. It's about time to reflect on what this year was for wrestling.

This was a mixed bag of a year. The brand split wavered wildly leading to so many great stars getting no time to shine. When the brand split returned, control over the show also changed. Monday Night Raw has been bad in unique ways though also had great moment. Friday Night SmackDown has mostly been bad.

The talent in WWE is still always underused or used poorly. The year began with WWE crowning Seth Rollins, Becky Lynch and Kofi Kingston. While The Man kept up her roll, The Beastslayer lost steam fast. Despite a few good matches, he's had potentially his worst fully healthy year in WWE.

Kofi's fall was even more severe. It is great he is more recognized as a star amongst fans, but it feels like everyone has already forgotten he was WWE Champion.

This whole year has been driven by missed opportunities. Even this week was one with plenty of potential that fell so far short. At least NXT has mostly been a success story through it all.

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WWE has gotten to the point that the PPV cards are not even built until the week of. 7 hours of major nationalized television a week are not enough for WWE to build a 3 hour card with a month of time until the vert last week.

Honestly, there are parts of the card that shock me based on what is on the card and what is not. I thought there were certain guaranteed matches that missed the card entirely and others that absolutely did not deserve their spot.

This is a PPV that has often overdelivered, and it has matches like The Kabuki Warriors vs. Becky Lynch and Charlotte Flair in a TLC match as well as The New Day vs. The Revival in a ladder match. It's just the build that has disappointed on all fronts.

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It's December, and every WWE fan knows what that means. It's time for WWE to phone it in for a month. The holiday season means most of the talent and writers just want to go home. Even before the very much needed pre-taped holiday shows, no one is in full gear.

Honestly, no one's probably all that interested until Royal Rumble. Then WWE gets serious again. For now, it's time to recycle old stories and put out matches we've all already seen.

I'm not saying I won't be watching regardless, but I know WWE too well to expect anything less than the company's worst with only the often discarded WWE TLC on the plate.

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In the fight for brand supremacy, NXT has won, and we can all move on. While the black-and-gold brand was the most interesting part of Survivor Series 2019, WWE has a tendency to overwhelmingly force a story down until it doesn't land.

Last year, Monday Night Raw sweeped SmackDown Live. This year, NXT almost completely sweeped the field with two other brands in the conflict. By the end of the week though, it felt like everyone had moved on.

What is there to say about WWE? No matter how much the company says something matters, in the end, none of it matters for long.

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Survivor Series and NXT TakeOver: WarGames are coming around this weekend. Before that point, it was the classic "everyone fights inconclusively at the end of the show" week.

As stated in previous weeks, NXT's inclusion has been a major boon to this story. The brand has forced WWE to sell new matches and moments. It feels like a whole new roster was added to the company.

Still, it's hard to believe at the end of the day NXT will win, and, if they fail, none of this meant anything. Raw and SmackDown will go back to tell the same stories every week. No one wins an opportunity or proves anything that matters at the end of Sunday.