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

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.

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

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.

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

What are we to make of this year's Survivor Series build? There have been moments of greatness. Matches like Becky Lynch vs. Bayley vs. Shayna Baszler and AJ Styles vs. Shinsuke Nakamura vs. Roderick Strong have potential to blow everything out of the water.

However, there's also a lot of storytelling just hanging limp. It is hard to get excited about matches built on graphics alone. So much of the storytelling stopped after NXT's initial invasion, and now everyone's just waiting for Survivor Series.

I expect some greatness to come out of it, but I still want WWE to get me more excited. WWE is not great at that often.

Written by: Kevin Berge

AEW has been on an impressive roll since debuting on TNT. To date, the brand has not had a single bad show. In that same time, I cannot say the same of any WWE show even NXT. The build to AEW Full Gear was not perfect, but it made this feel like a truly special show.

The clear main events were distinctly built with the absolute stars of AEW as the focus, and every main card match had a chance to deliver in spades. AEW had done its job using TV to sell the special event at the end.

While I would have liked the women's division to get more of a build and for AEW to take a little time before putting Cody in the main event scene, I cannot fault much else on this impressive card, and that's before getting into how it actually went down.