WWE teased me with a perfectly good match between Tommaso Ciampa and WWE United States Champion Ilja Dragunov. It sounds like it could be a killer title match. Any other week, I’d simply be excited for the fact that somewhere down the line, two former WWE NXT Champions are gonna tangle for the title of John Cena, Lex Luger, and Blackjack Mulligan, but this isn’t any other week. This is Survivor Series weekend, and there are currently four– Did I say four? Yes, count them, four. One more time for emphasis: Four matches on the Survivor Series card.

Are you really going to tell me that WWE can’t fit one more match onto the show that will be taking place in a baseball stadium? I’m not asking for an AEW-style marathon, but surely one more match could fit on that show.

No, no, it apparently can’t. If they could fit more matches onto the card, then surely the Traditional Survivor Series 5-on-5 match would be on the freaking Survivor Series PLE. It’s unconscionable to have such a thin PLE, War Games Matches or not. Let Ciampa and Dragunov off the chains for 15 minutes. Set The Wyatts loose on the MFTS for a 20-minute elimination match. I can only watch so many ads for WWE podcasts and cheap cellular data plans.

WWE is conditioning fans to expect the bare minimum, and it’s making me feel like Goldilocks. Surely, there’s a wrestling promotion out there that can split the difference between AEW’s 7-hour epics and WWE’s barebones supershows. 

Written by Ross Berman.