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This month’s Survivor Series is shaping up to be historic for a variety of ways; the most important of which has absolutely nothing to do with the potential disappearance of The Authority or any supposed heel or face turns that may or may not occur.
For the first time in almost 10 years, we are likely to have a Pay Per View with absolutely zero title matches.
Using the wonder of ProFightDB, I went back through the last 128 PPV events, searching for the last one that didn’t feature one championship contest. I had to go back all the way to One Night Stand from 2005 until I found one, and that’s even debatable to use since, as an ECW reunion show, there wouldn’t be any title matches anyway. I could go back further. . . but that sounds like hard work to me.
How odd is this phenomenon? There have only been 2 PPV’s in that same time period to only feature a single title defense. Now, to be fair, the majority of these last 10 years have featured at least 2 (and sometimes 3) brands, so title matches are an expected occurrence for culmination events, as most PPV’s are. But still, 128 events is a loooooong time.
“Now, DC,” you might be saying to yourselves, “we don’t know for sure that Survivor Series won’t feature a title match. What makes you think it’s going to happen?” And as always, dear reader, I’m glad you asked. I humbly submit my two (yes, only two) reasons for believing we will see no title matches at Survivor Series.
