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The betting odds for WWE Survivor Series have been updated, and there have been some changes for the show’s favorites. As of today, the odds for the RAW vs SmackDown Survivor Series Men’s match are evenly split, and the women’s match shows Team RAW as the heavy favorite. Brock Lesnar and The Shield are still the big favorites to win their respective matches, and Charlotte has increased her odds of beating Alexa Bliss in their match.

The Usos and The Miz are still favored to win their matches, and Enzo has increased his odds of retaining his Cruiserweight Title.

Just a reminder, the minus indicates the favorite and the plus is for the underdog. The number after the plus or minus tells us how favored or unfavored the competitors are.

WWE Survivor Series 2017 Betting Odds

Traditional Survivor Series Elimination Match (Men)
Team Smackdown -120 vs Team Raw -120.

Traditional Survivor Series Elimination Match (Women)
Team RAW -390 vs Team SmackDown +270.

Champion vs Champion
Brock Lesnar -600 vs AJ Styles +400.

Champion vs Champion
Charlotte Flair -350 vs Alexa Bliss +250.

Tag Champions vs Tag Champions
The Usos -230 vs Cesaro & Sheamus +170.

Intercontinental Champion vs United States Champion
The Miz -139 vs Baron Corbin +100.

WWE Cruiserweight Championship
Enzo Amore -305 vs Kalisto +225.

The Shield -1200 vs The New Day +600.

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Charlotte On Her Father’s Surprise SmackDown Live Appearance

As we all saw on this past week’s SmackDown Live, Ric Flair made his first appearance in WWE since his serious health issues of last summer. Flair made a surprise appearance on the show after his daughter Charlotte defeated Natalya for the SmackDown Women’s Title.

During a recent interview, Charlotte discussed that emotional moment.

“He’s done so much to pave the way for me, and then being able to win the title in my hometown and knowing that he’s back he’s healthy and to celebrate that moment when he was sick all I could think about was my dad never seen me wrestle again so that was really hard. So sharing that moment was nice.”

AJ Styles Only Has A Few Years Left?

AJ Styles is obviously one of the best professional wrestlers on the planet, and he’s definitely the best in-ring talent on WWE’s roster. During a recent interview, Styles hinted that his WWE run will only be lasting a couple more years, though.

“The older you get, the less energy you have to maintain it!. It is what it is, but if you still have that drive and you can still do it, why not? Get in the gym and get it done, and look good in the meantime.

“Work hard now, you enjoy it later. In a couple of years, I’ll be able to catch every football game, every baseball game, every basketball game, cheerleading, gymnastics, whatever they’re in.”

So, it sounds like we need to enjoy The Phenomenal One while we can.

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The betting odds for WWE Survivor Series are rolling in. As it stands now, the odds are split for the traditional Survivor Series Elimination Matches, with RAW favored for the women and SmackDown Live slightly favored for the men. Brock Lesnar is a heavy favorite to beat AJ Styles, and not surprisingly, The Shield are the odds on favorites to defeat The New Day.

Charlotte has an edge over Alexa Bliss in her match, and Enzo Amore is the favorite to walk out of Sunday’s show with his Cruiserweight Title intact.

Just a reminder, the minus indicates the favorite and the plus is for the underdog. The number after the plus or minus tells us how favored or unfavored the competitors are.

WWE Survivor Series 2017 Betting Odds

Traditional Survivor Series Elimination Match (Men)
Team Smackdown -167 vs Team Raw +120

Traditional Survivor Series Elimination Match (Women)
Team RAW -295 vs Team SmackDown +200.

Champion vs Champion
Brock Lesnar -500 vs AJ Styles +300.

Champion vs Champion
Charlotte Flair -155 vs Alexa Bliss +110.

Tag Champions vs Tag Champions
The Usos -250 vs Cesaro & Sheamus +175.

Intercontinental Champion vs United States Champion
The Miz -139 vs Baron Corbin +100.

WWE Cruiserweight Championship
Enzo Amore -225 vs Kalisto +155.

The Shield -500 vs The New Day +300.

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Now that SmackDown Live and 205 Live are in the books, let’s hope that the final card for Sunday’s WWE Surviror Series is set. This card has seemingly changed every other day over the past few weeks, but things could be ready to go for Sunday night.

After tonight’s SmackDown Live, there is a new Women’s Champion for the blue brand, so that means that RAW Women’s Champion Alexa Bliss will now be taking on Charlotte instead of Natalya. The question is now, will Natalya take Charlotte’s place on the SmackDown Women’s Team? For the purposes of this, I am going with yes. There is speculation that Paige could be added to the blue brand’s team at the last minute, but that is just a rumor right now.

And, with Triple H adding himself to the RAW Survivor Series Men’s Team last night, taking Jason Jordan out of the equation, it looks like the brands’ teams are set.

WWE Survivor Series 2017 Card

WWE Cruiserweight Title (Kickoff Show)
Enzo Amore vs Kalisto.

The Shield vs The New Day.

The Miz vs Baron Corbin.

Cesaro and Sheamus vs The Usos.

Alexa Bliss vs Charlotte.

WWE Universal Champion Brock Lesnar vs WWE World Champion AJ Styles.

Traditional Survivor Series Elimination Match
Alicia Fox, Nia Jax, Asuka, Sasha Banks, and Bayley vs Becky Lynch, Tamina Snuka, Carmella, Naomi, and Natalya.

Traditional Survivor Series Elimination Match
Kurt Angle, Triple H, Braun Strowman, Samoa Joe, and Finn Balor vs Shane McMahon, Randy Orton, Bobby Roode, John Cena, and Shinsuke Nakamura.

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WWE Planning On Big Guests At Survivor Series?

We reported earlier this week that WWE was considering John Cena as the special guest referee for the Champion vs Champion match at Survivor Series between Universal Champion Brock Lesnar and WWE Champion Jinder Mahal. The reason for Cena’s name being floated is apparently so Brock will have a big name in the ring with him (I guess this means WWE doesn’t consider Mahal a “big name”; color me shocked), and also because Cena cannot wrestle at the show because of movie commitments.

If Cena cannot appear, Vince McMahon is reportedly considering Steve Austin or The Rock as special guest referees for the match. The idea is supposedly that it would be intriguing to see Lesnar in the ring with either of the two legends…even though it would never lead anywhere.

Kevin Owens Talks Struggles In NXT & Dusty Rhodes

During a recent appearance on Edge & Christian’s podcast, Kevin Owens opened up about some of the struggles he faced when adjusting to NXT.

“When I got to the Performance Center, I wasn’t sure… So I knew who I was. I’ve known who I’ve been as a performer for a long time, but I wasn’t sure, when I got to the Performance Center, if that’s what they wanted me to be. All I know is William Regal came to a PWG show in California, saw me wrestle, and I was offered a tryout and that whole process took a little while, took a couple of months.

“I got to the Performance Center a couple of months later and I still wasn’t sure who they wanted me to be in a way because I did the tryout, I cut the promo the way I talk, I didn’t try to be anybody different when I was cutting the promo, and as far as, like, I did a little match there and I wrestled the match my way except for some reason they had me, at the time, I was always pretty much a heel and they had me work as a babyface, so that kind of felt weird. So even in the match, I wrestled my own style, but I wasn’t being myself. And I had, like, this is WWE in my head and ‘I can’t go in my shorts and my cutoff t-shirt’. I had a nice singlet made. I wrestled in the singlet, which was completely not me at that time because I wrestled in a singlet 15 years ago, 10 years ago, whatever it was, 12 years ago, on the independents. But then, eventually, I transitioned into the more street fight-looking gear and that was definitely more me. But in my head, ‘I can’t wrestle in WWE in street fight-looking gear,’ so I wasn’t sure which parts of the tryout they had liked: was it the promo that was entirely me or if they were they like, ‘no, it’s the way he wrestled’. Like, my mind was kind of playing tricks on me because nobody’s telling me anything concrete and everybody has opinions.”

He said that the late Dusty Rhodes was instrumental in making him feel more comfortable in NXT and giving him confidence that everything would be fine.

“[Christian] kind of told me, ‘look, you’ve just got to be you’ and that resonated with me. And then, over time, I got to know Dusty Rhodes better. And Dusty and I got closer and closer and Dusty echoed the same thing, so that definitely went a long way in me getting the confidence to just be me. And it’s exactly like [Christian] said, if you go too far, they’ll pull you back, but you don’t want to [not go far enough]. Yeah, exactly. You don’t want to be too hesitant and not give everything you could give. Then, you might be holding back something that they could love.

“I only got to work with Dusty for 10 months from the time I got to the Performance Center and then till the time I got called up on the road. And about a month later, he passed away. But, man, the time I had with Dusty is invaluable and I’m so thankful for it. I was fortunate to learn from a lot of people throughout my career, but nobody made as much of an impact in such a short time on me as Dusty did.”

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Well, tonight’s RAW is in the books and the build for Survivor Series is officially underway. At the end of tonight’s show, Shane McMahon led most of the SmackDown Live roster to the ring on RAW and officially put the brand under siege. The blue brand took almost all of RAW’s roster out, leaving them laying, and leaving Kurt Angle standing alone in the center of the ring.

So, from what we know now, Survivor Series is going to consist of all RAW vs SmackDown Live matches. We reported earlier today about some of the rumored matches, but now, those have been set in stone and officially announced, so the card is shaping up. None of the matches will be title matches, so no one get their hopes up about anything being unified.

WWE Survivor Series 2017 Match Card

• WWE Universal Champion Brock Lesnar vs WWE World Champion Jinder Mahal
• RAW Tag Team Champions Seth Rollins & Dean Ambrose vs SmackDown Tag Team Champions The Usos
• Intercontinental Champion The Miz vs US Champion Baron Corbin
• RAW Women’s Champion Alexa Bliss vs SmackDown Women’s Champion Natalya
• Traditional Survivor Series RAW vs SmackDown Live Men’s Elimination Match
• Traditional Survivor Series RAW vs SmackDown Live Women’s Elimination Match (Alicia Fox will be the captain of the RAW Women’s Team)

Aside from Foxy, no one has been announced for the elimination matches.

No doubt that tomorrow’s SmackDown Live will flesh out the card a bit more.

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