The Original Plans For WWE Survivor Series

As has been rumored, the WWE put the title on Edge as sort of a last minute thing and it actually was not going to happen the way we saw. We all knew that when Edge arrived in Boston the day of the Survivor Series that he'd be involved somehow.

The actual plans we saw were planned about a day or two before, just in time to get Edge out to Boston from Florida, and get him involved. He actually was going to be at the SmackDown tapings for his return the following Tuesday.

The actual storyline was this from insider pwrestlingnews.com:

"At one time was to hold a Single Match between Triple H and Vladimir Kozlov at the Survivor Series.

The reason Hardy was added to the match was because WWE officials were concerned that a singles match between Hunter and Kozlov would not be entertaining. Hardy was added to make the match better.

However, there was no serious consideration given to putting the WWE Title on Hardy. Rather, the buzz was that the company wanted to protect Kozlov, but not put the title on him.

Therefore, Hardy would have done the job had they went ahead with the match and not come up with the storyline with Edge entering the match and winning the title belt. That said, Vince McMahon was described as "non-committal" regarding the finish of the match."

Now Vince really likes Kozlov and he has ever since he arrived and debuted on SmackDown months ago. He wants him to hold a WWE Championship at least once or twice, but figured he wasn't ready.

This was why he wanted him to not win at the PPV. Triple H was going to lose the title at Survivor Series anyway, but they thought Kozlov wasn't ready.

And they didn't want Hardy to hold it, which I cannot see why considering he is one of the most popular in the WWE today. Everyone has been itching to see Hardy win it.

I know a lot of the B/R wrestling writers have said that Hardy needs to hold the title in many articles. Tons of other websites have mentioned he needs to hold it. If the WWE did finally let Hardy hold the title I'm sure they would get great feedback.

I know they are worried about Hardy and his past with drugs and alchohol. But he seems to be diffferent and his brother Matt has been with him pretty much every week now. His new image he is portraying is only making him even more popular to me.

I just don't see why the WWE cannot let him be Champion sort of like CM Punk was, he could hold it about three months or so. You could always make him give it up if you release him for the three strikes thing.

Well, all we know now is what we actually saw at Survivor Series with Edge winning the WWE Championship. What did you think of the match?

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