WWE Survivor Series 2014: Results and observations from the show

The WWE has been touting for weeks that this year's edition of Survivor Series would be historic.

Well, Survivor Series wasn't a great show from beginning to end, but the end was damn sure historic.

Overall, Survivor Series wasn't very good, but a hot main event more than made for what was largely a forgettable show.

Needless to say, the bulk of my highlights and observations will surround the main event.

But before we go through those, we have to go through the full match results:

- Pre-show match: Fandango def. Justin Gabriel

- Pre-show match: Jack Swagger def. Cesaro

- WWE Tag Team Championship – The Miz & Damien Mizdow def. Goldust & Stardust, The Usos, & Los Matadores

- Natalya, Alicia Fox, Naomi & Emma swept Cameron, Paige, Summer Rae & Layla

- Bray Wyatt def. Dean Ambrose via disqualification

- The Bunny & Adam Rose def. Slater Gator (Heath Slater & Titus O'Neil)

- WWE Divas Championship – Nikki Bella def. AJ Lee

- Team Cena (John Cena, Dolph Ziggler, Big Show, Ryback & Erick Rowan) def. Team Authority (Mark Henry, Seth Rollins, Kane, Rusev & Luke Harper)

With all of that out of the way, let's get to the major happenings from the Scottrade Center in St. Louis, Mo.:

Sting makes his WWE debut

After years of making his name seemingly everywhere but the WWE, the man called Sting finally made his debut with the company during the main event of Survivor Series.

To mark the historic occasion, Sting delivered a scorpion death drop to Triple H and helped Dolph Ziggler of Team Cena pin Seth Rollins of Team Authority.

Despite there being numerous reports out there stating that Sting would indeed be on the show, it was still a great moment to see Sting walk to a WWE ring.

Although his music sucked and he didn't have his signature black baseball bat, it was still awesome to Sting put Triple H down and help put an end to The Authority.

Now the question is, what's next for Sting? Will he assume a general manager role, which has been rumored for months? Does he hang around and cut promos until it's time for him to have a big match?

Either way, Sting's debut made Monday Night Raw must-see television for at least this week and maybe a couple of more.

No more Authority!

The best part of the main event, besides Sting showing up, was the fact that Team Authority lost, which means Triple H and Stephanie McMahon are out of power.

Thank goodness.

For one, The Authority storyline probably ran its course at WrestleMania, but the WWE managed to squeeze out another seven months from it.

Secondly, I'm just tired of authority figures in wrestling period. It has become almost a part of the formula of what makes wrestling. It's time to go in a new creative direction. I mean, it's only been 15 years of this type of storytelling.

Dolph Ziggler was the lone survivor

How about this night for Dolph Ziggler? He's done a lot in his career so far, but this has to be the highlight of it so far? Right?

First, he's the lone member of his team and has to fight way back into the match against three people. That alone makes him look like a million bucks.

Then he's in the ring when Sting makes his historic debut in the WWE and is the guy Sting drags over for the winning moment.

To top it all off, he's the lone survivor in the match that puts The Authority out of commission.

People cry about Ziggler's position on the card all the time. I'm guilty of, too sometimes, but this was definitely his night to shine. It probably won't get any bigger than this.

There are a lot of world champions walking around, but he is one of three people that can say they were in the ring when Sting made his debut in WWE.

Big Show turns on Team Cena, eliminates John Cena and himself

Big Show turning for the 47th time in his career wasn't all that shocking. It didn't make a whole lot of since given that The Authority used to make his life a living hell, but it wasn't really shocking.

What was shocking was the fact that he eliminated John Cena and himself, which left Ziggler to fight against The Authority all by his lonesome.

I don't think anyone really cares about Big Show turning heel, but it was done create adversity for Ziggler, and it worked.

It also created a surprise moment of Cena being eliminated early.

Rusev still looking strong

I mentioned multiple times on this blog about the weird situation the WWE put itself in by putting Rusev into this match because if Team Authority were to lose, it meant that Rusev would have to somehow be eliminated.

Well, the WWE took the predictable but smart way out by having Rusev get counted out after he belly-flopped right through table. His intended target was not the table, it was Ziggler, but Ziggler moved out of the way just in time.

The Russian sympathizer was not able to get back in the ring in time and was eliminated from the match. It's kind of lame to see someone get counted out in a match like this, but in the specific case of Rusev, it made sense.

Why was Ryback eliminated so quickly?

What didn't make a lick of sense to me was the fact that Ryback was the second man eliminated from the match and the first to be eliminated from Team Cena.

The WWE spent the last two weeks building up Ryback as this huge weapon that both teams coveted for the match, only to dispose of him early in the match.

Why waste everyone's time every Monday night if you're not going to give people consistent and cohesive storylines to follow?

Michael Cole was on fire during main event

The main event was a very fun match because of the action in the ring, the energy from the fans in St. Louis, but also because of the commentary from Michael Cole.

It is rare that I hand any praise to Cole, but every now and again, he pulls out some great calls that are worthy of being praised. The main event of Survivor Series was a prime example of that.

The energy and emotion he expressed on commentary only added to the drama of the match. It was much better than the phony humor and senseless banter that we typically hear from the announcers.

Dean Ambrose-Bray Wyatt match was a lot of fun

The match between Dean Ambrose and Bray Wyatt will be largely forgotten in the long run because of Sting's debut, but it definitely deserves some kudos for being one of the few noteworthy happenings from the undercard.

The match itself was very good. I wasn't a huge fan of the disqualification finish, but it does make sense for the Ambrose character to clobber Wyatt with a chair.

What Ambrose did to Wyatt after the match was cool and a really cool set up to their match at Tables Ladders and Chairs, which was made official later in the show.

The Miz and Damien Mizdow win tag titles

Although no one wanted to tag in Damien Mizdow, he somehow found a way to insert himself into the match to gain the pin fall and earn the tag titles for he and his boss The Miz.

Mizdow was by far the most over person in this match, but I like the way the WWE takes advantage of that by constantly teasing that he's going to get into the match.

I also liked the way The Miz celebrated with both titles.

Nikki Bella quickly beats AJ Lee via Brie Bella kiss

In a bit of poetic justice, AJ Lee quickly lost her Divas title after receiving a surprise kiss from Brie Bella after the bell rung, which is a nod to her kiss to Daniel Bryan costing him his World Heavyweight Championship at WrestleMania 28.

I think Nikki Bella as Divas Champion is pretty cool, as she's done pretty good work with her heal character lately.

My guess is that her next logical opponent would be her sister Brie Bella, as she apparently only had two days left to be Nikki Bella's slave as of Sunday night.

Divas Survivor Series match was really bad, and really long

Boy, this was garbage. As a matter of fact, it was hot garbage. The only good thing about this was that I predicted it correctly.

In the immortal words of Arn Anderson, I don't mean to toot my own horn, but toot, toot.