The final WWE pay per view of 2019 is in the books, and although it may not have pulled up many trees, there are at least some interesting talking points to come out of the show for the fans to talk about. The TLC PPV didn’t exactly feel like an end to many of the rivalries on the card, and instead seemed like a placeholder building up to the Royal Rumble.
However, there were still a few solid bouts on the card. But, here is what we learnt from the 2019 TLC event.
Tag Team Entertainment
It shouldn’t have come as much of a surprise that the match between The New Day and The Revival didn’t disappoint. The two teams are easily among the best performers on the roster, and they have the ability to tell fascinating stories. It was the perfect start to the night, and fans were immediately engaged.
Better yet, it actually fell like a match that belonged on a TLC PPV; unlike many of the other battles that followed. There seemed to be a few close calls with falling ladders, but that only added to the excitement in the match. The WWE were handed this match on a silver platter, but it didn’t disappoint. The main event tag match involving Becky Lynch, Charlotte Flair and the Kabuki Warriors was the match of the night. But, that isn’t hugely surprising given the performers that were involved in that bout.
Reigns/Corbin and Lashley/Rusev Feuds Continue
The eye-rolling emoji perfectly sums up how the whole WWE audience will feel about how these two matches went. We almost got the feeling beforehand that nothing was going to end here, but both matches were hugely uneventful. All four superstars are meant to hate the guts of the other, but you wouldn’t have got a sense of that during the matches.
Reigns and Corbin has now evolved into an over-elaborate match with various superstars involved, and it just seems like a massive waste of time. The whole Rusev and Bobby Lashley storyline is becoming confusing and annoying too; we may as well fast forward to WrestleMania and push on with CM Punk’s idea of having a ‘Lana in a shark cage match’.
The Fiend/Bray Wyatt
I am a huge fan of Bray Wyatt and The Fiend, but it is getting confusing to track already, and it appears like it will become stale very quickly. There were so many questions asked after this match. Wyatt took a load of punishment before eventually picking up the win after delivering two Sister Abigails. He then got a giant mallet from under the ring, before Daniel Bryan made the save.
The biggest question was, why wasn’t this a title match? If The Miz was going to lose anyway, then the title may as well have been on the line. Bryan’s return was evidently the big thing to come from this, while Wyatt’s humorous interaction with the audience before the match was also a nice little fun moment.
