WWE TLC 2019 Review

WWE TLC, the last Pay-Per-View of the year, took place on Sunday 15th December at the Target Center in Minneapolis. Will WWE end the year on a high? Let's take a look.

The match on the Kick Off Show was  Humberto Carrillo taking on Andrade. Andrade is dominant early on before Carrillo hit a jawbreaker followed by a hurracarrana. During the match, Andrade gets a cut below his eye. Zelina Vega tries to interfere but almost gets taken out Andrade. In the end, Carrillo hit a reverse hurracarrana followed by a moonsault to get the win. This was a really good match between the two.
Winner: Humberto Carrillo (N/A)

The first match on the show was a ladder match for the Smackdown Tag Team Championship as The Revival challenge The New Day. Highlights of the match include: Big E chucking Scott Dawson over the German announce table; Kofi Kingston flipping a ladder onto The Revival; The Revival hitting Shatter Machine off a ladder on Kingston; and Big E hitting Dash Wilder with the Big Ending off a ladder. After Kingston pushes Dawson off a ladder, he manages to collect the belts and get the win. I thought this was a fun match to watch.
Winners: The New Day (1 for 1)

The next match was Aleister Black taking on Buddy Murphy. Black keeps Murphy down with kicks but Murphy bounces Black's head off the steel steps, busting his nose. Murphy takes time to try on Black's coat, and Black doesn't take that well and he makes a comeback. In the end, they exchange kicks before Black hits The Black Mask to get the win. I thought this was a good match between the two and I assume that Black will go back to his room and wait for someone to challenge him in a couple of months.
Winner: Aleister Black (2 for 2)

Next was an open challenge by The Viking Raiders for the RAW Tag Team Championship. That challenge is accepted by The O.C. Karl Anderson sends Erik out of the ring then distracts the referee, giving Luke Gallows the chance to hit a superkick and give his team the advantage. Eventually, Erik manages to tag in Ivar. The Viking Raiders hit the Viking Experience on Anderson but Gallows breaks up the pin. The match goes to the outside and it ends up in a double count out. Afterwards, The Viking Raiders powerbomb Anderson through the table set up earlier on winners of a KFC competition. The match was pretty decent but I hated it ending in a double count out.
Winners: Double Count Out (N/A)

The next match is a TLC Match between Roman Reigns and King Baron Corbin. During Reign's entrance, he destroys half of Corbin's security. Corbin gets the advantage after hitting a Deep Six and goes on to throw everything but the kitchen sink at him, including hitting him with a can of dog food and choke slamming him through a table. Reigns responds by putting Corbin through the German announce table with a Samoan drop. Dolph Ziggler comes in to help out Corbin then bizarrely decide to go after one of the guys at ringside. Reigns uses a kendo stick on Corbin's security before The Revival come out to attack Reigns. Corbin goes on to hit the End of Days onto a chair to get the win. I do not like this match. It was overbooked with 9 people helping Corbin to win and the bit where Corbin and Ziggler beat the fuck out of some random made no sense.
Winner: Baron Corbin (2 for 3)

Next is Hollywood Miz taking on Universal Champion "The Fiend" Firefly Fun House Bray Wyatt  in a non-title match just because...? Anyway, as soon as the bell rings, Miz starts beating the fuck out of Wyatt. Wyatt goes for a Sister Abigail but Miz gets out of it and hits the Skull Crushing Finale. The match goes to the outside and eventually Wyatt hits a Sister Abigail. Miz just about gets back into the ring before the 10 count but he gets hit with another Sister Abigail and Wyatt wins. After the match, The Fiend pops up on the screen and Wyatt grabs a large sledgehammer. Then someone runs in and hits Wyatt with a running knee, which turns out to be the original Daniel Bryan. Bryan then goes on to beat up Wyatt. This match was weird and I was not a fan.
Winner: Bray Wyatt (3 for 4)

The penultimate match is a tables match between Rusev and Bobby Lashley. Rusev grabs a table  but Lana pulls it away, giving Lashley the chance to get the advantage. After some back and forth and using kendo sticks on each other, Lana jumps on Rusev's back and Lashley sends him through a table with an overhead belly-to-belly suplex to get the win. The match wasn't anything special.
Winner: Bobby Lashley (3 for 5)

The main event is a TLC Match for the Women's Tag Team Championship as Charlotte Flair and "The Man" Becky Lynch challenge The Kabuki Warriors. Lynch and Flair don't fuck around as they throw Kairi Sane and Asuka into anything they can see. Sane gets the worse of it as she gets a monitor thrown at her head, then thrown onto the announce tables; and later on, lands badly after a suplex by Flair. Sane and Asuka incapacitate Lynch by tying her onto a ladder to help them get the advantage. Eventually, Lynch manages to get free and Flair powerbombs Sane through a table. In the end, Lynch climbs up but Asuka pulls a rope connected to the ladder to send her off. Asuka then climbs the ladder to grab the belts and get the win. Unfortunately, it's overshadowed 10 seconds later as the camera cuts to a brawl involving the men's locker room, that had been going on backstage since the Corbin/Reigns match, spills out into the crowd.

The match was pretty good but it got sloppy towards the end. This was due to Sane getting concussed after a suplex by Flair. To make it worse, it got overshadowed by a brawl that I had no interest in. I felt sorry for Asuka as she had seconds to celebrate before the camera cut away from her.
Winners: Kabuki Warriors (4 for 6)

I thought TLC started pretty well with 2 good matches. However, it turned into a mess with overbooking and crappy creative decisions. The wrestling is there but it's being overshadowed by poor creative booking. It doesn't help that the main story on RAW at the moment, Seth Rollin's heel turn, wasn't really a part of the show. Next month will be the start of the Road to Wrestlemania XXXVI and hopefully it will start to get better.

WWE TLC 2019 Preview

The last WWE PPV of the year, TLC, will be taking place this evening at the Target Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota. There are 6 matches announced so let's take a look.

Roman Reigns vs King Baron Corbin
TLC Match
I'm going for Reigns to win.
Predicted Winner: Roman Reigns

The New Day vs The Revival
Ladders Match for the Smackdown Tag Team Championship
This is a match that I'm looking forward to seeing and I'm for The New Day to retain
Predicted Winners: The New Day

Rusev vs Bobby Lashley
Tables Match
I think that Rusev will win here.
Predicted Winner: Rusev

Aleister Black vs Buddy Murphy
This should be a good one and I'm going for Black to win.
Predicted Winner: Aleister Black

Hollywood Miz vs Firefly Fun House Bray Wyatt
Hang on, not only is not a match for the WWE Championship but we won't get to see The Fiend. Well, at least it won't be bathed in red light. Anyway, I'm going for Wyatt to win.
Predicted Winner: Bray Wyatt

The Kabuki Warriors vs "The Man" Becky Lynch and Charlotte Flair
TLC Match for the Women's Tag Team Championship
This should be a good match. I can see Becky and Charlotte remembering that they hate each other and this will lead to The Kabuki Warriors getting the win.
Predicted Winners: The Kabuki Warriors

I will hopefully get to see it in the next week. I hope you guys enjoy the show.

WWE Survivor Series 2019 Review

WWE Survivor Series took place on Sunday 24th November at the AllState Arena in Rosemont, Illinois. This year, we get NXT added to which brand is the best, if you care about that sort of thing. Anyway, let's take a look.

The first match is a Tag Team Battle Royal. Taking part were The O.C., The Revival, The Forgotten Sons, Dolph Ziggler and Robert Roode, The Street Profits, Zack Ryder and Kurt Hawkins, Breezango, Lucha House Party, Imperium and Heavy Machinery. Steve Cutler from The Forgotten Sons is the first to be eliminated quickly followed by Lince Dorado from The Lucha House Party. The final 3 teams end up being The O.C., Ziggler and Roode, and The Street Profits. Ziggler eliminates Luke Gallows. Montez Ford hits a beautiful frog splash on Ziggler but Roode grabs him and throws him over the top rope to give his team the win. The match wasn't too bad.
Winner: Dolph Ziggler and Robert Roode (N/A)

The next match is for the NXT Cruiserweight Championship as Lio Rush faces the challenge of Kalisto and Akira Tozowa.  Highlights of the match include: Rush hitting a double elbow on his opponents; Tozowa hitting a sucker punch on Rush; and Kalisto stopping a German suplex pin and almost pinning Rush. In the end, Kalisto hits Tozowa with the Salida del Sol; but Rush hits him with The Final Hour to get the win. This was a fun, fast paced match to watch.
Winner: Lio Rush (1 for 1)

The Kick Off Show main(?) event is The New Day, The Viking Raiders and The Undisputed Era facing each other in a triple threat tag team match. Highlights of the match include: Kyle O'Reilly putting Kofi Kingston in a knee bar; and Erik body slamming Ivar onto their opponents on the outside. O'Reilly and Fish take out Kingston leaving them to face Erik and Ivar. In the end, The Viking Raiders hit O'Reilly with the Viking Experience onto Fish to get the win. This was quite a good match.
Winner: The Viking Raiders (1 for 2)

The first match of the show is the Women's Survivor Series Elimination Match with Team Smackdown (Sasha Banks, Nikki Cross, Lacey Evans, Carmella and Dana Brooke) taking on Team RAW (Charlotte Flair, Asuka, Kairi Sane, Sarah Logan and Natalya) and Team NXT (Rhea Ripley, Toni Storm, Io Shirai, Bianca Belair and Candice LeRae). During the match, Io Shirai and Candice LeRae have to withdraw from the match due to injury. Cross is the first to be eliminated as she gets rolled up by Belair. Then Belair eliminates Logan with a 450 splash. Carmella gets eliminated thanks to a Natural Selection from Charlotte, Sasha Banks eliminates Sane with a double knee then Asuka eliminates Carmella. Charlotte and Asuka get into an argument and Asuka retaliates by spraying green mist into Charlotte and going: "fuck you guys, I'm off". Evans takes advantage and hits Charlotte with the Women's Right to leave Natalya left for RAW. Natalya rolls up Evans to eliminate and Natalya and Sasha team up to eliminate Storm and Belair. Banks then eliminates Natalya with a punch (wait, what?) leaving her to face Ripley. Banks gets Ripley in the Bank Statement but LeRae and Shirai suddenly recover from their injuries and pull her out of the ring. LeRae distracts the referee while Shirai kills Banks with a springboard dropkick. Ripley then hits the Riptide to get the win.

I thought the match was pretty decent but I found the ending a bit weird. I'm a few weeks behind on NXT but, last I checked Shirai and LeRae were in a feud. So, I found it strange that they teamed up to help NXT get the win, especially since they were opposite sides in the Women's War Games Match the previous night. Anyway, as I said, it was a decent match.
Winners: Rhea Ripley, Io Shirai and Candice LeRae (1 for 3)

Now a match I was quite looking forward to seeing: a triple threat match between the Intercontinental Champion Shinsuke Nakamura, the United States Champion AJ Styles and the North American Champion Roderick Strong. Highlights of the match include: Styles throwing Strong into Nakamura; Strong monkey flipping Styles into a running knee by Nakamura; and Nakamura kicking Strong off Style's shoulders. In the end, Styles hits the Phenomenal Forearm on Nakamura. However, Strong throws Styles out of the ring and pins Nakamura to get the win. I thought this was a pretty good match to watch.
Winner: Roderick Strong (1 for 4)

The next match is for the NXT Championship as Pete Dunne challenges Adam Cole (Bay Bay!) Both guys are carrying injuries from the night before, which slows down their offense. Dunne goes for a moonsault but Cole gets his knees up then hits the Last Shot but it only gets 2. Later on, Dunne hits the Bitter End but Cole kicks out at 2. After some back and forth, Dunne goes for another Bitter End but Cole manages to reverse it into a Panama Sunrise. He then hits another Last Shot to the back of the head to get the win. I thought this was a really enjoyable match.
Winner: Adam Cole (2 for 5)

Next is for the Universal Championship as Daniel Bryan challenges "The Fiend" Bray Wyatt. Bryan starts at a tremendous pace, hitting 2 running dropkicks before Wyatt responds with a clothesline. Wyatt goes on to press home his advantage. Bryan avoids a Sister Abigail to hit a running knee off the apron and make a comeback. Bryan hits a running knee but it only gets 2. In the end, Wyatt pins him with the Mandible Claw to get the win...? Erm, ok. Anyway, the match was pretty good but last time I checked, the Mandible Claw is not used to pin someone. Also, stop fucking using the red light. I hate it.
Winner: Bray Wyatt (3 for 6)

We now get our 2nd Survivor Series Elimination Match with Team RAW (Seth Rollins, Randy Orton, Drew McIntyre, Ricochet and Kevin Owens) taking on Team Smackdown (Roman Reigns, Shorty G, King Baron Corbin, Ali and Braun Strowman) and Team NXT (Tomasso Ciampa, Walter, Matt Riddle, Keith Lee and Damien Priest). Walter is the first to be eliminated thanks to a Claymore Kick by McIntyre, which pissed me and the crowd off. Shorty G gets eliminated after a frog splash by Owens, who then gets eliminated thanks to a hanging DDT by Ciampa. Orton eliminates Priest with a RKO but Riddle rolls him up and eliminates him. Orton thanks Riddle by hitting him with a RKO and Corbin takes advantage and pins Riddle to eliminate him. Strowman gets counted out after a Claymore Kick by McIntyre and Ricochet gets eliminated thanks to an End of Days by Corbin. Corbin has an argument with Ali and this gives Rollins the opportunity to eliminate Ali with the Blackout. McIntyre is eliminated thanks to a Spear by Rollins. He then gets into an argument with Rollins, who goes on to hit a Superman punch followed by a Spear. Ciampa then pins Corbin to eliminate him. Rollins and Reigns team up Rollins eliminates Ciampa with another Blackout. Lee then eliminates Rollins with a Jackhammer, leaving him and Reigns. They go on to have some very close falls before Reigns hits a Spear to get the win. The match was generally good. However, I'm pissed off that Walter was the first to be eliminated. He is the United Kingdom Champion and he has been booked as almost undefeatable. So, I wasn't happy with him having getting less than 3 minutes.
Winner: Roman Reigns (4 for 7)

The penultimate match has Brock Lesnar gracing us with his presence and defending his WWE Championship against Rey Mysterio in a no disqualification match. Lesnar throws Mysterio round like a rag doll before Mysterio's son Dominic runs in to try to throw in the towel. When Lesnar refuses, Mysterio low blows him then teams up with his son to take out Lesnar. Despite this, Lesnar recovers and German suplexes Dominic and F-5's Mysterio to get the win. The match was only 7 minutes but I quite enjoyed most of it.
Winner: Brock Lesnar (5 for 8)

The main event is a triple threat between the RAW Women's Champion "The Man" Becky Lynch, Smackdown Women's Champion Bayley and NXT Women's Champion Shayna Baszler. Highlights include: Baszler stamping on Bayley's elbow; Lynch hitting Bex-ploders to her opponents; and Bayley hitting Belly-to-Bayley on Baszler. After Baszler sends Lynch onto the announce table, she goes on to get Bayley to submit to the Kirifuda Clutch and get the win. Afterwards, Lynch sends Baszler through the German announce table.

I was slightly disappointed in this match. There were some good spots but it was a lot of 1-on-1 action, despite it being a triple threat match. Also, it seemed to go at a very slow pace until the few last minutes.
Winner: Shayna Baszler (5 for 9)

With the exception of the main event and a couple of booking decisions, I generally liked Survivor Series. With NXT winning most of their matches, I thought this could lead somewhere but, with the exception of Seth Rollins' heel turn, it looks like that it hasn't. We'll now see how the rest of the year goes.