The chairs match always seems like the red-headed stepchild of the four gimmick matches at TLC each year. The tables and ladders factor directly into the outcome of their gimmick matches: you have to put your opponent through a table or climb a ladder to retrieve an item to win. But in a chairs match, the steel chair merely serves as a weapon, as it will in the match between Kane and Ryback this month. Still, theWorld Heavyweight Championship has been defended three times in a chairs match at TLC, with Undertaker defending against Batista, Big Show winning the title against Mark Henry (and then losing the belt to a MITB cash-in from Daniel Bryan) and Show defending against Sheamus the following year.