WWE TLC 2020: Every Match Ranked From Worst To Best
A (mostly) strong showing for WWE's final 2020 event.
It's fair to say that WWE's December PPVs tend to invite low expectations - the holidays are just around the corner, and the talent are tired and looking forward to a brief break.
But with WWE's recent record-low Raw ratings, there was at least hope that WWE might come out swinging hard for the final show of 2020, and to be completely fair, this year's TLC show delivered above and beyond most reasonable expectations.
It was a decent card on paper albeit not one for fans to get hugely excited about, yet save for the ridiculous shambles of a main event, the show generally ranged from watchable to great.
The two TLC matches alone made the night worthwhile, there were some interesting title changes, and... an unconscious man got his entire body set on fire. How's that for adult content?
This isn't an event fans will be talking about for years and years, but it certainly overdelivered on the sensibly low standards most of us all have for WWE PPVs this time of the year...
7. Firefly Inferno Match: "The Fiend" Bray Wyatt Vs. Randy Orton
Result: Orton sets The Fiend on fire to win the match (12:00).
Rating: Nobody was expecting a great match from this, and it certainly wasn't, but it at least delivered a suitably loony spectacle for better or worse.
There's an obvious, unavoidable awkwardness to this match type that always makes it come off more than a little goofy, and that's really only exacerbated without a live audience, so they were smart to keep this pretty short.
Would it have been more entertaining as a cinematic match? Probably, but the sheer weirdness of watching an Inferno match in an empty arena surely speaks for itself.
To The Fiend's credit, he took those initial flames like a champ, and where else are you ever going to see a flaming RKO?
A bad match by any objective standard, but also mildly amusing schlock that committed harder to the insane danger of the gimmick than possibly any other Inferno-style match.
If you can't laugh at the demented absurdity of a Bray Wyatt mannequin getting set on fire to close out a WWE PPV, are you even a wrestling fan? 4/10