10 Most Ridiculous Variations Of WWE Matches

The TLC match has become so watered down in modern WWE, thanks in large part to its status as a yearly pay-per-view event. To add to the nonsense, almost every TLC pay-per-view features, in addition to the titular match, a tables match, a ladder match, and a chairs match. What, you ask is a chairs match? Join the club, because nobody can figure that out either. The running joke of chairs matches is that nobody has any idea what the rules are exactly.

Ostensibly a No Holds Barred match, it’s an excuse for wrestlers to perform chair spots. Namely: hitting each other with them, and taking back bumps onto a large pile of them. Thrilling stuff! Except, the problem is that in the inaugural contest in 2009, it wasn't even clear if it was a No Holds Barred match.

The story of the match between Batista and The Undertaker was that nobody--not the refs, not the commentators, not the wrestlers, not the fans--knew the exact rules. The commentators were openly asking if they could get counted out. For all we knew, they could, since Batista originally won the match via a low blow, but Teddy Long came out and reversed the decision, saying that chairs were legal, but low blows weren’t. So the question became: if Batista had used a chair to hit ‘Taker below the belt, would it have counted? Nowadays, WWE seem to have classified chairs matches as No Holds Barred, but even to this day, nobody’s quite sure.