10 Stiffest WWE Matches Of The PG Era
4. Luke Harper Vs. Dolph Ziggler - TLC (December 2014)
Luke Harper mentioned on Chris Jericho's Talk is Jericho podcast that he was disappointed to learn that he would be dropping the Intercontinental Championship to Dolph Ziggler here, and as such the two decided to go out and have complete balls-to-the-wall ladder match with the desire to steal the show.
Well, they more than did that, and left the scars on each other to prove it. At times it was uncomfortable watch, coming off a little as two men trying to lay it in as much as possible, but this only added to the gripping intensity of it all.
Harper almost broke his arm going for a suicide dive into Ziggler holding a ladder on the outside, getting caught in the ladder on the way down. The bruises quickly accumulate on both men, Ziggler in particular, with both getting busted open in the process. Harper's arm was bleeding, Ziggler's fingers were bleeding. This was the Ziggler of a few years back, the Dolph who bumped like a madman in a seemingly obsessive desire to put his body through hell.
Harper also gave Ziggler a powerbomb onto a ladder with force, as opposed to the usual protective manner in which such a spot is given. Ziggler would eventually come out on top in one of the best one-on-one ladder matches in recent memory.