10 Things WWE Wants You To Forget About The TLC PPV

2. The "First Ever" Unified Champion (TLC 2013)

After eleven years with two world champions, WWE decided to unify the belts at TLC 2013. WWE Champion Randy Orton - with The Authority on his side - would take on World Heavyweight Champion John Cena in a TLC match, and the winner would be the one and only WWE World Heavyweight Champion. The show was hyped beforehand with the promise that, for the first time in history, there would be a single champion in wrestling. It sounded like an important guarantee, but the problem was that WWE had made the same promise exactly 12 years earlier. At Armageddon 2001, the company unified the WCW and WWE Championships, with Chris Jericho claiming both titles and becoming Undisputed WWE Champion - a meaningful accomplishment, given the history of world championships in the U.S. Many older fans remembered Jericho's victory well - especially since bragging about it became a part of Y2J's schtick for years - and realized that WWE's guarantee of wrestling history was utter nonsense.