10 Times WWE Ruined Their Own Ideas IMMEDIATELY

2. TLC As A Pay-Per-View

The Undertaker Batista TLC 2009
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Idea: A shade over nine years after the first TLC corker at SummerSlam 2000, WWE decided to turn the gimmick into a standalone pay-per-view in 2009. Fans, it was reasoned, would delight at the thought of multiple variants of the core idea, and that included spinoffs of the established multi-weapon formula.

How It Was Ruined: A Chairs Match? Seriously.

DX vs. Jeri-Show had the main TLC gimmick, Christian vs. Shelton Benjamin worked the Ladder one and Sheamus met John Cena in a WWE Title Tables Match. That left The Undertaker and Batista to make do with the lamest offshoot the writing team could think of. They had... chairs to fight with.

Hearing the announcers try to hype this as significant was almost sad, and both guys struggled to add any excitement to a weapon that was used on weekly TV anyway. Immediately, people started to realise that TLC might become a throwaway show rather than must-see.

Watch 2019's version for proof they were right.

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