As with the Hell in a Cell, WWE has done a good job in recent times proving that this is a match capable of being perfectly safe when controlled properly. Since 2006 primarily a singles match, this gimmick gained its fame in tag-team competition, specifically the first 3 matches which all featured The Dudley Boyz, Hardy Boyz and Edge & Christian. It's a blind miracle that not a single one of these men was severely injured in these initial matches. 20-foot plunges off of ladders through stacked tables, spears in mid-air, broken debris everywhere and even Jeff Hardy's attempt to walk across three ladder tops at Wrestlemania 17. It's one thing to use these multiple objects between two guys when you can slow the action down and prepare for a spot. However, when you think about the chaos that ensued in the initial tag bouts, with 6-8 men in the equation and toppled ladders, erected chairs and other bodies cast all over the place and the sheer speed they worked at, pushing high spot after high spot, TLC matches were recklessly dangerous to the extreme. They were a child of the Attitude Era. An era designed to break the bodies of men.
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