6 Ups And 10 Downs From WWE TLC 2019

Dumpster fire of a PPV with two main matches falling way short.

TLC 2019
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Way to close out the year/decade with a whimper, WWE.

The last PPV of 2019 is in the books, and, well… here’s to a better 2020.

TLC was as uneventful a show as you can get, unless you count “disappointing matches that underperform” as eventful. The show started off hot enough, with a good kickoff show match and a hot opener that fans were clearly invested in. A grudge match between Aleister Black and Buddy Murphy worked pretty well.

And then the wheels came off.

If you were watching TLC for the Roman Reigns/King Corbin and Miz/Bray Wyatt feuds, you had to be pissed at how badly those matches turned out. The Reigns/Corbin match was comically bad at times, barely qualifying as a TLC match and almost turning into a callback to the infamous Yokozuna/Undertaker casket match with the sheer number of heels it took to put Roman down.

TLC 2019 also will be remembered for killing off the Bray Wyatt character, as they really missed the mark with how to portray the kiddie show host’s in-ring debut. There was an opportunity to so something unique, and instead they just outright botched it.

The best thing to come out of TLC is that you can just skip it and not fall behind in storylines. Just watch the first two matches, read up on a couple recaps, and move on with your life.

Let’s get to it…

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Scott is a former journalist and longtime wrestling fan who was smart enough to abandon WCW during the Monday Night Wars the same time as the Radicalz. He fondly remembers watching WrestleMania III, IV, V and VI and Saturday Night's Main Event, came back to wrestling during the Attitude Era, and has been a consumer of sports entertainment since then. He's written for WhatCulture for more than a decade, establishing the Ups and Downs articles for WWE Raw and WWE PPVs/PLEs and composing pieces on a variety of topics.