6 Ups And 5 Downs From WWE TLC 2017

1. Chair Shots Galore

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If there was one negative to the TLC match itself, it was the sheer beating that was administered to all the wrestlers.

In an era where distraction rollup finishes take place almost weekly, the fact that multiple (and in some cases, dozens) of chair shots aren’t enough to put a wrestler down for more than three minutes. Shouldn’t one be enough to incapacitate an opponent? Instead, the competitors bashed each other repeatedly with chairs, waffling each other but making sure to recover in time for the next spot.

Even if you are OK with the chair shots, it certainly doesn’t make it easier to watch the rollup finishes on Monday and how they possibly were held down by one chair shot when a dozen shots to the back wouldn’t stop any of the participants for more than a minute or two.

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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.