7 Match Star Ratings For WWE TLC 2020
3. Nia Jax & Shayna Baszler Vs. Asuka & Charlotte Flair - Women's Tag Team Title Match
A glorified reintroduction more than it was a great match, WWE set itself a goal and accomplished it.
It's still piss funny in a gallows humour sort of way that Lana didn't come out for the big Terry Funk hope spot, insane a juxtaposition though that is. What's happened here is that WWE learned that a star was set to return, abandoned a storyline in which they'd slowly arrived at the gimmick PPV calendar in a halfway organic way, then did something more cruel to the beneficiary of said storyline than having a dangerous worker put her through a table for seven consecutive weeks.
Or, WWE knew Charlotte Flair was coming back all along, and mapped this storyline out on her behalf, which was never going to discourage the accusations that she is entitled. They heeled the babyface before the babyface returned. Only they didn't, because the underdog babyface she replaced was also quite entitled too.
This is a staggering level of incompetence, even for WWE, but with a roster as loaded as they are blessed to have, every f*ck-brained story beat ended up in a good match. A decent match, anyway. A slightly above average match.
Built exclusively around the hot tag, the one-dimensional plot badly needed a hot crowd to receive the apex of it.
But they'll get around six more tries to get it right on the next six episodes of RAW, so there's...that?
Star Rating: ★★¾