8 Things WWE Got Wrong At TLC 2017

5. The Buffer Match

Elias Jason Jordan
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Going back to the mess that was The Drifter and Jason Jordan, this was easily the least interesting match on the card. Something always has to be, but it is saying something when the show includes an Enzo Amore match. Jordan and Elias had a nothing contest with a botched finish, which almost certainly means there are more bouts between these two on the way.

The match was added after the mind-numbing vegetable throwing segments, ostensibly to provide a buffer between the main event and the AJ Styles/Finn Bálor match. Why oh why is a buffer match needed? WWE is the only wrestling company on Earth that seems to think that such bouts are necessary.

Imagine if you will, Wrestle Kingdom 11. Tetsuya Naito has just defeated Hiroshi Tanahashi with the IWGP Intercontinental Championship on the line. Rather than taking the excitement and momentum of the crowd and capping it with Omega vs. Okada, Gedo and chums decide to send out Yujiro Takahashi and YOSHI-HASHI for a short singles match. See, it makes no sense.

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