Of the 15 TLC matches in WWE history, 14 have involved a championship. Of that, one was for a vacant World Heavyweight Championship and one unified the two world titles last year. In five of those remaining 12 matches, the challenger has emerged victorious, becoming champion. So its by no means a safe bet that the champ will escape with his title around his waist. The Dudleys lost their Tag Team Championships at WrestleMania X-Seven to Edge & Christian in the second TLC match. Champions would retain in the next three TLC matches, only to see Edge lose his title to John Cena. Then CM Punk and D-Generation X won titles at two separate 2009 events. Finally, Edge would get a form of retribution by winning the World Heavyweight championship in 2010. There will be no title switches this year, as Dean Ambrose and Bray Wyatt will do battle in a TLC contest that is more of a grudge match. The only other non-title TLC match? The 2012 bout featuring the Shield versus Team Hell No and Ryback.
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.
