WWE TLC 2013: 8 Reasons It Failed To Live Up To The Hype

2. The "Historic Moment"

On Raw and throughout the PPV it was pressed upon us again and again that this would be historic. We were faced with various vignettes highlighting champions throughout history, who put over the monumental nature of the main event. The trouble was that once the match got underway it just didn't feel like some sort of classic point in history. The main reason for that was the TLC gimmick. It isn't very prestigious to see two wrestlers hitting each other with unconvincing chair shots to the back. It is further garbage to witness weak ladder bumps and soft table breakages. A match that unified the world championships should have been only one kind of a match - a wrestling match. The implications of the prop stunts detracted from the true meaning of the match. It wasn't about a unification, it was about the punishment that the men were putting each other through. The actual in ring psychology was way off. Cena no sold a ladder shot at one point and Orton recovered far too quickly from a ladder tumble through a table. It all contributed to a feeling of superficiality. It was an underwhelming way to bring together the two championship belts under one title.