WWE TLC 2016 To Be Smackdown-Branded PPV
The blue brand gets Tables, Ladders, and Chairs.
In a statement issued on its official website Monday, WWE announced that December's TLC: Tables, Ladders, and Chairs Pay-Per-View event will be a Smackdown-exclusive show. TLC will be held at Dallas's American Airlines Arena on Sunday, December 4.
Since 2009, the TLC Pay-Per-View has made the infamous titular match an annual occurrence in WWE. Though the original brand split lasted until 2011, the first run of brand-exclusive PPVs ended in 2007. That means that TLC 2016 will be the first such show to only feature a portion of WWE's main roster.
Traditionally, the TLC PPV is headlined by a TLC match (a ladder match with chairs and tables set up as weapons around ringside). The card usually also features variations on the theme in the form of ladder matches (where the winner must use a ladder to retrieve an object above the ring), tables matches (where the winner must put his opponent through a table), and chairs matches (where chairs are legal). With these exciting match stipulations, TLC is usually one of the better-received "B-shows" of the year.
The last Pay-Per-View event of the year will be the Raw brand's Roadblock, held at Pittsburgh's Consol Energy Center on December 18.