WWE TLC 2010 Recap

The last PPV of the year was one of the better ones.  It's been awhile since my last post, but alas I'm still here.  Let's get started though.

We start things off right with a three way ladder match for the IC strap with your champion Dolph Ziggler. His opponents are Kofi Kingston and Jack Swagger.  As any good opener, it was fun and fast paced.  Kofi is very Shelton-esque in ladder matches.  In a cool ending the title falls as Kofi and Swaggs are going for it and the Ziggler lucks out and snatches it up to retain his strap.  Great ending, Ziggler has been great since being champion, his matches are good and he keeps managing to walk away with the title.  I hope they are wise enough to keep it on him until Wrestlemania.

Our next match is a Diva's table match with Beth Phoenix and Natalya vs. Laycool.  And what a match it was, these four ladies made people realize that women can still wrestle in the WWE.  While I don't mind the WWE employing models, they really need to fill in the roster with legitimate women wrestlers.  Beth took a NASTY bump, I thought she was a goner when I seen that.  Natalya hooks the Sharpshooter on both members in Laycool.  The end of the match had Laycool landing on the table that did NOT break and Nattie did an impromptu splash through the table. Very good match, can we get Beth vs. Natalya at Wrestlemania please?

An unadvertised match for the tag titles between the champs, Santino and Kozlov, vs. the Nexus.  But like a shark smelling blood the pack of wolves uses this time to make a statement to John Cena when Wade Barrett came out and smashed the champs with a chair.

The highlight match is a ladder match for the number one contender between John Morrison and Sheamus.  I thought this feud was going to be just fodder for Sheamus until HHH comes back, but it went beyond that.  It's been pretty solid, the wins keep being traded back and forth.  Sheamus got the last laugh when he won the KOTR but Morrison got back by grabbing the contract.  Two different styles that work well and even though Morrison has defeated him, he still goes in like an underdog.   Best match of the night and Morrison gets himself a title shot.

The Miz makes his first title defense as champion on a PPV against Randy Orton in a tables match.  This is the type of match that Sheamus used to upset John Cena last year for his first title run.  The trend of good matches continue.  Alex Riley gets involved after a ref bump and gets thrown threw a table for his troubles.  The Miz hits the SCF on Orton and finds and opportunity to fool the ref.  It seems to work until the referee realizes what happened.  The match restarts, but the Miz legitimately gets Randy through a table and barely makes it out as champ.  Good booking.

The other big title match is next up.  It's a four way TLC match with Edge, Kane, Del Rio, and Rey.  Another pretty good match, but not much can be said that we already haven't seen.  Just a fun match. There was a couple close wins and a couple more nasty bumps.  The ultimate opportunist and master of the TLC match, Edge, ends Kane's reign.

There is some filler with Cody Rhodes and Big Show dressed as Santa.

Our main event is Wade Barrett vs. Cena.  And why wouldn't they give John Cena the last match (ugh)?  The match was good in it's own right, but didn't live up to it's undercard.  And I knew that Cena was going to win this match, so that took away from my enjoyment.  Cena hits the AA on Wade through some chairs, that was nasty.  And that wraps up the match, but he's not finished.  He destroyed Barrett even more and drops some the hanging chairs on Barrett, don't worry he was beneath some wooden thing.  I think that ends the Cena/Nexus feud.  I sure hope so, because that well has been tapped dry.  He got his revenge.  I wonder what's next for Barrett and the Nexus, I still think Barrett has a bright future.

After all of that, this might be one of the top PPVs of the year.  I need to think back, but no doubt it was good on it's own.  Sure it was gimmicky, but wrestling is meant to be fun to watch and that's what it was.   Everything wasn't completely a spotfest with some good wrestling mixed in there.  Stay tuned as I will give out my end of the year awards, I'm pretty excited for that.