WWE TLC: Tables, Ladders And Chairs 2009 [Import]

This was one of the better and best ways to close out wwe ppv's of a dissapointing year of 2009. Thanks for reading!

Ladder match for the ECW championship
Christian vs. Shelton Benjamin
This was a very good match and a great way to start off a very extreme night. This was fast paced, very brutal, and had some great moments that could have stole the show. This match had moments like benjamin getting on the top of a ladder and then doing the wrestlemania 25 flip onto christian and almost breaking his back, and a huge frogsplash onto benjamin from the top rope and right through a ladder. This match is very entertaining and is a edge of your seat match with tons of joey styles OH MY GOD!!! Moments.
4.5/5

Intercontinental championship
John Morrison vs. Drew McIntyre
This match is also another good match on this card. This match had some fast paced moments with one of the most botched moves i have ever seen. These two had a pretty good rivalry going and put on a good match. I didn't like that Drew won, but, it was a perfect opportunity for McIntire to get the win after morrison missed a starship pain.
3.5/5

Womens championship
Mickie James vs. Michelle McCool
What a boring match. I hated this match the entire time. This was very boring and like all other diva matches, slow. This match was a filler and not watchable.
1/5

Tables match for the WWE championship
John Cena vs. Sheamus
Wow. I had no idea that this match would be good. These two put on a great match with a great buildup to go along. The ending is very dissapointing and very sad because sheamus wins with cena falling from the second rope and going through a table. I liked the brutality and how the match was back and forth the entire match. This match had some good weapon use and is very enjoyable and has tons of action.
4.5/5

Chairs match for the WWE championship
Undertaker vs. Batista
This isn't a very good match either. These two have had many great matches when they had rivalrys, but this was the worst encounter between these two. I didn't like that batista won with a cheap lowblow, and that the match got restarted, and undertaker getting a quick win. This match was very short, unlike their other matches. This match is watchable, but not worth watching.
3.5/5

Randy Orton vs. Kofi Kingston
This is their best encounter yet. These two put on a great match, but was a little short. I like the action and some great moments in this match like orton getting a dropkick on the outside in midair, the punt to the arm, and a missed trouble in paradise leading to a huge RKO. I really like this match and thought it was a great way to lead up to the main event and the best match on the card.
4/5

Tables, Ladders, and Chairs for the Unified Tag-Team championships
DX vs. JeriShow
This match definatly deserved to be the main event. This match had tons of chair and ladder use and is very brutal. I liked that this match pretty much started on the entrance way very early in the match. This match was a finisher fest, everybody got their finishers on each other. Some great moments like triple h and shawn being cokeslammed together through a table, big show getting jericho on his sholders while trying to get the belts, two sweet chin musics in a row, big show breaking a ladder in half, and DX winning their first tag titles. This match is fast paced and fifty/fifty and very enjoyable.
5/5

This ppv was a great way to end 2009 and had a lot of very good and surprisingly good matches. I recomend this ppv to your wwe collection.

ECW Heavyweight Champion Christian Vs. Shelton Benjamin (Ladder Match) - Weeks prior to this match, Christian stated that ECW was going to steal the show on this night and that's exactly what they did here. About four minutes into the match, Christian gets busted open above his right eye which he had to get stitched up (during the match) causing the match to be set on paused for a brief period of time. From there, Christian and Shelton put on their own individual highlight reels taking numerous dives and falls off the ladder including Shelton catching Christian in mid air and powerbombing him into a ladder at one point. These two guys even doing dives onto a ladder which showcases Christian frog splashing Shelton in the closing moments of the match and destroying the ladder in the process. The only negative I can say about this match is the match being stopped so the EMT could clean up Christian but other then that, this match was very good. 4/5

WWE Intercontinental Champion John Morrison Vs. Drew McIntyre - This match played out very well as it was strictly a pure wrestling match differing itself from the opening bout. McIntyre stuck mostly to the matbased offense opposing himself from Morrison's risky, diversed style. The match was wrestled at a good pace with the crowd getting more involved as the match progressed into a very good I-C Title showdown between these two very young, gifted competitors. 3.75/5

WWE Women's Champion Michelle McCool Vs. Mickie James - For a gal who screws around with the Undertaker off camera, Michelle McCool surely admires TNA's AJ Styles quite a bit. But back to subject, this Women's Title match played out just how it was suppost to coming off the "Piggy James" comments. This match started out real intense with Mickie wanting to get payback for those disgraceful (but yet funny) "Piggy James" comments. After the intense start, the match didn't stay like that for quite a bit until the closing minutes of the match where these two divas got very physical on the outside until a distraction from Layla where Michelle is able capitalize and able to retain her Women's Championship over Mickie James. 3/5

WWE Champion John Cena Vs. Sheamus (Tables Match) - It has been said before and I'll say it again, Cena's best performances are in these "No Rules", brawling type matches. For being a new comer, Sheamus performed very well too being placed on the biggest stage of his career. Like the previous match, this match started out real intense with Cena controlling the offense until Sheamus is able to turn the tables around and begin to dominate the match and eventually introducing the tables to the match. This was a good brawl among the two with the end being somewhat a "judgmental call" coming off Jerry Lawler's and Matt Striker's comments but in any case, a dawn of a new day was born in Sheamus becoming the new WWE Champion. 3.5/5

World Heavyweight Champion The Undertaker Vs. Batista (Chairs Match) - Coming off a great series back in 2007-2008 over the same championship, these two didn't seem to match up to par on this night where it looked like both guys were having an off night. This match felt to be highly a step down from their previous encounters and for being the first of its kind, this "Chairs Match" didn't have much to offer. Hardly any buildup to any of the spots at all and to top things, Teddy Long coming out reversing the referee's decision and restarting the match didn't help matters either. From where I stand, barely an average match. 3.25/5

Kofi Kingston Vs. Randy Orton - Possibably having the best buildup then any other bout on the card, I truly believe this match lived up to those creditials but yet at the same time I also think the way this match played out, it did not help Orton that much and morely so it did not help Kofi at all. But how you want to look at it, you can consider this match being Kofi's "breakout" match as he dropped the whole Jamaican character and started to morph into his own. Kofi started out real aggressive but maybe too aggressive as Orton was able to dropkick Kofi in mid air on the outside at one point causing Orton's "Viper" character to come into play and begin to pick away the bones by focusing on the ribs of Kofi. Overall, this was a very competitve contest between the two with Kofi doing wonders for Orton all throughout the match. But in the end, it was Orton able to pick up his first clean pin fall victory in quite some time after delivering a devastating RKO. 3.75/5

WWE Unified Tag Team Champions Jeri-Show Vs. DX (TLC Match) - After three years of being on and off, the team of HBK and HHH was set out to achieve the one title that has aluted them as a duo over the years. The four started the match out with an intense brawl that started in the ring but soon moved up to the staging area where the weapons got introduced. From there, The Big Show did most of the heavy duty butt kickin' just mauling DX and destroying numerous ladders in the process. The ending involving the smart but idiotic teamwork of Chris Jericho and Big Show that back fired causing Jericho to take a nasty fall onto a table with DX shortly able to climb the ladder and gain the Tag Team Championship. This was good match for what its worth but do not expect the spotfesty and crash and burn spots in this one as this TLC match was moreso an all out brawl between the two teams but they gave enough excitement to have left you watching a good match. 4/5

"TLC" was a good PPV for me. As for the match quality, top to bottom, it surley in my eyes tops WWE's earlier new PPV concepts in Breaking Point and Hell In A Cell (haven't seen Bragging Rights). But overall, I recommend this as a rental at best.

Ladder Match: ECW Champion Christian vs. Shelton Benjamin - With the ECW brand being lost in the shuffle for the past couple of PPV's (which Christian openily admitted weeks earlier), they came back with a bang here with the two men who have their own highlight reels when it comes to ladder matches. Michael Cole described this match just right in the end when he called it a "thriller" because you just had so many moments such as various moves done off the ladder (flying clothesline, powerslam, scorpion deathdrop) and done onto the ladder (frog splash) and one moment where Shelton showed heavy strength by catching Christian off the ladder into a powerbomb onto another one. The only thing I can really say that was negative here was when Christian got busted open at one point & the match was stopped so the EMT can attend to it leading the crowd to chant "WE WANT BLOOD." Despite that one negative, they did what they acomplished to do & that's steal the show.

Intercontinental Champion John Morrison vs. Drew McIntyre - This was a different type of match than the previous match as this was more of a normal wrestling match with Drew using a more matbased offense as opposed to how Morrison uses a more diverse combination style. It was hard to follow up the previous match as the crowd was mostly dead for this match as it started off real show but picked up the pase overtime as these two young guys put together a good above average contest.

Womens Champion Michelle McCool vs. Mickie James - Before I get started, someone tell Michelle to leave "boxer" attire with the rest of Marc Mero's leftovers? Just based off the buildup they had for weeks with all the "Piggy James" comments, this match played out exactly how it should have in the beginning as it was real intense to the point where the opening moments had a tieup the went all the way out of the ring with both heavily starting each other down. However from there, they didn't keep it going throughout the match as it was just a good average divas contest with Layla coming into play on the outside. Instead of this coming off as a relevant match on the card with all the buildup it had, it just came off mostly as a filler but it was one of Mickie's better matches this year compared to the others where she just seemed to keep having an offnight.

Tables Match: WWE Champion John Cena vs. Sheamus - Unless you've been heavily paying attention to ECW & RAW for the past few months, your going to say "Who The Hell Is Sheamus?" Well, he's a new face in the heavyweight division known as the "Celtic Warrior" (complete with his own press in Irish newspapers) & was put in the right position for his first major PPV match against Cena in a tables match as it's been proven that Cena's best performances are in these types of "No Rules" matches. They had a good brawl that had the usual moments you would expect but one key thing to pay attention to in this match is the commentary because eventhough people didn't like the ending, it was referenced early in the match and it was a good way to keep both men strong afterwards.

Chairs Match: World Champion Undertaker vs. Batista - Please someone correct me if I wrong but this is the first time I've ever heard of a "chairs match" but this is just a normal match with the stipulation that chairs were legal to use & that point was hammered home in the opening moments as Batista went for the chairs right away. Eventhough chairs were legal, they didn't heavily base the match around that but I'll say that this match was a step down from their previous series of matches back in 2007-2008 as it just seemed like they didn't pick up the pase at all during the match and the ending was really just out of left field. Good match but it didn't match the standards set by their previous matches as this was missing that "it" factor for me.

Kofi Kingston vs. Randy Orton - After months of having the "rinse, wash, repeat" formula of having Kofi defend his title in multiman matches before finally dropping the Jamacian character & getting more serious, this was Kofi's "breakout" match here as he was more aggressive than we've seen before with using high impact moves at various times before Orton hit a dropkick on Kofi's ribs in midair after Kofi jumped off the top rope onto the outside. Orton continued his "Viper" character by heavily focusing on his ribs while Kofi kept fighting back. Very competitve match between both men in a type of match that had both men leaving strong with great selling by Kofi throughout the match on both his ribs & his arm after blocking Orton's punt.

TLC Match: Unified Tag Team Champions Chris Jericho & Big Show vs. D-Generation X - DX was out to gain their first set of tag team championship (eventhough technically the New Age Outlaws were tag team champions as members of DX a decade ago). This started out as you would expect with an all-out brawl on the from the ring to the floor all the way to the arm with dueling chair being used. This match had it's various moments with Big Show actually being the M.V.P. of the match like how Triple H was sprawled across a ladder in the corner only for HBK to the thrown against him & be squished by Show, Big Show punched through a chair into Triple H's face, the power of Show destroying more than one ladder with his bare hands, and the comedic ending with Jericho & Show working together to grab the belts only for that to backfire in a nasty way for Jericho as he took the worst fall than anyone else the entire night. If your expecting the heavy "spotfest" that you've gotten from TLC/Ladder matches in the past that you won't get it here but this was still a good contest with plenty of moments to not leave you disappointed.

Overall I have to say out of the three new "themed" PPV's WWE has done this year (submissions at Breaking Point, Hell In A Cell) that this was my favorite one as it wasn't a classic but come off like everyone stepped their game up & had a good mix of inring action (wrestling & hardcore) along with establishing new stars in the process so this is one PPV I would recommend checking.