TLC 2014

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Thought it was a pretty poor PPV to be honest, but here's my thoughts on the matches. Only got around to watching it last night, as my mate  was busy on Monday.

Intercontinental Title Ladder Match: Luke Harper vs. Dolph Ziggler
Best match of the night by far, and was the only match that I was looking forward to. Shame it went on first really as the rest was not able to match this. Both took some brutal shots and were covered in cuts and welts - Zigglers forearm in particular looked brutal as it was purple. Great match.

Tag Team Titles: The Miz & Damien Mizdow vs. The Usos
Was nothing special in any way. Mazdow continues to do very little match wise, so you'd think there's only so long that their title reign can go on. Weak finish and over quite quickly, but I guess there's only so much you can do when it's effectively 2 on 1 since Mizdow offers nothing by comic value. 

Steel Stairs Match: Erick Rowan vs. Big Show
First and hopefully last ever steel stairs match. Can't believe they spend so long trying to convince us how heavy the stairs are. We all know they're not that heavy at all. Anyways, was a poor match and was so slow... but what else can you expect from these two. Still don't know why Rowan is suddenly a face with no reason for by but what ever. Nothing looked impressive in this match, but that's probably another problem with using the stairs.

Tables Match: John Cena vs. Seth Rollins
Not a fan of table matches, but I guess it has given us some surprised before like Cena losing the title to Sheamus. Didn't expect Cena to lose here though. Was speculation going into the PPV that Orton or Reigns would interfere and cost Rollins the match and that's exactly what happened with Reigns making his comeback. Was an alright match, but you get the feeling that if they were given 20 minutes with no gimmick and no interference, then they would likely put on a very good match. As it was though, we had that stupid spot where ref's came out to try and decide who's the winner, even though not one of them came out a few minutes earlier when Cena put Rollins through a table to declare him the winner. Inconsistent refs right there, who come out when ever they feel like it.

Divas Title: Nikki Bella vs. AJ Lee
Boring match and you could tell that the crowd really didn't give a shit either. Cheap win and the whole match just felt flat.

Chairs Match: Ryback vs. Kane
Went on too long. Ryback shouldn't be in matches longer than 5 minutes. And that's the real problem with him. Any longer than that and you see that he's quite poor. Put him in a longer match with one of, if not the, oldest active wrestlers on the roster, and you don't have a good match. At least Ryback can get some crowd reaction with the "feed me more" chant. That was probably about the only reaction the crowd gave all match - and I'm not blaming the crowd, they had nothing to really get excited about.

United States Title: Rusev vs. Jack Swagger
Seems like this match was only on the card to give Rusev something to do while they think about who his next feud will be against. Seen it many times before and it was kept quite short. Shame really as Swagger can be very fun to watch, but this was a pretty dominant win by Rusev. Although it was short, it was actually better than some of the  matches on before it.

Tables, Ladders & Chairs Match: Dean Ambrose vs. Bray Wyatt
Second best match on the card. Stupid finish though. They really need to give Bray a decisive finish, it'd mean so much more. They hit some impressive moves though using the ladders and tables and it cracked me up when Dean told the crowd that picked the smaller of the 2 large ladders because he wouldn't be able to carry the largest one, it was just the way he came out with it. I like Ambrose as a wrestler, the guy has ability. As a talker he's great. But his facial expressions during matches get on my nerves at times, like he's constantly twitching out. Reign it in a bit and it'd be cool.

Over all, poor PPV. At least the first and last matches were good.