How WWE Should Book TLC: Tables, Ladders and Chairs 2020

 

Hey everyone! Ever since Night Of Champions 2015, through multiple accounts, every month before major WWE pay-per-views, I’ve come on here and booked the cards to make them as exciting, intriguing, and best possible scenarios for the future. I do both NXT and main-roster pay-per-views, as well as the occasional big milestone RAW or Smackdown weekly show. Without further ado, here is how TLC: Tables, Ladders and Chairs 2020 should be booked.

MY TABLES, LADDERS AND CHAIRS PPV POSTS OF PREVIOUS YEARS:

• 2015: https://www.reddit.com/r/SquaredCircle/comments/3wppw7/how_wwe_should_book_tlc_2015/
• 2016: Didn’t do one.
• 2017: https://www.reddit.com/r/SquaredCircle/comments/77vj6v/how_wwe_should_book_tlc_2017_raw/
• 2018: https://old.reddit.com/r/WWE/comments/a6jsjf/how_wwe_should_book_tlc_tables_ladders_and_chairs/
• 2019: Didn’t do one.

KICKOFF-SHOW:

• We get the usual kickoff panel of Charly Caruso, Booker T, Jeff Jarrett, JBL and everybody’s favorite person, Peter Rosenberg. Throughout the hour, the panel runs down the match card giving their predictions, hyping up the matches and showing us video packages. About 25 minutes into the hour, we get our kickoff match.

 

KICKOFF MATCH: Big E, Chad Gable, Daniel Bryan and Otis vs. Cesaro, King Corbin, Sami Zayn and Shinsuke Nakamura (8-man Tag Team match)

 

• This is throwaway so let’s just cut to the chase. The heels come out first, followed by the babyfaces. The match gets 13 minutes. Everyone gets their shit in. It ends when Big E pins Sami Zayn after a Big Ending. Big E pinned the current IC Champion and so it puts him in contention. Moving on.

 

WINNERS by PINFALL: Big E, Chad Gable, Daniel Bryan and Otis

 

• The panel gives their final predictions for the two TLC match main events, and then we get to the main show.

MAIN SHOW:

• Gimmick PPVs… Gimmick PPVs... what are they good for? We’ve made our way trudging through the pile of horseshit that has been 2020, and with that comes the final WWE PPV of the year, (in Michael Cole voice) IT’S THE WWE’S VERSION OF THE DEMOLITION DERBY. What year WWE has had. They’ve adapted to a worldwide pandemic in top form, in my opinion. As this PPV is also a last of the year, it’s also a first, as it will be the first after the THUNDERDOME has been confirmed for a move to Tropicana Field in Tampa, FL, for the next few months. As always, this isn’t what I think WILL happen, this is what I think SHOULD happen. Now, let’s distract ourselves from the real world with some pro wrestling. Without further ado, let’s have WWE’s 2020 PPV calendar go out with a CRASH… through a table…. see what I did there hahahahaha,

 

1ST MATCH: The New Day (Kofi Kingston and Xavier Woods) (c) vs. The Hurt Business (Cedric Alexander and Shelton Benjamin) (Tag Team match for the WWE RAW Tag Team Championships)

 

• The Pain Corporation is out first followed by The Current Morning. We get formal ring introductions and the match gets 15 minutes. They say in the business that if you’re not on last, you wanna be first, and most might think that to be the case when it comes to the two TLC matches tonight, but I just have never ever been a fan of World Championship matches opening a PPV. I feel like it devalues it. The World Title defenses are what you buy a ticket to see, what you wait all night to see. When it happens first, I just feel like it really cheapens the match and the importance of such a title. So out of every other match on this card, this is pretty perfect to go on first. These four guys are gonna go all out. The match ends when Xavier Woods and Cedric Alexander are legal, and Woods knocks Alexander down with a leaping DDT off the top rope. Woods then heads to the corner and goes for the Honor Roll, he rolls, but CEDRIC CATCHES HIM WITH A MICHINOKU DRIVER. Kofi tries to run in to but MVP distracts the referee and Kofi gets caught in a Hurt Lock by Lashley on the outside, and Kofi is trapped. Cedric hits a Lumbar Check inside the ring and Kofi has to watch as he gets the pin on Woods to win the titles. HURT BUSINESS IS BOOMING.

 

WINNERS by PINFALL and NEW WWE RAW Tag Team Champions: The Hurt Business

 

• We get an ad for what’s coming to the WWE Network.

 

2ND MATCH: Nia Jax and Shayna Baszler (c) vs. Asuka and Mystery Partner (Tag Team match for the WWE Women’s Tag Team Championships)

 

• Usually, one of my biggest wrestling pet peeves is the champions coming first in a title match, because the champion should not be left there waiting for the challenger. That’s just backwards logic. Though, in a situation like this with a mystery partner, it makes the most sense. Asuka’s partner is, big surprise, Charlotte Flair. We get formal ring introductions and the match gets 10 minutes. Midway through, we see Lana wheel herself out to the stage in a wheelchair. Her leg that was damaged by Shayna Baszler is all bandaged up, and her arm is in a sling as well. The match ends as Nia is distracted by this, and begins screaming mean things at Lana. Lana’s feelings are now hurt! Oh no! But never fear, Charlotte Flair is here! Nia turns right around into a spear and Charlotte locks in the Figure Eight. Shayna comes in to break it up but Asuka is right there and grabs Shayna’s wrist, twirling her into the Asuka Lock. Both challengers have the champions locked in submissions in the center of the ring, and Shayna is screaming for Nia not to tap, but the screams slowly fade as Shayna passes out, and Nia, with no one left willing her on, succumbs to the pain as Charlotte gets a bridge. We’ve got new Women’s Tag Team Champions. After the bell, Nia proves herself to be a big Kane fan as she pushes Lana off the stage in her wheelchair like Kane did to Zack Ryder in 2012. Lana subsequently dies. Nia and Shayna ran its course from the second it began, and it’s time for a changing of the guard! Fortunately, this will mean that we’ve gone from one set of tag champions that just can’t seem to get along, to….. to another. OH WHAT THE FU-

 

WINNERS by SUBMISSION and NEW WWE Women’s Tag Team Champions: Asuka and Charlotte Flair

 

• We get an ad for NXT New Year’s Evil in 2 weeks.

 

3RD MATCH: Drew McIntyre (c) vs. AJ Styles (w/ Omos) (Tables, Ladders and Chairs match for the WWE Championship)

 

• Styles and Omos are out first followed by Andrew McIntyre. The match gets 25 minutes. From the second I saw these two interact in this year’s Men’s Rumble match, I knew this was something that needed to happen, and was going to happen. And now here we are. This is a legitimate first time ever one on one, and that’s not something you can find in WWE too often anymore. This will be great. Some spots in the match include AJ hitting a 450 Splash on Drew through a table, AJ hitting a Phenomenal Forearm to knock Drew off of a ladder, Drew going for a Claymore kick but AJ dodges and Drew sends himself through a table in the corner, and Drew wrapping a chair around AJ’s neck and then hitting a Future Shock DDT. The match ends as Drew and AJ are fighting on the outside, and Omos gets physical for the first time as he chokeslams McIntyre through the announce table. AJ then calls Omos into the ring, and inevitably, we get AJ trying to unhook the title by standing on Omos’s shoulders, because the bastard is 7ft tall. This plan backfires on Styles though, Drew recovers and runs the ropes and NAILS Omos with a Claymore Kick, sending both him and AJ crashing to the mat as he slowly topples, resulting in AJ taking a 7ft tall Electric Chair. Drew brings a ladder into the ring, takes one last glance at Styles, and then unhooks the WWE Championship for the retain. Now THAT would be a badass finish. There’s no reason for AJ to hold the title right now, and there’s no reason for McIntyre not to continue holding it. Now onto the Royal Rumble, where McIntyre is surely defending against Sheamus, where we shall see two big, hard, meaty european men beating the hell out of each other. Yes please.

 

WINNER and STILL WWE Champion: Drew McIntyre

 

• We go to the commentators who plug the official theme song of the PPV.

 

4TH MATCH: Sasha Banks (c) vs. Carmella (Singles match for the WWE

SmackDown Women’s Championship)

 

• Carmella is out first followed by Sasha Banks. We get formal ring introductions and the match gets 13 minutes. The match ends when Carmella goes to the outside and gets a wine glass from her… somalia? Is that how you spell it? Carmella has a wine glass in hand as the dude undoes the turnbuckle pad to distract the referee. Carmella tosses the wine glass, Sasha ducks, and it hits the ref in the back of the head. Carmella is shocked at what just happened and she takes a Backstabber from Sasha into the Bank Statement. Carmella taps out but theres no referee in the ring! A new referee runs down as Camella rolls over and gets in the Code of Silence. As it looks like Sasha is about to tap and Carmella got away with a fast one, Sasha reverses back and locks in the Bank Statement once again, and this time she taps within view of the ref. Sasha Banks retains the SD Women’s title. She’s in the Mandalorian, she’s probably the biggest name in the news that WWE has right now, so you would have to be completely clinically insane to take the title off her right now. She’s your cash cow.

 

WINNER by SUBMISSION and STILL WWE SmackDown Women’s Champion: Sasha Banks

 

• We go backstage for an interview with Kevin Owens. He runs down Roman Reigns and reiterates that he’ll win the Universal Title tonight, or he’ll die trying. We get a video package for our next match.

**5TH MATCH: “The Fiend” Bray Wyatt (w/ Alexa Bliss) vs. Randy Orton (Firefly Inferno match)**

 

• The Fiend burns Randy Orton alive and then wins. Wrestling!

WINNER by PINFALL: “The Fiend” Bray Wyatt

 

• We get an ad for the Royal Rumble next month, and then a video package for the main event.

 

6TH MATCH: Roman Reigns (c) (w/ Paul Heyman) vs. Kevin Owens (Tables, Ladders and Chairs match for the WWE Universal Championship)

 

• Kevin Owens is out first followed by the tribal chief who sits at the head of the table and is the big dog of the world wrestling federation, ROMAN “tribal chief who sits at the head of the table and is the big dog of the world wrestling federation” REIGNS, accompanied by Main Event Jey Uso and Paul E. Dangerously. We get formal ring introductions and the match gets 22 minutes. I’m quite late writing this post this time around so I’m just gonna cut to the chase. I was watching Talking Smack this past week and Kevin Owens uttered one line to Paul Heyman that particularly caught my attention. I’ve provided a link to the exact timestamp so you can see it for yourself:

https://youtu.be/bSgSRcnW854?t=201 “You know that except for my wife, my kids, and my parents, there is nothing I’m not willing to sacrifice to get that title back.”

That is what should ultimately cost Kevin Owens. He let Roman Reigns in on his biggest weakness. His family. The match ends when Kevin Owens is scaling a ladder in the ring and his wife is cheering him on the ramp. Reigns attacks his wife with a Spear. Owens literally has his hands on the title but he sees Reigns beating on his wife so bad that he has to make the more important decision. Owens runs to tend to his wife and he watches as Reigns climbs a ladder in the ring and retains the title.

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WINNER and STILL WWE Universal Champion: Roman Reigns

 

FINAL RESULTS:

No.	Results	Stipulations	Times
Pre-show	Big E, Chad Gable, Daniel Bryan and Otis defeated Cesaro, King Corbin, Sami Zayn and Shinsuke Nakamura by Pinfall	8-man Tag Team match	13 minutes
1	The Hurt Business (Cedric Alexander and Shelton Benjamin) defeated The New Day (Kofi Kingston and Xavier Woods) (c) by Pinfall	Tag Team match for the WWE RAW Tag Team Championships	15 minutes
2	Asuka and Charlotte Flair defeated Nia Jax and Shayna Baszler (c) by Submission	Tag Team match for the WWE Women’s Tag Team Championships	10 minutes
3	Drew McIntyre (c) defeated AJ Styles (w/ Omos)	Tables, Ladders and Chairs match for the WWE Championship	25 minutes
4	Sasha Banks (c) defeated Carmella by Submission	Singles match for the WWE SmackDown Women’s Championship	13 minutes
5	“The Fiend” Bray Wyatt (w/ Alexa Bliss) defeated Randy Orton by Pinfall	Firefly Inferno match	10 minutes
6	Roman Reigns (c) (w/ Paul Heyman) defeated Kevin Owens	Tables, Ladders and Chairs match for the WWE Universal Championship	22 minutes

 

MY WWE ROYAL RUMBLE 2021 CARD (January ??, 2021; St. Petersburg, FL; Tropicana Field)

No.	Matches	Stipulations
1	2021 Men’s Royal Rumble match	30-man Royal Rumble match
2	2021 Women’s Royal Rumble match	30-woman Royal Rumble match
3	Drew McIntyre (c) vs. Sheamus	Street Fight for the WWE Championship
4	Roman Reigns (c) (w/ Paul Heyman) vs. Daniel Bryan	Singles match for the WWE Universal Championship
5	Sasha Banks (c) vs. Bayley vs. Bianca Belair	Triple Threat match for the WWE SmackDown Women’s Championship
6	Sami Zayn (c) vs. Big E	Singles match for the WWE Intercontinental Championship
7	Bobby Lashley (c) vs. Riddle	Singles match for the WWE United States Championship

Well, that was the post. Thanks for reading! As always, let me know what you liked and/or what you didn’t like from the post, and what from the post you’d like to see actually happen on the show tomorrow night! Be sure to look out for my next post for the upcoming PPV, “How WWE Should Book Royal Rumble 2021”. Enjoy the show tonight, everyone.