Tables Ladders and Chairs 2014 Preview
So we’re here for Survivor Series 2014 Part II: We Don’t Have Sting, as most of the matches on here are just singles versions of Team Cena vs. Team Authority but with weapons. Thankfully after this we’re likely going to move on to Cena vs. Lesnar III to make sure they scrape every ounce out of every idea they have because the writers tend to be lazy hacks. Let’s get to it.
As usual we’ll do the pre-show first and in this case it’s about as obvious as we’re getting with the New Day defeating the Dusts. There’s no reason for anything else to happen and that’s what we’re getting. New Day is still too new to mean anything but I don’t hate them so far.
Moving on to the main card, we’ll start with some of the less interesting ones, such as Ryback hopefully beating Kane in the chairs match. Then again this is Kane, meaning that his twenty years in the company have earned him the right to never have to take a freaking pinfall. Ryback wins here, earning a victory that doesn’t mean as much as him pinning Harper and Rollins in TV matches. Speaking of TV, has this match been hyped on TV in the last two weeks? It’s almost an afterthought at this point.
Speaking of old giants who need to do a freaking job once in awhile, Rowan beats Big Show in the stairs match. They’re really stretching for ideas here and no, I won’t be referring to this show as TLCS as that sounds like a disease or government agency. Rowan could become a good new giant in Kane’s likeness, assuming he can get Big Show to stay down instead of having someone run in for a DQ.
Rusev beats Swagger because he’s Rusev and Swagger is Swagger. We’ve been through this for months now and I think we’ve figured out what’s going to happen.
Miz/Mizdow retain the belts. Yeah the Naomi stuff is interesting, but there’s no real reason to give the Usos the titles again. There’s just nothing all that interesting about them after their big run. They’re fine as challengers like this and maybe getting the belts back later, but the Ascension is waiting in the wings to probably take the titles from whomever they face first.
Nikki retains the title over AJ, likely setting up the battle of the Bellas down the line to put everyone to sleep. Again the rumor is that AJ leaves soon but I’ll believe it when I don’t see her. The story isn’t half bad actually with the Bellas against the world, but then the Bellas have to talk and the whole thing just dies.
Ziggler takes the Intercontinental Title back to give him his big moment in Cleveland and to capitalize on his win at Survivor Series by….putting him right back where he was before the whole thing started. Odd how that works isn’t it? This match does have the potential to be a show stealer though and I’m looking forward to it more than anything else on the card.
I’ll take Ambrose in the namesake match, even though nothing really should be hanging above the ring. There’s a chance they’ll make it a pinfall match, but I don’t really see this as the end of the feud. It likely will be as there isn’t much else they can do, but the story seems like it should be going somewhere after this.
Finally we have Cena vs. Rollins in a tables match with Cena’s #1 contendership on the line. It’s not like Rollins can win anything other than pride, so let’s not pretend this match really means anything. Just let Cena win the thing and set up Cena vs. Lesnar III so we can all roll our eyes at the match and get on to Reigns being crowned king of the company. Rollins has ruled 2014 but I can’t picture him winning here, even though Cena has a pretty bad record at TLC.
Overall this show feels…..lazy. As usual, it feels like they’re just doing the same set of stories with a slight twist on them so we the writers don’t have to come up with something fresh. Thankfully though these shows tend to be entertaining due to the high levels of violence and pure carnage. If you don’t know that, I’m sure WWE is going to call this the Demolition Derby of WWE about 19 times in the first fifteen minutes. Also, maybe the NXT guys will light a fire under them and wake this roster up a bit. It’s been done before, but it’s going to take nothing short of perfection to beat R-Evolution.
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