December 2009

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Unified World Tag Team Champions Chris Jericho & Big Show vs D-X - TLC 2009 TLC Match Turgid. Long, plodding, no energy, congested. I actually like all four guys individually yes even HHH, but this was boring as hell. Lots of random brawling. Jericho/Shawn really didn't have anything special. I thought Big Show was the best part of the match about halfway through he just lit up with tons of punches. The one spot where he punches the chair out of HHH's hand was nuts. My mom & I popped for that. The heat segment on HHH was decent. The finish was pretty tame and lame. Avoid.

WWE Champion John Cena vs Sheamus - TLC 2009 Tables Match I think until the Jinder Mahal victory this has to be the biggest upset in WWE history. I was thinking this was just a placeholder challenger in a dead month (December) until Cena would go on to bigger and better things ala Batista, but the WWE had other things in mind. I am a huge Sheamus fan, by far my favorite WWE wrestler of this decade (2010s). He combines the stiff, hard-nosed stylings of Greg The Hammer Valentine with the deepest offensive arsenal in WWE since Bret The Hitman Hart and the raw bone power of a Dr. Death Steve Williams. Until AJ Styles arrived on the scene in 2016, Sheamus, in my opinio…

World Heavyweight Champion Undertaker vs Batista - TLC 2009 Chairs Match Wow! Was Matt Striker always this insufferable on commentary? Batista's protein intake is clearly more than the Undertaker's thus he is less vulnerable to chair shots. Are you shitting me, bro? In some ways, I like the booking capitalizing on Batista's heat from turning on Rey and then putting him out of action. I think Batista should have won here to keep the momentum rolling. Doing the whole Dusty finish with Batista using the low blow (not legal) and the chair (legal) to win the match, but Teddy restarting the match due to the low blow. Taker immediately getting a chair shot and then Tombs…

TNA World Heavyweight Champion AJ Styles vs Christopher Daniels - Final Resolution 2009 Daniels puts on a career performance and AJ puts on a performance that is on par with his best. It is very rare I think someone outshines AJ, but I thought Daniels was doing so many of the little things so well and suffocating AJ that I have got to give the nod to Daniels as the better wrestler in this match. This match is worked so much differently than most TNA matches as they let spots breathe, use strikes effectively to set up spots and has psychology that actually follows the angle surrounding the match. I was really floored how friggin good this match was both when I watche…

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