WWE Tables, Ladders and Chairs 2019 PPV Match Results and Live Blog

Roman Reigns battles King Corbin! Becky and Charlotte go for the women's tag titles! Will WWE close out its 2019 with a bang or a whimper?

TLC is WWE's final PPV of the year - and from the looks of things, it also might be the flimsiest.

Flimsiest on paper, anyhow. Only seven matches have been booked, one of which is an "open challenge," and no singles world championships are being defended. Bray isn't wrestling as "The Fiend" and his Universal Championship isn't on the line against Miz (we don't get to see his custom belt?). Becky Lynch hasn't defended her Raw Women's Championship properly since facing Sasha Banks at Hell in a Cell. And Brock is...well, no one expected Brock to show up for this one.

Also, nothing's booked between Seth Rollins and Kevin Owens. Of course, Seth is reportedly hurt and Kevin might be staying off-air to sell his "injuries" from last Monday.

Sure, the spareness of the card leaves room for impromptu segments and matches. Bayley might defend her title, perhaps against Lacey Evans. Then there are the weird hints John Cena's been dropping on social media about keeping his streak alive (if he doesn't wrestle at TLC it will be the first time in 17 years he's gone a full year without a PPV match). Could he be a part of the team that faces the Viking Raiders? Maybe John Morrison will show? Who knows?

At least there are two actual TLC matches tonight - one between Roman Reigns and Baron Corbin and the other one featuring Becky and Charlotte facing the Kabuki Warriors. Let's at least hope the women close the show here.

Also, no hard feelings if y'all tune out to catch the Watchmen finale tonight.

Let's climb some ladders, swing some chairs, and bust through some tables!

Humberto Carillo vs. Andrade (Kickoff Match)

Speaking of the wide open card, this match was announced on the Kickoff Show itself, feeding off the upset win that Carillo got over Andrade on this past Monday's RAW. Strictly speaking, these two are marvelous in the ring. It's too bad their feud isn't a real full-fledged angle because this match cooked. Andrade got his eye busted open (adding to the intensity of the bout overall) and Carillo even got another big win! This time with an actual Moonsault finisher. It seems it's all leading to an official split between Andrade and Zelina.

It could be that this PPV, like Extreme Rules, winds up being one of those "the matches are way better than they should be given the storylines" deals.

Winner: Humberto Carillo

SmackDown Tag Team Champions The New Day vs. The Revival (Ladder Match)


Even though the feud between New Day and the Revival doesn't have a ton of heat, no one should doubt these two teams' ability to deliver a solid ladder match. These four men nearly killed themselves for our enjoyment. Crashing ladder spots, amazing feats of agility (Kofi saving himself from a ladder spill with a springboard tornado DDT!), elaborately staged demolition derby antics (Big E suplexed onto a ladder, and then splashed through that ladder!) - this one was a glorious "above and beyond" bout of brutality.


This would could have gone either way, but given the year Kofi had, and how unceremoniously he lost the WWE Championship to Brock, you'd hate to see him leave on 2019 on the losing end. So New Day retained tonight, in a crusher.

Winners, and STILL SmackDown Tag Team Champions: New Day

Aleister Black vs. Buddy Murphy


And, we've got some more blood! It looks like Black busted his nose up pretty bad. Oof!

Also, I'll never not be amused with how much Aleister wants people to challenge him and then how super pissed he gets when someone actually challenges him.

This was another knocker of slobber, as these two guys hit hard and play rough. And yes, Black's face being blooded for most of the match made it all feel grittier and grimier than it should have felt for, basically, the first time these two have faced each other on TV. It's just the basic affect it has on a match. As barbaric as it sounds, blood creates an instant story.

I guess we can also thank how thin this card is for the fact that we actually got this match on a PPV. Just don't make black wear green trunks with that black splotch on the back anymore.

All in all, a hellacious match! Despite his broken nose, Black kept taking kicks and knees to the face. Yikes! A Black Mass out of nowhere, however, gave him the win.

Winner: Aleister Black

Raw Tag Team Champions The Viking Raiders' Open Challenge


Oh, so the challengers were just...Gallows and Anderson? Meh. Okay. Why not just book this match ahead of time then if it wasn't going to be a surprise?

Also, let's have people eat a full chicken meal right near a place where two wrestlers have been busted open in the last hour, spurting blood all over. Thanks, KFC!


Having said that, if no one had gone through the chicken table, we'd all be hella mad. As it was, the double-countout finish was a big crowd deflater. The giant mashed potato mess at the end was just to make up for the dry finish.

No Winners: Double Countout

Roman Reigns vs. King Corbin (Tables, Ladders & Chairs Match)


Due to the overall "Baron Corbin Effect," the longer this match went, the more the crowd was going turn on it. So these two worked extra hard, with some third act table spots (and a Ziggler pop in!), to keep the people in the mix.

Having this match come mid-show means that, most likely, the Women's Tag Title TLC Match is coming in the main event - which would mean Becky, Charlotte, and Asuka would be headlining their second TLC PPV in a row! Anyhow, it was smart to have two TLC matches. Remember when we'd all have to suffer through a Chairs Match?

Roman got to battle ton of people, from Corbin and Ziggler to Corbin's horde of "private security." Then the Revival, after their own barn-burner match, came in to help Corbin. So who would help Roman here? A big theme of this feud is that Roman's "lost the boys in the back" so it would only make sense for some of the boys to come to his aid.

Ha ha ha, that didn't happen though. Roman got trounced in the end. Corbin hit End of Days on a chair and Roman was down for the count. Does anything come from this eventually? Is this how WWE brings back the Usos? .

Winner: King Corbin

Universal Champion Bray Wyatt vs. The Miz


So this was really weird and fun! A different side of the Bray character - but also one that feeds into The Fiend's ability to appear impervious, if we're now retconning all the Stomps he survived at Hell in a Cell. On last week's Funhouse, Bray said he'd taught himself not to feel anything, including pain. He then came out for this match JUST AS FIREFLY FUNHOUSE BRAY. To the Funhouse theme.

And he didn't fight. Not for five minutes at least. He just let Miz thrash him while he laughed. Miz even "broke" Bray's arm, Pentagon Jr-style, and Bray just went outside and popped his shoulder back into place. Finally, Bray hit a Sister Abigail on the outside and Miz was almost counted out. Miz crawled back in, took another Sister Abigail, and the took the pin. All the while, Bray was telling Miz to stop fighting back, and that he was sorry. There's a really cool and creepy mythology going on here. The kind WWE never does.


The Fiend's face then appeared on the screen as Bray went under the ring to grab a giant carnival mallet. Before he could strike at Miz though, Daniel Bryan came in, all shaved and short-haired! Is he the American Dragon now? He laid out Bray! This is all insane. In a good way though.

Bonus points for Bray wrestling a match without that damn red light.

Winner: Bray Wyatt

Rusev vs. Bobby Lashley (Tables Match)


So this match, in the end, wound up being okay. Not good enough to make anyone forget about the awful storyline, of course. Especially with Vic yelling "Remember the faked pregnancy!" when Rusev was hitting Lashley with a kendo stick! But it was all perfectly serviceable.

The best spot, aside from the end when Bobby belly-to-belly'd Rusev through the corner table was when Bobby spinebusted Rusev through a propped-up steel guardrail. Lana climbed on Rusev and clawed at his eyes so that Bobby could find a window to win. I guess this...will go on? [shrug emoji]

Winner: Bobby Lashley

WWE Women's Tag Team Champions The Kabuki Warriors vs. Raw Women's Champion Becky Lynch & Charlotte Flair (Tables, Ladders & Chairs Match)


So this one definitely had the potential to be one of the best matches of 2019. And it almost got there. It just sort of fell apart in the middle thanks to too many complicated spots involving ropes and kendo sticks and stuff. Things that the four women took too much time fumbling through. Also Becky spent a comical amount of time rope-tied to a ladder. At least that rope came back in the end to help the Kabukis win.

Also, it looked like poor Kairi got her lights put out for real when she dove onto Becky and Charlotte on a table that didn't break. Afterwards she couldn't take Charlotte's spear properly and then couldn't get herself up for a powerbomb through a table. She eventually course corrected a bit, but the match wasn't quite the same after that. Still, there were some big, impressive spots throughout. A lot of brutality on display here. I'm super happy the Warriors retained their titles here. Now let Becky defend her actual RAW Women's Championship.

Winners, and STILL WWE Women's Tag Team Champions: The Kabuki Warriors


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Release Date: Jan. 28, 2018
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