The 8th annual edition of WWE’s self-proclaimed “demolition derby” will be upon us in just a week’s time, and there’s a lot that can happen on the final SmackDown Live pay-per-view event of 2016. Grudge matches are in place to settle scores, and some of them even include title matches.
One great thing about this year’s TLC event is that every match happening on the show (with the exception of the Tag Title match) has a history that warrants the high-stakes matches that come with an event like TLC.
Dean Ambrose and AJ Styles settle their heated rivalry in a match guaranteed for brutality, in the show’s namesake TLC match. The Miz and Dolph Ziggler will go one-on-one for the Intercontinental Title one last time, now in a ladder match, which means that Maryse can’t help her husband in the simple ways she usually can in order to cheat to win.
Carmella and Nikki Bella are finally going to end their feud with a No DQ match, something that was hinted at a couple months ago but never occurred, and Kalisto tries to exact some revenge on Baron Corbin for his brutal attacks, and they will duke it out in a Chairs match.
There are so many possibilities with so many great outcomes, but what are 5 things that should not happen on December 4th at TLC? Let’s take a look.
#5 The Undertaker Appears During The Main Event
With the rumors all pointing to a Styles vs. Undertaker battle in January at the Royal Rumble, it could make a bit of sense to see The Undertaker somehow make his presence known at December’s TLC show, specifically during the World Title match.
Normally, when The Undertaker appears at the end of a pay-per-view event he does so after the match is over, so one would expect that he would at least wait until AJ Styles retains the title over Dean Ambrose, but even that is too much.
AJ Styles has been getting the short end of the stick for a while during this championship reign. He has held onto and successfully been retaining the title, but he never really gets to look like the dominant, physical, athletic champion that he truly is. With his first reign as WWE World Champion likely coming to a close when The Undertaker comes calling, Styles deserves one night to truly soak it all in, and TLC is that night.
The Undertaker, ideally, can interrupt AJ’s celebration speech the following Tuesday on SmackDown Live. For Sunday night, December 4th, though, AJ should be able to get that decisive victory over Dean Ambrose and celebrate like a star to end the show without any dark magic shenanigans.
#4 Nikki Bella defeats Carmella
Usually, the right thing to do is put the babyface over in the final match of a heated rivalry to put it to bed and be done with it. That doesn’t have to be the case in this situation.
Carmella has gotten a lot of cheap-shot offence in on Bella over the last couple months, but this time she has to take on Nikki face-to-face, and nothing can stop Nikki from doing anything and everything she wants in an environment with no rules. That means that Carmella, the up-and-coming star, has a lot to prove in this match.
Back at No Mercy, Nikki defeated Carmella in a regular singles match. This time, Carmella can get one over on Nikki and show that the younger, hungrier wrestler can swing a chair with the best of them and show the same dominance over Bella inside the ring that she has been able to enjoy outside thanks to her cheap shots. This is Carmella’s match to win.
#3 New Women’s Champion
It seems like Sunday, December 4th might be the time for Alexa Bliss, but maybe that shouldn’t be the direction that WWE goes in. Alexa’s time will come soon enough, but it won’t, or at least shouldn’t at TLC.
Becky Lynch is the inaugural SmackDown Live Women’s Champion and to begin to create a legacy, the first champion has to be a fighter who has some impressive title defenses under her belt. Becky is the right woman for the the job as a plucky champion who has defied the odds on multiple occasions.
Who will be the woman to take the title from Lynch? That is a difficult question, but it may have to go unanswered for a while longer.
#2 Baron Corbin Takes Down Kalisto
#1 Dean Ambrose Wins The WWE World Title
Along with that contract comes a guaranteed match for the WWE World Title down the line. If WWE doesn’t do that match this week on SmackDown Live, it means they may be saving it for a different champion.
For the sake of adding a little more drama, the belt may change hands at TLC, and then Dean Ambrose would get tasked with the responsibility of defending his title against the man he has championed for weeks and weeks. Would WWE do it? It is definitely a possibility, as there is only so much that can be done with Styles and Ellsworth, and what they have already done is essentially everything.
That could lead to an Ambrose victory, which would also mean a very short title reign, as the rumors have AJ Styles defending the title against The Undertaker at the Royal Rumble pay-per-view in January, so he would have to win the title back.
WWE would be best served to keep the title with Styles and let him destroy Ellsworth in a quick match with the title on the line, with no screwing around and no Dean Ambrose interference. Let it happen and let it be done, and don’t give Ambrose the title to try to manufacture drama that the crowd simply isn’t experiencing
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