WWE TLC 2018: 10 major talking points from the PPV

WWE will be smiling from ear to ear in what was a pretty respectable PPV to end the year. The PPV was pretty good. it was not flawless but it surely had its bits and was entertaining as well. It wasn't the best PPV of the year, but it had a lot of bits that not many would have thought of.

Some surprises make sense while some have led to the emergence of completely new storylines. Let's go through the highlights of what happened at the last PPV of the year.

#1 Asuka is the new SmackDown Women's Champion

Asuka has finally redeemed herself. After losing to Charlotte at WrestleMania that brought an end to her winning streak, Asuka had, in many ways gone down the path to obscurity where many a time she didn't even make an appearance on SmackDown.

But now she's back and how quickly has she climbed the ladder (literally). Although there are certain different storylines that have emerged from all this it takes nothing away from Asuka. She put on a great match and in no way was a lesser competitor than Becky Lynch or Charlotte Flair.

#2 The Smackdown Women's TLC match tears the house down

The ladies came, they fought and they conquered the Pay-per-view

You've got to respect the amount of work that the female wrestlers have put in to reach these heights that they can now headline a PPV, be the main event and put on the best spectacle of the show.

The chants of "This is awesome" are just further clarification, if any was needed, that the women have garnered the respect and are now on equal footing in the business and there's no way around it.

The match where all the three women put their bodies on the line and were visually exhausted and had nothing more to give shows how far women wrestling has come from its earlier days.

#3 A heel turn for Ronda or just a precursor to the Wrestlemania main event?

Was this a heel turn for Ronda Rousey or WWE has just planted the seeds for the Wrestlemania Main Event

In many ways, it became clear why Asuka was added to the TLC match between Becky Lynch and Charlotte Flair. The actions of Ronda Rousey, however, are still not entirely clear.

There's a clear beef between Ronda Rousey and Charlotte Flair after what Charlotte did to Rousey at Survivor Series, but Rousey costing Becky also means that WWE is planning a feud between the three leading ladies of women's roster.

How it reaches fruition is something that'll need to get figured out logistically as Rousey is on Raw and the other two women are on Smackdown. But the early signs are pretty evident and it does seem to be the case that the three women are going to headline Wrestlemania in all probability for the Raw Women's Championship.

#4 Drew Mcintyre will have to wait for a main event push

Drew Mcintyre's hopes for a main event push in the near future went up in flames at TLC

In many ways, Drew Mcintyre has had the worst month in wrestling ever since he's returned to WWE. In the last three weeks, he's lost twice, once to Dolph Ziggler and now in TLC, he lost to Finn Balor albeit with interference from Dolph Ziggler.

For many, the feud between Finn Balor and Drew McIntyre was supposed to put him over even more for the consequent main event push. But it seems that those plans have been put on hold for now and Drew might be forced to stick around the mid card a bit longer than expected.

This also means that the rumours of the main event push against Brock Lesnar for Seth Rollins are true.

#5 The Raw Locker room finally gets one over Baron Corbin

Almost everyone from the crowd to the Superstars seemed to have had enough of Baron Corbin as General Manager Elect. Corbin had been parading and calling the shots throughout Raw for a long time and with Braun Strowman injured badly, something out of the ordinary needed to happen for Baron Corbin to lose his power.

With stars like Finn Balor, Bobby Roode, Chad Gable and of course Kurt Angle coming for the aid of Braun it was finally the end Corbin's reign as the GM-Elect on Raw.

#6 The Bar is the undisputed top tag team of SmackDown

The Bar must be one happy team after TLC. With the top 3 teams fighting it out for the title at TLC, the Bar was able to establish themselves as the Undisputed Tag Team Champions of the division. It will be interesting to see who they feud against next.

This could finally mean an end to the repetitive booking of the top 3 teams again and again as had become the norm. New teams like Sanity could get a shot now and it would be a breath of fresh air for the division.

#7 Rey Mysterio finally gets one over Randy Orton

In a well-fought contest, Rey Mysterio was able to beat Randy Orton and sneak a win

After weeks of getting beaten, battered and bruised by Randy Orton (including getting his mask ripped off), Rey Mysterio was finally able to sneak a win against Randy Orton.

It's an important win for Mysterio because he hasn't really won much of note ever since he's stepped back into the WWE. Plus, this means that the feud will carry on for some time.

It will be interesting to see what happens next in this feud as Randy Orton might try to take things further.

#8 Nia Jax has a PPV to forget

First Losing her match against Ronda and then getting beaten up by Becky Lynch, Nia had a night to forget

All the heat generated by Nia for all these weeks have just gone to waste as she wasn't really able to put up much of a fight against Ronda Rousey and lost clean to her. To add to the misery. after the match, Nia was confronted by Becky Lynch, who got her vengeance on Nia Jax. A day to forget for The Irresistible Force.

This might put an end to her title chase and could be the beginning of the tag team of her and Tamina as the Women's Tag Team Championship could be introduced soon.

#9 Dean Ambrose redeems himself and grabs the Intercontinental title

True to his word Dean Ambrose was able to beat Seth Rollins clean and win the Intercontinental Title

He came and he did what he said he would do. Dean Ambrose achieved what he had set out for by beating his fellow Shield member Seth Rollins clean in one of the best matchups of the night.

The title really put Dean Ambrose back on the map as far as WWE is concerned as he is once again now considered one of the more dominant forces in wrestling.

#10 Bobby Lashley falls further in the pecking order

Being a part of the kickoff show should and would be considered a big step down for Bobby Lashley. What made matters worse is that he lost clean to Elias.

Ever since he defeated Roman Reigns this year Bobby Lashley has slowly climbed down the pecking order and this has to be his lowest point ever since he has come back. It will be interesting to see what's next in store for The Almighty Lashley.

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Edited by Rahul Arun