IWE TLC: Tables, Ladders & Chairs (2009)
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| Tables, Ladders & Chairs (2009) | ||
 Promotional poster featuring Edge and The Undertaker at One Night Stand 2008 | ||
| Imformation | ||
| Promotion | International Wrestling Entertainment | |
| Date | December 13, 2009 | |
| Attendance | 21,300 | |
| Venue | Richfield Coliseum | |
| City | Richfield Ohio | |
| Pay-per-view chronology | ||
| Survivor Series (2009) | TLC: Tables, Ladders & Chairs (2009) | Royal Rumble (2010) |
| TLC: Tables, Ladders & Chairs chronology | ||
| First | TLC: Tables, Ladders & Chairs (2009) | TLC: Tables, Ladders & Chairs (2010) |
TLC: Tables, Ladders & Chairs (2009) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by International Wrestling Entertainment (IWE), which took place on December 13, 2009 at the AT&T Center in San Antonio, Texas. It was the first TLC: Tables, Ladders & Chairs event and featured talent from the Raw, SmackDown, and XCW brands. Seven matches were scheduled for the event.
The concept of the show is based around the primary matches of the card each containing a stipulation utilizing tables, ladders and chairs as legal weapons. The primary matches included Khristian defeating Junior Remeriz in a Ladder match for the XCW Championship, Garrett defeating Dustin Simpson in a Tables match to become the new IWE Champion, the reigning World Heavyweight Champion, The Undertaker, defeating Jesse Dern in a Chair match to retain his title and the main event, where D-Generation X (Triple K and Ryan Barnhart) defeated Kris McGowan and The Big Marc in a Tables, Ladders, and Chairs match for the Unified IWE Tag Team Championship. Other matches in the card included Joe Linderman versus Dax Hoovestall for the IWE Intercontinental Championship, Amanda Johnson versus Sari Pasma for the IWE Women's Championship and Kevin McAlmond versus Jose Serrano.
The pay-per-view drew 228,000 buys, up from the 193,000 buys garnered by Armageddon 2008.
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[edit] Background
TLC: Tables, Ladders & Chairs featured professional wrestling matches involving different wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds, plots, and storylines that played out on Raw, SmackDown, XCW and IWE Superstars—International Wrestling Entertainment's (IWE) television programs. Wrestlers portrayed a villain or a hero as they followed a series of events that build tension, and culminated into a wrestling match or series of matches. All wrestlers were from IWE's Raw, SmackDown and XCW brands—a storyline division in which IWE employees were assigned to a television program of the same name.
On the November 23 episode of Raw, guest host and storyline matchmaker Jesse Ventura arranged an interpromotional "Breakthrough Battle Royal", in which the winner gained shot at their brand's world championship at the TLC event. Qualifying matches were also held that night with each wrestler having the distinction of having held neither the IWE Championship nor the World Heavyweight Championship. In qualifiers, Jose Serrano defeated Nick Kessler, Sheamus defeated Finlay, the team of Steven Larson, Montel Vontavious Porter and B-Truth defeated the team of Charlie Wilson, James Masters and Chavo McAlmond in a six-man tag team match. Disagreeing with the battle royal concept, former world champion Kevin McAlmond attacked Primo and defeated Primo's intended opponent, Justin Hensen, to qualify. In the final qualifying match, the team of The Legacy (Mark Semmler and Kyle Johnson) defeated the team of Cryme Tyme (Shad Gaspard and JTG) to qualify. In the main event of Raw, Sheamus won the battle royal, last eliminating Jose Serrano and earning him the chance to face IWE Champion Dustin Simpson at the TLC event. A contract signing was immediately held in which Sheamus attacked Simpson and slammed him through a table. Declaring his preference of Sheamus over Simpson, Ventura made the prospective match a Tables match.
During his night as guest host, Jesse Ventura also booked a tag team match for the Unified IWE Tag Team Championship at the TLC event, where the champions Khris Jericho and The Big Show will defend their titles against the team of Triple K and Ryan Barnhart (collectively known as D-Generation X) in a Tables, Ladders, and Chairs Match.
On the November 24 episode of XCW, Junior Remeriz defeated Zack Nuss to become the number one contender to the XCW Championship. XCW Champion Khristian stated that the XCW Championship has been overlooked on recent pay-per-views and challenged Remeriz to a Ladder match.
After defeating Scott Wright at the Survivor Series, Batista expressed on the following night his intent to challenge the World Heavyweight Champion, The Undertaker. Batista was interrupted by Kane who challenged him to a physical confrontation, which Batista refused. A match was booked between the two on the November 28 episode of SmackDown where the winner would face The Undertaker at the TLC event. Batista won by countout, when outside of the referee's sight, he attacked Kane's knee with a steel chair behind the barricade. A few days later on IWE's website, it was announced that the match will be a Chair match.
On the December 4 edition of SmackDown, IWE Intercontinental Champion Joe Linderman faced Dax Hoovestall in an exhibition contest, which saw the latter win. Later in the evening, on the company's website, it was announced Hoovestall would then receive another match against Linderman for his title.
Since Bragging Rights, Kevin McAlmond and Jose Serrano have been in constant conflict ever since Serrano prevented further interference with McAlmond's teammates Mark Semmler and Kyle Johnson during McAlmond's unsuccessful Iron Man match against Dustin Simpson for the IWE Championship. The rivalry led to the two each captaining teams for a five-on-five Survivor Series elimination match at Survivor Series, in which Serrano's team won. On the November 30 episode of Raw, Serrano was scheduled to wrestle McAlmond in a singles match but was ambushed by Semmler and Johnson before the match began and hence was too weak to offer a fair match with McAlmond. The following week, Raw guest host Mark Cuban booked Serrano into another match with McALmond, with Cuban serving as guest referee. Still bitter from the events at the 2003 Survivor Series, where McALmond performed an RKO on him, Cuban gave a fast count for Serrano's pin and gave him the win. Cuban then proceeded to announce that the two were now tied with one victory apiece and the match that would settle the score would take place at the TLC event.
On the December 11 edition of SmackDown, it was announced that the IWE Women's Champion Amanda Johnson will defend her title against Sari Pasma at the TLC event. The two became close rivals when in November the two were made respective captains for opposing teams in a five-on-five Survivor Series elimination match at Survivor Series. Three days before Survivor Series, Pasma was shown a video package featuring Johnson performing a parody of "Old McDonald Had a Farm", calling her rival "Piggy Sari" and sending Sari into tears. At Survivor Series, James and [[Denise Lynn|Denise] won the elimination match for their team, last eliminating Johnson. On the December 4 edition of SmackDown, Pasma defeated Chandra Denney and Shannon in a Triple Threat match to become the number one contender for the IWE Women's Championship.
[edit] Event
[edit] Pre-show
Prior to the show airing live on pay per view, the crowd in attendance were shown an untelevised match pitting B-Truth versus Justin Eldridge with Luke Gallows in his corner. B-Truth won the match via pinfall.
[edit] Preliminary matches
| Other on-screen talent | |
|---|---|
| Role: | Name: |
| Commentators | Michael Cole |
| Jerry Lawler | |
| Matt Striker | |
| Interviewer | Josh Mathews |
| Ring announcers | Tony Chimel |
| Justin Roberts | |
As the show commenced, the opening match was the ladder match for the XCW Championship between defending champion Khristian versus Junior Remeriz. As the match went underway, both men left the ring to the floor of the arena in the hopes of retrieving a ladder. As Khristian made his first vie to climb the ladder and retrieve the belt, Remeriz pulled him down; Khristian later reciprocated, but as he made his another attempt to climb, Remeriz forced the ladder on top of him. After Remeriz caused Khristian to bleed on the floor, the challenger climbed to the top of a ladder at ringside, and flip-dove onto his opponent. As the action returned to the ring, the two continued to climb the ladder as their opponent thwarted their attempts. As Khristian made a climb, Remeriz came up underneath him, and threw him off the ladder with a powerslam. As both men recovered, Khristian propped a ladder up in the corner in an attempt to throw Remeriz into it, the latter threw himself into Khristian into the ladder. As the match progressed, Khristian climbed the ladder, and grabbed the belt. As he was about to win, Remeriz pulled the ladder out from underneath him, causing him to dangle in mid-air. The challenger then grabbed his prone opponent, and connected with a powerbomb in the corner of the ring with the ladder still propped up in it. The match continued to the apron surrounding the ring, and Remeriz attempted to perform a German suplex on Khristian, which would have sent him falling onto a ladder propped up behind him, making a bridge between the ring and announcer's table. Khristian neutralized the attempt with a kick, sending Remeriz onto the ladder supine. The champion then ascended the top turnbuckle, and dove off onto Remeriz, causing the ladder to break in half. Khristian capitalized and grabbed the belt for the victory.
Following was Joe Linderman defending the IWE Intercontinental Championship against Dax Hoovestall. The match was outlined by the brawling and exploiting the facets of the ring to be used as a weapon. Hoovestall then gained control by cinching in a variety of submission holds. Linderman shifted the momentum by twisting himself around, driving the challenger's face into the mat. The match spilled to the outside with Linderman diving onto Hoovestall with his signature kick to the head he calls the Flying Chuck. Upon returning his opponent to the ring, Linderman ascended the top turnbuckle in an attempt to execute his signature backflip body press, Starship Pain; McIntyre dodged the attempt, raked Morrisons eyes while the referee wasn't looking, and drove Linderman's head into the mat before pinning him and winning the championship. After the match Hoovestall was congratulated by Grant McMahon, Sheamus showed up and told Hoovestall that he wouldn't be the only one leaving the event with some gold.
Amanda Johnson (with associate Victoria) would then defend her championship against Sari Pasma. The match started with both competitors exchanging blows before the action spilled to the floor. With Victoria distracting Pasma, Johnson took advantage, and threw her head into the barricade surrounding ringside. Back in the ring, Pasma attempted a comeback only to have Johnson connect with a kick to the face, leading to a pinfall victory.
Jose Serrano was preparing for his match against Kevin McAlmond when Mark Semmler and Kyle Johnson, Jr. passed by and sent a message to Kingston, this resulted in Serrano going to McAlmond's locker room and calling McAlmond a "coward". During the match, the two used many submission maneuvers, while outside the ring Serrano tried to jump on McAlmond only to be greeted by a Dropkick to the stomach. McAlmond continued to work on his abdomen until Kingston delivered the S.O.S., Boom Drop and Trouble in Paradise followed by a pin but McAlmond grabbed the ropes. McAlmond punted Serrano who defended it with his left arm, McAlmond then hit Serrano with the RKO to get the win.
[edit] Main event matches
The next match was a Tables match for the IWE Championship between Dustin Simpson and Sheamus. As Sheamus was making his entrance, King was reading an Irish newspaper which featured an article about Sheamus. Simpson repeatedly threw Sheamus into the turnbuckles, the two threw punches at each other until Sheamus headed for the apron searching for a table, Simpson pushed him into the commentators table instead. Simpson prepared a table outside the ring to put Sheamus through but Sheamus countered it and tried pushing Simpson off the apron and through the table but was unsuccessful. Sheamus headed up the ramp to catch his breath but, Simpson delivered a Suplex to Sheamus on the ramp, he then attempted to throw a table on to Sheamus' limp body but Sheamus rolled off the ramp. Cena stalked Sheamus through the crowd as he pushed Sheamus into barricades. The two eventually ended up back inside the ring with Simpson still dominating until Sheamus delivered the Celtic Cross to him. He then leaned a table against the corner of the ring planning to charge towards it with Simpson in tow but Simpson escaped his grip. Simpson set up another table hoping to put Sheamus through it with an Attitude Adjustment from the top rope, however, Sheamus got out of his grip and the two battled it out on the top rope until Simpson was pushed off but didn't go through the table. He climbed back up and both he and Sheamus struggled to keep their balance, as Sheamus fell to the outside of the ring, Simpson appeared to fall and went through the table. With this Sheamus won the match and the IWE Championship, his first World Title.
The next match was the first ever Chairs match for the IWE World Heavyweight Championship between the Champion, The Undertaker, and Batista in the beginning Batista immediately went to the production table for a chair, The Undertaker tried to hit a big boot through the security barrier but only to miss and Batista attacked Undertaker with a chair. After a few more chair shots Undertaker was able to hit his apron leg drop to Batista, later back in the ring Batista was able to hit a superplex on the Undertaker. Batista tried to hit his Batista Bomb but Undertaker reversed by flipping him over onto a chair. After Batista got up Undertaker started running towards him only to picked up into a spinebuster, Undertaker made a return by hitting Batista by a running slam, snake eyes and Old School. After Batista got up he hit his spear and then his Spinebuster on a chair then threw him into a turnbuckle with a chair wedged between the middle and top buckles, but when Batista ran towards Undertaker he ran out of the way so Batista went head-first into the chair, Undertaker then hit his signature Chokeslam. Batista pushed Undertaker into the referee and hit a low blow and then a chair shot getting a 3 count. As Batista celebrated his win Theodore Long walked out and ordered the match to restart which began with Undertaker nailing a chair shot to Batista, and finally hitting the Tombstone Piledriver to win the match and retain his World Heavyweight Championship.
The last match was the Tables, Ladders, and Chairs match for the Unified IWE Tag Team Championship, between the champions JeriShow (Khris Jericho and the Big Show) and D-Generation X (Ryan Barnhart and Triple K). Khris Jericho exchanged blows with Barnhart while Triple K battled the Big Show. It wasn't long before both teams were setting up tables around the ring. While Show and Triple H fought near the stage, Michaels dominated Jericho in the ring until Jericho countered it. Jericho headed up the ramp to help Show beat down Triple K and was shortly joined by Barnhart, Barnhart had a short fight with Jericho using chairs however Show help get JeriShow back in control as they headed back to the ring to attempt to reach the championships. They were quickly stopped by DX, the team targeted Jericho with ladders after knocking down Show. DX attempted to grab the titles but were stopped by JeriShow, they targeted Triple H and later hung him upside down on a ladder which was set up in the corner of the ring, they then threw Barnhart into Triple K to damage him even more. Show tried to climb the ladder but later decided against it, he chokeslammed DX through a table that was placed against the barricade. Show started to destroy all the ladders so that DX were unable to use them, Jericho then climbed on Show's shoulders in an attempt to reach the belts but he was Superkicked off by Barnhart. Triple K held the half a ladder steady which had been dismantled earlier on, while Barnhart climbed it to win the titles. After the match DX celebrated with their newly won championships and the event came to a close with both men doing their signature crotch chops.
[edit] Reception
The event received positive reviews from critics with praise being put on the shock endings and title changes and on the quality of the matches. In the review from The Sun, the Intercontinental, Women's and XCW Championship matches were praised, as was the Tag Title main event. The two World Title matches were praised for high quality and good storytelling, due mainly to the gimmick stipulations, and Sheamus' shock win over Dustin Simpson was praised as surprising.
[edit] Results
| # | Results | Stipulations |
|---|---|---|
| Dark | B-Truth defeated Justin Eldridge | Singles match |
| 1 | Khristian defeated Junior Remeriz | Ladder match for the XCW Championship |
| 2 | Dax Hoovestall defeated Joe Linderman (c) | Singles match for the IWE Intercontinental Championship |
| 3 | Amanda Johnson (c) (with Victoria) defeated Sari Pasma | Singles match for the IWE Women's Championship |
| 4 | Garrett defeated Dustin Simpson (c) | Tables match for the IWE Championship |
| 5 | The Undertaker (c) defeated Batista | Chairs match for the World Heavyweight Championship |
| 6 | Kevin McAlmond defeated Jose Serrano | Singles match |
| 7 | D-Generation X (Triple K and Ryan Barnhart) defeated McGo-Marc (Kris McGowan and The Big Marc) (c) | Tables, Ladders, and Chairs match for the Unified IWE Tag Team Championship |
