(NOTE: In case you didn't read the title, I'm not taking about Tender Love and Care)
Pro-wrestling has innovated new kinds of match types other than the one pin-fall contest. Innovators have gone to gone to great risk to create matches that grab an audience in a new kind of way.
In the 70s, there was the Ladder Match, a match where a wrestler wins by climbing up to a ladder and obtaining an prize, most likely a title belt. Companies like the WWE have incorporated this type of match into their booking, and since then, a good number of quality ladder matches have been produced.
Then, in the year 2000, a new match was created, inspired by the Ladder Match: Tables, Ladders, and Chairs. (Oh my.)
The rules are simple: like the normal Ladder Match, you would need to climb a ladder to obtain a prize hanging in the center of the arena; of course, with the addition of chairs and tables, it would only make for an even deadlier landscape.
Don't believe me? Take a look:
This is just a taste of what TLC is like. There are only 14 santionced TLC matches to ever to be done, in WWE standards. But whether its the WWE or any other company, the result is still the same: Broken tables, dented chairs, twisted ladders, blood, sweat, and broken bodies: all factors in TLC. Tables, Ladders, and Chairs. Oh my.
(NOTE: In case you didn't read the title, I'm not taking about Tender Love and Care)
Pro-wrestling has innovated new kinds of match types other than the one pin-fall contest. Innovators have gone to gone to great risk to create matches that grab an audience in a new kind of way.
In the 70s, there was the Ladder Match, a match where a wrestler wins by climbing up to a ladder and obtaining an prize, most likely a title belt. Companies like the WWE have incorporated this type of match into their booking, and since then, a good number of quality ladder matches have been produced.
Then, in the year 2000, a new match was created, inspired by the Ladder Match: Tables, Ladders, and Chairs. (Oh my.)
The rules are simple: like the normal Ladder Match, you would need to climb a ladder to obtain a prize hanging in the center of the arena; of course, with the addition of chairs and tables, it would only make for an even deadlier landscape.
Don't believe me? Take a look:
This is just a taste of what TLC is like. There are only 14 santionced TLC matches to ever to be done, in WWE standards. But whether its the WWE or any other company, the result is still the same: Broken tables, dented chairs, twisted ladders, blood, sweat, and broken bodies: all factors in TLC. Tables, Ladders, and Chairs. Oh my.