WWE TLC 2018 results: Asuka wins historic WWE TLC Match to become champion following Rousey interference
At the height of a brutal WWE TLC pay-per-view, Ronda Rousey’s interference in the first-ever Women’s Triple Threat TLC Match paved the way for Asuka to become the new SmackDown Women’s Champion. Plus, Dean Ambrose captured the Intercontinental Title from Seth Rollins, WWE Champion “The New” Daniel Bryan overcame AJ Styles, and Braun Strowman (and company) took down Baron Corbin in a high-stakes TLC Match to unseat the self-proclaimed Raw "General Manager-Elect."
SAN JOSE — Who can stop Buddy Murphy? That’s been the question ever since the onetime “Best-Kept Secret” burst onto the scene at 205 Live, and nobody is any closer to cracking the code against the Cruiserweight Champion. The Superstar who came closest to figuring out the Australian punisher was Cedric Alexander, but Murphy seems to have
SAN JOSE — Elias got the win in an unorthodox variation of a Ladder Match at WWE TLC Kickoff by seizing a guitar suspended above the ring, but Bobby Lashley walked out of San Jose with a big fat hit under his belt.
We refer, of course, to the smash of that very same guitar across the back of The Living Truth, who was out to defeat and
SAN JOSE — Carmella & R-Truth have been spontaneously bursting into dance for a while now just because they feel like it. Now, they have a real reason to boogie, as Princess Mella & The Rapping Superstar outlasted Jinder Mahal & Alicia Fox in the Mixed Match Challenge Finals to earn the No. 30 entries in the Men’s and Women’s Royal Rumble
SAN JOSE — “Ice, Ice Sheamy” was all fun and games, but The Bar were all business at WWE TLC, holding firm against a challenge from two of SmackDown LIVE’s best tag teams to retain the blue brand’s tag team championships.
While the victory was an impressive feat from a numbers-game perspective, the match was also something of a
SAN JOSE — Perhaps thinking his promotion to Raw General Manager was a forgone conclusion, Baron Corbin spent the last month making enemies across the Team Red locker room. Turns out, that might not have been the best managerial strategy: What was shaping up to be a gimme win against an injured Braun Strowman that would have elevated Corbin
SAN JOSE — When Ruby Riott takes inventory of tonight’s Tables Match and examines what went wrong, perhaps she will conclude that mocking Natalya’s late father Jim “The Anvil” Neidhart was not the best of game plans. There would be ample evidence to support that conclusion, as Natalya sent her crashing her through a table to win the
SAN JOSE — Leading into WWE TLC, Baron Corbin used a simple threat to keep his enemies in check: Fall in line, lest you end up on the “wrong side of history” and have to answer to the likes of Drew McIntyre. But history can change in an instant, and The Scottish Psychopath’s planned obliteration of Finn Bálor ended up as yet another
SAN JOSE — “Once a victim, always a victim” is how Randy Orton described Rey Mysterio on SmackDown LIVE after weeks of escalating attacks against Rey’s body and heritage. But The Ultimate Underdog flipped the narrative in painful, emphatic fashion, defeating WWE’s Apex Predator in a brutal Chairs Match at WWE TLC.
Mysterio did
SAN JOSE — Call her #SpiritBreaker. Ronda Rousey took Nia Jax’s best face-breaking punch and came back swinging, upending The Irresistible Force to retain the Raw Women’s Championship against a Superstar whose return to the mountaintop was beginning to look more and more likely over the past few weeks.
Indeed, Jax and Rousey
SAN JOSE — For all the very significant differences between them, "The New" Daniel Bryan has a few traits in common with the old: He is methodical in his scouting; he is surgical in the ring; and he can beat you in the most unexpected of ways. Case in point, his WWE Title retention over AJ Styles didn’t come from a Running Knee or a
SAN JOSE — Six years ago at this very event, The Shield made their in-ring debut as a united front, kick-starting a dominant streak bonded by the brotherhood of Dean Ambrose, Seth Rollins & Roman Reigns that had never been seen before or since. But that was a long, long time ago. The Shield has long since splintered. Reigns is embroiled in
SAN JOSE — Asuka is the new SmackDown Women’s Champion, and Ronda Rousey made it happen.
Not because she wants to be friends with Asuka, of course. The Empress of Tomorrow’s two opponents just happened to be reigning champion Becky Lynch and perennial contender Charlotte Flair — the same two Superstars who humiliated The Baddest
