TLC Match For The WWE Championship
CM Punk vs. The Miz vs. Alberto Del Rio
WWE World Heavyweight Title Match
Mark Henry vs. Big Show
Tables Match
Randy Orton vs. Wade Barrett
Ladder Match With Sledge Hammer Hanging Above The Ring
Triple H vs. Kevin Nash
Booker T vs Cody Rhodes
United States Championship Match
Dolph Ziggler vs. Zack Ryder
WWE: Tables, Ladders & Chairs takes place on Sunday, December 18th, 2011.
Also at tonight’s tapings, it was officially announced that Booker T will be making his in-ring return against Cody Rhodes for the Intercontinental Championship at the TLC pay-per-view on Dec. 18. Booker T last competed in a match on WWE TV on the RAW episode June 6 against Jack Swagger, which Booker T won via countout. Other than that match, he has not competed in a singles match on WWE TV since 2007.
UPDATE: Randy Orton also defeated Dolph Ziggler in the main event of the tapings in a beat the clock match and earned the right to determine his opponent at TLC. He decided to face Wade Barrett in a Tables Match.
You can view the complete spoilers for Friday’s show here.
Tables, ladders and chairs are set up around the ring to promote next weekend’s TLC pay-per-view. Out first is Lilian Garcia, who is making her return to the company as the permanent SmackDown! ring announcer, as noted previously.
The announcers come down but Booker T is attacked from behind by Cody Rhodes. Lilian speaks to the crowd about her return but Cody interrupts her and says he will be the announcer tonight. It is announced that tonight’s show will have a series of Beat The Clock Matches.
(1) Wade Barrett defeated Ezekiel Jackson.
(2) In Divas action, the team of Beth Phoenix and Natlaya defeat Kaitlyn and AJ. After the match-up, Kaityln ended up turning on AJ and joined Natalya & Beth’s Divas of Doom faction.
Backstage, Money in the Bank winner Daniel Bryan is interviewed by Josh Matthews about losing to Mark Henry inside a Steel Cage Match last week and not winning World Title. Bryan called out Michael Cole and went to confront him, but Cody Rhodes ended up stopping and attacking him.
(3) Ted DiBiase defeated Jinder Mahal. The match was said to not have gone over well with the crowd.
In an in-ring segment, Big Show and Mark Henry trash talk each other. However, Henry offers Big Show a handshake. Henry then insists that Show isn’t the monster that we used to know him as. This causes Big Show to get offended by the comments and assaulting Henry with a steel chair.
(4) Sheamus defeated David Otunga in a quick bout.
The company then aired the “It Begins” ad that we saw last night on RAW featuring the words “Look within.” After the ad played in front of the audience, the Jacksonville crowd started a huge “Y2J” chant.
(5) Zack Ryder defeated Heath Slater. Ryder was over with the crowd. He reportedly earned one of the top babyface reactions of the night by far.
(6) Cody Rhodes defeated Daniel Bryan via disqualification after Booker T got into the ring and attacked Rhodes.
Backstage, Teddy Long and Aksana are having another segment together when Cody Rhodes barges in and demands a match against Booker T. Long agrees and makes the match for the TLC pay-per-view for the Intercontinental Championship.
(7) Randy Orton defeated Dolph Ziggler with 2 seconds left on the clock to beat the clock. He decided that he would have a tables match against Wade Barrett at TLC.
The Rock confirmed on Twitter today that he will be taking part in the Michael Bay film Pain and Gain, which is a bodybuilding comedy movie that will begin production in April 2012. According to a Variety report, Rock will appear in the film along with Mark Wahlberg. In a tweet on Tuesday, Rock said, “Fired up to make a movie w/ my bud Michael Bay.”
Former WWE World Heavyweight Champion Dave Batista was recently in Los Angeles promoting his new film The Scorpion King 3: Battle for Redemption, which is the third installment in Universal Studios’ The Scoropion King series. The Scorpion King is the same movie franchise that gave The Rock his big movie industry break in 2002. Batista will be appearing in the movie as Agromael.
Batista seems to have lost significant weight since he left WWE in May of 2010 and is now sporting a mohawk, but seems to have bulked up since his recent photos of him have emerged looking even smaller than he appears in the photo below.
You can view another photo of Batista promoting his new film on the below page…
The preview WWE sent out about the series is as follows:
“A reality series featuring many of your favorite WWE Legends, all forced to live under one roof. See what happens when the most colorful and combustive personalities in WWE history shack up, break bread, and bruise egos.”
Friday’s SmackDown! on SyFy, which was a rerun of the live Tuesday special, drew a 1.39 cable rating on Friday night with 1.94 million viewers. Combing both audiences, that gave the broadcast 4.99 million viewers overall with a 3.39 rating.
