Tables, Ladders, and Chairs: What's the Greatest TLC Match of All Time? | News, Scores, Highlights, Stats, and Rumors
And now, at lucky number seven, comes CM Punk vs Jeff Hardy for the World Heavyweight Title. The feud leading to this was absolutely awesome! Punk cashed in on Hardy after he went through a hellacious ladder match, and stole the world title. This began a slow heel turn for Punk, as the two's lifestyles clashed, being brought to the forefront of this feud. Eventually, it was made the two would meet in the mach Jeff helped make famous, Tables, Ladders, and Chairs, at the place where it began, SummerSlam.
Perhaps the most personal TLC match ever, these guys weren't out to do crazy spots. They were out to beat each other. Both made several attempts to grab the belt, only to be foiled every time. Some highlights include Punk reversing Poetry in Motion and sending Hardy back-first into a set up chair, (sick!), Hardy missing a splash through a table, Hardy reversing a GTS from the ladder into a sunset power-bomb, Punk super-plexing Hardy on a steel ladder (SICK!), and Hardy dumping Punk through a table on the outside.
The biggest moment of the match came when Hardy went ape-shit on Punk with a steel chair, and set him up on the announcer's table. He then took a 20-foot ladder, climbed it and Swanton Bombed him right through the table. But it did more damage to himself, as Hardy was checked upon by officials. Punk painfully got back into the ring to get the belt, but Hardy refused to lose his title without a fight, and Punk's expression when he got back in the ring was priceless. The two fought on the ladder, until Punk finally knocked Jeff off to regain the gold.
This was completely personal, with so much bad blood, only making the match better! The Swanton spot was sick, no matter how many times it was done before, and the two did not try to reinvent the wheel. No, this was about destroying each other for the world title, and it was good enough to get the seventh place spot.