Bang for Your Buck PPV Review: The 2013 TLC PPV

WWE Tag Team Championship Fatal 4-Way Match

GOLDUST & CODY RHODES VS. REY MYSTERIO & BIG SHOW VS. RYBACK & CURTIS AXEL VS. THE REAL AMERICANS

Best Case Scenario: This match is half as good as the matches half the participants in this match have been having for the last two months, with the new teams  — RYBAXEL and BIG REY SHOWSTERIO — either not getting in the way or making themselves useful in limited contexts.

While this match was definitely better than “half as good as the matches half the participants in this match have been having”, it was oddly structured and definitely didn’t have the hard-to-pin-down “pop” of the other matches. HAVING SAID THAT, the match featured a capital-G Great performance by Goldust, Cody being his babyface best, a lot of fun with the best possible version of the Road Warriors (the Real Americans) and a serviceable performance by Rybaxel — which featured an act of hurdling by Curtis Axel that brought internet to its knees (I’m assuming), so it’s hard to complain about this just because it isn’t a Match of the Year candidate.

Match +.7 | PPV 2.1

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