WWE TLC Kickoff Show
The Kickoff Show for the final WWE pay-per-view of 2014 opens with Renee Young welcoming us to the show. The expert panel consists of Young, Booker T, Alex Riley and Paul Heyman. Young introduces the other three members of the panel.
The foursome talk about what’s in store for tonight, focusing early on about how dangerous TLC matches can be. Booker T goes into detail when describing how physically dangerous these matches can be. From there, we finally get into specific breakdowns, with the panel talking about the individual matches scheduled for tonight.
We go to Tom Phillips in the social media lounge. He talks about how Dolph Ziggler will be live-tweeting tonight. Tweet “#AskZiggler” to possibly have your questions addressed by “The Show Off” during tonight’s show.
Backstage: The Miz, Damien Mizdow & Naomi
Backstage, The Miz and Damien Mizdow are with Naomi. Miz is upset that Naomi isn’t showing appreciation for him setting her up with a big name producer. Naomi says she’s gonna make it with or without Miz’s help. Miz says he understands what’s going on. He knows he’s talking to her husband right now, not her. Miz tells Naomi he’s the type of person who helps people when he’s in a good mood and what will put him in a good mood tonight is becoming a WWE Tag-Team Champion. He says if he wins tonight, Naomi wins tonight, too, because all doors will open for her. He and Mizdow leave. By the way, Mizdow was doing the lip-synching thing the entire time Miz was talking.
Social Media Lounge: Tom Phillips & Dolph Ziggler
We shoot back to the social media lounge where Tom Phillips is with Dolph Ziggler. Phillips fields questions from Twitter via the “#AskZiggler” hash-tag. Ziggler answers them in half-character style. There’s questions about Sting, tonight’s PPV and a bunch of other random questions to kill time in this hour-long “Kickoff Show.”
The New Day vs. Goldust & Stardust
After a quick WWE 2K15 commercial, we shoot to ringside where Michael Cole, Jerry Lawler and JBL get ready to call the pre-show match.
With that said, The New Day’s music hits and out comes Kofi Kingston, Xavier Woods and Big E. After that, Goldust and Stardust’s music hits and out they come. We’re moments away from our first match of the evening.
The bell rings and here we go. Stardust, by the way, is painted in his usual gold and black, but also green. Representing The New Day in this one is Kofi Kingston and Big E.
Goldust and Kingston start things off for their respective teams. Early on, Goldust gets the physical advantage, out-powering Kingston. We see Woods on the outside trying to get fans to chant “New Day.” Kingston finally establishes control over Goldust and then he tags in Big E. The two hit some double-team moves on Goldust and then throw him out to the floor.
Back in the ring, Stardust gets tagged in. Big E. throws Stardust around like a rag-doll early on. Big E. blasts Stardust with a shoulder-block and tries to pin him. Stardust kicks out at two. Big E. tags Kingston back in. Big E. launches Stardust in the air, where Kingston catches him with a dropkick. Stardust rolls out to the floor. Kingston hits the ropes, runs across the ring and Big E. launches him over the top where he splashes onto Stardust on the floor.
The action settles in the ring with Stardust getting Big E. down to the mat. He stomps on him a bit and then tags in his big brother. Goldust picks up where Stardust left off, taking it to Big E. in the middle of the ring.
Out on the floor, Woods gets in Goldust’s face and we can very loudly hear on-camera Goldust shouting at Woods, “get the f*ck outta my face!” Back in the ring, the Dust Brothers utilize quick and consistent tags, keeping a fresh man on a beaten down Kofi Kingston.
Kingston finally makes the hot-tag to Big E. Big E. comes in like a bat out of hell, taking out Goldust and Stardust back-to-back with big clotheslines. Now he hits big belly-to-belly suplex-throws on both guys. He hits a big splash on Stardust in the middle of the ring. Goldust ends up distracting Big E., allowing Stardust to hit his big kick-finisher.
Stardust goes for the pin but Kingston breaks it up. Kingston blind-tags himself in. Big E. hoists Stardust up and he and Kingston hit their double-team finisher. Kingston scores the pin. 1-2-3. The New Day wins.
Winners: The New Day
