Add in the fact that you had tables and ladders everywhere in the night's three best matches, and there's really no point doing a pure play-by-play. I wouldn't be able to keep up if I tried, and if you haven't been inspired by other recaps to just go find those matches on the youtubes, already, chances are I won't be the guy to move the needle.
 
So, keeping it much more abbreviated than usual, here's what happened at the completed-12-hours-ago Tables Ladders and Chairs PPV:

• On the Preshow. Sasha Banks beat Becky Lynch in a very good 15 minute match. It got a little bit wonky, as Sasha is from Boston and at some points seemed to be working for cheers. But she was a clearcut heel within the story of the match, as it took interference from both Naomi and Tamina to get the win for Sasha. As close to an NXT style women's match as WWE has served up since claiming to have started a "Divas' Revolution," both in terms of execution and crowd acceptance, and that's a good thing.
   
  Nothing else of value on the preshow, but that's par for the course, anymore.
   
  
• The New Day retained the WWE Tag Team Titles in an awesome Ladder Match, over both the Lucha Dragon and the Usos. Just an incredible 25 minute spectacle that willl rightly generate comparisons to the Attitude Era Dudleys/E&C/Hardys battles.
   
  Eggsavier Woods sat in on commentary and did absolutely nothing underhanded for 24 of those minutes. In fact, he was almost as awesome on commentary as the other 6 were in the ring.
   
  This was the Match of the Night, and should make all sane Top 10 Lists in terms of matches of the year, too, so I see no reason why I should try to put into words the crazy highspottery, when you should just go watch this match. Instead, I will settle for opining that Big E's "benchpress save" was the most creative spot, while Kalisto's top of the ladder, through another ladder Salida del Sol was the most insane.
   
  Then, after the match was entirely "clean," and Sin Cara looked to be on the brink of victory, Woods suddenly blurts out "Oh, hey, this is no DQ!" and jumps up and throws his trombone at Sin Cara. Kofi saw the opening, and kept punching away at his now-injured ribs until Sin Cara dropped to the mat... Woods kept guard, but everybody else was pretty much powdered out as Kofi climbed the ladder and retreived the tag belts.
   
  
• Rusev beat Ryback. Not exactly thrilling. What they did last Monday was a notch better than you'd expect from a free TV contest between "hosses." But on a PPV stage, especially after a legit MotY candidate? It's gonna be hard to repress yawns.
   
  They basically redid the format of Monday's match, but this time, when Ryback accidentally collided with Lana, Rusev just flipped out, went into Berzerker Mode, and with Lana's shouting/prodding, kicked and stomped and then made Ryback pass out to the Camel Clutch. As clean and decisive a finish as you'll ever see, so it's looking like the Old Rusev may finally be back... albeit after an 8 minute match that was anything but riveting.
   
  
• Alberto del Rio retained the US Title with a win over Jack Swagger. I thought these two would have trouble re-engaging the audience, too, but they fared MUCH better than Ryback and Rusev. It was a chairs match, so some wild swings generated knee jerk ooooohhhssss and aaahhhhhhhsss early, and then they actually worked in a few spots where it seemed like Swagger could actually win. That is pretty impressive given that up until a few weeks ago, his most recent TV exposure had him barely a notch above Zack Ryder.
   
  Swagger's most convincing moments came as he started doing damage to ADR's ankle, leading up to a chair-assisted Patriot Lock. No rope break in a Chairs Match, so even after ADR was able to leverage out of it, he was one-legged for the rest of the match, and seemed vulnerable.
   
  But Alberto mustered a comeback, using plenty of chairs, and after a rope-assisted version of the cross armbreaker, Swagger was hung upside down over the top rope.... del Rio put a half dozen chairs directly under him, tried to ignore the pain, and went to the top turnbuckle to hit his double stomp, with Swagger's head bouncing hard off the chairs. Fin.
   
  Wasn't expecting much, but to a very serviceable 12 minute brawl.
   
  
• The Wyatt Family beat the Dudleys/Dreamer/Rhyno in an Elimination Tables Match. Another one where the action is so chaotic as to make PbP a silly endeavor.
   
  Thematically, the babyfaces got the standard hot start, and Erick Rowan was eliminated fairly quickly, as the vets worked together like a well oiled machine. Even after a table malfunction, they calmly got the replacement table set up and hit the 3-D through it.
   
  Things continue to go well for a bit, and Rhyno seemingly has Luke Harper set up for a Gore through a table... but with the Tornado Rules, Bray Wyatt cut him off in mid-sprint with his low-crossbody block. As soon as Rhyno got to his feet, he got the big boot from Harper and fell through the table that had been propped up in the corner for the Gore.
   
  Bubba and Devon chuck Bray out of the ring, and isolate on Harper, hitting the Doomsday Device. Then, when they turn back to Bray, and set up a table, Strowman picks off Bubba, and Bray puts Devon through a table.
   
  Bubba and Tommy are in a bad way, now, and get one last flurry thanks to kendo sticks and axe handles (and a cheesegrater to the balls)... and in fact, they get so far as to set up a double-wide table for Strowman. But they can't finish the job before Harper and Wyatt rejoin the fight. Dreamer is woozy outside the ring, and Harper sees the opening: he steps back, gets a running start, and hits a suicide dive onto Dreamer, which drives him back through a table.
   
  It's 3-on-Bubba, and Bubba keeps swinging for the fences until the kendo stick is shredded. His last desperation Hail Mary sees him set up a table, and then pour lighter fluid all over it.... but the time that took gave the Wyatts plenty of time to recover. Before Bubba can spark up his lighter, he is clobbered from behind, and the Wyatts decide to let Strowman do the honors: Bubba is chokeslammed through the table.
   
  Good 15 minute garbage brawl, the sort of thing that is really fun in the right dose. And absolutely the necessary finish, too. The Wyatts already jobbed to one nostalgia act 3 weeks ago; they needed to get healthy in the here and now. As an added bonus, they trolled us by teasing a flaming table, but not actually doing it. But if you got pissed by that, it's on you for believing that there would ever be flaming tables on a WWE PPV co-sponsored by Kay Jewelers and Toy 'r' Us. HA!
   
  
• Dean Ambrose beat Kevin Owens to win the IC Title. Outstanding little 12 minute wrestling match.... it had brawling elements, for sure, but on a gimmick-laden show, it stood out by using the fewest. Though it came out on the short side (Owens perhaps still not 100% after that flu bug?), they more than made up for it by essentially starting the match with back and forth End Game pacing. No dilly-dallying around, straight to the good stuff.
   
  Final sequence saw Owens whiff on a Cannonball (Cole joked it was a "Gutterball") to set up a big rally by Ambrose, ending with Dirty Deeds. Owens dramatically got exactly ONE FINGER on the bottom rope at the alst second to break the fall. Ambrose argued and got frustrated, allowing Owens to recover. Owens sets up the Pop-Up, but Ambrose adjusts in mid-air and turns it into a Soft Rana... instead of planting Owens head into the mat, it's a roll-through into a pinning combo. Ambrose hooked the legs for extra leverage, and got the surprise three count.
   
  Huge celebration and a feel good moment on a night that's been heel-heavy. Plus, it seems like WWE has forgotten the art of the flash pin, and how joyous that can be. And I'm not talking about the plague of cheap roll-ups infesting WWE TV (two weeks ago, they used cheap roll-ups 4 times on the same RAW), I'm talking about an actual move executed within the flow of a match that isn't a finisher, but which secures a win. Good times...
   
  
• Charlotte retained the Women's Title with a win over Paige. Ric Flair accompanied Charlotte, and tipped things in her favor. After Paige started the match over-playing the heel mannerisms, Charlotte seemed to amp up her own unlikeability the more she felt threatened.
   
  Then, it was Ric who un-did a turnbuckle pad and directed Charlotte towards it. Paige actually briefly regained the advantage, and Flair even cheated to pull Charlotte's leg under the ropes to break up a pin attempt. Paige -- now the narrative babyface? -- got pissed at Flair, and the distraction allowed Charlotte to introduce Paige's head to the exposed turnbuckle for the cheap win after about 8 minutes of.... I'm not sure what.
   
  Like I said last week, this goes beyond "shades of gray" which can be compelling, and is just plain random and confusing. That might be a heel turn. It might even be a double turn. Or it might be nothing, and WWE thinks Charlotte doing the full on Lady Flair "Dirtiest Player in the Game" will get cheers from fans who like the heels. I dunno...
   
  
• Sheamus beat Roman Reigns in a TLC Match to retain the WWE World Title. This was a very fine 20 minute brawl, with all the effort you could ask for.... but also none of the sizzle you should expect out of a main event. The match itself featured Reigns as your vanilla superhero/Cena-style babyface, and an utterly predictable and unsatisfying ending.
   
  The thing is, then after good-but-bland 20 minute match, they tagged it with a post-match that lasted a good 15 minutes, and which was genuinely red hot.
   
  The match was hard hitting, with the welts and scrapes really showing up in high constract on Sheamus' pasty white skin. But with the fans not buying in, it felt very much spot-to-spot and station-to-station, instead of something that was building up to a finish. Final big spot had both men brawling on the aprong, above a Ladder "Bridge" between the apron and the announce table. Reigns won the brawl, and hit a Samoan Drop through the ladder. Sheamus took the worse of it, but Reigns got hurt, too.
   
  So that was basically your standard "reset" for End Game. Back into the ring for a couple Climb Teases, and just when it seems like Reigns is about to win the match, Rusev and Alberto del Rio run out and attack. Yep, nobody could have seen that coming. Ahem.
   
  Reigns fought the good fight for a minute or two. But the numbers are against him, and he finally eats a Brogue Kick. With Rusev and ADR standing guard, Sheamus ascends the ladder and grabs the belt to retain the title.
   
  They spent the night building up the idea of Reigns and Ambrose (and the Usos) as "brothers," so it's really kind of lazy to not include them for a less predictably lazy finish.... there is one possible out, and I hope to hell this is WWE's reveal on RAW: the League of Nations took them out backstage, and then Wade Barrett guarded them, while Rusev and ADR went out to the ring. That, and only that, adequately explains why no one came to aid Reigns and why Barrett wasn't a part of the beatdown.
   
  
• But like I said, then it got good after the match. Sheamus, ADR, and Rusev celebrated while Reigns slowly started seething at ringside. And then, all of a sudden, the safe vanilla good guy is gone, and replaced by a pissed off force of nature. Reigns goes to town on the heels with chairs and ladders, and it gets back enough that Triple H, Stephanie, and a bunch of refs come out to try to restore order.
   
  HHH tried to talk Reigns down, but Reigns just kept swinging a chair. When HHH actually stepped into the ring, Reigns seemed to sense the gravity of the situation, and stepped back and dropped the chair. The Authority finally get to check on Sheamus and roll him out of the ring for trainers.
   
  HHH resumes berating Reigns for his unprofessional behavior, and Reigns seems to momentarily register that he went too far. But when HHH turns away, something flares up in Reigns, and the look on his face changes. Hunter sense it based on the crowd's roar of approval, and turns around.... and he gets hit with a Superman Punch.
   
  Stephanie starts shrieking her patented shriek, as Reigns lays into HHH with a chair. Spear. Takes it outside the ring. More with the chair. And then, Reigns sets up for a powerbomb onto the Spanish Announce Table. He milks it, and the crowd is definitely red hot at this point... but then the table doesn't break. D'oh.
   
  Fret not! Reigns ignores the "one more time" chant in favor of a guaranteed-effective move: he gets up on the barricade and drops an elbow onto HHH and through the table.
   
  Satisfied, Reigns finally heads up the ramp, and the show ends with Reigns making intense faces, as the fans cheer loudly, medics check on HHH, and the announcers speculate if Reigns hasn't just committed career suicide... seriously, I think that whole bit took 15 minutes, and it totally flipped the script on what had been a letdown of a main event.
  

And so ends the show. We'll have to see how tonight's RAW follows up on that main event, because there ARE issues.... namely, the absences of Barrett, Ambrose, and the Usos.
 
Also, as cathartic a moment as it was to see Reigns leave the realm of the noble babyface, I still believe VERY strongly that the right play is to turn him full heel, and let him roll like that for a while before turning back. What WWE is trying to do is have its cake and eat it too: give Reigns an edge without sending him over the edge.
 
And for one 15 minute stretch, it worked.... but in the end, WWE's going to have to thread the narrative needle to make this work. Get it wrong by just a few degrees, and my guess is fans figure out that WWE has just randomly decided to assign some of Dean Ambrose's character traits to Roman. And ultimately, they'll get bored again with the bigger, handsomer Faux Ambrose, because they've still got the Real Ambrose to cheer for.
 
But a genuine break, a snap, a makeover (seriously, until Reigns at least stops using the Shield music and dressing like the Shield, I don't see him breaking through).... then, all of a sudden all the existing baggage gets unpacked, and fans will more easily see Reigns in a new light.
 
But hey, who knows? Hopefully, maybe it will still kinda, sorta work, and WWE will thread that needle, and they'll have a shiny new "made" babyface Roman Reigns after a WM win over Triple H, who can effective chase for the WWE Title by SummerSlam 2016. Time will tell.
 
Rest of the show? It's hard to complain about much of anything, other than the lack of character consistancy in the women's division. Outside of Becky Lynch as the clear-cut winner of coolest and most innately likeable, there's nothing to latch onto. Some apparent heels get cheers (Sasha, especially in her hometown), and pretty much all the alleged babyfaces have lost all their traction.
 
Genuine Match of the Year material from the opener, which means you got your $9.99 worth just in the first half-hour of the show. Tables Match and the IC Match were also extremely entertaining and satisfying. Main event was a bit disappointing, but the post-match made up for that. Even Alberto/Swagger over-delivered, for my money.
 
I think I can safely hand out a final grade of B+ and place this among the top half of WWE PPVs in 2015. Now, with 6 weeks to kill, we'll see if WWE can fix their problems in their episodic TV; the talent roster is so strong that major events with emphasis on the bell-to-bell are hard to screw up.... but the in-between stuff has been giving WWE fits as of late.
 
They'll have stunt-casting next Monday (the Slammys) and the returns of Brock Lesnar and John Cena in the New Year, as we get into WrestleMania Season.... but even those are not guarantees.
 
And before we get to any of it, we've get three hours of RAW... check back later tonight (around 11:30pm eastern), and I'll have mys tandard full recap and analysis of WWE's post-PPV effort posted for your edification!