TLC: Tables, Ladders & Chairs (2013) was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by WWE, which took place on December 15, 2013, at the Toyota Center in Houston. It was the fifth annual TLC: Tables, Ladders & Chairs event, and WWE's last pay-per-view event in 2013. The theme of the event is that the main event was a Tables, Ladders, and Chairs match.

Nine matches, including the pre-show took place at the event. The main event saw WWE Champion Randy Orton defeat World Heavyweight Champion John Cena to become the WWE World Heavyweight Champion, thus unifying both titles.

The professional wrestling matches at TLC: Tables, Ladders & Chairs featured professional wrestlers performing as characters in scripted events pre-determined by the hosting promotion, WWE. Storylines between the characters played out on WWE's primary television programs, Raw and SmackDown.

The main rivalry heading into TLC featured the World Heavyweight Champion John Cena, and the WWE Champion Randy Orton, over who was the proverbial "face of the WWE". Ever since SummerSlam in August, WWE Champion Randy Orton had been engaged in a feud with Daniel Bryan and owing to his alliance with The Authority (Triple H and Stephanie McMahon), finally settled his rivalry with Bryan at the Hell in a Cell event, defeating him in a Hell in a Cell match to win the WWE title for the eighth time. However, over time, The Authority began showing doubt over Orton's ability to win matches on his own accord. To prove he still was their chosen "face of the WWE", Orton was made to defend his title against the anti-Authority Big Show at Survivor Series in November, who Orton defeated to retain his title, but only after Triple H distracted Big Show. Concurrently, Cena defeated Alberto Del Rio at Survivor Series to retain his World Heavyweight Championship in a rematch from Hell in a Cell, where Cena returned from a torn tricep seemingly before schedule, yet still defeated Del Rio to win his third title. After Orton's victory at Survivor Series, Cena entered the ring with his title, and celebrated with the crowd as The Authority looked on, much to Orton's chagrin. The next night on Raw, after another confrontation between the two world champions, John Cena claimed that their should only be one world champion. Triple H announced that Orton will face Cena in a Tables, Ladders, and Chairs match, with both titles at stake, at TLC: Tables, Ladders & Chairs, with the winner becoming the "Champion of Champions". At the event, it was announced that the unified titles would be named the "WWE World Heavyweight Championship".

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