Xia Li character seems neat. Would watch more squash matches.

I like the person/entity in the chair calling the shots too.

lol Wade saying Gargano is "unable to walk due to a broken arm." Tremendous

Johnny said to roll the footage, then Candace covered his eyes during it. I love this segment.

Ember Moon and Shotzi rolling out on a tank. Sick

Decent match despite a few botches. Moon/Shotzi vs Kai/Gonzalez final should be good :y:

Looks like Kushida raided Jimmy Wang Yang's wardrobe.

Dexter Lumis v creepy

Ugh. Cameron Grimes

V interesting opening promo from KOR.

Blackheart Moon vs. The Way to start off this week.

Man, I missed Swerve. He should be on TV killing it every week.

I don't understand any of this Xia Li angle, but NXT is trying to reach new fans in China I guess, so...

Cameron Grimes hick hop promo :lol:

Cameron Grimes is great

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I will admit this made me laugh.

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My favorite part of that is after he hits the last guy, he throws like $3000 on the ground and leaves. Could have saved himself $2000 by just letting the dude dribble :rofl:

Dexter Lumis has a very crisp looking Thesz Press.

Apparently Adam Pearce is now a heel authority figure based on what went down with the Women's Tag title match on tonight's show.

One of Regal's big announcements ended up being the introduction of new NXT Women's tag titles but the actual inaugural title match happened way sooner than rumored.

Also :lol: at NXT pulling a page out of main roster creative for how bad they handled the whole thing.



Everything about last week's WWE Women's Tag title match and tonight's NXT Women's Tag title stuff was way dumber than it should have been.

The whole Gargano and Candice pretending they are actually Theory and Hartwell's parents, and trying to convince Theory and Hartwell that Dexter Lumis is actually a bad guy and they should stay away from him has been pure comedy.

He'll yeah, love Blackheart Moon.

Starting off with Io/Toni, Jesus Christ this is a loaded episode.

Great match from Io/Toni, dunno how I feel about the ending though.

I really like the idea of NXT Women's tag belts. This particular NXT women's division is as deep and talented as any women's division I've ever seen. I feel like they out wrestle the guys most weeks.

I can't say that I understand why they booked the first night the way they did though.

This Devlin/Escobar storyline has been off the stove for like a whole year now. However, Santos' suitador game is next level.

Fandango dressed like hes the 3rd Gunn brother circa 1995 :lol:

Really good Balor / Cole match. Looks like it might be an Undisputed Street Fight at Takeover

Watching the 1st half of this week's show before SmackDown starts and would not be surprised at all if Toni Storm's new pants look was HBK's dumb idea.

The chaps-esque style and her entrance gear looked very eerie to HBK's 90s entrance look.

They are covering up her biggest asset....

Just finished watching the rest of this week's show. NXT title match was very good but NXT Creative got very lazy when it came to booking match endings for the latter half of the show.

Last 3 matches either ended via a DQ (Kayden Carter vs. Xia Li) or had distractions to setup the finish (Grizzled Young Vets vs. Legado Del Fantasmo and NXT title match).

It was a very good show overall but really not a fan of the growing amount of main roster booking mentality that keeps seeping into NXT these past couple years.

And this is where NXT lost me. It became exactly like everything else.

LA Knight (Eli Drake) making his debut.

WWE pulling a NJPW by having one of the TakeOver matches on Night 2 being based on a match result from Night 1.

Night 1 has a Battle Royale Gauntlet match to determine the #1 contender for the North American belt.

Night 2 has the winner of that match vs. Johnny Gargano for the belt in a regular singles match.

Based on Gargano's current storyline stuff, anyone else besides Dexter Lumis winning on Night 1 and the title would be a big head scratcher but then again Lumis' style of wrestling has been mostly boring in NXT since it doesn't really mesh well with NXT's style. His character and style of wrestling fits a lot better on the main roster instead.

Baring a sudden change, WWE accidentally spoiled the outcome for the NXT UK title match at TakeOver: Stand & Deliver when they officially announced the cards for both nights.

Night 1 has the NXT UK title match between WALTER and Ciampa. Problem is NXT UK is airing their Prelude special the night after and already advertised a NXT UK title match of WALTER vs. Rampage Brown as the headliner for it.

According to the Observer, NXT UK Prelude likely was taped prior to WALTER traveling to the US for his current TakeOver storyline due to scheduling issues and UK's quarantine rules for traveling to the country.

If they swap the NXT UK title match to Night 2, then kayfabe wise it's not a problem since WALTER very likely isn't losing the belt on a non-TakeOver NXT UK show and since that showairs first, it wouldn't affect NXT's Night 2 TakeOver show later in the day.

First year I've given zero shits about WM or NXT's event :(

Yeah, I'll probably tune in for some of it since I have Peacock but I don't expect it to hold my interest.

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lol Roddy Strong saying Cole and O'Reilly can both go to hell

At least they answered definitely if Undisputed Era is still a thing or not just with a new leader. When Bobby Fish returns I hope he comes out in full UE gear and apparently he'd been paying no attention to TV.

Yeah if Ciampa doesn't even want to do the main roster travel, he sure as hell isn't going to Europe a bunch.

Going to be interesting to see if NXT can sustain the energy of a Takeover for 2 nights.

All the matches look good. Really excited for Cole / KOR.

I think Escobar / Devlin didn't really need the stipulation, but I marked out like a little bitch for the way they announced it. Will probably be my match of the weekend. Both guys are just TOO good.


Balor might have to carry Kross, but WALTER / Ciampa will be a slugfest, Johnny Takeover always delivers, and Io Shirai might be the best wrestler in all of WWE right now.

Didn't even realize I first posted this in the wrong WWE-related thread until just now but managed to finish watching the 1st half of this week's NXT show before tonight's Smackdown started.

Opening women's tag match was entertaining. With the way Zoey Stark has been giving a big push/rub right from the start, wouldn't be surprised if she ends up being the first big title feud for Raquel after TakeOver assuming Raquel wins the belt and Io gets called up shortly afterwards.

Promo-wise LA Knight is pretty good compared to others in NXT but in-ring wise, getting some serious Bobby Roode vibes in the sense of him wrestling a lot slower style and his match against Bronson was a bit boring because of it. Roode had a fantastic gimmick in NXT but he also had some of the most boring and very dragged out high profile matches in NXT history as well.

Kross vs. Oney was a splendid hard hitting bout and best match on the show so far.

Seems USA Network lost their exclusivity for Night 1 of next week's two-night Takeover event since its also airing on Peacock.

That's probably going to take a sizable bite out of NXT's viewership next week and turn what should have been a guaranteed ratings win next week into something a lot less etched in stone now.

Night 2 will still be exclusive to Peacock i the US and the WWE Network outside of the US.