The show started off with William Regal announcing that at NXT Takeover: XXV, new NXT tag team champions will be crowned. The Street Profits vs The Forgotten Sons vs The Undisputed Era in Kyle O'Reilly and Bobby Fish, Oney Lorcan and Danny Burch for the NXT Tag Team Championship in a ladder match. Sweet dreams on an ice cream sandwich, I'm looking forward to this match. Match of the year contender right there (I'm obviously joking but it is possible though).
The Undisputed Era Are On Full Swing Once Again.
The Undisputed Era came out and Adam Cole said that the rumours are not true and The Undisputed Era are stronger as a unit than ever before. Cole also said that The Undisputed Era will have gold on their waists after takeover and then Out came Johnny Gargano. Gargano said that Adam Cole can't beat him one on one without his buddies to which Cole replied by saying that he pinned Johnny Gargano once.
Johnny playing the sarcasm card, said that Adam might call him an idiot but in actuality, Cole is the idiot considering that Johnny has pinned him twice at Takeover: New York and he obviously didn't shook the school system (that was a funny line, Bravo NXT).
While Adam was talking, Matt Riddle from behind, came out and started punching those guys to which the NXT champion assisted him. Yes, it ended on a generic note but overall, this segment was pretty short and sweet.
Sean Maluta vs Mansoor.
During the match, Maluta delivered a beautiful looking code breaker from the top rope. The match ended with Mansoor hitting a reverse DDT position into a spinning cutter. This was alright.
After the match, Cathy Kelly was getting an update from The NXT general manager’s office and William Regal said that Matt Riddle will face Roderick Strong at Takeover: XXV and Johnny Gargano will team up with Matt Riddle against Kyle O'Reilly and Bobby Fish.
Experience The Velveteen Dream With A Returning Supermodel?
The Velveteen Dream came out and said that the people are waiting for the Velveteen Dream until the returning Tyler Breeze showed up and with crowd chants of “welcome home”, Breeze said that ever since he left NXT, the show has become lifeless with cheap knockoffs and wannabe impersonators.
Dream replied by saying that the spotlight belongs to a man and not a boy that plays cops and robbers (OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!). Tyler Breeze said that the North American Championship inspires him to which Dream said that the line for the North American Championship starts outside but Dream doesn't want to give Breeze a bad taste of Tyler’s mouth and asked him for a selfie.
Tyler accepted and hits the Dream with his phone. I cannot come up with an adjective of how good this segment was guys. This was great back in forth promo verbal action. Oh, and the match between Prince Pretty and The Velveteen Dream for the North American Championship is official for NXT Takeover: XXV.
Candice LeRae vs Rena Gonzalez.
This was okay. Candice LeRae won the match with a springboard moonsault. I hope they build up Gonzalez a bit more because she has a great look. After the match, Shayna and the gang came out and put a mugging on LeRae until Io Shirai showed up with a kendo stick and beats up Baszler and her gang.
Two matches announced for next week's show. One, it is a rematch between Bianca Belair and Mia Yim. Two, it is a one on one match between Kushida and Drew Gulak.
Johnny Gargano and Matt Riddle vs Kyle O'Reilly and Bobby Fish.
This was a very good tag team match. So many near falls in this, for example, a slam position from Gargano into a kick from Riddle to O'Reilly, a suplex position from O'Reilly into a kick from Fish.
The match ended with Strong hitting Riddle and threw him to the ring so that the duo in The Undisputed Era hits him with the high and lower double team finish. After the match, The Undisputed Era were beating up Riddle and Gargano in a 2 on 4 beatdown and puts the NXT champion down with the last shot from Adam Cole.
So, to recap for all of you slow mofos:
Like: The main event, the segment that featured The Velveteen Dream and Tyler Breeze, opening segment.
Didn't like: It's NXT, what do you think?
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