The Street Profits vs The Undisputed Era for the NXT Tag Team Championship.
During the match, Montez Ford delivered the people's elbow after hitting a spinebuster on Bobby Fish. The match ended with a frog splash from Montez Ford and The Street Profits continues to celebrate as tag team champions.
I'm very conflicted with this decision mainly because I don't want to see more okay matches between The Forgotten Sons and Danny Burch and Oney Lorcan but I'm going to be optimistic hoping that it's not the case.
Io Shirai vs Candice Lerae.
Io's theme song is simple yet badass at the same time (no shit, Omar). The match started off with Candice rushing to the ring and brawled on the outside which led to a suplex on the announce table by Shirai which I felt my back just by watching that spot.
Candice then dives on the outside and turns it into a tornado DDT which looked amazing but she, unfortunately, was defeated by Io. This is the best match Candice LeRae has in NXT by far and she looked great in a losing effort.
Matt Riddle came out from the ring and called out Killian Dain because of what happened to Riddle on this past week's episode of NXT TV. Out came Killian Dain himself and what happened next was as they say "all hell broke loose".
That impromptu brawl was something I didn't know I would like but now I do but then again, that's what pro wrestling is for and that's two competitors beat the crap out of each other.
Velveteen Dream vs Pete Dunne vs Roderick Strong for the NXT North American Championship.
So, did the Velveteen Dream had a great entrance? How's that even a question? Of course, he had a great entrance that featured The Mountie's theme song which was awesome.
Roderick Strong at one point, delivers a series of quick backbreakers outside the ring to Pete Dunne and Velveteen Dream. Dream locked in the sharpshooter for obvious reasons and Pete Dunne reversed that with a double stomp on Dream's back from the top rope.
Velveteen Dream hits the elbow drop coast to coast style to Roderick Strong and minutes later, Roderick Strong locked in a double Boston crab to Dunne and Velveteen.
After Strong hits the end of heartache to Dunne, The Dream channelled his inner Edge by taking that opportunity to push Roderick Strong, pinned Dunne himself and retained the North American title.
A very good encounter between those three men and will see what The Velveteen Dream does with the title next.
Shayna Baszler vs Mia Yim for the NXT Women's Championship.
Mia Yim thought that she put Shayna down with a beautiful top rope sunset flip but she didn't. Yim then gave Baszler a taste of her own medicine with that arm stomp that Shayna usually does. Shayna hooked in her thighs in between Mia's head and Mia tapped out immediately. Making Shayna still the NXT Women's champion.
While I'm a fan of Mia's work, it would've felt too early to put the title on her so I'm glad that didn't happen. Also, I'm very interested as to who's Shayna's next challenger given that she beat pretty much everybody in the NXT women's division. The match itself was fine. Their Mae young classic tournament semi-finals match was better if I'm being really honest.
Adam Cole vs Johnny Gargano for the NXT Championship.
This is it. The rubber match. The match that I and most fans are looking forward to a lot but was it all that good? Well, yes duh. The first fall lasted a lot longer than I expected it. Both of those guys started this match by reversing each other's most popular offences like a superkick and the Panama sunrise but then Gargano hits an unexpected hurricanrana.
Gargano aims at Cole's right knee and viciously strikes it which is kinda smart considering that Adam's finisher is a knee strike called the last shot (no shit, Omar). Johnny Takeover continued to hammer on Cole's knee until Cole delivered the german suplex and came so close on winning the first fall.
Adam brought up a chair and while the ref tried to get rid of it, Cole delivered a low blow on Johnny, pinned him but Johnny Wrestling wouldn't give up. Johnny hits Cole with a steel chair but it cost Johnny that first fall because Adam Cole was awarded the first fall because of that chair shot.
Both of those guys were brawling around the crowd area and outside the ring to which Gargano threw Adam Cole on the announce table.
Gargano won the second fall with the Gargano escape and the third fall will take place inside a steel cage that includes so many objects surrounding the cage and barbed wire on top, which means that the match will be decided by pinfall or submission.
Adam took a page of Roderick Strong's wrestling style book and delivered a backstabber while Gargano holds on to that kendo stick with his mouth. Adam also finally hits the Panama sunrise from the top rope and a second Panama sunrise from the ladder but Johnny kicked out. The match ended when two guys were on top of the cage, threw each other through a table and puts his arm on Johnny Gargano's chest to retained the NXT title.
The third fall would've been a great match even if it was a separate match. Like I said earlier, that was a great match and like the North American title scene right now, I'm curious as to how the NXT Championship scene goes from here.
So to recap for all of you slow mofos:
Like: everything but the NXT Women's Championship match (it wasn't bad. It's just decent at best).
Didn't like: When it's a Takeover show, it means that I have no negatives for this show.
Let me know what do you think about NXT Takeover: Toronto and follow the blog for honest pro wrestling opinions. Anyways, stay safe smarks.
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