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NXT Takeover: In Your House 2020 | A Coherent Review.


NXT Takeover: In Your House is like the rest of the Takeover shows, a fantastic 2 hours of professional wrestling. 

What makes this show special is the additional nostalgia like how the show started with the NXT WWF inspired intro, the ice cream commercial narrated by William Regal doing his best Lord Alferd Hayes impression, icopro commercial and last but not least, Todd Pettengill. This is a show that I'm definitely rewatching in years to come. 

Mia Yim, Tegan Nox And Shotzi Blackheart vs Raquel Gonzalez, Candice LeRae And Dakota Kai. 

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A decent opening match. During the match, Nox did a Molly Holly top rope on to every competitor in the match. 

Yim tried to give LeRae some Seoul Food but LeRae reversed that into a suplex.

Several minutes later, Shotzi did a Salida Del Sol of some sort on Gonzalez to which Nox delivered the shiniest wizard on Kai and won the match. 

Finn Balor vs Damian Priest.

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I actually thought that the closing moments of the match were my favourite part. 

Priest wanted to hit the Razor's edge to Finn Balor on the steel steps but Balor reversed that into a forearm that had Priest land on the steel steps. 

Balor did the first coup de grace on Priest's back and then a second one to win this bout. Overall a good match. Don't know where Priest or Balor goes from here but hopefully, it's something interesting. 

Keith Lee vs Johnny Gargano For The North American Championship. 

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Throughout most of the match, Gargano was damaging Lee's injured eye sustained by the man himself. 

A holy sh*t moment happened when Keith threw Gargano through the crowd plexiglass. 

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While both competitors' love ones in Mia Yim and Candice LeRae were fighting on the outside that had the ref distracted, Johnny used the key to strike Lee's injured pupil and hit the springboard DDT on Lee and I thought we got a new North American champion but Lee kicked out. 

After two-spirit bombs, Keith Lee successfully completed his finishing move on Gargano to retain his championship. One of the best matches of the night

I'm very curious finding out who Lee's next challenger? But this feud could continue via a mixed tag team match which is not intriguing to me but will see what happens. 

Adam Cole vs Velveteen Dream For The NXT Championship In A Backlot Brawl. 

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This Back-lot brawl had Velveteen Dream showing up as Negan himself with Lucille (look, I'm not a Walking Dead fan so it should tell you how popular this show is when I can recognize one of the characters. Side note, JD Morgan will always be known as John Winchester from Supernatural). 

Those guys fought pretty much in every angle of the brawl area including the cars and trucks surrounding it. 

The Dream threw Adam Cole almost through a front car window that had Cole bleeding near his elbows. 

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Velveteen had to deal with the rest of Undisputed Era himself until Dexter Lumis came out from under the ring to fight with both Roderick Strong and Kylie O'Reilly. 

Unfortunately, that didn't lead to a win from The Dream as Adam is going to continue his long reign as NXT champion with a Panama sunrise on a sea of chairs. 

I guess Cole is staying with WWE with the reports going around that his contract may expire. 

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This cinematic style match (with commentary added this time), was my least favourite out of all the cinematic matches that took place this year but it was decent so I'll give it that. The bout was just missing something for me. 

After that, Todd Pettengill while promoting the NXT merchandise, told the audience to dial 900 even though that technology is way too obsolete. 

Not gonna lie, that was funny for a young guy like me but not for the 30-year-olds watching. They just feel like a 1000 years old watching this segment. 

Tommaso Ciampa vs Karrion Kross. 

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This was one of the shortest Takeover matches I've seen and by far, the most one-sided encounter I've ever seen in a Takeover show. 

Karrion Kross made Tommaso Ciampa pass out with a cross-jacket submission and won the match. To be fair, this was a predictable match so I wasn't surprised. 

Charlotte Flair vs Io Shirai vs Rhea Ripley For The NXT Women's Championship. 

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The last time the women's championship main evented an NXT Takeover show, I was still in high school (yes, I'm that young). 

Ripley and Io Shirai were both beating up Charlotte but that alliance was quickly squashed due to a boot on Shirai's face.

After Shirai and Ripley were fighting each other, Flair took that opportunity to spear both women. 

Speaking of taking opportunities, Io delivered a picture-perfect crossbody from the top of the stage onto Ripley and Flair. 

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Rhea delivered the Riptide to Charlotte from the top rope but Io broke the pin. 

The genius of the sky ended the match with a title on her shoulder because of a picture-perfect moonsault on Rhea Ripley while Ripley took the figure-eight submission from Charlotte. 

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What a main event. That Triple threat match is not only great but it is a match of the year contender.

Now, Triple H did say in the post NXT Takeover: In Your House livestream that the way Io pinned Charlotte was and a quote (from Alex McCarthy) "That finish was done tonight the way it was done for a very specific reason." "3-4 months from now, people will see why we did that." What the hell does that mean? I do not know but will see what happens.

So, to recap for all of you slow mofos.

Like: Charlotte Flair vs Io Shirai vs Rhea Ripley For The NXT Women's Championship, Keith Lee vs Johnny Gargano For The North American Championship, funny throwback video segments, the use of nostalgia. 

Didn't like: It's an NXT Takeover show, what do you expect? 


Let me know what do you think about NXT Takeover: In Your House and follow me on the tweets @omartheplayaguy. Anyways, stay safe smarks. 

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