NXT Arrival
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Oct 9, 2026
EddieHOST
That's when Sami, like, can't win the big one.
AdamHOST
At NXT Arrival, I think.
EddieHOST
Y- you would know better than I would.
EddieHOST
Your memory's better.
JD from New YorkHOST
Yeah.
Jason SolomonHOST
That was the first, I think, NXT Arrival special.
Jason SolomonHOST
He really is the face of that era.
Jason SolomonHOST
If you think about it, if you wanna pick one face, one name or star to associate with certain time periods in WWE, like John Cena, when I think of 2005, when you had Cena and Batista, right, win the world titles and Batista took SmackDown, Cena took Raw, I, from like 2005 up until that point, that's the John Cena period for me.
Davie PortmanHOST
And all of that, I think, is summed up beautifully in these matches we're about to go through.
Davie PortmanHOST
um but i'll ask you first obviously we are your nxt friends and we've been talking about pac adrian neville for years we have a show called was next where we have gone right back to the beginning of the full cell era of nxt and we've gone through every single weekly episodic episode including nxt arrival including nxt takeover we're on the way to Takeover Fatal 4-Way right now, and we will be talking about our evolution on this very show.
Davie PortmanHOST
And yeah, so he's someone whose career we followed a long time, but I'm not going to pretend that I was super familiar with stuff Pac was doing before he signed with WWE.
Davie PortmanHOST
I do remember when he did sign, and I remember there being buzz about Pac And I've heard stuff about Pac, but I'd be a liar if I said I'd watched his stuff prior to WWE, despite being a Brit.
Finlay MartinHOST
He was just one of those people who, who just got it, you know? And there are those people.
Finlay MartinHOST
Funnily enough, I've just been watching some old British wrestling matches from the '70s and very early '80s.
Finlay MartinHOST
Um, I'm just, people know I'm doing a, um, extended and updated version of my first book, which hopefully will be out next year.
Finlay MartinHOST
And I've just been watching a lot of, I've been watching actually Davey Boy Smith's first televised match.
Finlay MartinHOST
And some people just have it, and Pac was one of those, was one of those guys as well.
Finlay MartinHOST
He was just so smooth and so crisp, and everything just meshed, and it all just worked, made sense.
Finlay MartinHOST
And, like, some wrestlers have this almost superhuman ability to just make any sort of flaws disappear in their matches.
Kenny McIntoshHOST
Yeah.
VincentHOST
Was it called TakeOver at that point or was it called something else?
ChrisHOST
I think the first one, it was a TakeOver style show, but it was just called NXT Arrival, I believe.
VincentHOST
Yeah, Arrival, I see.
VincentHOST
That's the one.
Eddy ShepardHOST
I just kind of wanted us to talk about the match and enjoy the match, kind of honor So, on November 27, 2013, Adrian Neville became the number one contender for the NXT Championship as he defeated Sami Zayn.
Eddy ShepardHOST
After several unsuccessful challenges, Neville was finally able to defeat Bo Dallas for the NXT Championship in the main event of NXT Arrival.
Eddy ShepardHOST
This would be, Travis, the very first live event to air on the WWE Network.
Eddy ShepardHOST
This was the test run because...
Conrad ThompsonHOST
And on that special, he beat...
Conrad ThompsonHOST
It's called NXT Arrival.
Conrad ThompsonHOST
But he beat Bo Dallas to become the new NXT Champion, and I was so impressed with what he could do.
Conrad ThompsonHOST
I mean, I had seen some of his clips on YouTube, but I was not a tape trader by that point, and I wasn't keeping up with a lot of international shows, but I was blown away by him.
G2HOST
Congratulations.
G2HOST
And then when the Network stuff starts happening, what's the big first main stray, like, live event thing that they do on the Network, NXT TakeOver or NXT Arrival, whatever they wanna call it, but it's their first, like, thing of s- live streaming for the Network to really, like, personify this is what the Network is.
G2HOST
You're gonna get live WWE product.
G2HOST
And it's NXT Arrival, and it's Bo Dallas versus Adrian Neville and a ladder match for NXT Championship.
G2HOST
And who goes over? Adrian Neville for the NXT Championship, and he's the guy holding that belt all the way until the end of the year, where he faces off against Sami Zayn in a great match that is rewatchable to this day.
G2HOST
And Neville pulls over Sami Zayn.
J NewsHOST
Um, the NXT stuff that he did, man, when I first saw him on that, that, that first NXT- Like, big show.
J NewsHOST
NXT Arrival was the one
SP3HOST
Arrival.
J NewsHOST
Yeah.
Nate LindbergHOST
And I would kind of like it started getting back into it from Squared Circle and whatever.
Nate LindbergHOST
So paid the $9.99. And as some of you may know, NXT Arrival was the very first live broadcast on the WWE Network.
Nate LindbergHOST
And it was my very first introduction to NXT.
Nate LindbergHOST
And it was a great show.
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