NXT TakeOver

I just said, "Come to the live show and you'll see." [laughs]

And I took, I remember it was an NXT TakeOver.

This was when Gunther was still Walter, and he took the UK title off Pete Dunne.

Yep.

Um-

It reminded me of the, uh, NXT TakeOver that they did-

Oh, in London

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Jericho, Cody Rhodes, Dom Oxley, Kenny Omega at the center of a company still creating its identity while WWE begins pulling NXT deeper into the larger universe as the Black and Gold brand becomes a major part of the Survivor Series build.

Everything converges during one enormous stretch with Full Gear, NXT TakeOver, War Games, and Survivor Series before we return to Wednesday night and examine what both companies look like coming out of the month that changed the scale of the competition.

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Pac finishes up with the Indies, signs with WWE in 2012, eventually makes his start in NXT in around, I think, 2013, and obviously becomes NXT champion, defeating Bo Dallas in a ladder match at, I always get it confused.

Was it Arrival, the ladder match, or was it TakeOver, the ladder

match? Oh, right, right, right.

Is Arrival not the first one? Arrival's the

Oh, yeah.

I've also been really wondering if TakeOvers are behind us.

I mean, that's just pure specula- speculation on my part, but I've been wondering that, and if they just do, uh, TV...

You know, like we're being reminded or b- or being shown that the occasional TV special, named TV special is still in the, uh, the NXT playbook, um, you know, that could easily take the place of, of TakeOvers.

Even though it'd be really easy to j- you know, it's right there in the PC, and the, the fans don't pay for it.

They just gotta book a bus to, to bus them over from Full Sail, and, um, 'cause they still, they still gather at Full Sail, uh, in case that sounded confusing to anyone.

For me, when I first saw him, I was already back in and I saw people talking about NXT, but I hadn't really bothered to check it out myself yet.

And so it was 2014 and they did the NXT takeover fatal four-way.

And that was the first NXT show I ever watched.

And the main event was, it was a fatal four-way match.

And it was a culmination of a storyline between Neville and Sami Zayn.

And it was That was the first glimpse of what we saw when Sami won the world title in Saudi Arabia this year.

The first hint of that being a possibility in that man's career was that night at the NXT TakeOver when he beat Neville for the NXT title.

And that was the match that put NXT on the map, really, I would say, as something to watch regularly.

NXT developed its own championships, the roster, the presentation, the fan base, and it became separate of what WWE was offering.

And TakeOver became the brand's major event series.

It was providing the biggest stages for the wrestlers being developed or introduced through NXT and Triple H, as we all know, became closely identified with what fans call the black and gold era.

NXT increasingly became a destination for not only wrestlers, but fans that wanted to have more of a work rate style.

Adam Cole kicks out another great near fall here.

And I was like, I don't believe Adam Cole loses here, right? There's no way.

But they did a lot of good spots here, which is, again, reminiscent of some of the matches that fall between the cracks of the NXT TakeOver.

For weekly TV, like I said before, Matt from extra cooler.