NXT TakeOver: Toronto

[GD]

"2-out-of-3" Falls Match for the NXT World Championship
Adam Cole (c) versus Johnny Gargano

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NXT Women's Championship Match
Shayna Baszler (c) versus Miya Yim

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Triple Threat Match for the NXT North American Championship
Velveteen Dream (c) versus Pete Dunne versus Roderick Strong

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NXT Tag Team Championship Match
NXT Tag Team Champions The Street Profits (c) versus The Undisputed Era

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Candice LeRae versus Io Shirai

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[DaveWadding]

Charly Caruso insanely hot.

[DaveWadding]

Incredibly nervous about how the redesigned WWE Network is going to hold up tonight since it has worked like complete trash since the rollout.

[DaveWadding]

I'm so fucking ready, y'all.

[GD]

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[Triple A]

why the fuck are they playing the intro via recording the big screen from the crowd...............

[Triple A]

Mauro Ranallo annoying me with all of his "slang" stuff 2day...

[Triple A]

Beth Phoenix is unbearable on commentary...

bad mood.......

[Triple A]

pissed off that they killed epstein

[xrodmuc316]

WWE Network says

ERROR: MALFORMED DATA

WTF does that even mean????

[Triple A]

yeah WWE Network is just totally not working on Safari... using Chrome but now it keeps stuttering every 15 seconds... not good... has sucked badly with playback since the relaunch

[Triple A]

Beth Phoenix sounds like 2x louder than all of the other audio...

[DaveWadding]

Bobby Fish underrated af

[Emperor Smeat]

Soo far this opening tag title match hasn't been that good overall.

[Triple A]

Yeah, very basic WWE match so far

[Triple A]

Picking up now though

[Emperor Smeat]

Yeah, very basic WWE match so far

Yeah it should get way better near the end but right now, I'd put in more towards the bottom tier for TakeOver openers.

[Emperor Smeat]

Tag title match was decent overall.

[xrodmuc316]

That picked up pretty well towards the end, but that has to be the worst tag match on Takeover in years. They have been great every time since at least 2016.

[Triple A]

wish Jordan Myles vs. Cameron Grimes was on TakeOver instead tbh

[xrodmuc316]

Why is crazy evil Io so much hotter?

[xrodmuc316]

Picture quality on my stream just went to shit, looks like an old avi file

[Emperor Smeat]

Ouch at Candice's back.

[Triple A]

Shirai seems like 293758789235x better than LeRae

[RP]

I want to pound Candace LeRae gently.

[Emperor Smeat]

That was a pretty cool Tornado DDT by Candice.

[DaveWadding]

This match has gotten 5 audible Oh My Gods out of me in the past 5 minutes. Crazy match.

[Jordan]

Can't cast from any source to my Chromecast. Super gay heel turn from WWE Network.

[Emperor Smeat]

Io vs Candice was great.

That might have been the best women's match soo far this year in WWE and NXT.

[Triple A]

damn that was surprisingly very good

[Emperor Smeat]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">I was going to say that judging by Twitter, the new WWE Network is broken in a million ways for a lot of people and that it being this way before Summerslam is pretty terrible timing but then I look at the Summerslam card and think &quot;meh&quot;.</p>&mdash; Trevor Dame (@TrevorDame) <a href="https://twitter.com/TrevorDame/status/1160331879372840960?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 10, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

WWE made a huge mistake leaving MLB's streaming infrastructure for the Network's redesign.

[Emperor Smeat]

Riddle does a way better Kneemaker than Rollins ever did.

[teamXtremist]

I fckn love io shirai

[Triple A]

Austin Theory is really good

[teamXtremist]

The future is here

[Emperor Smeat]

:lol: at the impromptu dance routine going on.

Dream is on a roll with these special TakeOver entrances.

[Triple A]

The Mountie's theme is amazing

[Triple A]

the best

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[teamXtremist]

Shits gonna be physical af

[Triple A]

wish they would play The Mountie's theme throughout this entire match like a New Jack match

[Emperor Smeat]

Ouch at Dream's nuts.

[DaveWadding]

The redesigned app keeps making my screen go dark if I don't interact with it on Xbox One

[Emperor Smeat]

wish they would play The Mountie's theme throughout this entire match like a New Jack match

I always laughed whenever New Jack would randomly pull out a NES from his cart of goodies to whack over someone's head.

[teamXtremist]

The redesigned app keeps making my screen go dark if I don't interact with it on Xbox One


Luckily mine hasnt

[teamXtremist]

Beautiful

[xrodmuc316]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">I was going to say that judging by Twitter, the new WWE Network is broken in a million ways for a lot of people and that it being this way before Summerslam is pretty terrible timing but then I look at the Summerslam card and think &quot;meh&quot;.</p>&mdash; Trevor Dame (@TrevorDame) <a href="https://twitter.com/TrevorDame/status/1160331879372840960?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 10, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

WWE made a huge mistake leaving MLB's streaming infrastructure for the Network's redesign.

It's just another big Fuck You from Vince. This new streaming platform probable charges Vince 5% less, and his carny ass would rather piss his fans off then NOT get that extra money.

[Triple A]

Mauro crowbarring in all of these "hip" references is annoying me tonight for some reason even though it usually doesn't... feel like he is laying it on a lot thicker than usual

[xrodmuc316]

Also, this match is incredible, and we aren't even at the "down the stretch" part yet.

[Emperor Smeat]

Dream fumbling around a bit right now. Botched the 3-man top rope spot and now the Coast-2-Coast spot.

[teamXtremist]

Great fucking match

[Emperor Smeat]

:lol: at the ref randomly rolling Dream out of the ring

[Emperor Smeat]

NA title match was really good overall.

[KIRA]

Is dunne paying tribute to Finlay with that outfit

[KIRA]

Slipknot Unsainted nice!

[Triple A]

NXT hype videos are good

[Emperor Smeat]

Nice of Mia to have her own posse for when the inevitable interference by Baszler's buddies happen in this match ... or not since they all walked away.

[xrodmuc316]

Lol what was that? Mia just kind of walked forward and then dove

[Triple A]

not really paying attention tbh, haven't heard the crowd "pop" to catch my attention

[Triple A]

oh god Beth Phoenix sucks

[Triple A]

Does this match suck... idk...

[Emperor Smeat]

Baszler's style of wrestling and her booking doesn't really fit NXT's style. Outside of a couple matches against Kairi and Io, her big matches end up feeling very underwhelming the majority of the time.

[Triple A]

Are you watching @Guru Dave

[DaveWadding]

Just another Shayna match.

[GD]

Are you watching @Guru Dave

Yeah!

[DaveWadding]

Gargano and Cole, BAY BAY.

[Emperor Smeat]

Ending was pretty decent but Io vs Candice blew the Women's title match out of the water in terms of entertainment.

[KIRA]

Triple must have a massive boner for Shayna

[Destor]

Hows the app running?

[Emperor Smeat]

A cage match is the final stip?

The rumor of Regal making it Loser Leaves NXT would have been way more interesting and perfect ending for the Cole-Gargano feud.

[GD]

Johnny Wolverine?

[Triple A]

So far feel like this has been the worst TakeOver in a long time

[Emperor Smeat]

So far feel like this has been the worst TakeOver in a long time

The 2nd ever TakeOver and London might have been worse but yeah I'd put this one near the mid to lower half of TakeOvers soo far.

Io vs Candice and NA title match were very good but the Tag title match and Women's title match were average at best. Was a big mistake having the tag title as the opener.

NXT title match is easily going to be near an hour long but the pace has been dragging too much right now.

[Emperor Smeat]

Gargano is both the smartest and dumbest person in this match.

Smartest for realizing the first fall was going way too long so beat the shit out of Cole to end it and soften up Cole for a quick second fall.

Dumbest for quickly stopping the beating and wanting a long and drawn out brawl instead.

[Emperor Smeat]

The Street Fight part of this match was great.

[Emperor Smeat]

:lol: the cage got stuck on the way down.

[DaveWadding]

Kendo sticks and super kicks.

[My Final Heaven]

It's gonna be hilarious when Baszler finally drops the title, & the MMA Muties are all "OMG WTF, Shayna just got buh-huh-huh-huried!"

[Emperor Smeat]

That Poison Rana by Gargano was brutal looking.

[Triple A]

why would the GM put all of these dangerous weapons like a sledgehammer in the match

[DaveWadding]

Cole is Dead.

[Emperor Smeat]

:lol: at the crowd booing that the mystery bag didn't have thumbtacks in it.

[DaveWadding]

:lol: "PLEASE DON'T DIE"

[Emperor Smeat]

NXT title match was pretty great overall. First half was somewhat dull but the second half was amazing.

Scariest part of that finish was Gargano holding a piece of barb wire during the fall since that could have gone horribly wrong for either guy.

[Triple A]

Match was pretty good (would have been better if I didn't feel like "I've already seen it") but that felt like easily the worst TakeOver in recent memory

[My Final Heaven]

I guess this confirms why Io was punked out to Baszler - it was because she was Face.

[slik]

I actually wasn't crazy about this show, just watched it. It wasn't bad or anything just felt like things I had seen before.

Main-Event, while enjoyable, was overbooked and under-sold. Adam Cole gets hit with a sledgehammer and then has zero trouble climbing a cage, which would be hard to do with injured ribs???

[slik]

Shayna is boring af at this point but any time they've built someone up to believably beat her (which Mia was not) they never go w/ it. The last one who could have been believable was Bianca Belair.

[Nicky Fives]

Shayna is boring af at this point but any time they've built someone up to believably beat her (which Mia was not) they never go w/ it. The last one who could have been believable was Bianca Belair.

Yeah, Belair shouldn't have lost and they should have faced off this year at Takeover Mania....

[Droford]

Only match I didn't like was Women's title match. The first women's match was much better. The cage match was ridiculously over the top (but not literally) but I think it's good way to end Gargano/Cole which is how cage matches used to be utilized
Also I didn't watch live but I suffered from a really annoying 1.5 second or so audio delay for all 3 hours. Never had that problem before, hoping it's not a new feature with the network upgrade. I logged out, turned Roku off, tried to Chromecast, tried to watch it on my phone.. every way had the audio delay

[Fignuts]

Shayna is boring af at this point but any time they've built someone up to believably beat her (which Mia was not) they never go w/ it. The last one who could have been believable was Bianca Belair.

Io was plenty believable, but not going with her led to Black Lotus Io, so I'm fine with it.

[Fignuts]

Got done watching Io vs Candice.

Just gonna reiterate.

Io Shirai is the best woman wrestler in the world.

[Evil Vito]

Heel Io gives me a boner

[Tom Guycott]

Shayna is boring af at this point but any time they've built someone up to believably beat her (which Mia was not) they never go w/ it. The last one who could have been believable was Bianca Belair.

Still seems to me like they're just trying to stall for time to set up for 4 Horsewomen vs 4 Horsewomen feud on the main roster and still treat it like it's a big surprise.

[Fignuts]

Duke and Shafir being Shayna's hired goons, isn't getting us to that fued any quicker. They're pretty much a joke at the moment.