NXT: TakeOver 31

[GD]

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NXT Championship Match
NXT Champion Finn Balor vs Kyle O'Reilly

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NXT Women's Championship Match
NXT Women's Champion Io Shirai vs Candice LeRae

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NXT North American Championship Match
NXT North American Champion Damian Priest vs Johnny Gargano

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NXT Cruiserweight Championship Match
NXT Cruiserweight Champion Santos Escobar vs Isaiah "Swerve" Scott

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Kushida vs Velveteen Dream

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[Lock Jaw]

Really want those match titles to be under the picture instead of above them.... messing me up.....

Haven't watched NXT in ages.... "lol" at Kyle O'Reilly main-eventing....

[GD]

I've been maintaining this format forever :o

[Lock Jaw]

And it bothers me every time.... just never bothered to say anything

[GD]

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[Emperor Smeat]

Card looks good and the show itself should be great although that's now 3 TakeOvers in a row with no Tag title match.

NXT and Triple H starting to feel like Vince when it comes to how they've been treating their tag title belts and division in recent months.

[Fignuts]

Good card. Particularly interested in seeing Kyle O'Reilly get a singles match with some time on it. And against Balor no less. Should be fire.

[XL]

Hmmm. I’d say it’s the weakest card on paper that NXT have put out in a long while, maybe ever.

[slik]

I will give this a watch

Finn really hot

[DaveWadding]

Swerve/Escobar probably gonna be match of the night.

[Droford]

Card looks good and the show itself should be great although that's now 3 TakeOvers in a row with no Tag title match.

NXT and Triple H starting to feel like Vince when it comes to how they've been treating their tag title belts and division in recent months.

Breezango are the tag champs so its an even bigger joke

[Emperor Smeat]

Ever since the belts got taken off of Undisputed Era and Pete Dunne couldn't travel because of coronavirus issues, NXT pretty much gave up on the idea of booking a good tag division.

Breezango getting the belts ended up being done solely to squeeze more juice from their feud with Legado Del Fantasma.

[slik]

ugh at dream being on the card

[DaveWadding]

Ever since the belts got taken off of Undisputed Era and Pete Dunn couldn't travel because of coronavirus issues, NXT pretty much gave up on the idea of booking a good tag division.

Breezango getting the belts ended up being done solely to squeeze more juice from their feud with Legado Del Fantasma.

The Broserweights seems like a fever dream I had 5 years ago.

[Emperor Smeat]

The new stage for NXT looks nice.

Not a fan at all of them actually bringing in a live crowd considering they only recently just came out of another outbreak at that PC. Might even have more people there right now than they did before.

[xrodmuc316]

Love this dude's theme music.

[slik]

I think the 'Capitol Wrestling Center' looks better than the 'Thunderdome' tbh

Both louder and more intimate.

[Emperor Smeat]

I think the 'Capitol Wrestling Center' looks better than the 'Thunderdome' tbh

Both louder and more intimate.

Yeah. At least in terms of the virtual crowd, having them all lined up on the wall instead of cascade style like with the ThunderDome looks better on tv.

Problem with the ThunderDome is the crowd looked good in certain cam angles and really bad in others because of the layout they went with.

[Emperor Smeat]

NXT needs to dial back on the fake crowd audio since its just drowning out the real crowd reactions and at times, even the action in the ring.

[slik]

The Capitol Wrestling Center has a grittier feel to it than Raw Underground ever has

Also I GREATLY appreciate that Kevin Dunn's does not appear to have control over the camera cuts

[Emperor Smeat]

NXT title match was very good overall.

One of the better openers to a TakeOver in recent times.

[xrodmuc316]

Priest has always been real good, but the last 6 months or so he has been incredible. That was a damn good opener.

[slik]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Real fans, virtual fans, fake audio. I don't get it</p>&mdash; Sean Ross Sapp of Fightful.com (@SeanRossSapp) <a href="https://twitter.com/SeanRossSapp/status/1312894164804276229?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 4, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

[Emperor Smeat]

Can't tell if Dream suddenly aged like 20-30 years or someone dunked his head in a bucket full of baby powder.

[xrodmuc316]

Wait, so Dream dressed up as Doc Brown, the grown man that hangs around with a high school boy???

I mean, they are ribbing us right :rofl::rofl::rofl:

[slik]

Kushida looks good in jeans

[slik]

someone told me the surprise return will be


Ember Moon

[Droford]

The Capitol Wrestling Center has a grittier feel to it than Raw Underground ever has

Also I GREATLY appreciate that Kevin Dunn's does not appear to have control over the camera cuts

It's the chain link fence they're using

[Droford]

Wait, so Dream dressed up as Doc Brown, the grown man that hangs around with a high school boy???

I mean, they are ribbing us right :rofl::rofl::rofl:

Doc Brown vs Marty McFry

Now we need a biff For Marty to wrestle

[DaveWadding]

Suplex into Hoverboard lock was very cool.

[xrodmuc316]

someone told me the surprise return will be


Ember Moon


If that is true, I'll mark out for sure, one of my faves.

[Droford]

Surprised Kushida won

[Emperor Smeat]

Dream vs. KUSHIDA was pretty good although it also dragged on way too long.

Even the fake crowd audio stopped reacting to the match at times.

[Droford]

Its a shame WWE and Lego aren't a thing

I'd play WWE Lego game

[xrodmuc316]

Halloween Havoc, nice!

[Droford]

Lol so NXT gets a non takeover ppv in 3 weeks?

[Droford]

Maybe NXT World War 3 next month

...

Do they have 60 wrestlers?

Might be War Games

NXT Souled Out in January with a gargano title match

[Emperor Smeat]

:lol: at WWE bringing back more past WCW show names just to try to pop ratings for NXT and likely rub more salt in Cody's face.

[GD]

That's a boss entrance right there.

[Droford]

Escobar needs mariachi music

[Droford]

The announcing sounds like uts in a garbage can when he yells

[slik]

Love Halloween Havoc

My favorite WCW ppv

[slik]

Looks like it will be a special episode of the weekly show rather than a ppv (I know this because it's two days before my birthday and my birthday is on a Friday this year)

[DaveWadding]

ARROW FROM THE DEPTHS OF HELL

[DaveWadding]

Vic Joseph: "Oh my, what a dive there by Escobar."

[Emperor Smeat]

Why are there fake announcers at the announcer table at ringside?

They couldn't find another person who had blonde hair to be fake Beth Phoenix.

[xrodmuc316]

:lol: at WWE bringing back more past WCW show names just to try to pop ratings for NXT and likely rub more salt in Cody's face.

Just like when they did NXT Bash at the Beach, oh wait... :cool:

[Emperor Smeat]

That's 2 matches that had shenanigans involved in some form so far on the show.

Gargano with the sneaky low bow spot and now Escobar having interference in his match.

[Emperor Smeat]

Just like when they did NXT Bash at the Beach, oh wait... :cool:

Probably would have done that as well had they actually managed to snag the trademark from Cody at the time.

Instead they came pretty close to preventing AEW from being able to use that name for a show via legal actions.

[Emperor Smeat]

Cruiser title match and its finish was great.

[Droford]

I missed this in the intro

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="da" dir="ltr">Professional Wrestling <a href="https://t.co/0RlsjBbzas">pic.twitter.com/0RlsjBbzas</a></p>&mdash; David LaGreca (@davidlagreca1) <a href="https://twitter.com/davidlagreca1/status/1312910019172741125?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 5, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Maybe Vince is letting HHH turn over and old leaf

[Emperor Smeat]

:lol: at the back-to-back ref bump spots during this women's title match.

[Emperor Smeat]

So when Triple H and WWE hyped up a new era of NXT debuting tonight, did they mean an era full of shenanigans?

How would that be any different than the main roster shows.

NXT title match was very good despite it turning into a mess at the end.

[DaveWadding]

TONI STORMMMMMMM

[DaveWadding]

AND EMBER MOON

[Droford]

Ember Moon gets a demotion

[Emperor Smeat]

Seems a bit overkill having two big surprises for the Women's title stuff.

Like why have Toni Storm make that big announcement for her return only to then do another big surprise return with Ember Moon.

[slik]

someone told me the surprise return will be


Ember Moon



:shifty:

[Droford]

So I'm assuming Bobby Fish costs him the title somehow since they're driving home the UE split

[Emperor Smeat]

Bo Dallas should have been the mystery person instead of Ember since that would have legit been one of the most left field surprises ever and he was pretty great as a heel the last time he was in NXT.

[xrodmuc316]

:shifty:

I was wrong, that was about as lazy of a return as possible. She literally just walked on stage and took her helmet off lol

[Droford]

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Spot the fake news lol

[slik]

Let's go Finn

[Emperor Smeat]

Hope the live crowd stops with the slamming of the plexiglass and chain fence since that's going to get annoying really fast.

[Droford]

Hope the live crowd stops with the slamming of the plexiglass and chain fence since that's going to get annoying really fast.

Its funny they did it the entire time raw and SD were at the PC before with talenr

[Droford]

Lol at Finn playing KoR like a guitar

[Triple A]

Watching now... presentation is cool

[Triple A]

Vic Joseph keeps interrupting Barrett to yell "Ooh!"

[Triple A]

Really want those match titles to be under the picture instead of above them.... messing me up.....

Haven't watched NXT in ages.... "lol" at Kyle O'Reilly main-eventing....

I've been maintaining this format forever :o

Don't listen to LocK Jaw...... text should be on top,

[Emperor Smeat]

Really wonder who that fake Beth Phoenix is at the announcer table since she has a very eerie resemblance to Sasha Banks instead.

[Triple A]

I think the 'Capitol Wrestling Center' looks better than the 'Thunderdome' tbh

Both louder and more intimate.

Yeah it's cool... they should bring in real fans to the ThunderDome also, still feels "sterile" without anyone there

[slik]

I think Finn's balls popped out during his entrance around 1:08-1:10


<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">IT'S <br>F❌❌❌ <br>TIME<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/NXTTakeOver?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#NXTTakeOver</a> <a href="https://t.co/wO6c0MU7WM">pic.twitter.com/wO6c0MU7WM</a></p>&mdash; GIFSkull IV - Banned Soon Due to False DMCA Spam (@GifSkullIV) <a href="https://twitter.com/GifSkullIV/status/1312919270402088962?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 5, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

[slik]

Yeah it's cool... they should bring in real fans to the ThunderDome also, still feels "sterile" without anyone there

As long as Michael Cole style commentary is there it will always feel sterile too IMO

[Triple A]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Real fans, virtual fans, fake audio. I don't get it</p>&mdash; Sean Ross Sapp of Fightful.com (@SeanRossSapp) <a href="https://twitter.com/SeanRossSapp/status/1312894164804276229?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 4, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

The fake background crowd noise is good imo, makes it much more lively... Otherwise would be really quiet for a lot of the time

[Emperor Smeat]

:lol: at WWE screwing around with the crowd audio.

This might be the weirdest produced show of WWE's coronaviurs era.

Virtual crowd with a live crowd mixed in and fake crowd audio mixed with live crowd audio. On top of that you have Vic Joseph providing live commentary at ringside with fake announcers next to him while Beth and Wade are providing live commentary via satellite.

[Droford]

Lol Ridge Holland

[Emperor Smeat]

NXT title match was great.

That might have been the first time no title changes happened at a TakeOver show.

TakeOver 31 was very good overall and would put it in the upper tier but not greatness tier for TakeOver shows. Only real negative was if this really was meant to be the start of a new era for the brand, the show didn't really feel like it in terms of ring stuff and booking. Like Ridge Holland beating up Adam Cole just took away some of the spotlight from a great match Finn and Kyle had just finished and doesn't scream "new era" style moment.

[Droford]

Just hit me how much young Drew looked like Big Cass minus being as tall

[Emperor Smeat]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">I knew I wasn’t going crazy ��<br><br>That ain’t Wade or Beth tf ��<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/NXTTakeOver?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#NXTTakeOver</a> <a href="https://t.co/zEu4E15JT3">pic.twitter.com/zEu4E15JT3</a></p>&mdash; A.W V2�� (@AWV23) <a href="https://twitter.com/AWV23/status/1312897167259041793?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 4, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Took me until around the NXT title match to realize that was the real Vic Joseph in the booth and not just a look-alike fake one like the other announcers. At first thought his random echoing during the show was just some audio issues and not because he was yelling moves too loudly at times.

[Droford]

Wwe ignoring TNA lol

[xrodmuc316]

Wwe ignoring TNA lol

They have such a weird relationship with them. Seems Impact will let them use footage anytime WWE wants, they just have to put that "You can watch Impact on the Global Wrestling App", so not sure why they ignored that.

Still, that was a well done WWE 24 episode.

[slik]

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[GD]

Hello!

[Droford]

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[Mr. Nerfect]

Kyle O'Reilly has really grown on me.

[Sepholio]

Balor might have a broken jaw.