Just finished watching a replay of the show via "other means"

Ending was a bit anti-climatic but Cole vs. Riddle for the NXT title was amazing overall. Match of the Year tier quality.

Balor making a surprise appearance was both great and a bit hilarious. Great in the sense that him vs. Cole should be amazing when it happens and hilarious in the sense of him being demoted to the "minors" due to how bad he was handled on the main roster and WWE being scared of AEW.

Maybe the weakest promo Dream has ever given and wouldn't be surprised if they told him just to stall for time since Cole vs. Riddle should have gone on a bit longer.

Io vs. Mia Yim was pretty good overall.

Gargano vs. Throne was also pretty good. The poison rana spot was cool.

:n: at Shayna's Reign of Terror continuing. Completely bored with her stranglehold on the division and her matches in general since they've been either really dull or have meh/flat endings.

Dunne vs. Burch was decent at best. Priest's post-match attack was the best thing from it.

Montez Ford is great. Street Profits vs. Undisputed Era was pretty good overall.

:D Ciampa showing up at the end.

Very enjoyable show overall and if this week's is any indication, the Wednesday Night Wars are going to be amazing. Since this was hyped as a Takeover-caliber show, would put it around the mid to upper mid tier range.

Only real complaint these past few weeks is the lack of real storytelling and builds compared to Network era NXT. Its been the biggest downside to WWE's rush to beat AEW. On a smaller level, NXT also started picking up the bad habit from the main roster shows when it comes to poor timing for commercial breaks.

I bet people that taped NXT are pissed when it cuts off early cause of the over run

always put a bit of buffer on anything live

I'm gonna have to get used to this on Wednesdays on my tv

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I hope the "I remember the first match on TNT..." Stuff from Tony tails off. WCW and AEW have like zero linear connection besides him. It is good to hear him calling wrestling but the nostalgia trip is out of place

Finn can at least do more than smile and point in NXT

Odds Kevin Owens ends up in NXT after losing to Shane on SD and having to leave

It didn't overrun. It was listed as 8pm-10:15pm.

Correct, it actually underrun, if that's a thing lol

I pad all my recordings by 15 minutes and it only went to 2:15 so I dunno

Damn..... just watched the show via taping it from Rogers Sportsnet where they aired it on Friday.....

Definitely seems like it was "heavily edited".... half the stuff talked about here I didn't see....

Also Riddle/Cole seemed like they must have just "cut out" the majority of the match. They did the entrances, fought for a bit, then went to commercial and came back and fought for a few more minutes and then it ended. Felt like nothing had happened, yet the fans were chanting "fight forever".... I assumed it was just the NXT fans being dumb as usual....

The women's title match felt the same.... they didn't even give Candace an entrance, then Shayna entered, they fought for a short bit, went to commercial, and then came back and finished the match quickly after.

The tag match was the longest match on the show and was P good.....

Something to do with the PIP commercials maybe?