OFFICIAL NXT Takeover 25 Thread
 

Tailgating in the parking lot as we speak. Can’t believe I’m about to go to my second Takeover in a row. Wooooo!

The card looks promising. Really looking forward to the tag team bout and Breeze's return.

Whats the card?

I reactivated the Network and i've seen no NXT promotion. Not shocked.

NXT Championship Match
NXT Champion Johnny Gargano vs Adam Cole

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NXT Women's Championship Match
NXT Women's Champion Shayna Baszler vs Io Shirai

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NXT North American Championship Match
NXT North American Champion The Velveteen Dream vs Tyler Breeze

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Ladder Match for the (vacant) NXT Tag Team Championship
Oney Lorcan and Danny Burch vs The Street Profits vs Undisputed Era vs The Forgotten Sons

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Matt Riddle vs Roderick Strong

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Other than a Bullet Club shirt when they went to Hot Topic, I haven’t bought a wrestling shirt in a decade.

That’s not changing today since t-shirts are going for 35 fucking dollars.

I've bought newly released shirts (WrestleMANia most recently) for $12 on Amazon with prime which was cheaper than WWE Shop

FYI, This is the only brand AEW has to worry about upstaging them.

Oh Beth, 1 minute in and you already made a mistake lol. Charlotte vs Nattie was not on the first takeover.

Kinda neat they have a minimal stage setup, but it doesnt feel Takeoverish

well they often upstage wwe itself so

To be fair a bit, they are not holding it in a major arena this time. Venue itself only holds around 7k for a crowd.

the original ones were out of Full Sail, I wonder why they just didnt do it there especially for the history of it

I can't remember the last back to back PPV when NXTs show wasn't clearly better. 2016ish maybe?

gonna assume everyone forgot about this lol

I wonder if Matt riddle getting his feet stomped on will ever lead to a storyline where he requires boots

this is probably the best nxt match Ive seen from Roddy

I was just thinking that, or at least best since e joined Undisputed Era.

That was a very solid opener.

Riddle vs Strong was great.

What a great match. That is gonna be really hard to follow.

we go from that to the showdown ad

How the hell does wrestling this great exist on Vince's network and he can't figure out how to copy that formula for his shitshows?? It is truly baffling.

who was hbk kissing on the head

Hahaha all the people chanting HBK an not even looking at Road Dogg

lol the viking war raider machine experience must feel like fools relinquishing the nxt titles and not being on raw for like a month

Considering this was originally meant to be in San Diego, probably didn't have an extra date available at Full Sail for this month. They can only go there once or twice a month and have to schedule those dates in advance.

I kinda want street profits to win, itd be good

Does anyone else find it harder to care about NXT because they know the main roster is going to stomp everyone into the ground? Serious question.

I'll probably tack down Dream vs. Breeze and Baszler vs. Shirai later. The Ladder Match could get my attention later if I hear that it absolutely blows other Ladder Matches out of the water (from reputable sources).

To be honest, this feels like a very slapped together and amateurishly pieced together card for a Takeover. Maybe it's just because Cole and Gargano had the 2/3 Falls last time and now they're working back to regular matches?

oh shit on that suplex with the ladder

Shit

That's either some really great selling by O'Reilly or he really did legit messed up his back.

Yes. I said a year or so ago about Aliester Black, how he would feel real special, but knowing WWE would eventually get and then bury him, it was hard to truly get behind him.

And look at him now, sits in the dark and talks, but never fights, while we are all supposed to forget he was in a random at team with Ricochet for 3 months first.

Also, yeah you probably should watch this ladder match. They are all on the gas full throttle and it's pretty incredible.

Holy shit at these ladder spots. Already more brutal than the Men's MitB match last month.

oreilly got a tooth/teeth knocked out

LOL Mauro saying "THEY KILLED KYLE" I love it

I get nervous anytime somebody is falling near the edges of a Ladder

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">RINALLO: OH MY GOD, THEY KILLED KYLE.<br><br>KYLE: YOU.....WAIT WHAT?!?!?<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/NXTTakeOver?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#NXTTakeOver</a> <a href="https://t.co/zBajiG6EWC">pic.twitter.com/zBajiG6EWC</a></p>&mdash; CoolmanX5 (@Coolmanx5) <a href="https://twitter.com/Coolmanx5/status/1134969297338609666?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 1, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Kyle O'Reilly back f***** up

where the hell is roddy lol

And the only one who Vince will think is a star is Jaxson Ryker, as long as nobody reminds Vince that he came from Impact lol

O'Reilly's back looks horrible right now!

everyone beats the shit out of Ryker and goes back to beating each other up

Holy.......

this has been better than the two ladder matches at MITB easy

:lol: at Oney and Burch setting and then climbing the ladder they placed that wasn't even close to the belts.

Wonder what Vince thinks of this match...

yay

WOW, love the finish!

Tag title ladder match was really great.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Mauro saying “con-ladder-to” <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/NXTTakeOver?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#NXTTakeOver</a> <a href="https://t.co/qa8aapniAN">pic.twitter.com/qa8aapniAN</a></p>&mdash; kawhi me a river (@TheNextBlGThing) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheNextBlGThing/status/1134971807910416384?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 1, 2019</a></blockquote>
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The distance Montez Ford had on that dive over the top rope was insane

Probably that there weren't enough dancing bears or some s***

If I am Fox, I am calling an audible on that Billion $ deal and saying I want NXT instead of Smackdown!

Oh and no Vince allowed lol

Damn Montez!

wait..

Can we all just take a minute to acknowledge their MVP of this match Kyle O'Reilly the man took a beating like nobody else

Watch how a guy WWE buried for 3 years straight will now kill it and have a 5 star match.

what the hell?

That’s good shit!

I'm saying Vince would have wanted something stupid that had nothing to do with wrestling

oh..

Yikes at the crowd barely cheering for Tyler's entrance.

This is going to be awesome

Crowd is either very tired or they might not be caring for this match since even Dream barely got any reactions for his entrance.

Nevermind, they started to wake up for Dream afterwards.

dream stealing lacey's gimmick

this match needed the full sail crowd

Tyler’s gorgeous!

Phoenix taking a page out of Renee Young’s playbook with all the “ohs” and “ows”.

Ouch at Breeze's bloody ear

breeze with a bloody..ear?

Blood coming out of breezes ear canal

what the hell just happened

Messed up equilibrium?

Breeze vs Dream was decent. Should have gone before the ladder match considering the crowd being tired and not being as good as that match.

:lol: at Breeze losing via being a moron.

God Tyler please stay in NXT we need you

:lol: at WWE backing down from hyping Super ShowDown as better than Mania.

Now its "WrestleMania equivalent event"

punishment martinez is coming

Lose Aleister black and gain.... Damien priest.......

That's still ridiculous when youve constantly crowed about WrestleMania being the end-all-be-all

Io’s facial expressions

I see Mario Ronaldo caught the Shang Tsung reveal this week

Okay so I've heard some people resent Shayna baszler and I don't understand why she seems pretty good she is a very very effective heel

Very slow paced Women's title match soo far and not necessarily in a good way.

She's pretty much the heel version of Asuka in NXT except without the undefeated streak and not being as good in the ring.

Part of that is due to her relative wrestling inexperience and being pushed way too fast to the top.

Io sells this better than Belair at least

Either Ronda leaving really messed up the plans for Baszler's call-up or Triple H really is that scared of Baszler getting ruined on the main roster.

Match was good but another meh ending for Baszler's title reign. Only Kairi has managed to get some really great matches out of her.

lol didnt see that coming

lol the fans chanting 1 more time but Io not into it

the night backs were destroyed

Okay I do like it that Io not going to take it on the chin

lol nxt uk take over same day as All Out

Isnt it technically Cole/Gargano IV?

FUCKING BULLSHIT.

Nobody likes Baszler because she has no ability to sell or do any sort of physical storytelling, her promos have the charisma of a narcoleptic sloth, & every one of her matches is exactly the fucking same: opponent bumps their ass off to make her look like she knows what she's doing, Shayna repeatedly applies the single wrestling hold she knows, and her opponent taps & cries.

Well, Io was the last girl on the NXT roster Baszler hadn't punked out like a bitch. That was done tonight: now what?

Undisputed Era theme has actual lyrics to it?

Hope that's the first and last time they air it considering how bad it was.

oh god what

That's a really good question I had the same thought read after it was over I was like there's nobody left

Renalo just said the W word