[1/26/19] NXT Takeover: Phoenix
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I'm over it.
The Rainmaker
Mr. Money in the Bank
Gargano and Ciampa celebrating with the titles.
FooFighters
Superstar
Ali, Murphy, Cedric
FooFighters
Superstar
Better them than Undisputed EraTriple H booking his own reign of terror down in NXT when Gargano & Ciampa get all the belts
these dudes have had blood feuds where they have ripped up the floor mats and ring mats? That's what i'm talking about. Gargano and Ciampa have been booked to be indestructible. I'm sure they all would have great matches, i'm just speaking on how these two guys in NXT have been booked to heaven.
Alfred0Santana
I used to drop Lewinsky off at the White House.
I’m about to watch that tag match again and I don’t even watch NXT
CBoz
We Are NXT!
Tag Title: 9/10
Riddle/Ohno: 7/10
Gargano/Ricochet: 10/10
Shayna/Bianca: 7/10
Black/Ciampa: 8/10
IMO obviously
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FromStLouis
Superstar
It was alright by as far as Takeovers go, though, I haven't kept up with NXT lately.
The Tag match was MOTN fo me, almost always is with Takeovers.
Gargano Ricochet was good but the crowd was in and out of a lot of matches tonight.
I didn't like Bianca and Aleister both working injuries in back-to-back matches.
Wanted to see more offense from Bianca but this the first step of many for her. (Montez Ford is the luckiest man alive)
The Sam Roberts comments are definitely going to be a narrative going forward.
I think the Rumble has a real shot tomorrow at being the best show of the weekend.
The Tag match was MOTN fo me, almost always is with Takeovers.
Gargano Ricochet was good but the crowd was in and out of a lot of matches tonight.
I didn't like Bianca and Aleister both working injuries in back-to-back matches.
Wanted to see more offense from Bianca but this the first step of many for her. (Montez Ford is the luckiest man alive)
The Sam Roberts comments are definitely going to be a narrative going forward.
I think the Rumble has a real shot tomorrow at being the best show of the weekend.
GoddamnyamanProf
Countdown to Armageddon
Lol damn it was way more drawn out and anticlimactic than that.
So after those two celebrated for a minute, Velveteen Dream sauntered over to them and faced off for a minute, then Black hobbled over from the ring and joined them, then Adam Cole and Richochet came out from the back and they all had a face off. Then they all started fighting. Refs break kt up. Everyone slowly goes to the back. Then screen cuts to every fighting again in gorilla. Hunter Hearst breaks it up.
Crowd chants for Triple H and amazingly he doesnt come out. Instead they send out Black, Dream and Ricochet and they all proceed to hot dog and grandstand in the ring together for like 10 minutes while the pa takes turns playing their themes. Dream is by far the most over. He does several spicy pirouettes in the ring and the crowd goes nuts
The three leave and take another bow at the ramp before they do. Seemed to signal a farewell/callup for those 3 but who knows.
Black sold his leg hard the entire time
Vic Damone. Jr
Don't support the phonies, support the real
prophecypro
Hollywood North
Looks like Patrick getting that Mania takeover title match?
prophecypro
Hollywood North
That brawl should have been shown at the end of takeover not off air in a youtube exclusive segment
Dog Based Gremlin
Veteran
alittle high in my opinionTag Title: 9/10
Riddle/Ohno: 7/10
Gargano/Ricochet: 10/10
Shayna/Bianca: 7/10
Black/Ciampa: 8/10
IMO obviously
more like...
Tag Title: 8/10
Riddle/Ohno: 5/10
Gargano/Ricochet: 9/10
Shayna/Bianca: 6.5/10
Black/Ciampa: 7.5/10
Triple H took part in a media call to talk about Velveteen Dream, who appeared in a few segments, but didn't wrestle on tonight's show. He also discussed wanting to progress younger stars at a slower pace, and how some fans are expecting too much, too soon from NXT Superstars.
In regards to Dream's absence, Triple H simply put that there's not enough room to put everyone in every card, but at the same time, it's a good thing to mix it up with the talent they have.
"The dude is a star, but you can only fit so many people into a card," Triple H said. "Him not being on the show—Adam Cole wasn't on the show tonight too, you can only fit so many people. It's a funny thing in our business, it's like well, 'Where was this person on the show?' If it was UFC they're not all on every card, they don't fight all the time. I think that's part of the awesome aspect of this and the variety of it, you're not seeing everybody, every single time, and you're not doing all that stuff. [Dream] had star moments tonight, to me, in just the little bit of stuff he did. He walked out there and sat in the crowd."
Triple H also noted Dream's arrival to the building was supposed to be something else, but it didn't pan out for the show.
"Yeah, the arrival, we actually had something else planned, but it didn't work out."
Triple H continued about Velveteen Dream's short time in the wrestling business, at only 23, his ability is off the charts. The same goes for Bianca Belair, who came to the WWE Performance Center just under three years ago. In her first crack at the title, Belair came up short against NXT Women's Champion Shayna Baszler and Triple H called out fans who were being impatient about bringing talent up through the ranks.
"It's all little steps of being a star, right?" Triple H said. "The one thing about Velveteen Dream—I think that everybody fails to realize with him—is he's been in the business for a minute. How far he is and how big of a star, and how he gets this, it's awesome. I think you want to make sure he takes the right steps to get there in the right manner, so that it all works in the best way possible and doesn't become too much, too soon, in the wrong way where you put him in a position where he might not be ready for it, or could fail.
"I don't see that in front of him, but it's always things you keep in mind. You can look around the locker room—as I said earlier with Bianca Belair. Walking into the door two-and-half years ago to doing what she did tonight. There's people out there who are going, 'How could she lose tonight? This is horrible for her.' It's step one, the future couldn't be brighter for her, same with him, but the future couldn't be brighter. It's just the world today is so impatient, they just want it right now. If you're not champion in your first match, people are like "Aw! How could they do that!" You know what I mean? It's just a crazy, unrealistic expectation, but in some way that's a good thing and we'll take people along for the ride and get them where we need to get them."
In regards to Dream's absence, Triple H simply put that there's not enough room to put everyone in every card, but at the same time, it's a good thing to mix it up with the talent they have.
"The dude is a star, but you can only fit so many people into a card," Triple H said. "Him not being on the show—Adam Cole wasn't on the show tonight too, you can only fit so many people. It's a funny thing in our business, it's like well, 'Where was this person on the show?' If it was UFC they're not all on every card, they don't fight all the time. I think that's part of the awesome aspect of this and the variety of it, you're not seeing everybody, every single time, and you're not doing all that stuff. [Dream] had star moments tonight, to me, in just the little bit of stuff he did. He walked out there and sat in the crowd."
Triple H also noted Dream's arrival to the building was supposed to be something else, but it didn't pan out for the show.
"Yeah, the arrival, we actually had something else planned, but it didn't work out."
Triple H continued about Velveteen Dream's short time in the wrestling business, at only 23, his ability is off the charts. The same goes for Bianca Belair, who came to the WWE Performance Center just under three years ago. In her first crack at the title, Belair came up short against NXT Women's Champion Shayna Baszler and Triple H called out fans who were being impatient about bringing talent up through the ranks.
"It's all little steps of being a star, right?" Triple H said. "The one thing about Velveteen Dream—I think that everybody fails to realize with him—is he's been in the business for a minute. How far he is and how big of a star, and how he gets this, it's awesome. I think you want to make sure he takes the right steps to get there in the right manner, so that it all works in the best way possible and doesn't become too much, too soon, in the wrong way where you put him in a position where he might not be ready for it, or could fail.
"I don't see that in front of him, but it's always things you keep in mind. You can look around the locker room—as I said earlier with Bianca Belair. Walking into the door two-and-half years ago to doing what she did tonight. There's people out there who are going, 'How could she lose tonight? This is horrible for her.' It's step one, the future couldn't be brighter for her, same with him, but the future couldn't be brighter. It's just the world today is so impatient, they just want it right now. If you're not champion in your first match, people are like "Aw! How could they do that!" You know what I mean? It's just a crazy, unrealistic expectation, but in some way that's a good thing and we'll take people along for the ride and get them where we need to get them."