[4/1]WWE NXT TakeOver: Dallas - Bálor vs Joe/Bayley vs Asuka

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I couldn't do it live properly in the end... caught the start, the American Alpha match was fukking EVERYTHING, but I had to get up for work on Saturday morning so I missed the rest live. Have now watched almost every match twice... this was a HELL OF A fukkING PPV BREHS.

Revival/AA : CLINIC. Tag team season approachin'. Clear the fukking schedules. Revival cheat like REAL heels. Jason Jordan is king of this hot tag shyt. AA get the straps and it's GOOOOOOOD. Please let them feud into the main brand for the foreseeable future.

Corbin/Aries : Easily the most average match on the but still a solid 3* probably. Corbin looked great. I'm not convinced about Aries (not seen his pre-WWE work) and I was a bit pissed that he went over Cena style after Corbin had been ragdolling him all match. Corbin is another true heel.

Zayn/Shinsuke : I always felt I was late to the Zayn party... never really connected. Never seen Shinsuke outside of the odd clip. This has convinced me that both of them are probably in the top twenty wrestlers I've ever seen. Shinsuke has swag pouring out his fukking eyeballs. Both of them are entirely about telling stories. This wasn't just a match of the year candidate. It's a match of the company candidate. If a title's on the line and it was on the main show, this goes down in history like Savage/Steamboat.

Bayley/Asuka : Basically fukk the Network for deciding to SKIP FORWARD ON ITS fukkING OWN during the Corbin/Aries match and cut straight to a clip of Bayley in tears and Asuka's music playing. I pressed my Playstation button so fast I almost managed to convince myself that Bayley was holding the belt, so I was expecting Asuka to win by Countout or DQ. Great ending to a great match in the end. I can empathise with the crowd. We all think Asuka's what's best for business, but Bayley... come on... she's the only person making us all believe in a babyface right now. Of course it had to be a muted response to the finish. Asuka will get her welcome at Full Sail.

Finn/Joe : Awful ending aside a solid match and main event. Stiff as all hell and whether the blood stoppages were planned or not, I thought they gave it an air of a legitimate sanctioned fight. You're never gonna get a better rebel shot of a wrestler than Joe smiling at "LET JOE BLEED" chants though. Amazing. Dude is legitimately terrifying.

I don't give a shyt that Apollo/Drifter didn't make the broadcast. The girls should've had next on any spare time anyway.

Amazing show. fukk anyone that tells you otherwise.
 

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And this is why nobody in Japan really liked her like that: she's always and forever talking shyt about everyone around her. She better hope she doesn't have to go back to Japan any time soon.

In any event, I just got done watching most of this (as much as I could with my busy schedule). Love that only one finisher was hit in the Nakamura/Zayn match (and it ended it too). Joe was fukking great and really should have won the belt tonight (honestly, given the blood issues they had, if this wasn't WrestleMania weekend, I would have actually audibled here and booked a no contest, with Joe throwing Drake and the medical staff everywhere while they were trying to treat him so he could just DESTROY Finn. It would give him even more monster credibility, avoid having to beat him again, and build to a third match. Given that they had to have a finish, I kind of hope they go with the story that the stoppages killed Joe's momentum, and may have unfairly given Finn too much time to recover and contributed to his victory).

Pretty good stuff overall.
 
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