NXT TakeOver Brooklyn III

Lithium93_

3rd year in a row in Brooklyn, and definitely will be 4 in a row next year, as it and Summerslam return to Brooklyn for the 4th year running.

Matches include..

Singles match for the NXT Championship
Bobby Roode vs. Drew McIntyre

Singles match for the NXT Women's Championship
Asuka vs. Ember Moon

Tag team match for the NXT Tag Team Championship
The Authors of Pain vs. SAnitY (Alexander Wolfe and Killian Dain)

Singles match
Aleister Black vs. Hideo Itami

Singles match
Johnny Gargano vs. Andrade Almas

sky88

Seems to be another takeover people are sleeping on but some really exciting match ups for me

CastorTroy

I've learned not to judge based on the card. Previous ones only had 1 or 2 matches i was interested in but the majority of the show turned out well.

For this one, i think Asuka/Ember and Black/Itami should be good. Could be the end of Asuka's reign.

I personally am not a fan of Drew. I don't know what it is.

Blue_Dabadee

Like most Takeover shows, stacked card with very little hype or build up.

PTH2009

Can see Roderick Strong interfering in the title match and may be getting some DQ'ed

Bit early for Drew too win the title imo

Itssoeasy

The nxt crew were stuck in the airport in Florida for hours yesterday.

PTH2009

A bit of a nod to Drew Mcintryes old WWE theme (Broken dreams) in the promo for the title match. He could be a big star if they believe in him and doesn't mess up like last time

J. Marston

PTH2009 wrote: »

A bit of a nod to Drew Mcintryes old WWE theme (Broken dreams) in the promo for the title match. He could be a big star if they believe in him and doesn't mess up like last time

One of WWE's greatest themes.

PTH2009

Thread won't load on touch site on my phone???

Agree it is an amazing song

sky88

What a match

The distraction was beautiful great story with diy hopefully ciampa can get better soon

Gargano is the next Daniel Bryan

RollieFingers

Nikki Cross is insane!

sky88

Great show so far

cian68

at 40 Bobby Fish's career could easily be winding down, glad to see him in this spot instead.

PTH2009

I want Gangrel as Blacks manager

cian68

Really enjoyed Itami-Black. Seems to be splitting opinion on Twitter.

sky88

cian68 wrote: »

Really enjoyed Itami-Black. Seems to be splitting opinion on Twitter.

Good match bit too slow paced for me

cian68

Asuka and Ember killed it. Not one dud on this show. Over to you Bobby

J. Marston

That was a great match. Ember's finisher is cool but such an odd looking setup.

sky88

Great great show the main event has a lot to live up too.

cian68

Not doing the 'Adam Cole babay!' seems like a missed opportunity. Crowd would have sure gone with it and made him look major league. Still a fun angle and a great show with a main event I could nae really care about.

sky88

I know people love him but Mauro is terrible and jr shouldn't be on commentary anymore but my god there is no words to describe Percy he adds nothing.

Gargano/almas match of the night by far phenomanal

Lord TSC

I have no clue who the three at the end were so that ending is probably wasted a bit on me, . I gather they were ROH mainstays?

Ember/Auska was brilliant at the end. That Auska is 500 days into a reign, and I was pleasantly surprised when she retained sass a testament to the storytelling and ability of both.

Gargano/Almas was fantastic.

sky88

Yea roh mainstays Kyle o Reilly and Bobby fish were a tag team mainly in roh and new japan were they were tag champs in both.

Adam cole was in the bullet club former world was in a lot of big factions including with Kevin owens

Blue_Dabadee

It took soo many years to finally get ROH stable in WWE.

Clegg

They did Adam Cole BAYBAY after the event ended. It was fantastic.


https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MLG7br9lg9Y

connemara man

What are the chances of OAP getting called upto smackdown now they've dropped the belts and are behind the breezango craic

CastorTroy

While watching Black's entrance followed by him sitting up in the ring with Itami's reaction, made me think of Taker.

Great show overall. Surely throwing a tshirt or whatever it was is considered both outside interference and a foreign object? But it's Thea so all good. Gargano is an example of a guy who indie fans liked that has proved himself to people like me who didn't know him before NXT. There are other guys who are there or have moved up that haven't done the same.

Was sure Ember had it won. I do think it's time to take the title off Asuka. Maybe the winner of the Mae Young tournament.

The tag match was enjoyable. I really like Nikki. I'm never sure if the big smile is from playing the crazy character or just because she's enjoying herself so much. Was sure Eric adding himself to the match would be the reason they lose.

Dunno about the 2 post match run ins. Cool to see, but the fact they were both for title changes makes me wonder how it will work. The title rematches have to happen. At least with the tag match both teams were attacked, so that will be a 3 way feud.
Knew there was someone coming anyway with the crowd reaction and everyone looking the one direction.

So how many of those fans actually know who these guys are and how many are just pretending?

As for commentary, I don't know why they insist on 3 man teams on all the shows. And bringing Corey and JR out didn't help either.

Clegg

The crowd definitely knew who Adam Cole was.

They roared his catchphrase back to him.

PTH2009

I didnt have a clue who the 3 guys were but figured there ex ROH guys. I though Adam Cole was Kassius Ohno lol. Hopefully there a cool stable

AOP making there main roster debut vs Breezedango emm noooo but its WWE and Road Dogg at the end of the day and it makes perfect sense to them

If they were to sign would Omega and Young bucks go to NXT ???

The Ayatolla

Is that Adam Cole feud realistic given he's about a foot shorter than Drew?

205-live bound for these guys I expect (longer term anyway).

Omackeral

Clegg wrote: »

They did Adam Cole BAYBAY after the event ended. It was fantastic.


https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MLG7br9lg9Y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLG7br9lg9Y

Pentecost

Great show overall. The main event was only ok (good ending though) but Gargano and Almas was something else. Gargano is going to be huge the crowds worships him like they did with Daniel Bryan as mentioned above. Tag match was brilliant too, Nikki is mental but she's good fun.

PTH2009

https://www.instagram.com/p/BYBFmUkFLT1/

nice touch from Sheamus and Fit Finlay

Pentecost

Sheamus and Drew are very close friends. Sheamo was best man or a groomsman at Drew's wedding (his second one).

connemara man

I don't remember Drew's first run and I wouldn't have seen him in the Indies but him and Seamus are quite similar in style

Lithium93_

PTH2009 wrote: »

I didnt have a clue who the 3 guys were but figured there ex ROH guys. I though Adam Cole was Kassius Ohno lol. Hopefully there a cool stable

AOP making there main roster debut vs Breezedango emm noooo but its WWE and Road Dogg at the end of the day and it makes perfect sense to them

If they were to sign would Omega and Young bucks go to NXT ???

Seriously, couldn't you have Googled both men, huge difference between the pair.

The White Wolf

Felt sorry for McIntyre. Crowd was very much team roode and then popped big time for that teardown at the end.

The opener and tag title match were the highlights for me. Brilliant touch having Johnny psyched out by a DIY T shirt. He killed it as well post match, recoiling from the shirt.

Ali Bomaye

Another excellent TakeOver. Gargano/Almas and Asuka/Ember were both so good. Commentary was poor enough though I thought. Mauro talking non stop was really annoying. Ember setting up for the eclipse, and Mauro was just there rambling on about something else.

Main event was fairly dull, with a decent closing stretch. I don't care about Adam Cole either. Crowd was super annoying last night as well. Shouting sweet everytime there's a two count (some shouted sweet after a one count ffs) and shouting 10 for everything else. I even think there was some 3mb chants for McIntyre.

It doesn't look like Kassius Ohno is going to be let do much in NXT. Ohno/Itami and Roode/Strong were the hot feuds on NXT tv yet we got Black/Itami and Roode/McIntyre on this for some reason.

J. Marston

JR is awful these days.

Adiboo

J. Marston wrote: »

JR is awful these days.

He sounds like he is doing soundbytes for the video game.

CastorTroy

Ali Bomaye wrote: »

Main event was fairly dull, with a decent closing stretch. I don't care about Adam Cole either. Crowd was super annoying last night as well. Shouting sweet everytime there's a two count (some shouted sweet after a one count ffs) and shouting 10 for everything else. I even think there was some 3mb chants for McIntyre.

Was wondering what they keep saying lately. And can now google to see why, but obviously bullet club

SureYWouldntYa

J. Marston wrote: »

JR is awful these days.

I wish he retired with Taker, it's just not the same with him and we have someone in Mauro who can be every bit as good as him, and Tom Phillips too you get a believability in their voice you don't get from Corporate Cole, nothing turns me off wrestling more than Cole saying "It's boss time" when Sasha comes out

J. Marston

Adiboo wrote: »

He sounds like he is doing soundbytes for the video game.

Perfect description.

Wonder if Becky could be the one to end Asuka's reign?

https://twitter.com/dontcall_911/status/899107875859181568

https://twitter.com/BeckyLynchWWE/status/899081092354985985

She is the only one of the 4 horsewomen who didn't win the NXT title and no-one else is really on Asuka's level right now in NXT.