15 Ups & 1 Down From Last Night's WWE NXT (Oct 2)
NXT lights the fuse for the Wednesday Night War in an explosive USA Network offering.
War. What is it good for?
Absolutely everything, as it turned out during the first true Wednesday Night head-to-head between All Elite Wrestling's maiden edition of Dynamite and inaugural two-hour edition of NXT on the USA Network.
A tension existed for days in the lead-up to the two shows dropping at the same time on a day that could prove to be one of the most significant in modern wrestling history. In a pre-Dynamite Q&A session, Cody compared it to the night MTV first exposed Vince McMahon's growing World Wrestling Federation product to an entire new generation and subsection of followers. He might not be far wrong on that, not based on the content of the shows anyway.
The black-and-gold brand's task this was to do everything they've done in Full Sail for years, but better. To dazzle and delight with the verve of a TakeOver triumph, but live on television in front of a quarter of the audience already overexposed to all the acts. Pressure, for sure, but the sort of pressures most top level wrestlers are drilled to thrive on. How did they manage here?