NXT TakeOver: WarGames - Every Match Ranked Worst To Best
Looking back at another stellar TakeOver special.
By this point in time, NXT has long, long established a reputation for delivering the goods when TakeOver comes around. Since
With a small number of matches that are so often good-to-great-to-exceptional in their quality, TakeOver is a go-to destination of any and all wrestling fans. While WWE's main roster output can be extremely questionable for the most part, the NXT brand tends to deliver when it comes to its biggest shows.
In terms of sheer action, it doesn't get any bigger for the NXT brand than its now-annual WarGames offering. And with TakeOver: WarGames 2020 - the 32nd time that we've seen a TakeOver special - now officially in the record books, it was yet another stellar show for the gold and black corner of the WWE Universe.
The fleeting presence of both NXT Champion Finn Balor and former NXT Champ Karrion Kross may have gotten fans talking at WarGames, but there was so much in-ring action to likewise tick a whole lot of the right boxes for those with a penchant for NXT.
Looking back at the TakeOver: WarGames card, then, here's how the matches stacked up from worst to best.
5. Dexter Lumis Vs. Cameron Grimes
There was plenty to turn wrestling fans off going into the Dexter Lumis vs. Cameron Grimes match.
Some awful, cringe-inducing hokey build? Check. A stipulation that's often hard to deliver a great match through? Check. The prospect of another Cameron Grimes TakeOver defeat? Double check.
Still, to the credit of Lumis and Grimes, they put on a pretty engaging 12-minute battle. The Strap Match stipulation is one littered with far more misses than hits when reflecting back through wrestling history, yet this TakeOver bout managed to balance a sense of fun with a sense of physicality.
It's been said for months now that, while Sam Shaw is phenomenal in the role, the character of Dexter Lumis needed to show more. And in this latest encounter with Cameron Grimes, Lumis was afforded the opportunity to do more than just his usual methodical and cold shtick.
For Grimes, it wasn't so much straight to the moon here, but he did take some hugely impressive bumps and has enough smarmy heel BS to him that he should be able to bounce back from this loss. Hopefully that "bounce back" doesn't mean another match against Dexter Lumis - with this feeling like the right time to leave this rivalry in the rear view mirrors of both men.