6 Biggest Winners From NXT TakeOver: Brooklyn
What a night!
NXT has been a winning brand for quite a while now. Especially since the launch of the WWE Network, it's grown to be the home of some of the most talked about wrestling on the planet. At TakeOver: Brooklyn, their winning ways continued.
Tagging onto the already big SummerSlam weekend, this NXT show found itself home to their biggest audience yet. Stephanie McMahon announced that this show was sold out in the Barclays Center to a crowd of 15,589.
It was also announced that there will be events held overseas as NXT will be going to London in December. So far, the NXT brand itself and England can consider themselves winners and we haven't even recapped the actual matches yet. It's just an exciting source of wrestling.
Six matches were aired, meaning that at least six individuals can consider themselves winners from this Brooklyn show. New champions were crowned and an international legend surprised this author with a victory. The top two matches, hailed as the co-main events, were some of the best wrestling matches of the year.
This show was great from top to bottom. It would be hard recommending anything to watch from this show without advising someone to simply to just watch the entire show.
Here are the the six biggest winners from NXT's biggest show to date...
6. Jushin Thunder Liger
This is one winner that many probably didn't see happening. Jushin Thunder Liger is the legend and Tyler Breeze is the rookie in this pairing, so why wouldn't Breeze go over?
The always funny Kayfabe News even ran a satirical piece yesterday that poked fun of the very formulaic matchup that was titled "NXT rookie Liger gets huge opportunity against veteran Breeze." It just seemed like a lock that Liger would lose.
Even so, Liger won in this bout that was just as much a showcase of their characters as it was for their skills. Breeze's frustrations would be on display throughout the match as Liger mocked The King of Cuteville. Liger even posed with his beloved selfie stick to the ire of Tyler.
Jushin won the match with his Running Liger Bomb in this hot show opener. Perhaps his win lays the groundwork for a return match between these two, which would be a more meaningful win for Tyler in the long run.