8 Ups & 9 Downs For WWE NXT In 2020
8. "TakeOver" Tampa Bay
With the initial show ripped away with just weeks to go, NXT elected to proceed with virtually all of the card as it had already been booked. Excluding the main event (more on that later), this was fairly unnecessary.
Split across television specials in a (failed) effort to at least with a couple of viewership battles out of the administrative disaster, the Women's Number One Contender Ladder Match was the predictable high amidst a slew of grim lows. With the tragic logo in the background as an echo of what might have been, Adam Cole and Velveteen Dream had a lousy NXT Championship match while Damian Priest, Keith Lee and Dominik Dijakovic had an absurdly stupid Triple Threat that repeatedly played to a crowd that weren't f*cking there.
The whole world was sad, and rather than providing a supposed distraction, NXT succumbed to the malaise. And all, seemingly, because it was thought that the big matches could pop a couple of numbers.
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