8 WWE NXT TakeOver: Vengeance Day Impulse Reactions

8. Pre-Show Preambles

Kudos to Wade Barrett, the typically irritating Sam Roberts and that work experience guy for trying to find drama in the absence of it on the TakeOver: Vengeance Day Kickoff.

The theme of the (excellent) video packages remained the same - the wrestlers wanted to win their wrestling matches, having won and lost some other key wrestling matches here and there on the way to this supposedly elite stage.

This changed when the former Eli Drake arrived on the scene going by his new name LA Knight. Ignoring yet another stinker out of the same think tank that shat out "Santos Escobar" as a passable moniker, Knight delivered his material with the same confidence and poise present during his well-regarded previous runs.

The unintentional (?) Rock imitation felt more pronounced here than it ever did in the Impact Zone, and Triple H surely had to know that if he was watching with his producer headset on. It at least created a talking point before the event - itself a hell of an achievement judging by the lack of buzz online.