9 Ups And 3 Downs From WWE NXT Takeover: Brooklyn

By Scott Carlson /

2. Starting Off In A Hole

This is actually a strike against WWE because it€™s about to become a victim of its own success. NXT Takeover: Brooklyn was damn good, so good that it€™s going to be nigh impossible to top. And that in itself is a negative. It€™s like your varsity team being outperformed by the junior varsity squad. Takeover was a two-hour (plus a few minutes overrun) event that delivered six matches and never felt dull, not even for a minute. SummerSlam is booked to be twice as long with 10 matches, and while several of the bouts look great on paper, what are the odds that the PPV will stack up with this one? Sad to say, the answer is, €œNot very good odds.€ That€™s not to say that WWE should stop putting on NXT specials €“ quite the opposite. WWE needs to learn from what made Takeover: Brooklyn special and try to replicate that. Putting NXT and WWE special events on back-to-back days like this will only make the contrasts more stark, until WWE wises up with its own PPVs.