10 Best NXT TakeOver Matches Of 2017
2. The Authors Of Pain Vs DIY Vs The Revival (Orlando)
The Usos, The Bar, The New Day and The Shield will justifiably gobble up most of the praise for 2017's tag team wrestling renaissance, but none of those quality quartets can lay claim to WWE/NXT's best tag team match of the year.
A mind-blowing festival of action, drama and pathos, The Authors Of Pain built on their January title victory with another worthy effort against the two teams the audience desperately wanted to see restored at the top of the tag team tree.
The Champions even survived brief complicity between fierce foes #DIY and The Revival. Kicking off an incredible sequence, Tommaso Ciampa, Johnny Gargano, Scott Dawson and Dash Wilder collaborated first on blasting Rezar through a ringside table. The smash of his body going through the wood seemed to awaken a logic in the duos, and the four went next for Akam. After Rezar recovered to save his partner from a double submission, the pair were blasted with Meet In The Middle, Shatter Machine and a series of dives between the mixed combos.
Entering rarified air from a booking perspective, a superplex on Ciampa from Dawson onto the other six bodies on the arena floor brought the match's middle section a close when #DIY were promptly pinned at the 20 mark. Without anymore flies to swat, The Authors Of Pain took just four and a half more minutes to dispose of The Revival. It's perhaps the best-constructed multi-man match in company history.