10 HUGE NXT TakeOver: Portland Predictions You Need To Know
1. The Road To WrestleMania?
As touched upon elsewhere in this article, it feels pertinent to include NXT on WrestleMania after the trouble the company went to to involve them in both the Survivor Series and the Royal Rumble, but is there any possible way this will feel remotely organic?
In the event that the results play out in the aforementioned fashion, could Finn Bálor target Adam Cole immediately after his victory over Tommaso Ciampa, but make it clear that he's all about settling a debt on the 'Grandest Stage' rather than a slightly smaller one the night before? Becky Lynch said Shayna Baszler should be on the lookout for her, not the other way around. Might Sunday be the night? The Kabuki Warriors had their best match as a tag team on NXT and could pick and choose from a host of females to offer a shot to on April 8th.
And so on. The possibilities are limitless yet shouldn't be - despite the relative proximity of the 'Show Of Shows', there is so little confirmed. The black-and-gold brand should for once be permitted to set the agenda rather than react to it, not least with a Raw the following evening that could at long last provide a synergistic quality between the company's former flagship and its newest televisual property.