10 Things You Learn Binge Watching Every WWE NXT TakeOver

6. The Four Horsewomen Were For Real

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After Bayley and Sasha Banks' epic NXT Women's Title match at TakeOver: Brooklyn, Charlotte Flair and Becky Lynch joined the pair in-ring to say a shared goodbye to the brand as all bar the new Champion headed for pastures new and unknown.

It involved the four breaking character seconds after the match to effectively pay tribute to themselves for every enormous and once-thought-unfathomable leap forward made in an organisation that had systemically discouraged it for decades up to that point.

The reason The Clique's 1996 "curtain call" was so destructive to locker room morale back then wasn't because wrestlers hated the idea that other wrestlers could be friends and wish them well as they parted ways. In an era where certain aspects of the industry required more protection, the acknowledgement of the real-life union felt like an intentional undermining a kayfabe wall everybody worked hard to preserve.

In front of a sold-out house still selling the euphoria of a bona fide classic, fans and fellow wrestlers alike couldn't have been more supportive of the quartet sharing a spotlight they'd grafted relentlessly to gain.

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