A spiritual sequel to the carnage that broke out earlier in the show, NXT's closing moments were a loving take on the Raw and SmackDown mass brawls that are often too hard to follow.
A host of ex-NXTers rounded on The Undisputed Era following Adam Cole's win, resulting in a fight that saw Drew McIntyre take the ring to take out an isolated Dominik Dijakovic. He was then decked by Keith Lee. He stared down Ivar before the pair of them hit the skies to hit virtually every brawling body on the floor.
NXT Champion Adam Cole was typically aloof as the last man standing, until Seth Rollins superkicked him to draw enormous, cathathartic heat from a crowd invited to despise him. Their hero Tommaso Ciampa rose to his challenge to trigger the fight that finally closed the show.
Pity poor SmackDown - how on earth can the go-home angle be half as good.
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