10 Worst WWE Matches Of 2021 (So Far)
5. Adam Cole Vs Kyle O'Reilly - NXT TakeOver: Stand & Deliver Night 2
Lots of people appeared - for all that Twitter's reach is surprisingly small for all those numbers flying around - to enjoy Adam Cole and Kyle O'Reilly's match at TakeOver: Stand & Deliver.
Lots of people need to watch the Great American Bash rematch between the pair and think about how much they really felt for the 40+ minute slog that threatened to kill any hope of the story even warranting the far superior second chapter. .
An over-indulgent, excessive encounter that forced the former Undisputed Era men to slot themselves into somebody else's match rather than have their own, this was a monument to an angle booked backwards. The technical thriller they'd go on to have was ignored for the sake of a weapons-heavy brawl driven by faux-intensity and a need to go as long as possible.
Give or take a few minutes, you could watch their sequel twice in the time it took to get through the original, and you'd have two fresh looks at a far more appealing contest. There's an energy about it that the first one is shambling around in the dark for and never finds, and it's a reminder than NXT may still know how to do this sh*t really, really well.