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9. Andrade & Aleister Black Worked An NXT Classic In That Very Arena

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Aleister Black and Andrade have met before. Anyone who watches NXT will know they had a blistering battle for the NXT Title at TakeOver: New Orleans last April. What you might not know is that it took place in the exact same Smoothie King Center as Tuesday's SmackDown.

Whomever came up with this scenario and put it into Tom Phillips' script, we salute you.

Obviously, though the match wasn't a patch on the NXT one, they made the most of the time they had to show what they're capable of together. More, please.

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