4 Ups And 3 Downs From NXT Worlds Collide

by Scott Carlson

1. Breaker, Bate Bring Down The House

Bron Breakker Tyler Bate
WWE

How good is Tyler Bate? And how much potential does Bron Breakker have?

Just watch the NXT/NXT UK Championship unification match and you’ll get a pretty good idea. Breakker has been in the business just over a year, with fewer than 50 matches to his name. Meanwhile, Bate is a 10-year veteran, despite being only one year older than Bron.

Bate and Breakker had a solid, and at times spectacular, title match Sunday, with both men showcasing their strength, speed, agility and aerial capabilities. The finishing sequence was about as hot as you can get, capped off with Tyler going for a rebound clothesline, only for Bron to nail a spear for the win.

You could have made the argument for either man to win here, but really, Breakker is their franchise player and really benefited from this match and this win. Great job overall.

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Scott is a former journalist and longtime wrestling fan who was smart enough to abandon WCW during the Monday Night Wars the same time as the Radicalz. He fondly remembers watching WrestleMania III, IV, V and VI and Saturday Night's Main Event, came back to wrestling during the Attitude Era, and has been a consumer of sports entertainment since then. He's written for WhatCulture for more than a decade, establishing the Ups and Downs articles for WWE Raw and WWE PPVs/PLEs and composing pieces on a variety of topics.