6 HUGE NXT TakeOver: New Orleans Predictions You Need To Know
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Johnny Gargano and Tommaso Ciampa's arc since arriving separately together on NXT in late 2015 is on course to not only be the greatest story ever told in NXT but also possibly the finest angle in WWE history.
It is a feud that has been painstakingly detailed every single time the duo have shared a screen together - and over the last year, plenty of times when they haven't. Ciampa's injury suffered just before his brutal turn on his former friend at the climax of last year's TakeOver: Chicago supercard threatened to derail wrestling's hottest drama, but Gargano's solo babyface rise created the perfect party for Ciampa to come back and brutally spoil.
Though this New Orleans showdown is one audiences have pined for since they last faced off in 2016's Cruiserweight Classic, it also now seems too soon to call time on such an evocative rivalry.
Gargano can't really afford another defeat (not least one that would freeze him out of NXT), but a beating so vicious that it triggered a forced stoppage by GM William Regal would extend the feud through at least one more TakeOver special and render Ciampa NXT's most devastating heel in his first official match as a villain on the brand.