6 Ups & 3 Downs From NXT TakeOver In Your House 2021

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6. The Fans

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It's amazing how much a rowdy crowd adds to NXT's atmosphere. The brand's output wasn't the same without this sort of energy raining down from the stands, and so everybody in attendance for TakeOver deserves a pat on the back. They were loud and up for it all night.

Walking 90s WWF meme Todd Pettengill claimed this was the largest crowd at the Performance Center yet, and it sure sounded like it. Of course, boasting about big audiences is normal practice for WWE (who could've thought that they'd fit 93,000 into this place?), but Pettengill didn't go overboard or anything.

Every act was greeted like a star, which is important. NXT's crowd almost matched the glory of those AEW hardcores back at Double Or Nothing. That's a massive compliment to them, because All Elite's audience was phenomenal.

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