6 Ups And 3 Downs From NXT TakeOver: Chicago

4. Tag Team Melee

NXT TakeOver Chicago 2 Lorcan O'Reilley
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Knowing the strengths of all four men in the NXT Tag Team Championship match, it would have been disappointing if the contest didn’t devolve into an outright strike- and slugfest.

The match started somewhat slowly, with a feeling-out process between the teams, but midway through, they started tearing into each other. Kyle O’Reilly got it going with some MMA strikes, but when Oney Lorcan got a hot tag, he started running over the champs with a half-and-half suplex, running European uppercut and double blockbuster. O’Reilly and Danny Burch started laying into each other, and then things really broke down.

All four men spent the last third of the match involved in some way, as tags pretty much went out the window and it became a game of battering your opponent. Undisputed Era finally got one last shot in to get the win, but the free-for-all nature of the match was tremendous. It was unlike 98% of what you see in WWE today, which is what made it so great.

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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.