6 Ups And 5 Downs From NXT TakeOver: Chicago

by Scott Carlson

1. ‘Fight Forever!’

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Holy hell, the UK Championship match between Tyler Bate and Pete Dunne was an absolute barn-burner.

The two Brits tore into each other with everything in their arsenal, with Bate breaking out a corkscrew 450 splash and deadlifting the Bruiserweight, and Dunne using an X-plex on the apron and a suplex into a powerbomb. The action was too fast and furious to catalog, but let’s just note that the crowd was certainly justified with its repeated “UK! UK! UK!” and “Fight forever!” chants. And when an exhausted Bate and Dunne leaned on each other and kept swinging, it encapsulated everything good about that match.

In the end, it was Dunne with the Bitter End to win the UK Championship and most likely set up a rivalry between he and Bate that could carry the new UK WWE Network program in the early-going.

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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.