7 Reasons WWE NXT TakeOver: Dallas Will Be The Best Show Of 2016

4. The King Of Strong Style, Swagsuke, Nakamura F'n Shinsuke

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There have been a number of thrilling acquisitions made by WWE and NXT over the last couple of years. It all started with El Generico (Sami Zayn), before Kevin Steen (Kevin Owens), Prince Devitt (Finn Balor), KENTA (Hideo Itami), Uhaa Nation (Apollo Crews), Samoa Joe and others followed suit. NXT quickly grew to resemble a dream E-Fed, with a roster the envy of anyone and everyone worldwide.

Shinsuke Nakamura is the biggest, most important talent arrival in the history of NXT. Don't be fooled either, this is no overstatement. If anything, the opposite is true. For years, Nakamura has stood tall as the biggest name in Japanese wrestling for western audiences. Sure, Hiroshi Tanahashi and Kazuchika Okada may have been above him on the New Japan card, but it was Shinsuke that brought foreign eyes to that product.

Nakamura will make his NXT debut at TakeOver: Dallas, and a more anticipated professional wrestling debut you will not find any time soon. What makes this already pant-sweatingly exciting debut even more insane is that he is going up against Sami Zayn of all people. If Nakamura vs. Zayn isn't the match of the weekend, something has gone wrong.

All of this may sound like hyperbole, but trust me; as an audience, we're in for a treat.

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Born in the middle of Wales in the middle of the 1980's, John can't quite remember when he started watching wrestling but he has a terrible feeling that Dino Bravo was involved. Now living in Prague, John spends most of his time trying to work out how Tomohiro Ishii still stands upright. His favourite wrestler of all time is Dean Malenko, but really it is Repo Man. He is the author of 'An Illustrated History of Slavic Misery', the best book about the Slavic people that you haven't yet read. You can get that and others from www.poshlostbooks.com.