7 Reasons WWE NXT Takeover II: Fatal 4-Way Was Worth $9.99
5. The Ascension Is Ready To Rise To WWE
For more than 11 months, Konnor and Viktor dominated the NXT tag team scene, to the point that they were literally begging for competition. Fans who watched the near-yearlong reign had to wonder why this team was continuing to destroy makeshift duos in NXT instead of moving up to challenge for the WWE Tag Team Championships. After Fatal 4-Way, it looks like fans might get their wish. The Ascension already made their WWE debut on Main Event on Tuesday, but after dropping their tag titles and getting chased off by KENTA (more on him in a bit), it seems like their ticket out of NXT has been punched. (Think about how Bo Dallas was sent on his way up to WWE.) And really, its sink-or-swim time with The Ascension. Theres nothing more they can do with them in NXT other than have them start stretching their matches out to more formulaic tag team affairs, but then that would damage their mystique. So it stands to reason that Konnor and Viktor will soon get to test themselves against WWE tag teams such as the current champs, the Usos. For better or worse, its at least different, new and a move forward.
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.
