7 Ups And 3 Downs From NXT TakeOver Brooklyn III

2. McIntyre Climbs The Mountain

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When Drew McIntyre was released from WWE in 2014, he was little more than a joke and a cautionary tale: a former Intercontinental and tag team champion loaded with potential who had jobbed to El Torito.

McIntyre left WWE and toured the world, became a champion everywhere he went, and then returned to the company earlier this year in NXT, looking like and being treated like a big deal. He defeated all comers, became #1 contender for the NXT Championship, and on Saturday, a man who lost to a little person in a three-minute comedy match defeated Bobby Roode for the NXT title.

The match itself was a solid one, if somewhat overshadowed by some of the action earlier in the night, but overall a nice main event.

It remains to be seen if McIntyre can recapture some of his early potential on the main roster, but his TakeOver title win has to be a big redemption for him.

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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.