7 Ups And 3 Downs From NXT TakeOver Brooklyn III

by Scott Carlson

1. Landscape-Altering Ending

Adam Cole Debut NXT Brooklyn III
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We’ve seen two of the three NXT titles change hands at a TakeOver event, but Saturday’s PPV was unique in one major way.

The event ended with new NXT Champion Drew McIntyre being laid out by the debuting Adam Cole and new NXT superstars Bobby Fish and Kyle O’Reilly. The duo had already made their presence felt earlier in the night by attacking the new tag champs Sanity, but now all three men – all Ring of Honor alums – jumped McIntyre and left him laid out, standing tall to close the show.

It’s the kind of ending that actually makes you want to tune in on Wednesdays to see how things shake out with two new champs and new challengers/rabble-rousers already ready to take them on. Will the ROH trio form a faction to try to capture NXT gold ala the Four Horsemen or Evolution? It’s an intriguing scenario.

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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.