7 Ups And 3 Downs From NXT TakeOver Brooklyn III

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7. The Numbers Game Defeats AOP

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For the past year, the Authors of Pain have been built up as a nearly impossible team to beat. So it was only fitting that it took more than a tag team to defeat them on Saturday night.

AOP tangled with Sanity (Alexander Wolfe and Eric Young) for the NXT Tag Team Championships, but it wasn’t just the duo they faced. Killian Dain and Nikki Cross found a way to factor into the match, saving Young (Cross) and taking Akam out of the match (Cross and Dain). That paved the way for Wolfe and Young to overcome Rezar and win the tag titles.

In that manner, it allowed AOP to look strong but also get the titles off of them after holding the straps since January.

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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.