7 Ups And 3 Downs From NXT TakeOver: New York

by Scott Carlson

1. Best PPV Ever?

Johnny Gargano NXT TakeOver New York
WWE

It’s going to be really, really hard to top NXT TakeOver: New York, not just this weekend, but in the history of wrestling PPVs.

Consider that the worst match of the show, the NXT Women’s Championship fatal four-way match, wasn’t even a bad match. It just didn’t click really well or wow the crowd. This wasn’t Alicia Fox versus Melina.

Also, consider that each of the other four matches were fantastic title bouts that saw two new champs crowned and over-delivered on match quality. The opening tag title bout was an all-out war, while the North American Championship got a signature bout, and the UK Championship match represented a changing of the guard.

And of course, the NXT Championship match was a fantastic display of crowd manipulation, as fans repeatedly lost their collective minds at all the false finishes.

Just a fantastic show that will be remembered fondly going forward.

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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.