8 Things NXT Got Right At TakeOver: WarGames

Will NXT ever put on a disappointing TakeOver? WarGames was another wonderful wrestling show.

by John Bills
Andrade Cien
WWE

The run has to come to an end at some point, right? NXT TakeOver: WarGames continued the trend of excellent special events from the developmental brand, although it doesn’t seem fair to refer to NXT as a ‘developmental brand’ anymore. The talent and storytelling on show last night was far from second league.

New champions were crowned, old favourites were brought back and spruced up for the modern age, and Lars Sullivan continued to look weird and decimate folk. The WWE Universe had high expectations for NXT TakeOver: WarGames, and the show over-delivered yet again.

It wasn’t a perfect night, but NXT made plenty of right moves in Houston’s Toyota Center. Everything is now set up for the next few months of TV, and the brand simultaneously looks fresh and solid going towards the end of 2017. Let’s focus on what NXT got very right last night in Texas.

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Born in the middle of Wales in the middle of the 1980's, John can't quite remember when he started watching wrestling but he has a terrible feeling that Dino Bravo was involved. Now living in Prague, John spends most of his time trying to work out how Tomohiro Ishii still stands upright. His favourite wrestler of all time is Dean Malenko, but really it is Repo Man. He is the author of 'An Illustrated History of Slavic Misery', the best book about the Slavic people that you haven't yet read. You can get that and others from www.poshlostbooks.com.