8 Ups And 3 Downs From NXT TakeOver: Brooklyn II

by Scott Carlson

1. Old School Tag Wrestling With A Twist

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If your heart wasn’t beating a lot faster during the NXT Tag Team Championship match, you probably need some help.

The Revival and Johnny Gargano & Tomasso Ciampa brought the house down mid-show with an outstanding tag title bout that featured all the basic tag wrestling standards older fans rave about: cutting off the ring, blocking tags, double-teaming, distracting the ref, false tags, hot tags, false finishes, etc. It was a clinic that had fans out of their seats for much of the second half of the match.

It’s too hard to give a rundown of everything, but suffice it to say, Scott Dawson and Dash Wilder might have deservedly walked out of Brooklyn as the champs, but Gargano and Ciampa were outstanding as well. Just a phenomenal match that should be viewed again. And again.

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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 fortunately became a fan in time for WrestleMania III and came back as a fan after a long high school hiatus before WM XIV. Monday nights in the Carlson household are reserved for viewing Raw -- for better or worse.