8 Ups And 3 Downs From NXT TakeOver: Brooklyn II

1. Not Such A Glorious Finisher

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It’s such a shame that after a phenomenal entrance and a good match, Bobby Roode’s in-ring debut was tarnished by an uber-lame finisher, a pump-handle slam dubbed the Glorious Bomb.

No, seriously.

Road Dogg must’ve insisted on that one, but thankfully, Roode didn’t hump his opponent like Jesse James used to. Still, after Rood and Andrade Almas hit each other with a series of high-impact moves, to end the match with a pump-handle slam was just… weak. It didn’t help that we had just seen Ember Moon put her opponent away with a diving corkscrew stunner.

Let’s hope Roode’s fisherman suplex finisher is quickly restored, because the Glorious Bomb was anything but.

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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.