8 Ups And 3 Downs From NXT TakeOver: Portland

6. Women Deliver Hard-Hitting Street Fight

Dakota Kai Tegan Nox
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Hats off to Dakota Kai and Teagan Nox for putting together a strong-looking street fight between the two. You could feel the disdain dripping from the two women.

Kai jumped Nox during her entrance, which is always a great way to get things jumpstarted. They laid into each other with trash cans, lids, chairs, a chain, a cricket bat… and even duct tape factored into the match. Nox showed that despite the knee injuries, she could still fly, nailing a Molly-Go-Round for a near-fall at one point.

Nox also showed the right amount of aggression and passing remorse as she brutalized Dakota’s knee, Pillmanizing it with a chair at one point before delivering her Shiniest Wizard. However, the end was not kind to her – or the match itself.

Still, we’ll give this more than passing marks for the hard work and great execution. Solid match overall.

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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.