8 Ups And 4 Downs From NXT TakeOver: Orlando

by Scott Carlson

1. Tag Title Match All Action

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End result aside, the NXT Tag Team Championship triple threat match was an incredible dose of action from beginning to (almost) end.

From the opening bell, you could tell that the storyline would be the four smaller wrestlers trying to overpower the Authors of Pain. Intermixed was the aforementioned awesome tale of DIY and the Revival alternately feuding and teaming up. The former tag champs flew around the ring while Akam and Rezar used their brute strength to maintain control as much as possible. One cool moment had AOP using Johnny Gargano as a weapon, slamming him into Tommaso Ciampa and Dash Wilder.

All in all, it was a highly entertaining match, which is what you ask for when you settle in to watch such a bout. It could have been a classic with some tweaks, but we’ll give it a thumbs-up as-is.

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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.