8 Ups And 4 Downs From NXT TakeOver: Toronto

2. Questionable Booking Decisions

We’ll get to the matches themselves in the ups, and match quality was off the charts (as usual), but we have to call attention to the decision to have all four champions retain their titles Saturday.

Many fans speculated that things were setting up for Adam Cole’s prophecy for the Undisputed Era to be draped in gold to finally come true… only that didn’t happen. Bobby Fish & Kyle O’Reilly lost their tag title match to the Street Profits, while Roderick Strong didn’t win his North American Championship bout. That left Cole to defend his NXT Championship, which he successfully did.

In the other title match, Shayna Baszler inexplicably held onto her NXT Women’s Championship, which we’ll get into more in the next item.

But with a PPV where it was very easy to envision three titles changing hands and it being extremely logical and beneficial to storylines, the fact that none changed hands makes it baffling. The Profits, for example, have been on Raw for several weeks now, so why do they still need the NXT tag titles? Velveteen Dream is long overdue to bring his experience to the main roster too.

This was just confusing.