8 Ups And 4 Downs From NXT TakeOver: Toronto

5. Riddle, Dain Whet Everyone’s Appetite

Matt Riddle Killain Dain
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Only having about five TakeOvers a year featuring five bouts each makes it difficult to squeeze in a lot of different stuff, but NXT managed to add a nice teaser Saturday night.

As the announcers prepared to move to the NXT North American Championship match, Matt Riddle came out to the ring to call out Killian Dain, who had attacked him previously. Dain obliged, and the two had a pull-apart brawl that saw them both fight off security as they continued to tear into each other.

Dain ultimately got the upper hand by jumping off the stage with Riddle on his back through a table stack, leaving the Original Bro laid out.

The match is for a future episode of NXT, but this was the kind of thing that would send a casual fan to check it out when it comes up. Nicely done.

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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.