If you doubted whether the Full Sail University reactions for Jason Jordan and Chad Gable were authentic or just hometown cheering, you got your answer at TakeOver when American Alpha dominated the NXT Tag Team Championship match and became new tag champs. The duo has been steadily rising the tag ranks since the summer, finally reaching the point where they earned a tag title shot against the Revival. And Jordan and Gable did not disappoint. It helped that the near-10,000 in attendance at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Center were unanimous in their support of the team, chanting for Gable (including the favorite, Save the Gable while Chad plays face-in-peril). Jordan and Gables amateur wrestling backgrounds were on full display Friday night, as they wowed the crowd with some chain wrestling, counters, tandem offense and ultimately, the Grand Amplitude for the win. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5hL-kEKLuk It will be fun to see them continue to grow as a team and as champs during the next several months, and hopefully well see them on the main roster sometimes soon.
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.
