2. Starting Off In A Hole
This is actually a strike against WWE because its about to become a victim of its own success. NXT Takeover: Brooklyn was damn good, so good that its going to be nigh impossible to top. And that in itself is a negative. Its like your varsity team being outperformed by the junior varsity squad. Takeover was a two-hour (plus a few minutes overrun) event that delivered six matches and never felt dull, not even for a minute. SummerSlam is booked to be twice as long with 10 matches, and while several of the bouts look great on paper, what are the odds that the PPV will stack up with this one? Sad to say, the answer is, Not very good odds. Thats not to say that WWE should stop putting on NXT specials quite the opposite. WWE needs to learn from what made Takeover: Brooklyn special and try to replicate that. Putting NXT and WWE special events on back-to-back days like this will only make the contrasts more stark, until WWE wises up with its own PPVs.
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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.
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