Ranking Every NXT TakeOver From Worst To Best
10. XXV
The task of having to follow what many fans have called the greatest match in company history was a bold one for Adam Cole and Johnny Gargano to undertake, but oh how they managed it as the Undisputed Era leader finally took his place atop the brand.
Going to the same lengths as their New York scorcher, Champion and Challenger exercised enough restraint early on to inform an explosive all out war as the tensions mounted. Crucially, Cole did this one alone - on a night where his UE troops failed to win, he managed it. Order had at last been restored.
Roderick Strong's bruising back-smashing loss to Matt Riddle was the highlight of another pant-p*sser of an undercard that saw Kyle O'Reilly enter in one of the solo showings of the year in a match featuring seven other men. Street Profits winning the vacant Tag Team Titles in a ladder match put Montez Ford and Angelo Dawkins over as money players so impactfully that they were transplanted onto the main roster within weeks.
Though Velveteen Dream and Tyler Breeze couldn't quite live up to dream match expectations, Shayna Baszler and Io Shirai absolutely f*cking did as the first foreshadowings of the Challengers eventual heel turn came following a soul-crushing loss.