Ranking Every NXT TakeOver From Worst To Best
24. WarGames (2017)
A one-match show for the most part, and though that one match was absolutely f*cking fantastic, NXT's inaugural effort to replicate reinvent WarGames was a bit of a swing and a miss.
The three-team format was a touch clunky and only really offered the magic moment in which Adam Cole didn't take a move amidst a host of disconnected spots and endless brawling. The show had already been stolen by then anyway - Aleister Black and Velveteen Dream had an impossibly brilliant outing that elevated both men beyond their static statuses at the time.
Black was just about ready to ascend to NXT's topline, whilst Dream looked as if he was in a stirring reminder that losers can get just as much as winners if the matches are made to matter. This was the black-and-gold brand operating at a new level of developmental purity, even if Ember Moon's fatal four way win over Kairi Sane, Nikki Cross and Peyton Royce masked the Women's Division's bright future and the battle that saw Andrade 'Cien' Almas crowned NXT Champion over an injured Drew McIntyre was a touch on the dry side.