NXT World Champion: Bobby Roode
NXT World Tag Team Champions: The Authors Of Pain
NXT Woman's Champion: Asuka
United Kingdom Champion: Pete Dunne
NXT TakeOver: Brooklyn III
August 19th, 2017
Barclays Center: Brooklyn, New York
So instead of the usual corny trips spotlight promo, the show opens with a live song from the band "Code Orange" the song of Brooklyn III, I would have preferred if they got Hov and Wayne to do "Hello Brooklyn" or Fab, Hov, Unc Murda "Brooklyn"
Johnny Gargano vs. Andrade “Cien” Almas (w/Zelina Vega)
This rules, they have such amazing chemistry, good fast paced lucha/mat wrestling to start, all the transitions are smooth af before they make a nice transition to Almas taking over, he's more focused than he's been, and only does 1 "Tranquilo" pose. He targets the arm and it's fine, but it's the problem in today's wrestling and these two were you know it's doesn't mean anything, and Gargano isn't really a body part seller, he's tremendous at selling exhaustion or a beating and longer the match goes but body part not so much. Gargano does his usual dope comeback, he hits all his big spots and I ALREADY WANT TO DIE FROM THIS BULLSHIT 2SWEET CHANT! Fucking wrestling fans ruin everything. He hits this sweet slingshot DDT for two, Almas has the slingshot spear sets up and counters into a backbreaker followed by a reverse tornado DDT for two. Almas tries a superplex but Johnny fights him off, he tries a sunset flip bomb but Almas lands on his feet, he goes for the running knees but Johnny has it scouted, they then go on this awesome minute run stretch of countering the others big moves until Gargano locks in the stretch, but Almas picks him up with arm for the running buckle bomb. He follows up with the running knees but only gets two. Almas hits some brutal knees to the head, but takes too long which allows Johnny to hit back to back superkicks and HITS THE LUCKING LAWN DART INTO THE CORNER! He has him set up for the running superkick, but Vega throws a "DIY" t-shirt at him which distracts Gargano allowing Almas to hit a sick running dropkick and the Hammerlock DDT for the win. Dope shit, now I can't wait for 2018. ***1/4
In one of the skyboxes, Roddy is with Kurt Angle, while the Iconics are with Daniel Bryan. That loser No Way is also there.
For some reason, Cory Graves comes out to do commentary for the next match. Fucking 4 man booth. UGH!
NXT World Tag Team Championships: SAnitY (w/Nikki Cross) vs. The Authors of Pain (w/Paul Ellering)
AoP bull rushing the ring before the bell and brawl with Dain and Wolfe, all 4 brawls for a bit, with EY pulling out a table on the other side of the ring. They eventually get back and into the ring and the ref calls for the bell. They do the old switch making it seem like Dain was in the match, but before Dain officially tags in EY gets on the apron to tag the tag. The match breaks down again with all 4 brawling around ringside. For some reason they have EY get the better on Akam during the brawl, but when they get back to the ring AoP hit this awesome flip into a dominator to take over. Decent iso but EY really does nothing for as usual, and it being heel vs. heel so it really hurts this ALOT especially in a smarky loser wrestling venue look New York. Wolfe's not built for the hot tag, he has some awesome power stuff, but teams really need to either stop hittingGermanss so easily on AoP or at least make it look like it's a struggle, I low-key blame AAlpha for that. The match breaks down, with AoP going to a tower of doom spot, but Cross grabs a leg to block it. That allows EY to hit the big elbow off the top for two. Wolfe and EY both follow up with dives taking AoP out, Paul and Cross then get into in the ring, but the ref holds Paul back so Cross tries a dive onto Akam, he catches her in mid-air. BUT DAIN HITS THE FUCKING RUNNING CROSSBODY THROUGH THE TABLE. Back in the ring, Sanity hits the belly to back suplex followed by EY's neck breaker and become the first team to pin AoP for the win. Meh, new champs. **1/2
AFTER THE MATCH, BOBBY AND KYLE ATTACK BOTH AOP AND SANITY!
Neville, Nakamura, and Kalisto are all sitting in the crowd.
Jim Ross now comes out to call the next match, I have no idea why they would want to have JR call a Hideo/Black match, he seems more fitted for the tag one or the Main Event.
Code Orange come back out and play Blacks' theme song live, it's trash, way to ruin a top 3 song smh.
Hideo Itami vs. Aleister Black
FUCKING AWESOME OPENING 40 seconds, THEY COME RIGHT OUT OF THE GATE KICKING THE SHIT OUT OF ONE ANOTHER. I love the hate here, it's not a traditional WWE format, it's super stiff, full of kicks and knees, they skip the slow build and it's great. Hideo works the head and neck softening Black up for the GTS, but he's also slowly adding the heel stuff to his game. Poor guy, he does a couple of stiff kicks to the back, and aks the crowd if they want 1 more, but instead locks in a headlock. But these fucking morons from Brooklyn don't bite at all, it was dead silent, not even a single boo
So Hideo takes out his frustrations on Black by kicking him directly in the nose and Black's nose is now bleeding, a couple more minutes he spends working the heck until Black kicks his way back into it, until Hideo hits a fisherman suplex for two. They trade some nasty strikes, like Hideo backhand pimp slap, but Black comes back with a roundhouse that Hideo doesn't get his hands up to block so it hits him right in the back on the head. Hideo hits a falcon's arrow off the top for two, before they go back to just beating the shit out of one another. Hideo loses focus by yelling "SHOW ME RESPECT" so, Black drops him with the Black Mass for the win. ***
Sasha, Bayley, and Becky are in the crowd to watch the greatest Woman's wrestler in history.
NXT Woman's Championship: Ember Moon vs. Asuka
Asuka is sitting at 504 days as champion, this is her 8th title match at a TakeOver, and now holds the record of 10 straight TakeOver matches. Another awesome hot start with Ember hitting a sneak shotgun superkick to start the match, and takes the fight like no one has to Asuka, maybe outside Nia. Asuka uses her resilience and suckers her in before slamming that previously injured arm into the steps to take over. He hits a fucking awesome hammerlock suplex to the steel ramp before rolling Moon into the ring working it over. It fucking rules, tons of joint manipulation, arm kicks and just finding ways to slam the shoulder into the mat. Yo I love watching this version of Asuka, she's at her peak of cockiness, one spot included she locks on an armbar and looks directly at the horsewoman like yeah, I'm better than all of you, but the cameraman also shoots it so it also looks like she's looking directly into the camera with that cocky yeah, I can do this all night. Awesome stuff. Moon' sells it the rest of the match which ruled, even during the comeback so she has to modify switch from throwing elbows to knees, it's a nice trick from Asuka as that's her game, so she suckers Moon into it. So, she can outhit Moon who's only working with one arm. Moon goes back to the aerial and power game and hits the Eclipse, BUT ASUKA IS THE FIRST TO KICK OUT! Moon goes for it again, but Asuka holds the ref in front of her to block it, so Moon hits a crossbody but Asuka rolls through and holds the tights, but the ref stops the count. That allows Moon to hit a flash superkick for two. Asuka is OUT! SO MOON HAS TROUBLE PICKER HER UP....................BUT ASUKA POPS UP AND LOCKS IN THE ASUKA LOCK AND MOON TAPS! BRUH! THIS FUCKIN RULED! ***1/2
Asuka celebrates with her title and leaves, Moon then gets a standing ovation as she leaves.
Kevin Owens & Samoa Joe are in the front row.
Video package for the Main Event airs.
Drew gets an army of bagpipes and drums for his entrance.
Bobby gets the same piano graphic on the stage, but he's wearing another dope robe this time, it's the dark red and gold one.
NXT World Championship: Drew McIntyre vs. Bobby Roode
Clash of styles here, but they make it work, Drew is the bigger guy so he throws Roode around early, and it rules especially when Roode does his main event bumping. It's pretty much all Drew for the opening 5 minutes, with Roode's only effective moves being chops. Well, that is until, Drew goes for a suplex to the floor but Roode blocks it, he then catches Drew coming into the ring with a spinning neck breaker onto the middle rope. Solid Roode control, he targets the neck but also mixes up moves to the back or going to the air just to knock Drew off his feet. He locks in the side-headlock for the main portion of it, I really wish wrestlers would watch '04 Orton if they're gonna do it. Anyway, Drew makes a comeback and they go back-and-forth hitting big moves for near falls, Drew hits the future shock DDT for two. Drew then goes for the air raid crash off the top, but Roode slips out and hits a weak running powerbomb for two. Drew then hits the Claymore Kick a minute later, but Roode gets his foot to the ropes. For some reason, the ref stops Drew from following Roode once Roode roles to the floor. SO DREW HITS A FUCKING TOPE CON HILO TO THE FLOOR! Drew rolls him in but Roode hits a desperation double A spinebuster, Drew then blocks the DDT but Roode counters the counter and hits the DDT but Drew kicks out, Roode hits a 2nd but he tries to roll through. BUT DREW HEADBUTTS HIM AND HITS THE CLAYMORE Kick for the win. **3/4
After the match; As Drew is celebrating..........................WE AGAIN GET THE BOX LOGO! BUT FISH AND KYLE ARE BACK...............................SUDDENLY THROUGH THE CROWD ADAM COLE ATTACKS DREW FROM BEHIND! They beat Drew down, and Cole hits a superkick before posing with the NXT World Title to end the show.