The first match is for the NXT Tag Team Championship as Moustache Mountain challenged The Undisputed Era. The match starts in a brawl before the referee manages to restore order. The match goes back and forth before Roderick Strong kills Tyler Bate with a brutal clothesline. There was a great bit later on when Kyle O'Reilly puts Bate in a heel hook and Trent Seven gets tempted to throw in the towel but doesn't. In the end, despite the best efforts of Bate and Seven, Strong and O'Reilly hit Total Elimination on Seven to get the win. Afterwards, The War Raiders attack Strong and O'Reilly. This was a really good match and probably the best one out of the three that they had. I don't really like what happened afterwards tho. It looks like they're making The War Raiders faces so it seemed weird them attacking Strong and O'Reilly.
Winners: The Undisputed Era (1 for 1)
The next match is Velveteen Dream taking on EC3. Dream gets the advantage after hitting a twisting DDT onto the ramp. Dream then focuses on the neck. EC3 manages to make a comeback, hitting moves such as a sit down powerbomb. However, Dream hits a rolling death valley dirver onto the apron, followed by the Purple Rainmaker to get the win. I enjoyed the match, although it was hard to top the tag team match.
Winner:Velveteen Dream (2 for 2)
We now get our 2nd Championship match as Ricochet challenges Adam Cole (Bay Bay!) for the NXT North American Championship. Cole manages to cope with Ricochet's fast paced offence before sending him to the floor. Ricochet gets back into it, although Cole comes very close after hitting a superkick followed by a fireman's carry neckbreaker. In the end, Ricochet hit an awesome leaping hurracarrana, sending Cole from the apron to the floor. He then follows that with a 630 splash to get the win. This match was awesome and so much fun to watch.
Winner: Ricochet (3 for 3)
The penultimate match is for the NXT Women's Championship as Kairi Sane challenges Shayna Baszler. Sane takes it to Baszler before Baszler dropkicks her knee then stomps her calf to death to get the advantage. Baszler focuses on the knees, bending them in ways that a contortionist would be proud of. She then starts to get cocky before Sane hits 2 rolling neckbreakers. Sane goes on to hit 2 Insane Elbows but Baszler kicks out. They then both try to do submission moves before Sane goes for another Insane Elbow. Baszler manages to block it and apply the Kirifuda Clutch. Howver, Sane reverses it into a roll up to suddenly get the win and become the new NXT Women's Champion. This match was another awesome one to watch. I thought the psychology of the match was well done and I loved the ending, which is similar to how the Piper/Bret match finished at Wrestlemania VIII. I was surprised that Sane won but it probably means that Baszler is being prepped to go up to the main roster so I'm looking forward to thier rematch in the near future.
Winner: Kairi Sane (3 for 4)
The main event is Johnny Gargano challenging Tommaso "Fuckface" Ciampa in a Last Man Standing Match for the NXT Championship. Highlights of the match include:
- Gargano not waiting for Kaylee Braxton to finishing announcing before attacking
- Gargano throwing Ciampa over the announce table then Ciampa sending Gargano through the Spanish announce table.
- Ciampa applying a sleeper.
- Ciampa hitting 3 powerbombs into a double knee then sitting on a chair while the referee counted
- Ciampa hitting an implant buster onto the steel steps
- Gargano accidentally hitting a member of the ring crew with a superkick
- Ciampa sending Gargano crashing through the timekeeper's area then burying with anything he can find, including the knocked out member of the ring crew
- Gargano sending Ciampa through a table he had set up earlier
The end comes when Gargano handcuffs Ciampa to part of the stage then proceeds to kick him repeatedly in the head. When Garagno hits a running knee, he goes flying off the stage into the crates nearby. Both guys are down but Ciampa just about slides off the stage onto his feet before the ten count to get the win.
Like the other matches on this show, it was awesome to watch and I liked the way it ended. Gargano, in his attempts to beat up Ciampa, has been letting his anger get the best of him. This is another example as he hurt himself in the process of hitting Ciampa and it ended up costing him the match. Whilst I've enjoyed these matches, I feel that we need a little step back away from it and have Ciampa have another feud. Hopefully, Gargano's injury will do that.
Winner: Tommaso Ciampa (4 for 5)
I have not seen every Takeover but I think that this was the best one I've ever seen. Four of the matches were amazing and Dream vs EC3 was not as good but it was better than most of the matches that I see on the main roster. Hopefully Summerslam will be just as good (it probably won't but I can dream, right?)
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