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Hey everyone! Ever since Night Of
Champions 2015, through multiple accounts, I have been fantasy booking WWE
PPV's in detail, mainly just because I love writing and wrestling and throwing
out ideas. I major in journalism in real life. As always, enjoy the post, and
give me your thoughts and what from my post you'd like to see really happen on
the show. Without further ado, here is How I Would Book NXT TAKEOVER: WAR
GAMES. (For those that have seen these
posts before that are confused, I was previously u/ThePipeBomb11)
My post on last year’s Survivor
Series Weekend NXT Takeover, Toronto: https://www.reddit.com/r/SquaredCircle/comments/5dvmdp/how_nxt_takeover_toronto_should_be_booked/
PRE SHOW:
- Our panel consists of Charly Caruso, Booker T, and
everyone’s favorite man on this Earth, Sam Roberts. We’re shown video
packages and the panel hypes up the matches and give their predictions.
I’m just gutted that the Dunne/Gargano Match is a dark match that we’re
only getting to see next week, it’s definitely a PPV worthy match.
DARK MATCH: Pete Dunne (c) vs.
Johnny Gargano (Singles Match for the WWE United Kingdom Championship)
- Dunne is out first followed by Gargano and his REBEL
HEART. I firmly believe this could be better than anything on Takeover. The
match goes 13 minutes, and Gargano almost wins the big one with a
Slingshot Spear but Pete snatches him and lifts him up for a Bitter End.
WINNER by Pinfall and STILL WWE
United Kingdom Champion: Pete Dunne
- The panel give their final predictions for the War
Games Match and then we get to the main show.
MAIN SHOW:
- Well, godamn. The match that everyone has been longing
for the return of for 16 1/2 years is finally back. This show is going to
be incredible. Don’t forget I have a “How WWE Should Book Survivor Series
2017” post going up tonight/tomorrow morning as well, with some big
announcements on future posts. Let’s get right into playing some War
Games.
1ST MATCH: Aleister Black vs. The
Velveteen Dream (Singles Match)
- Dream is out first followed by Black. This has honestly
been one of my favorite feuds of the year. They've made PATRICK CLARK look
like a credible threat to ALEISTER BLACK. Dream has played his character
to perfection. The match goes 12 minutes. It ends after Dream nails
a Death Valley Driver on Black and then rolls outside, grabs a mic, gets
down on one knee and then shoves the mic in Black's face and demands he
say his name for all to hear. Black breathes heavily for a few seconds and
then says "You... you are the Velveteen Dream... and you're about to
get kicked in the face". Black jumps up, slaps the mic out of Dream's
hand, and then hits a Black Mass for the win. I was thinking about a DQ
finish for this match, since NXT almost never does DQ's anyways, but there
was just one in the Roddy/Cole match, so they shouldn't do another this
early.
WINNER by Pinfall: Aleister Black
- We get a backstage interview with SHAWN MICHAELS, and
he promises to win the ab-off later against Johnny Gargano. Yes, this is
really going to happen. I won't let WWE forget it.
2ND MATCH: Lars Sullivan vs. Kassius
Ohno (Singles Match)
- This is HOSS VS. HOSS IN A 700 MINUTE MONSTER TRUCK NO
ROPES ELECTRIC APRON DEATHMATCH. The match sadly does not last 700
minutes, only 10. At one point Sullivan GORILLA PRESS SLAMS Ohno. Ohno
hits the Rolling Elbow to the back of the head and LARS KICKS OUT AT 1.
Lars gets the win after sending Ohno shoulder-first into an exposed
turnbuckle and then hits the Freak Accident for the win.
WINNER by Pinfall: Lars Sullivan
- We get an ad for Survivor Series tomorrow night.
3RD MATCH: Ember Moon vs. Kairi Sane
vs. Nikki Cross vs. Peyton Royce (with Billie Kay) (Fatal-4 Way for the Vacant
NXT Women's Championship)
- Kairi is out first followed by Peyton followed by Ember
and finally Cross. The match goes 13 minutes. The 4 women beat the
hell out of each other and it ends after Peyton Royce and Kairi Sane are
in the ring. Sane hits a Tornado DDT off the turnbuckles on Peyton, and
then goes up top for the IN-SANE ELBOW. She hits it but before she can
make the cover, Nikki Cross runs in, throws Kairi to the outside, and then
steals the pin to win the title. Nikki rolls out and holds up her
title and clutches it to her chest on the ramp. Allow me to explain. Ember
Moon was feuding with Asuka for forever, and she could never beat her, so
I feel that Ember can't just win it randomly in a fatal fourway. I'd have
it end up being Kairi vs. Ember at Takeover New Orleans, and Ember wins it
there. And they can't have Kairi win because they need to have a break
from the unbeatable Asuka dominant character for a while, and that's just
exactly what they'd make Sane be. They can't have Asuka 2.0 be the
champion after original Asuka, and in many fans minds they still just
think of the woman who came in to replace Asuka and replicate her, and she
shouldn't be champion until that is squashed. This is also the beginning
of Sanity holding all the belts in NXT, with Eric Young becoming NXT Champ
sooner or later.
WINNER and NEW NXT Women's Champion:
Nikki Cross
- IT'S TIME FOR THE AB-OFF. Shawn is out first followed
by Gargano. The two take off their shirts, do some crunches, planks, and
flex like it's the 1980s all over again. It's now up to a crowd vote and
the bigger reaction after each name is said wins. We'll just have to see
how this one turns out, but I'm rooting for Vince to have multiple orgasms
and fall over in a chair at ringside again. https://youtu.be/GVNu4HEAE5c?t=5m23s
4TH MATCH: Drew McIntyre (c) vs.
Andrade Almas (with Zelina Vega) (Singles Match for the NXT Championship)
- McIntyre is out first followed by Andrade. Very happy
that Almas is finally getting this match. Drew McIntyre just doesn't feel
like a guy that should be in NXT right now at all. He should be on RAW as
Intercontinental Champion again right now, and maybe eventually a main
eventer. I'd think the plan would be to have Drew come up right around
Rumble season, maybe even on RAW 25, (which I'll have a post for BTW), but
Andrade also shouldn't lose clean. The match goes 16 minutes. It
ends after Almas hits the La Sombra near the ropes, and the ref is turned
the other way and does not see that Drew has his foot on the bottom rope,
and Almas gets the pin. It appears that Andrade has won the title, but it
would be revealed after the ref is shown footage from the match that
McIntyre got his foot on the rope and there was really no title change.
The two would fight again on the final NXT of 2017, where McIntyre would
defend the title in a Triple Threat against Almas and Eric Young, and
Young would win the championship, completing Sanity's championship hunt.
McIntyre would not appear on NXT again and would debut around the Royal
Rumble a few weeks later on the main roster on RAW.
WINNER and STILL NXT Champion: Drew
McIntyre (with Andrade appearing to have won, decision reversed following NXT)
- We get an ad for Tapout. Then we get the graphic for
WAR GAMES and a video package for the match. We get to our main event as
the second ring is rolled out and constructed.
5TH MATCH: Authors Of Pain &
Roderick Strong vs. Sanity vs. The Undisputed Era (3-Way WAR GAMES MATCH)
- The two rings and two cages are all set up as we come
back from the video. One problem is I don't know whether this match will
be contested like old War Games where two men start off and then every 2
minutes a member of a random team comes in, or something different. I'm
just going to assume they do it that way. If that is the case, then Kyle
O'Reily starts off against Roderick Strong. The match goes 26 minutes.
The entries are shown in the table below. The brawl ends Roddy &
SAnity are down in one ring, and in the other The Undisputed Era are
brawling with the Authors of Pain, and Roddy sees that his chances are
diminishing. The Authors power off Fish, Cole and Kyle and hit both their
finishers on Bobby and O'Reily. Adam Cole is the only one left. Out of
nowhere, Strong hits a Sick Kick on Akam, and another on Rezar, turning
heel. All 3 members of the Undisputed Era get up now and all pile on top
of Rezar for the win. Their music plays and then Cole offers a hand to
Strong, and he shakes it. Takeover ends with The Undisputed Era standing
tall with a new member.
WINNERS: The Undisputed Era (with
the help of a Roderick Strong heel turn)
- ENTRIES:
|
No. |
Wrestler |
|
1 |
Kyle O'Reily |
|
2 |
Roderick Strong |
|
3 |
Alexander Wolfe |
|
4 |
Eric Young |
|
5 |
Bobby Fish |
|
6 |
Akam |
|
7 |
Rezar |
|
8 |
Adam Cole |
|
9 |
Killian Dain |
Welp,
that was how I'd book NXT Takeover
WARGAMES. Hope you all enjoyed, and be sure to share anywhere you can. Tell me
what you liked and didn't like, and be sure to look out for my "How WWE
Should Book Survivor Series 2017" post coming out.... in the next 24 hours.
It has some big news on future booking posts, bringing the grand total coming
out in January to 4. The Rumble, Takeover Philly, and two others... and
involves yet more heel turns. Enjoy the show tonight, everyone.
