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Hey everyone! Ever since Night Of Champions 2015, through multiple accounts, every month before major WWE pay-per-views, I’ve come on here and booked the cards to make them as exciting, intriguing, and best possible scenarios for the future. I do both NXT and main-roster pay-per-views, as well as the occasional big RAW or Smackdown weekly show. Without further ado, here is how NXT Takeover: Brooklyn IV Should Be Booked.
KICKOFF-SHOW:
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We get our usual Takeover kickoff panel with Charly Caruso, Sam
Roberts and Pat McAfee, the next Jesus Christ. We’re shown video packages and
graphics for the matches as the panelists hype up the matches and give their
predictions. We get a backstage interview with Moustache Mountain.
The panel give their final predictions for the main event and we get to the
main show.
MAIN-SHOW:
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Even though NXT has yearly Takeovers every Wrestlemania weekend,
it’s pretty well known that Brooklyn is essentially NXT’s Wrestlemania. Ever
since Brooklyn I with Sahsha/Bayley, it was the defining show that made
Takeovers and NXT in general as big as they are today. Here we are for the
fourth year in a row (and hopefully the last for a few years) in Brooklyn, and
another absolutely stacked card is coming our way. Let’s get right into it.
#WhoAttackedBlack?
1ST
MATCH: Adam Cole (c) vs. Ricochet (Singles match for the NXT North American
Championship)
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A Takeover hasn’t kicked off with a singles match since WarGames
last November. It’s usually been some big multi-man ladder match or a Tag Title
match lately, so why not start things off with a potential MOTN singles match
and the first defense of the North American belt on a T.O.? Ricochet is
out first followed by Adam Cole. The match goes 17 minutes and we get formal
ring introductions. It’ll be interesting to see how these two’s styles mix,
as Cole isn’t much of a high-flyer and can be slow at times while Ricochet is
the polar opposite. The two do the insane shit that only they can do together,
and the match ends when Ricochet goes for a 450 Splash on a downed Cole
but Cole leaps up and shoves the referee in harm’s way, and Ricochet and the
ref have a nasty collision. Cole takes this opportunity to signal for KOR and
Roderick Strong to make the assist and Ricochet gets nailed with a Doomsday
Device after which O’Reilly and Strong run back up the ramp, Cole superkicks
Ricochet into oblivion and gets the pin. The UE assist would continue the
Ricochet/Cole feud, and would lead to Ricochet getting an assist from The War
Raiders on the following episode of NXT after another attempted attack from UE.
BSS would later get involved in their feud with UE, leading to the WarGames
match being made between the three teams.
WINNER
by PINFALL and STILL NXT NORTH AMERICAN CHAMPION: Adam Cole
·
We get an ad for Tapout.
2ND
MATCH: EC3 vs. Velveteen Dream (Singles match)
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This was a hard one to call the winner for. This is EC3’s first
singles Takeover match since his return, but Dream also hasn’t won at a
Takeover since defeating Kassius Ohno in Philly. It’s an absolute crime that
Dream hasn’t even had a chance at the NXT Championship yet, and I don’t think
one loss would harm EC3 at all. He’s too good of a character. Dream needs this
more in my eyes, especially for his opponent at the next Takeover, which I’ll
have my full card for at the end of this post. Dream is out first
followed by EC3. The match goes 14 minutes. EC3/Dream is the most nervous
I’ve been for a Takeover match in a long time. EC3 still isn’t the most
exciting or sound guy in-ring, and Dream, as good as he is, usually has his
best matches against guys that are also really good. I know they’ll still pull
out something real good. The match ends when EC3 tries for his One
Percenter Headlock Driver but Dream gets out and shoves him away. Dream hoists
him up for the Rolling Death Valley Driver and hits two consecutive Purple
Rainmakers for the win.
WINNER
by PINFALL: Velveteen Dream
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We get an ad for WWE Champions.
3RD
MATCH: The Undisputed Era (Kyle O'Reilly and Roderick Strong) (c) vs. Moustache
Mountain (Trent Seven and Tyler Bate) (Tag Team match for the NXT Tag Team
Championships)
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Round 3. Mustache Mountain are out first followed by UE
with KOR strumming his air guitar hard as ever. The match goes 20 minutes and
we get formal ring introductions. Let’s not begin a huge out of hand game
of hot-potato with these championships. MM won the titles at the UK Tourney for
the cheap UK pop, that was a nice moment, but there’s really no point in not
having UE retain. Plus, Bate beat Strong on the go-home NXT, so they look
strong going into this match. The match ends when Strong breaks both
guys backs and Roddy gets the pin over Bate after a Total Elimination.
WINNERS
by PINFALL and STILL NXT TAG TEAM CHAMPIONS: The Undisputed Era (Kyle O’Reilly
and Roderick Strong)
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It’s that time. We get shots of a few Brooklyn-centric celebrities
that might be in the crowd, and the last man shown is new guy named
Matt Riddle, sitting in the front row, recently unknown to WWE fans that he had
been signed to a developmental contract. Who would ever be excited for this
guy?.. Never even heard of ‘em…… bro.
4TH
MATCH: Shayna Baszler (c) vs. Kairi Sane (Singles match for the NXT Women’s
Championship)
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Mae Young Classic finalists 365 days earlier now meet 365
afterward in a Women’s Championship marquee match on a Takeover. And it’s gonna
be even better than the first time. Kairi Sane is out first followed by
Baszler. The match goes 11 minutes. Baszler has held the title for a while
now and I think WWE is already looking to bring her up to the main roster to
further fuel the fire for a 4HW vs. 4HW match. I don’t think there should be
yet another Takeover where no titles change hands, so why not pull off a big
shocker? Especially with Sane’s new intensity she’s displayed in this feud, why
not have her take the title? The match ends when Baszler begins calling
for the Rear-Naked Choke as Kairi stumbles to her feet and runs off the ropes,
nailing an Interceptor Spear. Kairi hits her most brutal Insane Elbow of all
time to win the championship to a huge ovation. The two would have their
rematch at Evolution.
WINNER
by PINFALL and NEW NXT WOMEN’S CHAMPION: Kairi Sane
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We get an ad for Summerslam tomorrow night and WWEShop.
5TH
MATCH: Tomasso Ciampa (c) vs. Johnny Gargano (Last Man Standing match for the
NXT Championship)
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At the last two Brooklyn Takeovers, Johnny Gargano has been
involved in MOTN. I don’t see that changing here. Ciampa is out first
followed by Gargano. The match goes over/under 30 minutes. The two do
things we’ve never seen before. They beat the shit out of each other like never
before. They literally take steak-knives and begin cutting each other’s
legs off, so that neither can physically stand, and the match is declared a
draw. Not really. I can’t for the life of me think how, maybe both
fall off a high platform or off the railings through some tables or fusebox or
something, and both guys end up down for the count of 10. Similar to HHH/HBK at
Royal Rumble 2004. I really don’t usually like or see Takeovers ending with
a non-decisive finish like this, but it’s a damn shame Black got hurt and I
can’t see either guy losing one on one. This will continue the feud and it’s
now 1-1-1, so it’s still both looking to get a win back on each other. At
WarGames II maybe the Triple Threat could happen, as you’ll see in my card
below.
TOMASSO
CIAMPA VS. JOHNNY GARGANO ENDED IN A DRAW
FINAL
RESULTS:
|
No. |
Results |
Stipulations |
Times |
|
1 |
Adam
Cole (c) defeated Ricochet by Pinfall |
Singles
match for the NXT North American Championship |
17
minutes |
|
2 |
Velveteen
Dream defeated EC3 by Pinfall |
Singles
match |
14
minutes |
|
3 |
The
Undisputed Era (Kyle O'Reilly and Roderick Strong) (c) defeated Moustache
Mountain (Trent Seven and Tyler Bate) by Pinfall |
Tag
Team match for the NXT Tag Team Championships |
20
minutes |
|
SEGMENT |
Matt
Riddle shown sitting in the crowd |
N/A |
N/A |
|
4 |
Kairi
Sane defeated Shayna Baszler (c) by Pinfall |
Singles
match for the NXT Women’s Championship |
11
minutes |
|
5 |
Tomasso
Ciampa (c) vs. Johnny Gargano ended in a Draw |
Last
Man Standing match for the NXT Championship |
30 minutes |
MY NXT
TAKEOVER: WARGAMES II CARD (November 17, 2018; Los Angeles, CA)
|
No. |
Matches |
Stipulations |
|
1 |
British
Strong Style (Pete Dunne, Trent Seven and Tyler Bate) vs. The Undisputed Era
(Adam Cole, Kyle O’Reilly and Roderick Strong) vs. War Raiders (Hanson and
Rowe) and Ricochet |
WarGames
match |
|
2 |
Tomasso
Ciampa (c) vs. Aleister Black vs. Johnny Gargano |
Triple
Threat match for the NXT Championship |
|
3 |
Kairi
Sane (c) vs. Toni Storm |
Singles
match for the NXT Women’s Championship |
|
4 |
Matt Riddle
vs. Velveteen Dream |
Singles
match |
|
5 |
Dominik
Dijakovic vs. Keith Lee |
Singles
match |
Well,
that was how NXT Takeover: Brooklyn IV should be booked. Tell me what from the
post you liked and didn’t like, and what from the post you’d like to see
actually happen on the show. *As always, be sure to
look out for my “How NXT Takeover: WarGames II Should Be Booked” when that
comes around on Survivor Series weekend in November*. Thanks for reading,
and enjoy the show, everyone.
