Hey everyone! Ever since Night Of Champions 2015, through multiple accounts, before major WWE pay-per-views every month, 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 milestone RAW or Smackdown weekly show. Without further ado, here is how NXT TakeOver: Stand & Deliver 2021 (Nights 1 and 2) should be booked!

MY WRESTLEMANIA-WEEK NXT TAKEOVER POSTS OF PREVIOUS YEARS:

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When it comes to the black and gold brand on WrestleMania weekends of the past, we’ve danced in Dallas, we’ve oscillated in Orlando, we got down in New Orleans, we yahooed in New York, and now we…. Stand and Deliver. It’s a crap name isn’t it? What’s not crap is the card itself. The biggest Takeover, quite literally, as we’re going two nights boys and girls, because bigger is ALWAYS better. Except for me who has for some reason put it upon myself to write posts for BOTH nights of Takeover AND both nights of WrestleMania. I’ll be fine. I’ll be totally fine. I’ll be fine. I’ll be totally fine. I’ll be-

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As always, this isn’t what I think WILL happen, this is what I think SHOULD happen. Now, let’s distract ourselves from the real world with some pro wrestling.

NIGHT 1 (Wednesday, April 7th; USA Network)

1ST MATCH: Grizzled Young Veterans (James Drake and Zack Gibson) vs. Legado Del Fantasma (Joaquin Wilde and Raul Mendoza) vs. MSK (Nash Carter and Wes Lee) (Triple Threat Tag Team match for the Vacant NXT Tag Team Championships)

After probably an in-ring promo by Triple H where he says something something WE ARE NXT-UH, we find out what the first action of the night will be as MSK are out first, followed by LDF, followed by The Grizzled Young Veterans. With each entrance, the heel side of the spectrum grows. The match gets 21 minutes, and GYV come out cutting their usual promo, exclaiming that they are SEEWWWWWWNNN to be champions, and Liverpool’s #1, and all that. I say it all the time, but I hope this match sees one member of each team in the ring at once, making it a varied triple threat the whole way through, instead of just two guys in at once who can tag in any other teams, because when they did it the way I’m talking about in that fatal 4-way Tag Team Titles match at COC, it was AWESOME. If 3 men start in the ring, I’d start off with Wes Lee, Raul Mendoza and James Drake in the ring, and if it’s only the measly two, I’d go with Wes Lee and Gibson starting off, cause you’re not gonna have the two heel teams begin in the ring against each other, are you? The match is high flying, flippy floppy, hip hop and happening, and we get all sorts of insane spots with the 6 men. The match ends when MSK first hit their running assisted Blockbuster on Joaquin Wilde, and then hit their crazy standing moonsault where the other guy dropkicks him into position mid-air. Nash Carter is about to make the cover but GYV both slide in and blast Wes Lee in the back of the head, and then are quick to nail a Ticket to Mayhem on Nash Carter, the Veterans send them both out of the ring, and Zack Gibson steals the cover on Wilde to capture the NXT Tag Team Titles. Grizzled Young Veterans have been a gem to NXT ever since they really made a name for themselves to the larger audience in 2020’s Dusty Rhodes Tag Team classic, with matches like that final against The Broserweights. (Remember them?) I think they are more than deserving of being given the honor of holding these belts and being tasked with leading the Tag Team division while Lorcan and Burch are out. I would’ve much preferred this if it had just been a straight two on two rematch between MSK and GYV in a battle of the initials after their Takeover: Vengeance Day classic, but Legado regretfully were added to this to make it a triangle affair, and frankly I believe they were added to take the pin here. And this finish works so well with that in mind, MSK, being the fan favorite, new high-flying tag team in NXT, coming so close to victory only for the GYV to steal it away from them at the last second and for MSK not to have even been involved in the match-ending pinfall to have blown their shot, gives them an excuse for another crack at GYV and those tag titles down the line. MSK don’t need those titles yet and I think them on the chase for them with GYV as their heel foils for the next few months could be wonderful stuff. For now, all the fans at home must take their shoes off if they hate Gibson, and DEAL WITH IT.

WINNERS by PINFALL and NEW NXT Tag Team Champions: Grizzled Young Veterans

We get an ad for NXT moving to Tuesday nights on USA this week, and then a backstage interview with Dexter Lumis. Lumis is asked a series of questions about the Gauntlet Eliminator match tonight, and he stares off into the distance and says nothing for each one of them. Hurray! We’ve got time to fill here!

2ND MATCH: KUSHIDA vs. Pete Dunne (Singles match)

Oh boy. Ohhhhhhh, boy. OHHHHHHHHHHHH boy. This is a battle of technical wizards. Two wrasslers that are going to go out there and STAND….. and deliver. Only one of them won’t be standing for very long when the other presumably goes after their opponent’s leg and stretches it into paper. While the build just isn’t there for this match, and that’s a shame, if nothing else it’s incredible action on paper. Pete is out first, followed by KUSHI? DUH. The match gets 17 minutes. In recent weeks, Pete Dunne has taken the liberty of christening himself as the “best technical wrestler in the world”, or something of the like. Call me crazy, but I think that if he really is gonna take that and run with it, that (assuming he doesn’t win the Universal Championship on Sunday), this could be leading to Daniel Bryan coming down to NXT for an incredible run of matches with all the young, hungry guys there who I’d bet you money would be DYING to get in the ring with someone like him. And it could all start with Pete Dunne. Bryan coming to NXT to have some of the best damn matches you’ll see all year with guys like Dunne, Kushida, Gargano, another match with Cole, a match with O’Reilly, Strong, WALTER, it would bring an enormous amount of eyes to NXT to get them started off on Tuesdays hot, and of course with the idea that Bryan would, in the end, put all those guys over, would only be beneficial to everyone he’d end up working with and elevate them all as a result. That being said, I think in order for Dunne to continue this new mantra, he should be getting the win over KUSHIDA here, even though I sort of hate this match because both of them really could be using a big win right now after their collective losses at Vengeance Day, but hey, WWE booked this match, not me, so I gotta book a winner. The match ends when KUSHIDA tries several times to lock on the Hoverboard Lock, and with each attempt Dunne seems to be succumbing more to the pain and closer to a tapout, but Dunne is able to get ahold of KUSHIDA’s fingers, snaps them into oblivion, and KUSHIDA walks right into a Bitter End from Dunne for the victory. Now get Dunne a few more wins on NXT TV in the coming months, and lemme get one piping hot, fresh out of the oven order of a Pete Dunne/Daniel Bryan submission match on the next Takeover event. Oh, and don’t forget the sprinkles.

WINNER by PINFALL: Pete Dunne

We get an ad for NXT Shop, and then a video package for our next match.

3RD MATCH: WALTER (c) (w/ Imperium) vs. Tommaso Ciampa (Singles match for the NXT UK Championship)

Tomasso Ciampa is out first, followed by WALTER. The match gets 20 minutes, and we get formal in-ring introductions.. that is until Ciampa signs his death warrant as he decides it’s a good idea to bum-rush WALTER with a clothesline, who no-sells it completely and turns Tommaso Ciampa’s chest into a shooting range as he lights it up with chops. The match is a physical massacre of the human anatomy of epic proportions right out of the gate. This could be the match of the weekend and I am so ungodly excited for it. One spot that is REQUIRED in this match is WALTER chopping Ciampa right smack dab on the top of his very, very, bald, bald head. The middle portion sees what would usually be the two guys fighting up to their feet and trying to fire each other up with forearms to the face, but in this case, the two tough bastards are chopping each other until one FUCKING DIES. Ciampa is trying his damndest to make WALTER feel his pain but there’s no blowing over a brick shithouse and so WALTER pulls Ciampa in and takes his head off with a short-arm clothesline. The match becomes so violent to the point where Ciampa’s chest is turning purple and he is beginning to bleed from several orifices, and it looks like WALTER is about to dispose of him. Ciampa is hoisted up for a Powerbomb but it looks like he’s still got fight left, as he squirms off WALTER’s shoulders, and somehow POWERS THE BIG MAN UP FOR A FAIRYTALE ENDING. Ciampa goes to make the cover but Imperium get up on the apron to try and distract the referee. This prompts the returning TIMOTHY THATCHER to run down and chase Barthel and Aichner away from ringside with a steel chair in hand. Thatcher is here to help his bitter rival turned tag team partner, Tommaso Ciampa! This is a situation where Thatcher must make a choice, however… side with Ciampa and continue where they left off as teammates in the Dusty Rhodes tag classic.. or side with WALTER, his old master in Ringkampf, from another world. Long story short, Thatcher ultimately screws Ciampa, it’s revealed that him running off Aichner and Barthel was just a ruse to mess with Ciampa’s head and make him question where Thatcher’s loyalties lie, and WALTER ends up retaining after Thatcher puts him to sleep in the chokehold with the big splash off the top rope. If you’re ever gonna even come close to having another title reign near the length of a Bruno Sammartino, WALTER is the guy to do it with, and if anyone’s ever to beat him for that title, it definitely wouldn’t be Ciampa, a dude who won’t even work the main roster because of their time on the road, so he SURE AS HELL ain’t gonna take his ass to the UK to defend that championship. Still, we get Thatcher’s official reunion/debut into IMPERIUM in WWE, and we can squeeze one more Ciampa and Thatcher blood match out of this, as WALTER continues his dominance and awesomeness for years upon years to come. It’s almost fate that this match between these two men came to be, because I feel like Thatcher’s allegiance to both men will end up being the true story of it. Ultimately, Ringkampf returns in full strides, and the mat is sacred as ever. Good luck to Raquel and Io, because if I was running things, I would’ve been having this one main event without batting an eye.

WINNER by PINFALL and STILL NXT UK Champion: WALTER

We get an ad for the two nights of WrestleMania on Saturday and Sunday, and then we go to the commentators who recap the VERY SIMPLE 13 pages of rules for the Gauntlet Eliminator up next. Johnny Gargano makes his way out to be on commentary for the bout, and then we go to commercial.

4TH MATCH: Bronson Reed vs. Cameron Grimes vs. Dexter Lumis vs. Isaiah “Swerve” Scott vs. LA Knight vs. Leon Ruff (6-man Gauntlet Eliminator match to determine the #1 contender for the NXT North American Championship on Night 2)

Leon Ruff #1, Isaiah “Swerve” Scott #2, Bronson Reed #3, Cameron Grimes #4, Dexter Lumis #5, LA Knight #6. I checked, and the last Gauntlet Eliminator match on TV back in September, where Kyle O’Reilly won and began his ascension to the main event picture as a singles star, went near 28 minutes. With that being said, The match gets 27 minutes, because on that night there wasn’t a Takeover length card on TV. Also I honestly just noticed when adding up all the match times that If I cut this match to 27 minutes instead of 28, the overall match time tonight would add up to exactly 100 minutes. And that’s a nice, round, satisfying number, isn’t it? The match pans out as Ruff and Swerve start off in a slugfest as they battle out their differences. They tease a double countout and a double DQ which would eliminate them both before Bronson Reed comes out at #3. Bronson overpowers the two smaller men and overcomes all of their double team attacks. At one point, Bronson hits the Vader spot, as he goes for a top rope splash on Swerve, but Ruff, like a damn spider monkey, hops up onto the top rope and jumps onto Bronson’s back. Bronson leaps and squashes Swerve with Ruff on his back. During all this, Cameron Grimes makes his way out at #4 and goes wild, hitting Cave-Ins and Collision Courses on Ruff and Swerve. He squares up to Reed, but immediately recoils as he realizes the size difference between Reed and himself, and of course offers up a load of cash for Reed to spare him. Reed takes the cash offer, but then hits a scoop powerslam on Grimes anyways and hits a diving headbutt, Bam Bam Bigelow style. Dexter Lumis is out at #5 and he slowly creeps down to the ring, and stares at everyone. LA Knight is out at #6 and hits a Rock Bottom and a People’s Elbow on all 5 men in the ring at once, get it because he’s a Rock cosplay. Ruff is eliminated after being FLATTENED by a big splash from Bronson Reed, because it’s funny when big man go on top of little man. Swerve then gets himself DQ’ed after hitting Ruff with a steel chair and the tensions between those two men boil over as they brawl to the back. Bronson Reed is eliminated after he misses a splash on LA Knight, and Lumis, Knight and Grimes all pile on top of him for the pin. Lumis has replicated his incredible performance previously seen in this past week’s battle royal where he stands in the corner and stalks everyone. Lumis would win somehow by default, as you could maybe have Knight and Grimes in a double pin, but I think Lumis winning by literally not doing anything, as much as it would piss some old dudes with a microphone, fits Lumis perfectly. Obviously he would put in the work the following night against Gargano, but would he be victorious in the title fight?

WINNER by last eliminating LA Knight: Dexter Lumis, who will now advance to challenge for the NXT North American Championship against Johnny Gargano on Night 2

We go to Vic Joseph, Wade Barrett and Beth Phoenix on commentary, who run us down the full card for tomorrow’s Night 2 of Stand & Deliver including the NXT North American Championship match, in which we now know that Gargano will be defending against the creep that’s been stalking The Way and making their lives a living hell for months, Dexter Lumis. We then get a video package for our main event.

5TH MATCH: Io Shirai (c) vs. Raquel Gonzalez (Singles match for the NXT Women’s Championship)

THIS IS YOUR MAAAAIIIN EVENT of Night ONE. Io is out first, followed by Raquel, and they both get the old school NXT pre-entrance shots of them walking down the corridor, and through the curtain. The match gets 17 minutes. Personally, I really just don’t see what NXT management seems to see in Raquel Gonzalez. She’s big, sure, but she’s not got the mic skills, in-ring ability or character work to back her up like a Rhea did. But I know better, and I’m not stupid. I know why they’re doing it. People traditionally in the history of wrestling have paid to see the big hoss defend their title, and they pay for their chance to see a challenger defeat them in person. I get it. It’s wrestling 101. Putting my personal feelings about Gonzalez aside, her winning the title is simply the booking decision that needs to happen here, because it makes the most sense. She’s been built up to look dominant for months, and it all started when she pinned Io at WarGames. There’s no reason at all to squander all that effort with a loss. The match ends when Io hits a Tiger Feint Kick on Raquel and then goes up top to try for a Moonsault, but Raquel is back on her feet. Io has her back to the ring, ready to flip back, and she doesn’t know that Raquel has risen up from the depths behind her. Io rises up and is ready to pounce, but Gonzalez gets a hold of her and nails her signature One-Armed Powerbomb OFF THE TOP ROPE, and covers Shirai to win the championship. Io has been incredible, but it definitely seems like this is being set up as a curtain call for her of some sort. Whether that means she’s going up to the main roster, or whether that means she’s wanting to return to Japan, whatever the case may be, you’re just not gonna spend 5 months building up Raquel only to have her lose cleanly to Io. This is now Raquel’s time. On top of all this… I’d have Xia Li continue being built up to be the one to take the title off Raquel eventually. And just think for a second, wouldn’t it be 10x more impressive for this killer warrior known as Xia Li to defeat Raquel Gonzalez, or for her to defeat Io Shirai? You decide. For now, night 1 goes off the air with Raquel Gonzalez holding up her newly won NXT Women’s Championship, as Dakota Kai runs out to celebrate with her. Raquel has been teasing splitting away from Kai and beginning to go down a more solo route, so perhaps we get to Raquel vs. Xia for the title, the first program for the belt can occur between Gonzalez and Dakota Kai as a hold-me-over.

WINNER by PINFALL and NEW NXT Women’s Champion: Raquel Gonzalez

NIGHT 1 FINAL RESULTS:

No.	Results	Stipulations	Times
1	Grizzled Young Veterans (James Drake and Zack Gibson) defeated Legado Del Fantasma (Joaquin Wilde and Raul Mendoza) and MSK (Nash Carter and Wes Lee) by Pinfall	Triple Threat Tag Team match for the Vacant NXT Tag Team Championships	21 minutes
2	Pete Dunne defeated KUSHIDA by Pinfall	Singles match	17 minutes
3	WALTER (c) (w/ Imperium.. and Timothy Thatcher) defeated Tommaso Ciampa by Pinfall	Singles match for the NXT UK Championship	20 minutes
4	Dexter Lumis won by last eliminating LA Knight	6-man Gauntlet Eliminator match to determine the #1 contender for the NXT North American Championship on Night 2	27 minutes
5	Raquel Gonzalez defeated Io Shirai (c) by Pinfall	Singles match for the NXT Women’s Championship	17 minutes

NIGHT 2 (Thursday, April 8th; WWE Network & Peacock)

1ST MATCH: Jordan Devlin (c) vs. Santos Escobar (c) (w/ Joaquin Wilde and Raul Mendoza) (Unification Ladder match to determine the Undisputed NXT Cruiserweight Champion)

Here we are with NIGHT 2 of Takeover, where tonight, will we STAND? Oh, no, no, no! Tonight, we DELIVER. Jordan Devlin delivers first, followed by Santos Escobar and the Del Fantasma Of Legados. Since STANDING was reserved for night one, the two men sit cross-legged in the middle of the ring as we get formal ring introductions. Problem is, they literally can’t stand, they can only deliver. So how the hell are we supposed to have a ladder match exactly? Know what, I’m throwing the rulebook out of the window. IT’S NIGHT TWO, AND WE’RE NOT JUST GOING TO DELIVER, WE’RE GOING TO STAND TOO! HELL YEAH! STAND FOREVER clap clap clap clap clap STAND FOREVER. The match gets 17 minutes to kick us off and Shawn Michaels is in the ring to be the one to wrap both Cruiserweight Championship titles around the hanger that will raise to the sky. My choice of winner here is pretty clear. Not only will Devlin winning unleash a wave of hell on NXT’s PR team on behalf of the entire IWC, but Santos is simply the better champion and I feel you could definitely get more mileage out of him and his stable than Devlin, despite what we know about the man behind the scenes. I feel so out of line even suggesting ideas for spots to these two mad bastards that I’m just gonna avoid doing that this time around because I’m sure they’ve already written a graphic novel of ways they’re going to KILL EACH OTHER AND FALL OFF OF LADDERS. The match ends as there is one ladder set upright for both men to climb, as well as a ladder bridging from the turnbuckle into one of the rungs. Devlin and Escobar are battling on the top of the ladder, but Escobar ends up getting the match-winning advantage as he hits a Phantom Driver on Devlin through the ladder bridge. The move appears to take out both men but Legado Del Fantasma earn their pay as they rush the ring and help Escobar to climb the ladder as they each get one arm over their shoulders and carry Escobar up the ladder, who unhooks the title(s?) to become the UNDISPUTED NXT Cruiserweight Champion. We go to replays of the brutal match and Shawn Michaels is back now as he enters the ring to raise Escobar’s hand, passing the torch of all-time great title ladder matches to crown an Undisputed holder of that title. Shawn respects Escobar’s efforts as he sees echoes of what he and Razor Ramon did years ago at WrestleMania. We get a shot of Devlin lying face down still within the rubble of the collapsed ladder bits as the trio of Fantasma stand tall, as the official rulers of the Cruiserweight division.

WINNER and the UNDISPUTED NXT Cruiserweight Champion: Santos Escobar

We go to shots of both Cole and O’Reilly entering the building earlier in the day, as well as Balor and Kross w/ Scarlett making their way inside the CWC. We then get a video package for our next match, detailing the months of stalking towards The Way on behalf of Dexter Lumis.

2ND MATCH: Johnny Gargano (c) vs. Dexter Lumis (Singles match for the NXT North American Championship)

Lumis is out first, followed by the champion, Jonathan GargaNo-Escape. The match gets 15 minutes. Dexter stares and takes a step forward in synchrony with every step Gargano takes down the ramp in his entrance. Lumis is basically nose to nose with Gargano on the ramp and Johnny’s had enough of it. He initiates a pre-match attack on Lumis. He sends him into the steps, into the plexiglass over the barricades. Gargano is satisfied with his actions and rolls into the ring to gloat to the crowd at the CWC. Unfortunately for Gargano, Dexter Lumis decides to no-sell the attack, and we get a Keith Lee esque shot of Lumis slowly rising up from behind the ring apron as he does his signature crawl into the ring, and attempts to lock Gargano in the Silence immediately, but Gargano transitions and locks Lumis in the No Escape. The bell finally rings and they do wrestling moves for the time they’ve been assigned until Lumis SILENCES Johnny Gargano for his first championship in NXT. It had to happen. Johnny Gargano has nothing more to prove and isn’t really someone who needs to be holding a title to be relevant. He’s a top guy just based on the merits of his in-ring ability alone. Dexter Lumis is bringing in the geriatrics, pal. Check those demographics. They love them some characters. Lumis has been floating around the North American division for the longest time now, and he’s one of the best characters in WWE. He lives his gimmick at all times, like Undertaker did back in the day. You could have so many entertaining matches and angles with Lumis as champ, creeping on guys who are too afraid to challenge him. I’d probably shoot for LA Knight to be the guy to dethrone Lumis eventually, but give Dexter a reign to create some great television with his character work. As for Gargano, I’d have him sway towards entering the Tag Team division with Austin Theory and going after those NXT Tag Team Titles for the next little while. It would give us a chance to see Gargano work with new guys within the tag division, and allow Theory to get over and get better by proxy. But I think we deserve a little break from Johnny as a champion in the singles division. For now, the creep rules the land.

WINNER by SUBMISSION and NEW NXT North American Champion: Dexter Lumis

We get an ad for NXT Shop, as well as an ad for NXT moving to Tuesdays on USA this week.

3RD MATCH: Ember Moon and Shotzi Blackheart (c) vs. The Way (Candice LeRae and Indi Hartwell) (Tag Team match for the NXT Women’s Tag Team Championships)

After we come back from ads, and before Indi and Candice are out first, we get a brief shot of them trying to comfort an angry Gargano backstage, fresh off having lost the North American Championship. Their music hits and Regal has to walk up and usher them away from Gargano, who storms off in a fit of rage. Ember Moon and Shotzi Blackheart come out second and they’ve got one big tank that they ride out in. The match gets 14 minutes, and we get formal ring introductions. Shotzi starts things off with Indi in the ring. The whole story of the match is Candice LeRae being distracted and paranoid about Dexter Lumis, and about the future of The Way now that Gargano has lost his championship. Indi gets beaten down for large parts of the match by the babyfaces, and any time that Candice gets tagged in, she’ll hit a few moves, but before long become lost and become unfocused by the prior events of the night. This ends up costing The Way, as the match ends after Ember hits an Eclipse on Heartwell and pins her to retain the titles when Candice ran to the back after hearing Gargano screaming, presumably being kidnapped by Dexter Lumis. After changing the Women’s Tag Titles TWICE ON THE NIGHT THEY WERE INTRODUCED, there’s no earthly reason that you need to switch them onto Candice and Indi here. Shotzi and Ember are a great babyface duo, if not a little bit thrown together, but they can be the cornerstone of the beginnings of the division in NXT. Indi, though I’m sure she’ll improve, is still green and grass, and there’s just no reason that they need the championships. Shotzi and Ember can continue to roll out on tanks and be amazing. At the next Takeover, which you’ll see my card for at the end of the post, I’d have Ember and Shotzi defending the titles in a triangle tag against not only Indi and Candice again, but now with Kacy Catanzaro and Kayden Carter (more affectionately named KC and Kacy, because get it? It sounds the same if you say it out loud!) added in. As a result of this, we can officially move Gargano out of the NA Title scene by giving Gargano his contractually obligated rematch in 2 weeks or so on NXT, which Lumis would again retain.

WINNERS by PINFALL and STILL NXT Women’s Tag Team Champions: Ember Moon and Shotzi Blackheart)

We get a recap of the results of Night 1 of Takeover, as well as any announcements for matches or segments to take place this week on the debut of NXT on Tuesdays.

4TH MATCH: Adam Cole vs. Kyle O’Reilly (Unsanctioned match)

I have nothing to say here. These two are gonna steal the weekend and they don’t need my help. I’m giving them 35 minutes. My only instructions are to go out there and tear the skin off each other’s body, and then eat each one of their bones. Kyle O’Reilly wins, probably by ripping Adam Cole’s head off his body and drinking his blood. And if you have any reservations about KOR winning the first match of this feud, Gargano won the first match with Ciampa in NOLA. Who says this can’t follow suit? Much like Ciampa/WALTER on Night 1, if I were actually given the book, I would’ve absolutely had this main event. The main event doesn’t ALWAYS NEED to be the World Title. It should, by its very definition, be the match that people are going to most want to see. Or, you know what they say, if you’re not last, you wanna be on first. So at the very least this could’ve kicked off and warmed up the crowd. But reality is cruel. Kyle O’Reilly proves his worth and overcomes the leader of the Undisputed Era.

WINNER by PINFALL: Kyle O’Reilly

We get an ad for both nights of WrestleMania this weekend.

5TH MATCH: Finn Balor (c) vs. Karrion Kross (w/ Scarlett) (Singles match for the NXT Championship)

Here’s the deal. If Finn Balor decides to bring the Demon back for this match, he’s coming out second for the big surprise. If it’s regular Finn Balor, who wears black underwear and occasionally does finger guns, he comes out first followed by Kross and Scarlett. The match gets 15 minutes. Balor has been excellent in the role of being the NXT veteran who’s come back down and salvaged the brand from the depths. He’s had a great run, and truly cemented himself to be on the NXT mount rushmore in my opinion. But Karrion Kross never lost it. Kross has the look, he’s got the smoking hot valet, he’s got the charisma and the presence, he’s got the believability, and the ability to carry himself on the mic. Kross is gonna carry this show for… months to come. That is, hoping he doesn’t separate his shoulder again during a match where he’s scheduled to win a belt, which doesn’t help his luck being that he’s facing Finn Balor, who that also happened to at SummerSlam 2016. But this is Kross’s show, and it has been since his debut. The match ends when Kross is sent to the outside of the ring and Balor teases hitting an ULTRA HIGH COUP DE GRACE TO KROSS ON THE OUTSIDE OF THE RING, and rises up to make the jump, but Kross steps up on the apron and hits a back suplex on the apron, followed by a Saito Suplex on the outside, followed by one final Saito Suplex in the ring to complete the triad and Kross recaptures the NXT Heavyweight Championship of the World. What’s next for Finn Balor? Is there anyone currently under contract on NXT who I can see realistically being able to take the belt off Kross? I can’t say I know those answers right now. But the passing of time is the only way to tell, and Kross has just made Balor’s reign go TICK-TOCK.

WINNER by PINFALL and NEW NXT Champion: Karrion Kross

NIGHT 2 FINAL RESULTS:

No.	Results	Stipulations	Times
1	Santos Escobar (c) (w/ Joaquin Wilde and Raul Mendoza) defeated Jordan Devlin (c)	Unification Ladder match to determine the Undisputed NXT Cruiserweight Champion	17 minutes
2	Dexter Lumis defeated Johnny Gargano (c) by Submission	Singles match for the NXT North American Championship	15 minutes
3	Ember Moon and Shotzi Blackheart (c) defeated The Way (Candice LeRae and Indi Hartwell) by Pinfall	Tag Team match for the NXT Women’s Tag Team Championships	14 minutes
4	Kyle O’Reilly defeated Adam Cole by Pinfall	Unsanctioned match	35 minutes
5	Karrion Kross (w/ Scarlett) defeated Finn Balor (c) by Pinfall	Singles match for the NXT Championship	15 minutes

MY CARD FOR THE NEXT NXT TAKEOVER: DANGER ON ALL SIDES/MULTI-MAN MAYHEM/TOTAL ELIMINATION (I can’t choose between those 3 names but they all fit with the card I’ve come up with. You can decide on your favorite.)

No.	Matches	Stipulations
1	Adam Cole vs. Bobby Fish vs. Kyle O’Reilly vs. Roderick Strong	Undisputed Era Fatal 4-Way match where the winner will advance to face Karrion Kross for the NXT Championship in the main event
2	Ember Moon and Shotzi Blackheart (c) vs. Kacy Catanzaro and Kayden Carter vs. The Way (Candice LeRae and Indi Hartwell)	Triple Threat Elimination Tag Team match for the NXT Women’s Tag Team Championships
3	Dexter Lumis (c) vs. Bronson Reed vs. Cameron Grimes vs. LA Knight	Fatal 4-Way match for the NXT North American Championship
4	Grizzled Young Veterans (James Drake and Zack Gibson) (c) vs. MSK (Nash Carter and Wes Lee) vs. The Way (Austin Theory and Johnny Gargano)	Triple Threat Elimination Tag Team match for the NXT Tag Team Championships
5	Daniel Bryan vs. Pete Dunne	Submission match
6	Raquel Gonzalez (c) vs. Xia Li	Singles match for the NXT Women’s Championship
7	Karrion Kross (c) vs. Winner of the Undisputed Era Fatal 4-Way match	Singles match for the NXT Championship

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