Solomonster has a full review of the NXT Takeover Phoenix show from 1/26/19, featuring an excellent North American title match between Ricochet and Johnny Gargano, the biggest match of Bianca Belair’s career and a tag team wrestling clinic to open the show.
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Gargano v Ricochet was match of the Night, it wasnt the Best Takeover, in fact when the show ended I thought Royal Rumble had a real shot at out shinning NXT (They didnt lol). But Nontheless, this weekend was pretty good
The Gargano-Ciampa storyline is the best long term storyline in maybe decades
Every tag team since The Ascension has failed. They need to put up missing posters for Sanity.
Johnny Gargano is Mr. NXT
I love the Takeover formula. Five matches is great. Because there are five matches, not everyone on the roster gets on the show. It makes Takeover appears to be a bigger show. I also love the opening day team match because those matches are typically the best tag matches all year.
Is Belair a homegrown talent? I thought she was well known when she entered the Mae young classic
Also, I really do think the payoff to Ciampa/Gargano program is Gargano lures Ciampa into a false sense of security before Gargano turns on Ciampa.
Not suggesting she should be called up to the main roster anytime soon because she definitely shouldn't be but Bianca is 1000 times better than Shayna in every way so frankly I have no idea what on Earth you were referring to in saying that Shayna is ready and Bianca is not. None the less, aside from that great work as always.
Got an Alexa Bliss autograph last night.. Only Autograph I wanted 😀
The only “over” tag team called up from NXT was Enzo & Cass (despite the repetitiveness) but even then they decided to split them up and push them as singles competitors and well, you know what happened after that.