Solomonster reviews the first ever NXT UK Takeover special from Blackpool, England, an enjoyable show overall with an appearance by Finn Balor, a few hiccups in the main event and the debut of WALTER as a new threat to the United Kingdom championship.
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First PPV of 2019 (inside the US) and they really raised the bar. Was such a great show!!
Edt: WWE-based outside US, so not counting WK.
I had the same reaction to the main event. A little to long, a weird finish but still a very good match. James Drake had some great offense as did Eddie Dennis.
This takeover was really good. Alot of matches i didn't expect was going to impress me
Was a good show. Only problems i had was i thought the main event went a little too long and wish they didnt try that top rope botch twice .
You Can't Halt The Walt.
If i was a wrestling promotor i wouldn't give Pete Dunne a minute of my day. A poor man's William Regal.
The Big Question is…. was Vince really watching?
There was one spot in that tag team championship match that completely took me out of it and kinda ruined it for me. Tyler Bate put James Drake on Zack Gibson's shoulders and Gibson just stood there holding him, waiting for Bate to pick both of them up on his shoulders. I get it, it's a work, but goddamn. Can we get at least a little bit of credibility? It was the equivalent of watching a zombie movie and seeing one of the zombie's prosthetic makeup falling off, or. It was pretty bad. I just don't get doing shit that looks obviously phony. Yes, everybody knows that wrestling isn't real. Everybody also knows that movies and TV shows aren't real, but they want them to look believable with logical storytelling, am I right? Why can't pro wrestling be the same way? If you're trying to kick someone's ass, are you going to do three back flips before stomping him in the chest, or are you just going to stomp him straight in chest three times instead? The latter would be much more logical.
This may have easily been the most lackluster NXT show I have ever seen. Thanks to me not knowing who they are; it had nothing to do with the overall performance where the presentation it just came across very boring to me. Everything felt like it was in slow motion now perhaps I'm just not used to the more europeanized style of wrestling. because they show felt very different than from say Ring of Honor show or one of the other NXT takeovers that we've seen in in North America. big shout out to Pete Dunne and Joe coffee they put on a very New Japan Style match in my opinion but other than that the show just sucked and Toni storm has no talent either Toni storm is horrendous pull the plug on her she's done
It was amazong