The NXT Thread: It Must Breakk You

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Originally Posted by Jack-Hammer

Gargano climbs up onto the apron only for Ciampa to knock him off, causing him to slam into Candice and come down on top of her onto the steel ramp way. Personally, I'd have preferred it if Ciampa had started smiling this sick smile at what'd happened rather than adopting the expression that maybe he'd gone too far as it'd just fit in with Ciampa's sociopathic hatred of all things Johnny Gargano.

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Honestly, I think I preferred what happened. Taking joy in seeing Candice hurt tells a good story, but what's going to happen (not a spoiler, just my prediction) is even more sociopathic. Ciampa is going to spin this to be Johnny's fault, that his behaviour was selfish is what got Candice hurt. And like all the best villainous motives, there's a hint of truth to it.

On the subject of this rivalry, WWE has teased the next Ciampa/Gargano match.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8F5Ut9kziI

I'm really loving Burch and Lorcan. I think they're poised to be the sentimental favourite NXT tag team, a void left by the aforementioned Gargano and Ciampa. It's a shame that they haven't had a chance to be showcased earlier. You'd think they'd start to have a presence shortly after their handful of one on one encounters that transitioned into this team. But, better late than never, I supose.

Handicap match was very good! As Jack-Hammer said, the match was very well balanced. It really told a story that you don't generally expect out of a handicap match.

NXT
Date: May 29, 2018
Location: Full Sail University, Winter Park, Florida
Commentators: Mauro Ranallo, Nigel McGuinness, Percy Watson

It’s time for a big fight here, though it might not be the definitive fight. The big match on the card this week will see Shayna Baszler defending her title against Dakota Kai. Dakota has been running scared of Baszler but Nikki Cross has been poking her head around things lately, which offers a very odd twist to the whole thing. Let’s get to it.

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Maybe She Is Crazy

If only because this moment deserves to be recorded in this thread for posterity:

https://twitter.com/WWENXT/status/1002254510692200453

That is the coolest thing I've ever seen in wrestling.

Totally awesome. Dream's face sells it very, very well.

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Originally Posted by klunderbunker

Totally awesome. Dream's face sells it very, very well.

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It really did. Like he couldn't believe what just happened.

Is it wrong to expect another match like Black/Dream from Ricochet/Dream?

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Originally Posted by ShinChan

Is it wrong to expect another match like Black/Dream from Ricochet/Dream?

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I don't think so and I think many are expecting something along those lines. Nobody was really expecting the awesomeness that was Black vs. Dream, I think most of us felt that it would be a solid to good match only to find out that Dream was one of the best kept secrets in wrestling. The kid knows psychology, he understands it and he puts it to use. He knows how to tell a story with everything he does in the ring or with his facial expressions or body language, he can be surprisingly technical if that's what the match calls for and his got the athleticism to hang with anyone in NXT. That's not to say that Black wasn't responsible for the match being so great as he certainly was, it's just that we already knew how good Black was but this was the first time I think we'd really, truly seen what Dream is fully capable of.

In a match with Ricochet, I see an easy 4.25 to 4.5 star match out of them, especially if Triple H tells them to go out there and let it all hang out. This is a strategy that seems to be par for the course when it comes to TakeOver matches and I think that will be the case here.

From what I understand, the final card is rumored to look like this:

NXT Championship - Aleister Black VS Lars Sullivan
NXT Women's Championship - Shayna Baszler vs. Nikki Cross
NXT Tag Team Championship - The Undisputed Era vs. Danny Burch & Oney Lorcan
Chicago Street Fight - Johnny Gargano vs. Tommaso Ciampa
Singles Match - Ricochet vs. The Velveteen Dream

I've also read rumors of there possibly being a champion vs. champion match between Pete Dunne and Adam Cole, which would be like the cherry on top of an already stacked card.

Dream wasn't so much a secret as that was his first major program. Unless we were working in the Performance Center, how were we supposed to know he'd be that good?

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Originally Posted by Uncle Sam

Dream wasn't so much a secret as that was his first major program. Unless we were working in the Performance Center, how were we supposed to know he'd be that good?

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I saw him last January at a house show against Eric Young and was rather impressed. He was still Patrick Clark then.