Roman Reigns beat Sheamus to become WWE World Heavyweight Champion on Monday Night RAW. That is great. Pretty much the entirety of RAW was great. However, I watched NXT Takeover: London on the WWE Network (Which by the way is only 9.99 if you didn't know) on Wednesday and now I can hardly remember anything about what happened on Monday.
Takeover: London is exactly what sport is about, Passion. Every single one of the the people in attendance at the SSE Arena gave everything they had from the audience to the performers hell probably even the cameramen if that's possible. There wasn't a moment in which I wasn't completely entranced by what was happening on my TV screen. It was proof that wrestling outweighs entertainment.
The first thing that has to be said is that the crowd was magnificent. Anyone who's ever been to a football game in England knows that England crowds can cause quite a noise when they want to, and boy did they want to. Some of the chants on Wednesday night were some of the most creative you've ever heard. "Hey Bayley" was a particularly standout one but overall this crowd proves that the WWE need to expand their PPV's. No one has any interest in a PPV like Payback so why not just host it at Wembley? At that time next year England will be off preparing for the World Cup so just imagine the amount of noise that the crowd would make in a 90,000 seater stadium. Obviously they wouldn't be able to sell that many tickets but there's no reason they couldn't shut off the top row of seats and keep it confined.
All 5 of the matches were extremely entertaining. The pop that Enzo and Cass received when their music hit was awesome but every single one of the superstars got a pretty good reaction. Asuka showed which she's most likely next in line to hold the Women's Championship with her unique style of offense. It was a little disappointing from a fan Point of View to see Enzo and Cass lose, but credit to Dawson and Dash, they were excellent and showed great chemistry and psychology for a Tag Team. Maybe Enzo and Cass are close to a call up/down to RAW? The crowd were more noticeably quite for Corbin vs Crews but it was still an OK match nonetheless. Nia Jax vs Bayley played out perfectly. Jax was understandably cocky due to her physical presence but Bayley matched that with heart and a particularly fierce Guillotine. Not a nice hug for Nia. Finn Balor and Samoa Joe did what they do best. Wrestled a great match. Finn's body paint yet again adding to the drama. The whole thing with the doctors at the end, whether it was a work or they genuinely needed help was a great addition to show what a match it had been.
It was very difficult to come out of Wednesday night and find something wrong with NXT Takeover: London. Obviously Triple H appearing at the start has kind of smothered the story line with Roman Reigns a bit. He didn't exactly look like he was coughing up blood. But Wednesday wasn't about RAW. Wednesday night was about NXT and boy was it a great night to be a wrestling fan.
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