So I decided to watch both of these shows over the weekend. I used to be big into wrestling but I kinda lost my love for it over the years. Due to it being imo boring, predictable and repetitive. I miss the days of the Attitude Era, The Monday Night Wars between WCW & WWE with ECW in the shadows and the 80’s wrestling. Those were the days. But there’s good now and then in the current wrestling, like NXT Takeovers & NJPW. But it’s mostly dull, repetitive, cheesy in the worst way and it’s so predictable cause u seen it all before. So I don’t watch it much but I watch the big events if I can.
First show I watched of the two is the NXT Takeover so I’ll start with that.
A 6 man ladder match to crown the first NXT North American Champion between Adam Cole, EC3, Killian Dain, Lars Sullivan, Ricochet and Velveteen Dream
So this is the first match of the NXT Takeover card. I was quite surprised that this is the first match of the night, usually you see this in the co main event or something. Still it was a superb match to kick off the show. I enjoy Adam Cole’s work before he was in NXT when he was in ROH (Ring Of Honor) & New Japan. He always had the all around talent to be big draw imo. He just impresses me the more I see him. EC3 was good too, bit surreal seeing him in WWE. He was a TNA Guy for a while and also Ricochet is amazing. The dude is superb with the high flying moves, does it to perfection. Especially one move in the match where he moonsaults onto Dain & Lars while getting push off the ladder. It’s so cool, love that spot. Also Velveteen Dream is awesome too. He had great spots and moments in the match like the elbow to Lars off the top of the ladder, that was superb. Lars was not bad in the match too. He was two of the big men in the match and Dain is great too. A lot of big bumps, back and forth exchanges and it’s non stop throughout.
It was a solid match, Adam Cole wins the belt and it’s not the last u see of him that night as he’s in the triple tag match later. Great match, I would prefer this to be in the co main but it was a great opener nonetheless. 4/5
Ember Moon (C) vs Shayna Baszler for the NXT Women’s Championship
Yeah this is a good match as well. Pretty technical and a lot of good exchanges between the two girls. They been feuding for a while and it’s not bad. I do think Ember is good in ring but her personality is dull. She needs a change in character imo, get used to me saying that btw. Cause a lot of them do need to show personality. Give me something to care about you know what I mean.
Shayna is a pretty badarse heel imo. She has zero fucks and I like that in a heel. She’s really good. She wins the match and the belt. Think it’s a good choice, Shayna has been looking great in NXT. Such a badarse heel imo. They need that. Good match. 3/5
3 Tag Match for the tag belts and the Dusty Rhodes Classic trophy between The Undisputed Era (C) (Kyle O’Reilly & Adam Cole), Roderick Strong/Pete Dunne and The Authors Of Pain
Yeah this was short decent match. Not much to say about the match in general. But the ending was good though. With Roderick turning his back on Dunne & cost them the match and Roderick is now in The Undisputed Era with Adam Cole, O’Reilly and Bobby Fish (who was injured). That’ll be interesting.
And yeah not much to say other than that. It’s an ok match but a good angle to end the match. 3/5
NXT Championship match between Andrade “Cien” Almas (C) with Zelina Vaga vs Aleister Black
This was a lot of better. Very good match between two awesome talents. I dig Aleister’s style, his entrance is cool and his in ring style is superb. Great mixture of strong style & a bit of high flying. Almas is great too, he has really improved a lot since I saw him debut. Such a better preformer now and the addition of Vaga as his manager helps too. Big improvement from Almas.
And this was back and forth match. Very enjoyable. I liked it a lot. Even though the number of interferences from Vaga got annoying to me. It’s a nippick but I don’t like run ins personally. But it’s still a great match from two top dudes. Top notch! 4/5
Johnny Gargano vs Tommaso Ciampa Unsanctioned no DQ match
Well this is a year in the making. After they lost to Authors Of Pain at last year’s NXT Takeover. Ciampa turn his back on his tag partner Gargano and Ciampa got injured in that same night so this feud was delayed. Til Early this year when he came back and attack Johnny again. And also cost him to lose to Almas with his career on the line. So yeah this is personal shit as they say lol. So if Johnny wins this unsanctioned match, he’s back in NXT. Hope I explain the feud well, I’m not best story teller lol. If so comment below.
Anyway to the match. Imo best match of the whole Wrestlemania weekend. It was awesome. Loved it. It was a fight. Not a performance or a high flying dive fest u see a lot these days. They’re dives in this match but not that many. It was a brawl, a fight between two dudes who hate each other. And that’s exactly what I want in a feud ending match like this. Just beat the shit out of each other. The match had everything. Great selling, chemistry, great brawls, great storytelling, top level heel work from Ciampa, great face work from Johnny and all that good stuff that made me a wrestling fan. These two understand wrestling and they both nailed it in this match.
It’s one of my favourite matches of the year so far along with Johnny’s match with Almas in January’s NXT Takeover. It was awesome all around. I wish there was blood though, again it’s a nippick. There was blood in the Lesnar/Reigns match (more of that in the WM review) why can’t this match? I don’t know, it just annoys me this fucking PG Era, ugh lol. Anyway it didn’t effect this awesome match at all. If there’s one match to watch from the past weekend. Make it this. 5/5
Final verdict...4/5
It was a very good show as usual. It’s come to be expected with this NXT Takeover shows. They deliver the goods. While the main WWE roster barely. It’s a odd set up but that’s WWE lol. It was a good show. Ladder match, the NXT championship match and of course the Unsanctioned match were my favourites of the show. Rest were good too but it had flaws in places. But their good nonetheless. Definitely check out NXT and it’s Takeover shows on WWE Network. It’s worth getting the Network for NXT alone tbh. It’s great!
So that’s my NXT Takeover New Orleans review done, thank you for reading if you have. What do yous think about it? Let me know down in the comments below. With that, this is me signing off. Stay tuned for my Wrestlemania 34 review later this week or sooner than that. Watch this space.
Anyway thanks very much for reading this, liking and commenting. Yous are the best. Take care, much love Mofos! 😎🤘🏻
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