Opinion

NXT Takeover will overshadow SummerSlam again

Published

5 years ago

August 3, 2018

Judging by this week’s episode of NXT we know what the card for NXT Takeover Brooklyn 4 is going to look like.

All signs point to the main event being Tommaso Ciampa defending the NXT Championship against Johnny Gargano and Aleister Black in a triple threat. As announced on this week’s episode EC3 will face Velveteen Dream and Adam Cole will defend the NXT North American Championship against Richocet. Also on the card Moustache Mountain will get their rematch for the NXT Tag Team Titles against the Undisputed Era and Shayna Baszler will defend the NXT Woman’s Championship against Kairi Sane.

Now that is one hell of a card.

Traditionally these take place the night before a main roster PPV and in the eyes of many fans overshadow the main roster. Looking at this card I think we’re going to have a repeat of this. It’s not that SummerSlam doesn’t have some good matches announced so far like Daniel Bryan vs The Miz, AJ vs Samoa Joe and Dolph Ziggler vs Seth Rollins. The advantage NXT has over the main roster is that they have fewer matches and a shorter show.

The show’s are just over two and a half hours meaning only the best of the best get’s on the card. While there will be good matches on SummerSlam they will be apart of a show that will be 6 hours including the kick off. This makes the show more difficult to sit through which won’t be helped by the main event of Brock Lesnar vs Roman Regins for the thousandth time.

It’s not just the difference in show length but just the quality of the wrestlers on the NXT card.

Gargano and Ciampa have had 2 of the best matches of 2018 so far and Black vs Ciampa was one of the best TV main events in NXT history. So the combination of all three of these men in one match in my mind spells match of the year candidate. The tag title match is guaranteed to be great as the six man these teams were involved in at the UK tournament as well as the tag title match the following night were the best matches of the weekend. Then their was the rematch on TV recently which received 5 stars from the Wrestling Observer. While I’ve said Sane shouldn’t win the title I know she and Baszler will have good match. They had one in the Mae Young Classic finals that was only hampered by the amount of time it was given as it was right after SmackDown. This time they’ll be given sufficient time and in front of a crowd that knows the story so will be into the match. The face heel dynamic in the Dream EC3 match is a bit off Dream has a track record of putting on classic matches at Takeover(with the exception of the Ohno match). Cole vs Richocet has the least amount of build of all the matches but I can see the match itself making up for that.

Hopefully my high expectations won’t hinder my enjoyment of the show but given the quality of NXT recently can you blame me for having such high exceptions.

Let us know what you think on social media @ChairshotMedia and always remember to use the hashtag #UseYourHead!

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King’s WrestleMania Rewind: Charlotte Flair vs. Asuka from WrestleMania 34

Chris king is back with one of the most underrated matches in WrestleMania history–Charlotte Flair vs. Asuka!

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2 months ago

April 2, 2023

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WWE WrestleMania 34 Charlotte Flair Asuka

Chris king is back with one of the most underrated matches in WrestleMania history–Charlotte Flair vs. Asuka!

We look back at Charlotte Flair vs. Asuka at WWE WrestleMania 34. ‘The Empress of Tomorrow’ put her unprecedented and historic undefeated streak of 914 days on the line against ‘The Queen’s’ SmackDown Women’s Championship.

For years, this was considered a dream match while Asuka dominated the roster in NXT, while Flair won numerous championships on the main roster on both Raw and SmackDown. The Empress made her long-awaited debut on the September 11th episode of Raw and began to tear through the competition.

Asuka outlasted all twenty-nine other women in the historic first-ever Women’s Royal Rumble match to challenge for the title of her choosing. At Fastlane, she made her choice.

The WWE Universe was so excited for this match myself included. Both superstars delivered a fantastic performance on the Grandest Stage of Them All executing counter after counter. Asuka showed off some nasty-looking kicks to her opponent, and Flair hit a thunderous Spanish Fly off the top rope. Flair was seconds away from defeat at the hands of The Empress but she locked in Figure Eight and Asuka was forced to tap out.

I can’t even begin to explain how shocked I was at this outcome, as nearly everyone expected The Empress to continue her undefeated streak and walk away with the women’s title. This controversial decision was the downfall of Asuka’s momentum. She would ultimately win the SmackDown Women’s Championship at the 2018 TLC pay-per-view in the triple-threat ladder match.

Fast forward to this year when Asuka has recently returned with her Japanese-inspired persona Kana. Kana is dangerous and ruthless and is heading into a championship with Bianca Belair at WrestleMania 39. The Empress has regained all her momentum and is highly favored to walk away with the Raw Women’s Championship. Let’s hope that Asuka and Belair can tear the house down and deliver an A+ grade match both women are fully capable of.

Let us know what you think on social media @ChairshotMedia and always remember to use the hashtag #UseYourHead!

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King: Dominik Mysterio Needs To Do This At WrestleMania

Chris King is here with what WWE should do with Dominik Mysterio at WrestleMania in his long-awaited match against his father Rey Mysterio Jr.

Published

2 months ago

April 1, 2023

Chris King

Chris King is here with what WWE should do with Dominik Mysterio at WrestleMania in his long-awaited match against his father Rey Mysterio Jr.

On this week’s episode of Friday Night SmackDown, Rey Mysterio finally snapped and beat some sense into his disrespectful punk-ass kid Dominik. The member of the Judgement Day came out to push his father again for a match on the Grandest Stage of Them All, this time with his mother and sister at ringside. The ungrateful punk told his mom to “Shut Up,” as a father even I wanted to jump through the screen and whoop his ass.

Back in October of last year, Mysterio made the emotional decision to possibly quit the company but, instead, Triple H persuaded the Lucha libre superstar to move over to SmackDown to avoid his son. This came after Dominik shockingly turned on his father at Clash at the Castle. Mysterio did everything he could to refuse his despicable son’s challenge for Mania but, a man can only be pushed so far. Mysterio will be inducted into the 2023 WWE Hall of Fame and I expect Dominik to embarrass his father during his speech to further this personal feud.

Yes, the WWE Universe hates Dominik and wants to see him get the ever-loving crap kicked out of him but, this feud is missing a special ingredient to capitalize on the biggest heat possible. Throughout this feud, Dominik has made mention of the legendary Eddie Guerrero on several occasions going back to the “iconic” 2005 feud.

I know WWE might not want to go this route but, Dominik MUST come out to Eddie Guerrero’s theme at Mania. The disrespectful punk needs to come out in a lowrider to garner nuclear heat. It doesn’t matter if The Judgement Day comes out and causes interference for Dominik to get the win, all that matters is that both superstars get the biggest payoff of this nearly year-long feud. Just imagine the Roman Reigns heat after he defeated The Undertaker and multiply that by ten. Dominik portrays the perfect heel and he truly is the missing ingredient that The Judgement Day needed to grow and evolve into a top faction.