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WWE NXT Takeover In Your House 2021: Greg DeMarco’s Three Stars Of The Night

Three Stars makes a return after almost 18 months, and WWE NXT Takeover is the topic! Who stood out? Read and see!

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2 years ago

June 14, 2021

Greg DeMarco

Three Stars makes a return after almost 18 months, and WWE NXT Takeover is the topic! Who stood out? Read and see!

WWE NXT brought us a Takeover card that was fantastic, man. On paper many panned it, but it really delivered in the end. I would go so far as to say it outshined the build, and it wasn’t even close. Sometimes the show saves the build, and that is exactly what happened here.

As is usual with NXT, everyone really works their asses off. That makes it hard to pinpoint three, but that is the job at hand! So let’s get to it…

The Third Star: Raquel Gonzalez

In my pick analysis of this match, I was highly critical of Raquel Gonzalez as NXT Women’s Champion. I said she wasn’t ready, and I totally stand by that statement. However, tonight was her best performance–ever–on the NXT roster. And that counts the big win she had over Rhea Ripley before becoming champion.

The winner was never in doubt, but this was the performance Raquel needed. She still acts too much like a babyface hero at times, but that will come with more experience. Tonight I became a believer, and that is saying a lot.

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The Second Star: Cameron Grimes

Now, I am totally biased on this one. Actually, I am double biased–I loved both performers in the Million Dollar Championship Ladder Match, Cameron Grimes and LA Knight. But ever since his return from injury, Cameron Grimes has skewed a little too far towards the comedy side. Tonight he reminded the world just who the fuck he is–CAMERON GRIMES!

The right guy won this match, as I expected. But Cameron Grimes really emerged, I guess he re-emerged honestly. I don’t know where Grimes goes from here, but he has to go somewhere. He’s too damn entertaining, and too damn good not to remain heavily involved.

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The First Star: Pete Dunne

Pete Dunne WWE NXT

As I tweeted after Takeover, I think NXT should be a little concerned with the fact that the best moments of the main event when the champion was nowhere to be found. And, in all sincerity, that is NOT a knock on Karrion Kross. The dude is perfect for WWE. WWE Raw, WWE Smackdown.

But in NXT, he is totally out of place. He simply doesn’t fit.

Adam Cole, Kyle O’Reilly, and Johnny Gargano all had amazing chances to shine during the In Your House main event, and each did just that–shine. But no one shined brighter than Pete Dunne. While I said Johnny Gargano should leave Takeover IYH as NXT Champion going into the show, I was left feeling Dunne was the man for the championship during the match itself. Everything he does is crisp, believable, and most of all it always seems to make 100% sense. In this day and age, that is hard to do.

So while Kross isn’t headed out of town just yet, hopefully the near win for Pete Dunne will lead to a one-on-one showdown at NXT Great American Bash, where the non-American could potentially leave as NXT Champion, clearing the way for Kross and Scarlett to go to the main roster, where they belong.

Who are your Three Stars of WWE NXT Takeover: In Your House 2021?
Comment on social media @ChairshotGreg, @theCHAIRSHOTcom,
and use the hashtag #UseYourHead!
Or email me at gregdemarco@thechairshot.com!

In hockey, a game’s “Three Stars Of The Night” represent the top three performers of the night. For more clarification, I defer to this Pittsburgh Gazette explanation:

“The tradition dates to the 1936-37 season, when Imperial Oil became the principal sponsor of Hockey Night in Canada radio broadcasts and was seeking a way to promote one of its products, Three Star gasoline. The idea of doing so by selecting the top three performers in a particular game purportedly came from a Canadian advertising agency.

Many clubs do recognize the player with the most three-star selections with an award or trophy, usually in conjunction with a corporate sponsorship, at the end of the season (or sometimes, each month). All six Canadian franchises, for example, have an affiliation with a well-known brewery.

The NHL keeps track of its own Three Stars Of The Night selections, but that is done on a league-wide basis. The league employs a system that awards 30 points to a first star, 20 to a second star and 10 to a third – a running total can be found on the league’s website – but it does not present an award based on them.”

In hockey tradition, the first star represents the best of the three, but all three are considered to be receiving a high honor.

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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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.

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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.