Shayna Baszler vs Mia Yim – NXT Women’s Championship
This match started out with some Shayna Baszler holds as Mia reversed out of them and then Mia hit a rana and landed a kick to the head and a cannonball in the corner.
Then Shayna caught Mia Yim with a forearm when she went for a suicide dive. They stayed outside where Mia gained control and pinned Shayna’s arm in the ring steps before hitting a dropkick to the steps.
Baszler hit a snap mare takedown and landed a dropkick for a two count. She was selling her right arm a bit, but it didn’t stop her from stomping on Mia Yim’s arm.
Baszler then got a Key Lock in and then was hit off the ropes before landing a devastating kick for a two count.
Baszler kept stretching Mia’s arm with a standing armbar, but Mia pulled her hair and brought Baszler down. Yim sent Baszler down, but Shayna hit a dropkick right away giving her little time to be in control.
Mia hit a suplex and then a lariat followed by a roundhouse kick for a two count, and then they seemed to botch a move before Yim hit a belly to belly release suplex. The crowd was rather dead during this match by the time Yim hit a suicide dive and a tornado DDT for a two count.
They fought back and forth and then Yim climbed up top. Baszler stopped her and climbed up too. Then Yim a top rope Code Blue for a two count.
Then Shayna locked Yim in her finisher, but Mia fought out and stomped on her arm too. Yim then went for an armbar, but Baszler stopped her and got out and right back into her own submission as Mia Yim fought on. Suddenly, Baszler locked on a triangle with her legs and got the tap out.
Winner: Shayna Baszler
Adam Cole vs Johnny Gargano – NXT Title Match – 2 out of 3 falls match
Gargano got some boos during his introduction, but Cole was way more over.
These two were very evenly matched early on and they played to the fact that they knew each other well. They moved outside and then Gargano drove Cole’s knee into the steps and the ring apron.
They continued on in the ring and Gargano got an Indian Death Lock on until Cole got to the ropes. Then Johnny stomped on his knee for good measure. Cole fought back, but Johnny landed a kick to the head.
Cole then dragged Johnny outside and sent his back into the corner of the apron. They moved back inside and Cole hit a neckbreaker for a two count. Then he locked in a leg scissors submission, but Gargano wasn’t tapping.
Then Gargano took a turnbuckle to the face, but he moved to avoid Cole’s dive before sending him into the corner with an exploder suplex.
They continued and Johnny landed some stiff moves before Cole caught him off a slingshot spear, but Gargano reversed out of that and got a two count. Cole went for a kick, but Johnny stomped on his leg instead. Then Gargano locked on a figure 4.
Gargano missed an ensuguri and then Cole turned it into a pinning German Suplex for a two count. Cole landed a kick to Gargano followed by one in return. Then Cole went for a Panama Sunrise, but it was blocked into a Sunset Driver for a two count from Gargano.
They battled on top and then Cole failed to hit a powerbomb and then he nailed a Codebreaker on Gargano off a dive and into a pinning driver for a two count.
They continued fighting and Cole reversed a dive from Gargano and then Johnny sent Cole into the barricade. Gargano hit his DDT for a two count and then Cole landed a kick off a slingshot spear from Gargano for yet another two count.
Then Adam Cole went to get a steel chair during the first fall. The referee fought with him and then he kicked Gargano in the crotch for a two count.
Cole teased using the chair and then the referee got him to stop, but Gargano whacked him with the chair anyway. He shrugged off losing the first fall and just continued whacking away at Cole with a chair.
Cole went outside and Gargano threw a chair right at his head before they went outside to fight in the crowd. This was rather brutal and Cole took a lot of abuse from Gargano. Then they finally made it back to ringside and Gargano hit a crossbody on Cole that sent him through the timekeeper’s barricade.
Johnny cleaned off the announcers’ table and they climbed on top of it. Then Cole got free, but Gargano hit him with a backdrop through the table behind them.
Gargano was about to get back in the ring, but then he stopped and grabbed a table before asking the crowd what they want so he got another one. He also threw in some chair.
Cole hit a shining wizard for a two count as soon as Gargano was back in the ring. Gargano wedged a chair in the corner and then he launched Cole into the chair before slapping on a Gargano Escape for the submission.
We’re all tied up and now William Regal will pick his third stipulation as the cage starts to cage. The top of the cage was wrapped in barbed wire and weapons were tied all around it.
There is no escape from the cage either so the only way to win is with a pinfall or submission. Gargano and Cole started firing off at each other and then they hit clotheslines. Gargano got a Kendo Stick, but Cole nailed a kick and then they started trading kendo stick shots until they hit a double superkick.
They continued and Gargano hit a reverse rana that landed Cole sitting in a chair which was followed by a Superkick for a two count.
“Fight forever” chants started as Gargano set up a table in the ring. Then Cole leveled him with two chair shots. Cole sent Gargano into a chair that was hanging off the cage before hitting a backstabber with the help of a Kendo stick.
Cole set up two chair and brought Johnny to the top rope. Gargano fought Cole off, and then he sprayed Cole with a fire extinguisher for a bad bump through the chairs for a two count.
Gargano started firing off with Kendo Stick shots and then Gargano looked up to the top where he saw a sledgehammer. Then Cole climbed up to stop him, but Gargano hit a powerbomb off the cage for a two count.
Then Johnny Gargano continued to climb up and he got the sledgehammer. Cole landed two Superkicks on Gargano instead of taking a sledgehammer to the face and then he climbed up and launched a ladder on Johnny to hit a Panama Sunrise for another two count.
Then Cole climbed up on top of a ladder and hit another Panama Sunrise on Gargano for yet another two count.
Cole set Gargano on a chair and went for a running knee, but Cole missed and his knee went through the chair. Gargano tried his best to make Cole tap, but it didn’t work at all.
After another exchange, Gargano nailed Cole in the ribs with a sledgehammer and then he set up the ladder in front of the table set up in the ring. The Gargano set up another table.
Johnny placed Cole on the table and he climbed to the top of the ladder. Cole rolled off the table and then Johnny climbed back down. Johnny hit Adam with another kendo stick shot and they climbed up where Gargano hit a top rope Canadian Destroyer for a two count.
Suddenly Gargano took out a sack and had brass knuckles and pliers. He climbed up and snipped some barbed wire and went back down with some barbed wire in his hand. Then Cole climbed up and he got on a platform on the top of the cage. Johnny climbed up with the barbed wire as “please don’t die” chants started.
Suddenly, Cole blocked a shot with the barbed wire and they all went through the table. Cole pinned Gargano and that’s how he retained the title.
Winner: Adam Cole
That was an amazing TakeOver event and no title changes took place.
Adam Cole’s back was cut up during that last bump.
