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NXT TakeOver 31 Review - Finn Balor Vs. Kyle O'Reilly! Did The Garganos Leave As Champions? Who Was NXT's Insurgent? The Return Of Halloween Havoc?!

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🗓️ 5 October 2020

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Adam Wilbourn and Adam Nicholas review TakeOver and discuss...


Finn Balor vs. Kyle O'Reilly!

Did The Garganos leave as champions?

Cruiserweight title on the line!

Who was NXT's insurgent?

The return of Halloween Havoc?!


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0:35.8

We have just finished watching the nxt takeover 31 and this is what went down and

0:42.0

Adam Nicholas I don't want to get too bob down in what happened right at the end of this page view but it is a

0:48.8

confusing ending to what was a great show

0:52.3

I think that's fair that's a fair assessment it was a to what I would describe as a flat ending to a show which as far as I'm concerned felt

1:00.6

like a pretty inflated in a good way of show like everything seemed to hit for me

1:05.6

the way I wanted to but I think just with all the expectation that was going

1:09.3

into this the ending post-match certainly maybe felt like a little bit of a let down maybe.

1:16.2

Yeah I think it's one of those ones where everyone's sort of fantasy booking maybe got away from them and then when whatever W. Re decided to do happened, you thought,

1:28.0

well, this is what I imagined in my head. I thought there was going to be some sort of undisputed error split if Kyle O'Reilly didn't win the title.

1:34.3

But it wasn't all bad news. Some nice surprises on the night especially concerning

1:38.9

nxt's insurgent, but we will get to that in due course. Let's start with the opening match of the night it was the

1:44.2

nxt north american championship match damey and priest versus joni gargarno and this for me served as

1:51.4

a reminder as to why Damian Priest is

1:53.4

NXT North American champion.

1:55.0

Absolutely and I think it would have been going into this match I felt like it would have

1:59.1

been a bit of a shame for Priest to have lost the belt so early.

2:02.1

I know there was the temptation, the power couple

2:05.1

potentially on the rise, but I think ultimately we saw a priest prove why he is definitely

2:10.4

the champ and why he's the right guy for right now. We've got some

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