NXT 'Takeover: R Evolution' 12/11 Confirmed/Rumored Card & Discussion

NXT Championship

Adrian Neville (c) vs. Sami Zayn
*If Zayn loses, he will leave NXT.

NXT Women’s Championship

Charlotte (c) vs. Sasha Banks

NXT Tag Team Championship

Lucha Dragons (c) vs. The Vaudevillians


Hideo Itami & Finn Balor vs. The Ascension


Kevin Owens will make his NXT debut.


Corey Graves will make an announcement regarding his future in wrestling.

Very much looking forward to this one.

There is a lot of talent and a lot of good booking on this card.

Though the tag match and the main event are going to compete hard for match of the night, I am maybe most looking forward to Steen's debut. I have a buddy who is strictly an E fan and we have chatted wrestling since before Punk came in. He has never come around to watching Indy or Japanese wrestling, but he has come to get excited about wrestlers known as "indy guys" and Japanese wrestlers coming to WWE. I told him the other day, I haven't been as excited as I am for Steen since Dragon came to the WWE. His response was something dumb (and probably closeted) about how he will have to get used to him because he doesn't have the look he grew up with in wrestling. Ohhh well..... Steen will win him over.... he will win them all over

Such a great card, can't wait to check it out next Thursday.

Reminder, the show is tonight.

Cant wait for steen, the owens change seemed unnecessary, but WWE policy post-punk is a bitch

WWE show of the year. Check it out if you haven't already. So good.

So much fucking fun, this was awesome, for me second best wwe show of the year behind Mania, I loved almost everything on this show except the commentary which was at times average but more often awful and I'm not blaming Graves for that either


But yeah watch this show start to finish and don't skip a thing


Edit: Forgot Mania had Taker/Brock before posting so yeah fuck that, this was the best WWE show of the year

Guy on reddit sent Triple H a fruit basket.

THATS HOW GOOD THIS SHOW WAS.

Yep.... that was absolutely fantastic. I watched it this morning and then sent texts to everyone I know who is remotely interested in wrestling and told them to get on it. It was a really well put together show that was packed with fun and ended with a bang. That who ending, and not just the swerve itself, was beautifully timed. There was lots of emotion. It all felt (and was) very real and very earned.

Yeah... just awesome. I could go on and on and on, but I wont.

Every time I start to get down on the NXT product, as the weekly shows have been dragging a bit, they put on these excellent live specials that outshine anything put on by the main roster.

NXT is THE reason to subscribe to the WWE Network, and shows like this prove that point.

It's almost a shame that many of these guys and gals are going to end up on the main roster eventually because they won't be putting anywhere the quality of matches (especially the women) they've been having on NXT.

Really was a great show, nothing dragged, felt awkward or out of place. NXT continually nails it with the live shows.

@TripleH · 21h 21 hours ago
Thanks for the fruit basket @reddit but I'm at @WWENXT working with the future. #WWEArchivistAteIt @WWE

It is the success of shows like this and the feedback they receive that give me some glimmer of hope that the WWE will loosen its grip on creativity and flow a bit and let guys take more responsibility for their own characters like I think we are seeing in NXT, and like everyone from the attitude era says was the reason for its success. As talent as the WWE has right now (between main roster and NXT), I think they also have some amazing wrestling minds, sharpened all over the world. They need to tap into that as much or more than they need to tap into the physical attributes.