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Each WWE show gives superstars a chance to make a name for themselves. Something like the NXT takeover: VG rages increase in intensity, as it is usually one of the most exciting events of the year.
Titular Cage Matches are brutal demolition-derby battles that can give wrestlers some great footage for their career highlight rails.
Staying tall after that fight makes all the losses worthwhile. On the contrary, going through it all just to be short must be a crushing defeat.
Look back at those cards and everything else made on this card, which were the biggest winners and losers of the Superstars night?
Let’s recap what happened on Sunday’s NXT takeover: give wargames and credit where it’s right, for the worse.
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Results of WWE NXT Takeover Wargame 2020
- Games match: Team Candice defeated Team Shotz by Pinf fall.
- Tomaso Siampa defeated Timothy Thatcher by pinfall.
- Strap match: Dexter Lumis defeated Cameron Grimes to submit.
- Johnny Gargano won the North American Championship, beating Lynn Rough and Damien Priest by a pinf by Lathi.
- WGRAMGES MATCH: Undisputed Era defeated McCuffy, Danny Birch, Wayne Lorken and Pete Dunne by McTuff by L.
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Technically speaking, since this is a team match, Team Candice Lare is the winner and Team Shotzy Blackheart is the loser. He was reconciled with a penny fall, and the hands on the heels were raised while Babyface left his wounds nursing.
However, the two biggest standouts should be Rev Gonzalez and Aao Shirai. Ultimately, it’s the two who decided the outcome, as Gonzalez empowered Shirai through the stairs and pinned his team.
Defeating the current NXT women’s champion is a big win for Gonzalez. To date, she has done the most important thing ever in her career. That could put him ahead of the line as the next challenge for the title.
Shirai should theoretically be the winner here, as with the title Should Meaning it’s the best of the best. However, not only did she pull it off, but she also managed to avoid becoming a loser for her group.
This is after Shirai failed to enter the ring several times during his entrance. Every time he tried to walk through the door, someone (usually Gonzalez) stopped him. Power was never in his hands.
All things considered, this was by no means a poor performance for the champion in the grand scheme of things. However, it was clearly not his night. It belonged to Gonzalez.
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Credit for winning his match goes to Tomaso Siampa, but the big story is how Timothy Thatcher was defeated.
The two superstars beat Tar outside each other in a rough match. No one will feel well when he wakes up tomorrow.
But Thatcher was the one who took the most amount of punishment, especially with a stiff knee on the side of the head. After a while and for the rest of the match, there was blood in Thatcher’s ear.
It will be one thing to go through all that pain but at least manage to win. Tolerating it just to pin it hurts more and more.
Thatcher could also use victory in this way. He has developed an inability to win important matches outside of his fight pit competition with Riddle. Since then, he has also struggled against some students.
Thatcher will need some wins and some ice packs to make up for the loss.
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Dexter Lumis was the winner of the Strap match, so Cameron Grimes has lost the biggest of the two. However, they can both be considered losers, as the match was mostly a dude.
Both are able to do a better job, but their hands were tied here – quite literally.
The WWE made a mistake in booking it as its third gimmick match, after the Blindfold match and significantly more entertainment haunted house Terror F Terror.
Strap matches are not one of WWE’s go-to gimmicks and for good reason. It’s not exactly a very attractive bet. Most of the time, there are only three parts to it: whipping your opponent, pulling your opponent, or strangling your opponent.
This lasted too long, so those three things became boring.
This is also the third this year, so fans haven’t seen it in a while and it’s a new freshman.
Oddly enough, the WWE also keeps booking this match to end in a pinfall or submission. Now superstars don’t have to tap four turnbuckles to win.
They would have introduced at least a different style than the one they had done before. Grimes has lost to Lunis by performing in the haunted house Terror F Terror and has done just that here.
Lumis and Grimes couldn’t do anything interesting to get them to book on this card, so they’re both lost here.
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Leon Ruff hit a huge inconvenience several weeks ago when he got a quick pin to Johnny Gargano to win the NXT North American Championship. Here, Gargano finished the score by regaining the title.
Granted, it wasn’t with ease. Rough fights more than most would have expected and even Damien Priest almost won the match. Without the interference of many superstars equipped as Ghostface Screaming, Priest probably holds this title once more.
But Garga’s plan was to orchestrate the plan and earn money on it to win back the title for the third time in history. He now has ties to Austin Theory, who has the potential to become the WWE’s all-time leading star in the world in the future, meaning Gargo has a more powerful new ally to help him grab the title than he did last time.
Between this and Team Candice’s first win, it looks like Gargano’s Way is proving itself valid.
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Pat McAfee, Danny Birch, One Lorcan and Pete Dunne were in the final of the night’s War Regimes match, but they were far from the losers on the show. Those guys put up a great fight and almost reached the top.
McAfee in particular was a treat. Somehow, he’s able to cut promos better than most WWE rosters and can train flawless moonsouls and other maneuvers significantly more on a regular basis. He is incredible and deserves to be called a winner in his own way.
But the celebration of this controversial era as the show fades away. This guy has fought inside the War Regiments many times and is now 2-2 with this big win.
Although McAfee set the tables ahead of time with his name, it was the Kings of NXT who wound up passing most of them, which is to say, especially at the start of the match when The Undisputed Era did not have an advantage.
They now hold gold in the NXT as they once did, but by late Adam Cole, Bobby Fish, Roderick Strong and especially Kyle O’Reilly prove they are the brand’s anchors.
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