Rate Takeover: Phoenix

[Abdullah]

So I hadn’t watched NXT leading up to this show and it kinda showed. I sped through the last two matches but I really liked Gargano vs Ricochet as well as the opener.

I thought Riddle vs Ohno was a bit weak and it made me worry for Riddle’s prospects at times.

I’d give it a 7. Not bad at all.

[Deleted]

7. As I said in the main thread, it was a total two match show but those two matches (War Raiders/Undisputed and Ricochet/Gargano) were both excellent, and none of the other matches were awful - Bianca/Shayna was by far the weakest but even that wasn't unwatchable or anything.

[Deleted]

I only watched about half of it - to be specific the main two minutes and about the latter half of the women's match. Really just wasn't in the mood for the rest, just fast-forwarded to the endings of those.

[blissified]

It wasn't quite on par with the last couple Takeovers, but it was still able to deliver like they always do.

[TGM]

It wasn't as good as Wargames but still hell of a show.

[mrbananagrabber]

The tag match made me a fan of the War Raiders. Hadn’t been into them at all before that.

[Moppy]

Johnny's reaction faces/10

[TheMediocreWarrior]

Maybe I'm easily impressed, but I'm going to go with 9.

The worst thing that can be said about the show IMO is that Ohno/Riddle was just "pretty good".

I think the women's title match and the NXT Title match were both better than they are being given credit for. Belair got to look really strong in defeat because she managed to fight her way out of the choke hold. The main event wasn't as flashy as the NA Title match, but it had really good psychology with Ciampa working Black's leg so he couldn't pull off Black Mass.

[Shai]

9.5. I screamed and hollered my way through that entire show. .5 off because Shayna's goons are annoying and not worth much from what I can see.

[GuyOfOwnage]

I'm just gonna go with a perfect 10. You'd have to be one picky bastard to find fault with that show.

[brettappedout (BLM)]

I went with a 9. Probably would've voted 8 last night, but rewatching it today and specifically the main. Now I thought it was really good last night, but the 2nd time around made realize I liked it more. Ciampa is such master heel and just the psychology of the match was great. Black was on point with selling all match, never really made me go oh he couldn't 9f done that with a bad knee that happens in other matches.

[Bo Rida]

Tag match was great fun

Really don't like Ohno but at least he was smart and attacked the feet.

Women's title was OK, Belair has potential. Shayna's goons are awful, how can they possibly look so bad just doing run-ins?

Gargano vs Ricochet was awesome. So impressive they can keep that pace up.

The NXT title match was underwhelming but had it's moments, I just hate that many finishers being used and could have done with Black having a stronger start before he was beat down.

Really missed Cole and Kari but I guess part of what makes Takeover is the small varied cards and should mean that they're back on centre stage at the big WM takeover.

7/10

[BatPunk]

I’m going with a solid 9 because all the matches did what they were supposed to do. Be entertaining, yell a story and get that story moving forward.

Also, absolutely no one walked out of that PPV looking bad.

Can’t ask for more than that.