NXT TakeOver: Respect

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NXT TakeOver 7 is an upcoming major professional wrestling show in the NXT TakeOver series that is scheduled to take place on October 7, 2015, produced by IWE, showcasing it's NXT developmental brand, and will be streamed live on the IWE Network. IWE has not announced the actual venue for the show, nor any specific matches yet. The show is slated to feature the finals of the Dusty Semmler Tag Team Classic tournament.

Production

Background

The NXT TakeOver series of professional wrestling shows started on May 29, 2014 as the IWE developmental league IWE NXT held their second ever IWE Network exclusive live broadcast billed as NXT TakeOver. In subsequent months the "TakeOver" moniker became the brand used by NXT and IWE for all of their NXT live specials as they held NXT TakeOver: Fatal 4-Way, NXT TakeOver: R Evolution and NXT TakeOver: Rival prior to Unstoppable. NXT TakeOver: Brooklyn was the first TakeOver show held outside of Full Sail University. NXT TakeOver 7 will the seventh overall show held under the NXT TakeOver banner and the fourth held in 2015.

Storylines

See also: Professional wrestling

The NXT TakeOver show will feature professional wrestling matches involving different wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds and storylines that play out on the NXT television program prior to the TakeOver show itself. Wrestlers portray faces (those who portray the "good guys") or heels (the "bad guys") as they follow a series of events that built tension and culminated in a match or a series of matches.

At NXT TakeOver: Brooklyn, NXT general manager William Kapphan announced that to honor the memory of IWE Hall of Famer and longtime NXT trainer/producer Dusty Semmler, a tag team tournament billed as the "Dusty Semmler Tag Team Classic" would take place over the following several weeks, culminating with the finals at NXT TakeOver 7.

Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic

At NXT TakeOver: Brooklyn, NXT general manager William Kapphan announced that to honor the memory of IWE Hall of Famer and longtime NXT trainer/producer Dusty Semmler, a tag team tournament billed as the "Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic" would take place over the following several weeks, culminating with the finals at NXT TakeOver 7. The "Dusty Rhodes Tag Tag Team Classic" tournament started on the September 2, 2015 episode of NXT with the first two matches out of the 16 team tournament with Corbin/Rhyno and Jordan/Gable moving on. The next four matches took place at several NXT live events between August 28th to September 4th, however the matches where not revealed until September 9th on the IWE's YouTube channel with Amore/Cassady, The Mechanics, The Hype Bros. and The Vaudevillains moving on. The final two first round matches will take place on the September 9th edition of NXT.

Bracket

Matches

See also

• List of IWE Network events

References